New-York Hamburger Gummi-Waaren Compagnie
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | DE0006765506 |
| founding | 1871 |
| Seat | Lueneburg , Germany |
| management | Bernd Menzel (CEO) |
| Branch | Manufacturing company |
| Website | www.nyh.de |
The New-York Hamburger Gummi-Waaren Compagnie (NYH) is a rubber goods factory, which was founded in 1870 in Barmbek b. Hamburg was founded and produced in Hamburg-Harburg until 2009 . In 2009 production was relocated to Lüneburg .
history
Charles Goodyear discovered vulcanization in 1839 . A good decade later, his brother Nelson Goodyear produced hard rubber, which is now almost forgotten, after the well-known soft rubber - the first plastic used on a large industrial scale . Heinrich Adolph Meyer , a son of the industrial pioneer Stockmeyer , acquired the patents for Europe in 1851. Together with Johannes Bücking and HW Maurien, his brother Heinrich Christian Meyer founded the Harburger Gummi-Kamm-Compagnie in 1856 . In the same year the rival company Albert & Louis Cohen, Harburg - Schuhfabrik (later Phoenix AG ) was founded.
Johann Hinrich Wilhelm Maurien (1825–1882) and Conrad Poppenhusen (1818–1883), two former employees of the Harburger Gummi-Kamm-Compagnie, went into business for themselves in 1870 and founded the New York Hamburger Gummi-Waaren Compagnie (NYH) in Barmbek . From 1912 to 1926 Leopold Osbahr (1855–1937) headed the company as General Manager. At the same time he was chairman of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce for several years . In 1929 the Harburger Gummi-Kamm-Compagnie was taken over by the NYH.
Production in the ruins of the Barmbeck factory was resumed after the Second World War , but was soon relocated to Harburg. A remnant of the Barmbeck factory has housed the Museum of Work since 1994, the Zinnschmelze district culture center since 1984 and a restaurant named after the Elbe tunnel drill TRUDE .
In the factory on Nartenstrasse at the Harburg inland port, hard rubber combs were still manufactured. These combs, which are especially popular in hairdressing because of their quality, but also other hair care products are z. B. available under the traditional names Hercules-Sägemann, Matador or Triumph. The production methods, with a lot of manual labor, also remained in place for decades. Furthermore, molded rubber parts or clarinet mouthpieces are produced.
In 2009 the company and its approximately 200 employees moved to modern production facilities in Lüneburg. The factory in Hamburg-Harburg, where the site was ultimately produced for the Harburger Gummi-Kamm-Compagnie and NYH for over 150 years, is partially a listed building. Further use is still unclear due to the existing nitrosamine exposure .
In June 2009 the company informed all customers in a circular that the hard rubber comb production had been discontinued with immediate effect for purely economic reasons. This includes all hard rubber combs from the two own brands Hercules-Sägemann and Matador, as well as third-party brands. However, due to strong demand, the company resumed production a few months later.
literature
- N / A : New York-Hamburger Gummiwaaren Compagnie , Hamburg. In: Julius Eckstein (Ed.): Historically biographical sheets. The State of Hamburg . without year.
- N / A: Dr. Heinr. Traun & Sons, formerly Harburger Gummi-Kamm-Co., Hamburg . In: Julius Eckstein (Ed.): Historically biographical sheets. The State of Hamburg . without year.
- o.v .: HC Meyer jr. Limited partnership based on shares. Hamburg-Harburg aE Harburg 1918.
- Dieter Rednak: History of the company HC Meyer jr. Economic and social development of a company in the period from 1818–1980 . Unpublished diploma thesis, Faculty 05, University of Hamburg. Hamburg 1980.
- Dieter Rednak: Heinrich Christian Meyer (1797–1848), called "Stockmeyer". From craftsman to large industrialist. A Biedermeier career . Hamburg 1992.
- James E. Haas: Conrad Poppenhusen. The Life of a German-American Industrial Pioneer . Baltimore 2004.
- Jürgen Ellermeyer: From the first plastics factory on the continent to a medium-sized niche company - On the history of the New York Hamburger Gummi-Waaren Compagnie (NYH) in Gudrun Wolfschmidt (ed.): Knowledge from 400 years of chemistry in Hamburg, Hamburg 2016, S, 311– 367, ISSN 1610-6164
Individual evidence
- ^ New York Hamburger Gummi-Waaren Compagnie AG / Personnel
- ^ Leibnitz Information Center , accessed on October 10, 2016
- ↑ Tin melt
- ↑ Source about the stop of hard rubber comb production ( memento of the original of July 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
