Oelhag
The Allgemeine Ölhandelsgesellschaft ( Oelhag for short ) was a German mineral oil company with its own chain of petrol stations in the 1920s and 1930s.
history
In 1921 the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg ( MAN ) and the Haniel group merged their oil interests in equal shares. The headquarters of the company became Hamburg . In addition to a large tank system in Hamburg, gasoline depots and filling stations were built throughout Germany.
Atlantic Refining Corp. was used to supply oil. (later Atlantic Richfield Company , ARCO) from Philadelphia , one of the successor companies of the broken Standard Oil Trust. This took over 50% of the shares from the previous sole shareholders in the 1920s.
During the global economic crisis , the shares of MAN and Haniel went completely to the German-American Petroleum Society (DAPG) and Rhenania-Ossag . Atlantic also gave up so many shares that the three companies each became a third shareholder.
Apart from the existing self-developed petrol Rekordin ( gasoline ), Rekordal ( gasoline benzene mixture ) and light gasoline also fuels the new shareholders were in so-called community service stations sold.
In 1935, Oelhag was the sixth largest petrol station chain in Germany with 953 petrol pumps (1.7%) and a sales quota of 4.2%.
In 1938, DAPG and Rhenania-Ossag took over half of Oelhag each with the help of their foreign exchange reserves that were not exportable from Germany.
literature
- Rainer Karlsch, Raymond G. Stokes: Factor Oil. The mineral oil industry in Germany 1859-1974 . Verlag CH Beck, Munich, 2003. ISBN 3-406-50276-8 .
- Joachim Kleinmanns: Great, full! A brief cultural history of the gas station . Jonas Verlag, Marburg, 2002. ISBN 3-89445-297-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Kleinmanns: Super, full! A brief cultural history of the gas station . Jonas Verlag, Marburg, 2002. p. 46. (quoted from Walter Ade: The gas station problem in Germany . Hamburg, 1936.)