Wiemann furniture

Oeseder Möbel-Industrie ; Mathias Wiemann GmbH & Co. KG ; (Wiemann Möbel)
legal form	GmbH & Co. KG
founding	1900
Seat	Georgsmarienhütte , Germany
management	Markus Wiemann, Helmut Kriege
Number of employees	365
Branch	Furniture industry
Website	www.wiemann-online.com
	Status: 2014

Bird's-eye view of the Wiemann factory premises (2008)

The Oeseder Möbel-Industrie Mathias Wiemann GmbH & Co. KG ( Oeseder Möbel-Industrie or Wiemann Möbel for short ) is a German furniture manufacturer that was founded in 1900 by the master carpenter Mathias Wiemann. The company is based in Georgsmarienhütte in Lower Saxony . Wiemann Möbel manufactures partially solid and foiled furniture as well as single cabinets for bedrooms . The family business is in the fourth generation of family ownership.

Company history

1900–1939: From a craft business to a furniture factory

In 1900 Mathias Wieman (1877-1947) made as a carpenter master independently and took Oesede - today a district of Georgsmarienhütte - in a working space of only 15 square meters of space, the order-based production of custom furniture such as chests and dressers on. The first major order was the manufacture of pews for the Catholic parish of St. Peter and Paul in Oesede. In 1904 Wiemann enlarged his workshop and used the first motorized machines. After further expansion of his craft business , he had a workforce of 15 employees in 1918 and continued to manufacture furniture for regional customers. From 1925 at the latest, when Mathias Wiemann's son and later managing director Wilhelm Wiemann supported him in the management, the company became known beyond regional borders and delivered church furniture to Schleswig-Holstein and the Netherlands .

In the course of the growth and mechanization of the craft business, the name of the previous construction and furniture joinery was changed to Mathias Wiemann - mechanical construction and furniture joinery . Despite the global economic crisis of 1929, Wiemann expanded the company and gradually switched to series production . In 1934, the company was renamed Oeseder Moebel-Industrie Mathias Wiemann and entered the commercial register . The numerous new households established in the 1930s led to an increasing demand for bedroom furniture. In 1939, with a workforce of 180, 40 bedroom furnishings were produced per day.

Second World War, post-war period

During the Second World War , the National Socialists forced the company to switch production to the war economy . Wiemann's furniture factory now had to produce barracks for the Wehrmacht and the Reich Labor Service . When the National Socialists wanted to destroy the plant in April 1945 towards the end of the war so that it would not "fall into the hands" of the approaching British troops , company boss Wilhelm Wiemann was able to prevent the planned demolition of the halls. He had the remains reminiscent of war production removed and "buried in the forest".

In the post-war period , the company expanded rapidly. In 1950 the company employed around 300 people and mainly manufactured bedrooms and a range of tables and small furniture in 11 halls. In 1954, the plant was destroyed in a flood caused by prolonged heavy rainfall in the area of Oesede and then rebuilt.

From the 1960s to today

In the 1960s, the Oeseder furniture industry developed into the largest bedroom manufacturer in northern Germany and expanded its factory premises to include additional production halls and other production facilities. In 1966, Mathias A. Wiemann joined the company management in the third generation. From the 1970s onwards, furniture for young people's rooms and wall units were also manufactured on the newly created production space . In 1991 and 1992 two major fires occurred in which large parts of the assembly halls were destroyed. After that, the company was rebuilt and equipped with modern production facilities.

Since 1998 the company has been concentrating again on the production of bedrooms and closet systems. In 1999, Markus Wiemann joined the company management in the fourth generation. In 1999 the company achieved a turnover of over 200 million DM with an export share of around 30 percent and in 1999/2000 employed a little over 400 people in Oesede.

In 2013, Wiemann Möbel produced an assortment of around 140 models in series production in Georgsmarienhütte-Oesede on a factory site of 98,000 square meters. With 450 to 500 bedrooms manufactured per day, the company claims to be one of the largest manufacturers in the industry in Germany.

In 2018, Wiemann took over the Loddenkemper and Femira companies from the hülsta group.

Location

The head office, production facility and exhibition space are located in Georgsmarienhütte (Oesede district), south of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony .

Sales markets

Oeseder Möbel-Industrie Mathias Wiemann GmbH & Co. KG does not appear as its own brand. The company supplies specialist retailers in Germany and also exports: "Wiemann furniture" is sold in Germany, Great Britain, the Benelux countries, Russia, France, Austria, Switzerland, Spain and other EU countries as well as beyond the borders of the EU. States driven out.

Publications

100 years of innovation: Oeseder Möbel-Industrie Mathias Wiemann GmbH & Co. KG. Self-published, Georgsmarienhütte 2000 ( commemorative publication on the occasion of the company's centenary).
How to. 1900–2010: 111 years of innovation. Self-published, Georgsmarienhütte 2010 ( company chronicle on the occasion of the company's 111th anniversary).

literature

How to live. Volume 3. Gerd Hatje Verlag , Stuttgart 1957, without ISBN, p. 201.
Anke Wielebski, Verena Burhenne (Red.): "Today we invite guests". Cultural history of private celebrations after 1945. Book accompanying the traveling exhibition of the same name by the LWL Museum Office for Westphalia. LWL Museum Office for Westphalia , Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-927204-67-6 , p. 99 ff., 141.

Web links

Commons : Wiemann Möbel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiemann Möbel website

Company portrait at the Lower Saxony and Bremen regional association of the wood and plastics processing industry. V. , Oldenburg

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Petra Pieper: Furniture factory Wiemann produces in the center of Oesede. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , March 11, 2013, accessed on November 16, 2014 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h N.N .: Act instead of react. Company report. Lower Saxony and Bremen regional association of the wood and plastics processing industry V., Oldenburg (www.hknb.de), accessed on 16 November 2014 (Company profile of Oeseder furniture industry Mathias Wieman ).
↑ NN: Furnishing classics of the late fifties. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , July 20, 2007, accessed on November 16, 2014 .
^ ^A ^b Siegfrid Sachse: Oeseder furniture industry wants to march on alone. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , August 30, 2000, accessed on November 16, 2014 .

52.207215 8.071046Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 26 ″ N , 8 ° 4 ′ 16 ″ E

[noz-03-11-2013-1] Petra Pieper: Furniture factory Wiemann produces in the center of Oesede. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , March 11, 2013, accessed on November 16, 2014 .

[hknb-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h N.N .: Act instead of react. Company report. Lower Saxony and Bremen regional association of the wood and plastics processing industry V., Oldenburg (www.hknb.de), accessed on 16 November 2014 (Company profile of Oeseder furniture industry Mathias Wieman ).

[noz-20-07-2007-3] NN: Furnishing classics of the late fifties. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , July 20, 2007, accessed on November 16, 2014 .

[noz-30-08-2000-4] A ^b Siegfrid Sachse: Oeseder furniture industry wants to march on alone. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , August 30, 2000, accessed on November 16, 2014 .