Osnabrück share brewery

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Share over 600 RM in the Osnabrück Aktien-Bierbrauerei from January 28, 1928

The Osnabrücker Aktien-Bierbrauerei (OAB for short), also called Osnabrücker Aktien-Brauerei , was a brewery in Osnabrück . It was founded in 1860 and the location closed in 1987. Today the "OAB Osnabrücker Anlagen- und Beteiligungs-AG" operates under this name and use of the company shell, with its business purpose changed several times.

Founding years

Beer has been brewed in Osnabrück for a long time and also traded with it on a local level. A distinction was made between the beer Koit (a thin and hopless beer) and the Grüsing (a herbal beer). But the beer wasn't good enough to export.

Johann Carl Immeyer started his brewery on the Westerberg and improved the taste of the beer. In 1860, brewing could begin with official approval. Johann Carl Immeyer had to give up the brewery business after a few years and emigrated to America.

development

Eleven people had the courage to buy land and business and to set up a stock corporation. Wilhelm Runde from Braunschweig, who was to be the brewery director, soon joined the eleven shareholders. The articles of association were notarized on October 16, 1870. After the name was changed to Bayerische Dampf-Bierbrauerei AG in 1870, the brewery became the Actien-Bierbrauerei . After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, with its extraordinary successes in business and transport, beer also became a major commercial object. With the "Apostelbier", as the brewery was jokingly called because of the twelve shareholders, a new era in Osnabrück brewing had begun.

In 1886 a steam engine from Maschinen-Fabrik Augsburg was put into operation. They had caught up with the technology of the time and kept pace with further developments. The brewery gained homeland rights in the city as more and more pubs began to serve their beer. Soon the beer spread beyond the city limits. The expanding plant at Bergstrasse 35 on the Westerberg grew into the cityscape. Around 1900, the Osnabrück stock brewery used the caves under the monastery on Gertrudenberg as a beer cellar. For a long time, the operation with the water tower and chimney was part of the image of the Westerberg, like the ox-drawn wagons of the brewery until the First World War was part of the streetscape .

Post-war years

After the Second World War , Rudolf August Oetker from Bielefeld acquired shares in OAB. In 1960 the 100th anniversary was celebrated with free beer and a ceremony in the Gartlage hall . In 1967 the OAB was one of the 100 largest breweries in West Germany with 161,000 hl of beer produced (99th place on the list of producers in Germany). From 1968, the brewery on the Westerberg started producing the main products Bergquell- Pilsener , Osnabrücker Edel- Export and Malzbier, as well as the soft drinks Pepsi-Cola , Mirinda and Florida Boy Orange . In the early 1970s, Oetker had expanded its stake to a majority.

The Osnabrück share brewery was one of the initiators of today's Osnabrück May week . In May 1972, the first week of May was opened by tapping the barrel in the presence of Mayor Ernst Weber.

Part of the Dortmunder Actien brewery

Beer mat "Osnabrück Pils"

In 1983 the brewery planned to sell part of its business premises as building land to improve its finances, but this failed for political reasons. In the same year, Oetker transferred business operations to the Dortmunder Actien-Brauerei (DAB), which was one of his brewery interests and operated at the Osnabrück site under the company name of Dortmunder Actien-Brauerei AG BS Osnabrück . The brewing operation on Bergstrasse in Osnabrück was stopped in May 1987, from then on Osnabrücker Bergquell Pils was brewed in Dortmund. The reason given at the time was that production at the Osnabrück site cost 17 DM per hectolitre, in Dortmund only 9 DM.

The company building in Osnabrück was used for sales and storage purposes for a few years and was completely demolished in October 1992. The property was sold by the OAB to the Evangelical Foundations Osnabrück . On the former brewery site, a senior citizens' home was built by the Diakonie in 1996/1997.

Initially, the beer was still bottled and sold to end consumers, later only given to the Osnabrück gastronomy by barrels. When DAB thought about stopping production, the city of Osnabrück allowed the brewery to use the Osnabrück city coat of arms and a picture of the town hall in the beer logo at the instigation of the mayor at the time, Hans-Jürgen Fip . From then on it was bottled under the abbreviated name Osnabrücker Pils .

In October 2018 , when asked by the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , the Radeberger Group , to which DAB belongs, confirmed that production of the beer would be discontinued at the end of the year. The reason given was that this was only represented in a few restaurants in Osnabrück.

Change of name, change of business purpose

In 1993 the company was renamed "OAB Osnabrücker Anlagen- und Beteiligungs-AG" as part of a shell transaction after STEUCON Grundbesitz- und Beteiligungs-AG from Delmenhorst had taken over the AG, which was still listed on the Hanover Stock Exchange . She initially worked in the area of ​​buying and selling her own land, buildings and apartments. From July 2000, after a takeover of 80 percent of the OAB shares by Saarbrücker Metrotainment AG, she worked in the area of ​​participation in entertainment companies. After its subsidiary Tricon Grundbesitzgesellschaft Dornbusch GmbH & Co. KG became insolvent, insolvency proceedings were opened on September 2, 2004 over the assets of OAB AG. On June 25, 2010 the insolvency proceedings were lifted after confirmation of the insolvency plan by the Osnabrück District Court. OAB AG is currently in the process of realigning itself as a shell company with a listing on the Hamburg Stock Exchange after the decision to continue the company was resolved at the extraordinary general meeting on April 20, 2015. Since then, the company has again been represented on its old Internet address www.oab-ag.de with a new website on which an IPO is advertised using a shell transaction.

See also

Commons : Osnabrücker Aktien Brauerei  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical stocks ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Osnabrück share brewery @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dm-aktie.de
  2. ↑ Homepage of Klaus Ehm ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.klausehm.de
  3. ↑ Power and steam engines
  4. ↑ Monastery on the Gertrudenberg
  5. ↑ a b c Why beer is no longer brewed on the Westerberg , noz.de, May 11, 2016, accessed on May 11, 2020.
  6. ↑ Homepage of the "Aktion Gutes Bier"
  7. ↑ http://www.osnabrueck.de/maiwoche Official website of the Osnabrück May Week
  8. ↑ Rainer Lahmann-Lammert: Dortmunders stop production - the Osnabrück beer is no longer brewed . ( noz.de [accessed October 7, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Gutowski Auction House (PDF; 1.9 MB)
  10. ↑ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung: OAB sells real estate. May 22, 2000, accessed September 7, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Welt.de: Steucon sells 80 percent to Metrotainment AG. December 24, 1999, accessed September 7, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Finanztreff.de : OAB OSNABR.ANLAGEN-U.BET.AG INHABER-AKTIEN ON - company profile. 2014, accessed September 7, 2015 .
  13. ↑ handelsregisterbekanntmachungen.de: Register announcement 02.08.2010. Retrieved November 27, 2015 .
  14. ↑ handelsregisterbekanntmachungen.de: Register announcement 27.11.2015. 2015, accessed November 27, 2015 .
  15. ↑ oab-ag.de: Homepage OAB AG. 2020, accessed on May 11, 2020 .