Haindl paper
| Haindl Paper GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1849 |
| resolution | 2003 |
| Reason for dissolution | Acquisition by UPM-Kymmene (2001) and subsequent renaming (2003) |
| Seat | Augsburg , Germany |
| management | Clemens Haindl (Management Spokesman), Manfred Scholz , Georg Holzhey and Fritz Holzhey |
| Number of employees | last around 4300 |
| Branch | paper |
The Haindl paper factory , later called the Haindl'schen Papierfabriken or Haindl Paper , was an Augsburg- based paper manufacturer with other locations, which existed from the middle of the 19th century to 2001. The company was at times the largest German paper manufacturer .
history
The forerunner company was a paper mill in Augsburg on the Malvasierbach. After a paper machine had turned it into a paper factory shortly before, Georg Haindl took it over on April 10, 1849, together with his business partner, the Regensburg publisher Friedrich Pustet . The company flourished in its first business year and produced 100 tons of paper with eight employees . Products from the beginning were mainly craft paper, illustration paper and newsprint . Starting in 1873, they were the first company in Germany to produce endless roll paper for newspapers with the "Paper Machine III".
After Georg Haindl died, the company was renamed "Haindl'sche Papierfabriken" and his sons took over the business. Friedrich Haindl, born in 1849, took care of the commercial affairs and Clemens Haindl, born in 1854, was responsible for the technology. From 1889 onwards they also produced pulp in a new wood pulp factory in Schongau . This wood pulp was first brought to the Augsburg factory via the Fuchstalbahn, which was completed in 1886 . After the railway bridge on the Schongau – Peißenberg railway over the Lech was completed in Schongau in 1912 , the Schongau plant had its own direct railway connection.
Georg and Willy Haindl continued the business after 1918. They took over the Hegge AG paper mill in Hegge near Kempten (Allgäu) in the 1920s, which was now the third production site (closed in 1972). In 1962 a new plant for coated printing papers was built in Duisburg-Walsum . In the early 1960s and late 1990s, Haindl was the largest German paper manufacturer. In 1993 a new plant was built in Schwedt / Oder and in 1996 the company acquired the majority of the shares in Steyrermühl Papierfabrik und Verlags-AG in Upper Austria. Shortly afterwards, in 1997 a Renkum plant in the Netherlands (Parenco BV) was added.
In 2001 the 32 descendants of the founder sold the company to UPM-Kymmene from Finland; at that time the company had 4,300 employees. The plants in Duisburg-Walsum and Renkum were sold on to the Norwegian paper group Norske Skog due to antitrust requirements of the EU . At the time of the sale, Haindl Papier GmbH & Co. KG belonged to the G. Haindl'sche Papierfabriken KGaA group , which also included the forwarding company Interot and the regional airline Augsburg Airways .
Varia
The father of the playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht , Berthold Friedrich Brecht (1869–1939), was an authorized signatory and later commercial director for Haindl. The family lived in a Haindl foundation house in Augsburg. Bertolt Brecht's younger brother, Walter Brecht , was an operations assistant and operations manager from 1926 to 1931 before moving to the Technical University of Darmstadt as a professor of paper manufacture . The Haindl company supported Walter Brecht's institute at the TH Darmstadt, which was heavily destroyed in September 1944, with financial donations. In return, Willy Haindl received the title of Honorary Senator of the TH Darmstadt in 1948/49 .
literature
- One hundred years of G. Haindlsche Papierfabriken - a memorial. G. Haindlsche Papierfabriken, Augsburg 1949.
- Peter Rasch: The branch lines between Ammersee, Lech and Wertach. With the Ammerseebahn, Pfaffenwinkelbahn & Co around the Bavarian Rigi . EOS Verlag, St. Ottilien 2011, ISBN 978-3-8306-7455-9 , pp. 200-204.
- Ludwig Schröcker: Chronicle of the Schongau Works 1949–1974 - For the 125th anniversary of Haindl Papier GmbH in 1974. Pera-Druck, 1974.
- Christian Schütze: The white ribbon - 150 years of Haindl paper. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1999.
Some further literature sources are also listed in the International Bibliography on the History of Paper (IBP) there in Volume 3, p. 1355, these are listed in the four-volume complete work.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Change of name - UPM-Kymmene instead of Haindl ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Haindl sells to Finnish paper company UPM-Kymmene Group
- ^ Spiegel Online from May 30, 2001: Dynasties: Large corporation takes over paper manufacturer Haindl
- ↑ Haindl.de: The Haindl Group ( Memento of 8 July 2001 at the Internet Archive )
