Louisenthal paper mill

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Former Main building of the Louisenthal paper mill in Gmund, now the Siegfried Otto House
Louisenthal paper mill, Königstein plant

The Louisenthal (PL) paper mill is one of the world's leading manufacturers of banknotes and security paper . It is a subsidiary of Giesecke + Devrient , with production facilities in Louisenthal in Gmund am Tegernsee and Königstein (Saxon Switzerland) .

history

Construction in Gmund

The production site in Gmund had been the seat of a metalworking industry since 1818. The company was renamed “Louisenthal” with royal approval in 1865 in memory of the Duchess Louise , daughter of King Max I.

Carl Friedrich Haug, founder of the Louisenthal paper mill, on a photograph by Friedrich Brandseph , albumen paper around 1862

The paper factory in Louisenthal was established in 1879 with a Fourdrinier paper machine after the factory had been sold to the industrialist Carl Friedrich Haug the year before . Haug also set up two wood grinding shops nearby , including the wood grinding shop in Mühltal, which was completed in 1884. In 1899 the nearby Mangfall River burst its banks and flooded the entire Louisenthal paper mill, but the mill was soon able to resume operations. Carl Friedrich Haug died in 1908. His widow Christiane Haug (née Böhringer, 1846–1931) took over management of the factory together with her son Arthur Haug (1873–1945) and their son-in-law Adolf Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Förderreuther (1860–1942), which was also the turmoil of the First World War got over. Arthur Haug was shot with Hans Förderreuther on May 3, 1945 by freed French prisoners of war .

German Eurocheque (front)

On May 1, 1964, the factory still owned by descendants of the Haug family was taken over by the Munich banknote and security printing company Giesecke & Devrient under the management of Siegfried Otto , but managing director Carl Förderreuther remained technical director of the paper mill for some time. In 1967 Louisenthal was the first supplier of the banknote paper for the production of the Deutsche Mark on behalf of the Deutsche Bundesbank and ultimately remained its sole supplier until the introduction of the euro . In 1972 Louisenthal was awarded the contract for the production of security paper for Eurocheques , and in 1990 for the production of the third generation of Deutsche Mark.

Construction in Königstein

In 1991 after the fall of the acquisition of the paper mill in Königstein Königsteiner district lodges in the Saxon Switzerland . The paper mill in Königstein was first mentioned in a document in 1569 and was expanded considerably under Alwin Rudel and Hugo von Hoesch . She had been in the banknote paper business since 1914 and manufactured paper for banknotes and identity documents of the GDR under the name “VEB Feinpapierfabrik Königstein” . The business activities of Louisenthal and Königstein were merged in 1997, and the plant in Königstein has been operating as the Louisenthal paper mill, Königstein plant since then . In 2019 the 450th anniversary of the first documentary mention as "paper mill in the Bielatal " was celebrated.

Modern banknote substrates

RollingStar Security Thread in the Armenian 500 Dram Banknote (2018)

The substrate bears essential security features of banknotes to protect against counterfeiting. In the early days of banknote production, security paper was equipped with real watermarks and security threads.

In 1994 the world's first banknote paper with hologram stripes was produced in Louisenthal (the 2000 leva banknote for Bulgaria ). After plastic banknotes could not establish themselves on the market, Louisenthal brought Hybrid ™ onto the market in 2008 , which combined the advantages of paper and polymer banknotes.

Today, the Louisenthal paper mill is a leading supplier of advanced film elements that produce color shifts and three-dimensional effects depending on the viewing angle. a. through the micromirror technology of the RollingStar and the Galaxy. Also holographic film elements over the see-through window, such as. B. in the Europe series of the euro , belong to the production program.

Production volume

The production volume grew from 3,500 tons in 1991 to around 10,000 tons in 2010.

literature

  • Tobias Mahl, Astrid Wolff: Louisenthal 1964–2014 . Ed .: Louisenthal paper factory. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-7995-0590-1 (German, English, 129 pages).
  • Klaus W. Bender : Money maker, the most secret trade in the world . Wiley-VCH Verlag, Weinheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-527-50383-4 (325 pages).
  • Helmut Cedra: From tradition: 450 years of paper production in Königstein / Saxony . Self-published, 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-029779-3 (559 pages).

Web links

Commons : Papierfabrik Louisenthal  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Death came with liberation. In: OVB-online. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  2. Jan Hendrik Prell; Horst Böttge: Giesecke & Devrient 1852–2002. Values ​​through the ages . Ed .: Giesecke & Devrient. Deutscher Sparkassen Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 978-3-09-303892-1 .
  3. ^ A b Tobias Mahl, Astrid Wolff: Louisenthal 1964–2014 . Ed .: Louisenthal paper factory. Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-7995-0590-1 .
  4. ^ Company profile Louisenthal, Koenigstein plant in Saxony. In: louisenthal.com. Retrieved February 26, 2018 .
  5. Königstein paper mill celebrates its 450th anniversary. In: Coin Week. October 3, 2019, accessed August 7, 2020 .
  6. Hybrid ADDvance and Hybrid: For a longer circulation period. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  7. Small mirrors, big effects. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ 31 ″  N , 11 ° 44 ′ 41 ″  E