Pohlschröder
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| legal form | Limited partnership |
| founding | 1855 |
| resolution | 2000 |
| Reason for dissolution | economic problems |
| Seat | Dortmund |
| Branch | Safe technology , steel furniture |
Pohlschröder & Co. KG was a German company from Dortmund that was a leader in the field of safe technology . Pohlschröder's main turnover was with steel office furniture, as well as shelving systems that were sold worldwide.
history
The company Pohlschröder & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Dortmund, was founded in 1855 by master locksmith Friedrich Pohlschröder and was known worldwide primarily as a manufacturer of safes and safe systems. Friedrich Pohlschröder explicitly founded the company as a "safe factory".
After Friedrich Pohlschröder died in 1895, his son, Heinrich Pohlschröder, took over the company and expanded it with his sons, Heinz and Hans, to include the production of steel office furniture and archive shelving systems . The steel office and warehouse furniture accounted for around 60 percent of total sales. Distributed throughout Germany, branches looked after customers from the banking sector, for example. In 1955 there were 560 workers and 160 salaried employees in the Dortmund plant. In 1975 the company, which had 1,700 employees, was taken over by the Hamburg salvage shipping company Ulrich Harms. 1980 Pohlschröder in the joint venture "Steelcase Strafor" based in Strasbourg , which is 50% each from the US -amerikanischen company Steelcase Inc . consisted of Grand Rapids and the French company Strafor from Strasbourg.
In 2000 the Pohlschröder company was dissolved. Steelcase GmbH in Rosenheim kept the Pohlschröder brand.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b One hundred years of Pohlschröder . In: The time . No. 46 , 1955, pp. 1 ( zeit.de ).
- ^ Entrepreneur: Kur am Kai . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1975 ( online ).
- ↑ Takeover notice . In: Computerwoche , March 7, 1980.
- ↑ Information on a community trademark and registration number: 721744 at register.dpma.de