Reemtsma cigarette factories
| Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1910 |
| Seat | Hamburg , Germany |
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| Number of employees | approx. 2000 (as of 08/2018) |
| sales | EUR 1.86 billion |
| Branch | Manufacture and distribution of tobacco products, distribution of e-cigarettes |
| Website | www.reemtsma.com |
The Reemtsma GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Imperial Brands plc. with currently around 2000 employees at three locations in Germany.
History until 1945
In the 19th century, Hermann Fürchtegott Zülch founded a cigar factory in Osterholz-Scharmbeck . His sister Flora Fürchtegott Zülch married the East Frisian merchant Bernhard Reemtsma , who also got into the tobacco business. In 1910 he took over a small cigarette factory in Erfurt .
Bernhard and Flora had three sons: Hermann , Philipp and Alwin. In 1918 Hermann developed a machine for producing cigarettes, thereby replacing manual labor. In 1923, Philipp, as the new head of the company, relocated cigarette production to Altona-Bahrenfeld, which was then still in Prussia . In 1926, the company put the first mixing drum (developed in-house) into operation, a carousel-like machine that mixed different types of tobacco homogeneously under a stream of air.
The rapid rise of the company in the Weimar Republic and the Nazi era was based on modern production and marketing methods, but above all on an aggressive expansion policy and close contacts with those in power in politics and business. Within a few years Reemtsma acquired the cigarette factories Manoli (Berlin), Büssum ( Bussum / NL), Josetti (Berlin), Jasmatzi (Dresden), Batschari ( Baden-Baden ), Delta (Dresden), Garbáty (Berlin), Constantin (Hanover) , Waldorf-Astoria (Stuttgart) and Yenidze (Dresden) and also cooperated from 1929 with the largest competitor Haus Neuerburg , which was finally also completely taken over in 1935. In 1930 the aggressive repression policy of the employees who worked independently for Reemtsma in Berlin triggered the Reemtsma scandal , which had legal consequences, albeit without consequences for Reemtsma. In 1934 Reemtsma succeeded in ousting the Dressler cigarette factory as a cigarette supplier for the SA . By the mid-1930s, around two-thirds of German cigarette production was controlled and the company's influence extended far beyond the tobacco industry . After the German occupation of Crimea , Reemtsma benefited from forced labor.
History after 1945
After Germany surrendered, management of the company was transferred to trustees in the British and American-occupied zones and carried out by the occupation authorities in the French zone . The factories in the Soviet zone were expropriated. After the trusteeship was canceled in 1948, the two brothers Hermann Fürchtegott and Philipp Fürchtegott resumed their work at HF & Ph. F. Reemtsma GmbH .
The administration was rebuilt in 1952 based on designs by Godber Nissen on the site of the private Villa Reemtsma .
In 1957 Reemtsma became the majority owner of the Badische Tabakmanufaktur ( Roth-Händle , Reval ).
The HF & Ph. F. Reemtsma Schabtenförderungswerk has existed since 1957 to provide financial support for talented students.
With the introduction of the Peter Stuyvesant brand in 1959, a new factory was opened in West Berlin (Wilmersdorf).
In 1963 the Reemtsma Group acquired 75 percent of the Carstens KG sparkling wine cellar.
In 1965 the group generated around DM 3.4 billion and employed 7,200 people.
In 1971 the production capacities were expanded again with a new plant in Langenhagen near Hanover.
Jan Philipp Reemtsma , who had inherited the shares of his father, who died in 1959, in the GmbH, sold all of his shares in 1980 to Tchibo Frisch-Röst-Kaffee AG in Hamburg, (from 1988 Tchibo Holding AG and from July 5, 2007 Maxingvest AG ), which thus became the majority shareholder.
Before German reunification in 1990, Reemtsma took over a cigarette factory in the GDR . Further expansions followed initially to Eastern Europe (including Poland , Hungary , Slovakia and Russia ) and later to Asia and the Middle East (including Cambodia , Indonesia and Iran ).
In 2002 Imperial Tobacco acquired 90.01 percent of the company shares from Reemtsma. The participation has meanwhile increased to 100 percent.
In 2004, the Reemtsma head office moved from Parkstrasse in the villa district of Hamburg-Othmarschen to the modern Hamburg-Bahrenfeld industrial park . The site of the former headquarters belongs to the Herz family ( Tchibo ) and has been converted into condominiums with a wellness area since 2008.
Reemtsma has been giving journalists the Liberty Award since 2007 .
The Berlin plant was closed in 2012 as part of the restructuring measures resulting from the takeover of Altadis . Reemtsma now has two plants in Langenhagen and Trossingen . The plant in Langenhagen is to be expanded. Production at the Berlin plant will be relocated to the existing plant in Tarnowo Podgórne . As part of the global restructuring of the group, 6 of the 58 plants to date will be closed and around 2,500 of the 40,000 jobs will be lost.
Photo archive
The photo archive with around 70,000 photos - from cigarette production, the history of the company and from the tobacco countries - which give an insight into the tradition of tobacco growing and processing into an industrially manufactured mass product, was handed over to the Museum of Work . The archive is to be gradually made accessible to the public.
Products
- Cigarettes
- Atika
- Cabinet
- Davidoff
- Gauloises
- John Player Special (JPS)
- R1
- Route 66
- west
- Peter Stuyvesant
- Gitanes
- P & S
- Lambert & Butler
- duet
- Traditional brands (cigarettes)
- R6 (1921)
- Harvest 23 (first produced from the 1923 harvest and brought out in 1924)
- Salem No. 6th
- Virginia No. 6th
- Rolling and stuffing tobacco
- Route 66
- John Player Special (JPS)
- west
- Fairwind
- Drum (world's best-selling rolling tobacco)
- Van Nelle
- Gauloises
- Black hand
- Golden Virginia
- Buccaneer
- Cigarillos
- Fairwind
- Route 66
- John Player Special (JPS)
- Other tobacco products and accessories
- skruf (chewing tobacco)
- Rizla (cigarette paper)
- Cañuma (cigarette paper)
- Muskote (cigarette paper)
- Filters, filter tubes, makers
- E cigarette
- myblu device
- myblu liquids
For products not manufactured for the German market, see Imperial Tobacco .
Brewery holdings
In the 1970s, Reemtsma acquired shares in breweries as part of a diversification strategy in the direction of the luxury food group, but soon sold most of them again:
- Dortmund Union Brewery
- Tucher Brewery Nuremberg (sold to Josef März in 1985 )
- Henninger Brewery Group (1980), also resold in March 1987
- Hannen brewery
- Bavaria-St. Pauli brewery
Market share
- National
- Reemtsma continues to be the second largest supplier in the German tobacco market in 2016/2017 (total market share 24.1 P)
- International
- The Imperial Tobacco Group is the fourth largest supplier in the international tobacco market after Philip Morris , British American Tobacco and Japan Tobacco (although Chinese tobacco producers are not included in these rankings because they do not produce for export. Asia, however, accounts for over 50 percent of the tobacco consumed worldwide .)
See also
literature
- Erik Lindner: The Reemtsmas. History of a German family of entrepreneurs. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 3-455-09563-1 ( Review by Alfred Reckendrees on H-Soz-u-Kult , H-Net Reviews. April 2008).
- Stefan Rahner / Sandra Schürmann: Turban and peace pipe. Advertising photographs in the Reemtsma archives in the Museum of Work , in: Zeithistorische Forschungen / Studies in Contemporary History 4 (2007), pp. 435–448.
- Tino Jacobs: smoke and power. The company Reemtsma 1920 to 1961. Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ed. from the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg , ISBN 978-3-8353-0313-3 .
( Review by Boris Gehlen on H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Net Reviews. May 2009). - Stefan Rahner, Museum of Work (ed.): Advertising worlds made in Hamburg. 100 years of Reemtsma. Junius, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-88506-469-5 .
- Karl Heinz Roth , Jan-Peter Abraham: Reemtsma in the Crimea . Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2011. ISBN 978-3-89401-745-3 .
Web links
- Official website
- The historical photo archive of the Reemtsma cigarette factories in the Museum of Labor, Hamburg
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Reemtsma cigarette factories in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b (accessed July 19, 2017) .
- ^ Full-page advertisement in the magazine Die Woche , issue 21 of May 20, 1936, page 15.
- ↑ Erik Lindner: The Reemtsmas. History of a German family of entrepreneurs . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2007, p. 131ff.
- ↑ Nils Klawitter: Reemtsma's forced laborers: Tobacco Rush in the East , DER SPIEGEL of August 25, 2011 , accessed on August 26, 2011.
- ↑ Back to phylloxera - DER SPIEGEL 10/1965.
- ↑ pdf ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2015 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. .
- ↑ Berliner Morgenpost of June 20, 2008, page 5.
- ↑ The historical photo archive of the Reemtsma cigarette factories
- ↑ At anchor - DER SPIEGEL 36/1970
- ↑ a b Extremely helpful - DER SPIEGEL 41/1987.
- ↑ Annual financial statements for the financial year from October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017 and management report for the 2016/2017 financial year
Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '30.7 " N , 9 ° 53' 11.4" E
