Schülke & Mayr

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Schülke & Mayr GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1889
Seat Norderstedt , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Christian Last, managing director
Number of employees 1152
sales 322 million euros (2016)
Branch chemistry
Website schuelke.com

The schülke (outdoor appearance since 2007, only schülke ) is in the Hamburg merchants Rudolf Schülke and Julius H. Mayr 1889 Hamburg-Winterhude based chemical industry company in the area of infection control . The company has been based in Norderstedt since 1963 and has been part of the French Air Liquide group since 1996 .

history

Postage stamp from the African Lakes Post by Schülke + Mayr 1892

On April 15, 1889, the ship's captain Rudolf Schülke († 1924) and the Amsterdam merchant Julius Mayr-Bertheau (born Mayr; † 1921) founded the company Schülke & Mayr OHG and acquired them in the same year after a thorough examination by the bacteriologist Robert Koch received the world patent for the production of Lysol , a water-soluble disinfectant , for 50,000 gold marks , which laid the foundation for the company's expansion. Lysol was seen as an important basis for the survival of the European imperialists in the African, Asian and South American colonial areas. In 1890 Schülke & Mayr set up a station for testing Lysol and other medical products on Lake Victoria in what was then the colony of German East Africa . Schülke & Mayr also managed the private African Lakes Post with its own stamp series for the purpose of courier transports from Dar es Salaam to Lake Victoria, to Tabora , Bukoba and Mwanza in 1892 . Through the use of Lysol succeeded in combating the cholera epidemic of 1892 in Hamburg, for which the company in 1893 by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg Nothstands-Comite the confirmation helpful bourgeoisie was presented in the form of a certificate of honor.

1893 confirmation of helpful bourgeoisie

The company was converted into a stock corporation in 1911. In 1913 the first branded disinfectant for the consumer market was introduced with the brand name Sagrotan . In 1920 the New York distributor of pharmaceutical products and license producer of Sagrotan Lehn & Fink Inc had taken over 100 percent of the shares. In 1924, the company entered the field of preservation with the first branded biocide for industry with the brand name Grotan . Sagrotan is an acronym and is made up of SAanus (Latin for healthy), the first three letters "GRO" and the "T" from the last name of the Schülke & Mayr managing director Arnold GROeThuysen and the arbitrary ending "AN".

Former parent company Schülke & Mayr in Hamburg-Winterhude, today Goldbekhaus

During the National Socialist era , the company was managed in trust by Kurt Bussmann from the Hamburg firm Wassermann / Fischer / Bussmann . In the period from 1933 to 1940, the disinfectant powder production increased from 290,000 to 725,000 kg and the number of followers increased from 88 to 192 people. The Office of beauty of the work recorded on May Day 1941 Schülke & Mayr as a National Socialist model company with the golden flag from. During the Second World War , large quantities of disinfectants were required for hospitals, and alternative operations were established in less endangered locations . The branch plants were on fire , a small town in the Fichtel Mountains and in Wesel in the Rhineland. The Schülke & Mayer production facilities in Winterhude remained undamaged during the Second World War, while the chemical paint factories Beit & Co. , which bordered the property on the Goldbek Canal, were 80 percent destroyed by Operation Gomorrah .

Schülke works in Norderstedt since 1963

In 1952 Schülke & Mayr was converted into a GmbH and - after the laying of the foundation stone on June 15, 1961 by the then managing director Albert Obladen - moved into its new headquarters in Norderstedt-Glashütte near Hamburg in 1963 with 320 employees at the time . In 1966 the company was acquired by the American pharmaceutical company Sterling Drug , which in 1988 - and with it Schülke & Mayer - was taken over by the Eastman Kodak Company . The British Reckitt & Colman group has been a shareholder in Schülke & Mayr since 1994 . In 1990 the wound and mucous membrane antiseptic octenisept was introduced based on the active ingredient octenidine .

Schülke & Mayr has been part of the French Air Liquide group since 1996 . In 1997 the brand name Sagrotan was spun off and sold to Reckitt & Colman, today Reckitt Benckiser . After redesigning its own corporate identity , Schülke & Mayr has only been called schülke since 2007 . The company is still entered in the commercial register as Schülke & Mayr GmbH . In September 2009 the company opened a new logistics center at the Norderstedt location. It has twelve locations, six of which are outside the European Union in China, India, Malaysia, Switzerland, Singapore and the USA (as of 2014).

In September 2019, Schülke's product portfolio of technical biocides and oil and gas additives was sold to Vink Chemicals, based in Kakenstorf . In December 2019 it was announced that the French owner Air-Liquide was considering parting with Schülke & Mayr with an estimated value of up to one billion euros. According to its own information, Schülke generates annual sales of around 335 million euros with 22 international branches and presences in 100 countries (as of 2019). In April 2020 it became known that the Swedish financial investor EQT Air-Liquide's subsidiary Schülke was taking over completely into its portfolio.

Business areas

Today the main products produced are disinfectants for surfaces, instruments and the skin. The company also makes special additives such as B. for the preservation of lubricants, paints or cosmetics and offers research and services.

Remediation of contaminated sites on the former factory premises in Hamburg-Winterhude

Former Administration building and warehouse (right) on Goldbek Canal, today Goldbekhaus district cultural center

The former production facilities of Schülke & Mayr in Winterhude on the Goldbek Canal were sold to the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in 1961 under the then Mayor Paul Nevermann . The Goldbekhaus district culture center has been located on the company premises since 1981 . From 1984 onwards, based on odor nuisance and soil samples taken, it was found that the soil there contained phenols , cresols and xylenols in concentrations of up to 63,000 mg / kg dry matter and in the groundwater up to 10,000 µg / l. In a modified Soilcrete process - at the expense of the city - the contaminated soil was rehabilitated to a depth of 19 meters in 1988 for around 15 million euros .

Trivia

  • The Rudolf Schülke Foundation, founded in 1972 by Schülke & Mayr GmbH and named after co-founder Rudolf Schülke, awards the Hygiene Prize every two years to scientists who have achieved special problem solutions in the areas of hygiene, microbiology and preventive medicine.
  • In 2005 the Federal German Working Group for Environmentally Conscious Management (BAUM eV) awarded Schülke & Mayr the Mimosa Prize for a virtual advent calendar on the intranet , which was intended to motivate employees to be sustainable .
  • At the end of 2007, Schülke & Mayr gave itself a new brand design: The Mayr is no longer used and the ampersand is replaced by a mathematical plus , which, according to its own information, stands for added value ; the indicated arrow in the plus is intended to symbolize positive dynamics.

literature

  • John Fuhlberg-Horst, Hermann Köster (illustrations): In the fight against the epidemic. Looking back over fifty years of “Lysol” . Ed .: Schülke & Mayr Aktien-Gesellschaft. Schettler, Koethen 1939, DNB  361493207 .
  • Elly Heuss-Knapp: Plague devil's adventure. Fairy tales for young and old . Schülke & Mayr, Hamburg 1940.
  • Siegfried Wenzel: S&M meat hygiene plan . Technology and disinfection in the meat industry. Schülke & Mayr, Norderstedt 1976.
  • Eckhard Freiwald, Gabriele Freiwald-Korth: Hamburg's old factories - then and now . Sutton, Erfurt 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint on schuelke.com
  2. ↑ a b c Scülke: Sustainability Report 2017 (PDF; 4.4 MB); accessed on November 16, 2019.
  3. ↑ Rudolph and Bertha Schülke, Evangelical Lutheran Church Congregation Trittau (accessed on January 19, 2014)
  4. ↑ Hamburg's old factories - then and now. Eckhard Freiwald and Gabriele Freiwald-Korth, Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2013, page 87
  5. ↑ Waldemar Gruschke: Markenländerlexikon AG, page 16
  6. ↑ Markenlexikon, see Sagrotan (accessed on 12 May 2010)
  7. ↑ 200 years of business lawyers in Germany - Lovells, I.1.b) ( Memento from February 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). Baden-Baden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-4446-9 .
  8. ↑ S&M annual reports, HWWA, digitized press kit 20th century, company and institutional archive, see there: Schülke (accessed on March 1, 2013)
  9. ^ Letter from the Schülke & Mayr company dated November 19, 1940 to the Landesplanungsgemeinschaft Hamburg 36, Bleichenbrücke 17 (Hamburger Staatsarchiv 371-8 II / XXXIII G110)
  10. ↑ Another Hamburg business under the "Golden"! The chemical factory Schülke & Mayr - "Tagblatt" visit to an exemplary plant, Hamburger Tagblatt dated May 2, 1941 (HWWA press article 00033)
  11. ^ S&M information, newsletter of Schülke and Mayr GmbH anniversary edition 1964, page 13
  12. ↑ Dieter Thiele / Reinhard Saloch, From Wiesengrund to the industrial belt, canal trips through history, VSA-Verlag, 2004, pp. 79–83
  13. ↑ New foundation stone on old tradition , DIE WELT of June 15, 1961, State Archives A906
  14. ↑ Neue Fabrik in Glashütte, Hamburger Abendblatt, September 4, 1963 (accessed February 17, 2013) (PDF file; 1.8 MB)
  15. ↑ Werner Weltgen: Total Quality Management as a structuring task for sustainable corporate change 3.1.1 Brief introduction to the history of Schülke & Mayr, pages 60–61
  16. ↑ Norderstedt company is market leader, DIE WELT from June 2, 1999 (accessed on May 12, 2010)
  17. ↑ Vink Chemicals buys biocide brands from Schülke & Mayr , chemietechnik.de from September 4, 2019 (accessed on March 3, 2020)
  18. ↑ Air Liquide is examining the sale of German subsidiary Schülke , handelsblatt.de from November 13, 2019 (accessed March 3, 2020)
  19. ↑ Insider - Air Liquide puts disinfection manufacturer Schülke for sale , investing.com/ from November 7, 2019
  20. ↑ Financial investor EQT buys hygiene company Schülke - Biggest deal in Germany since the beginning of the pandemic , boersen-zeitung.de from April 7, 2020
  21. ↑ Winterhude from AZ, Ulrike Sparr's district dictionary, Medien-Verlag-Schubert, 2000
  22. ↑ "We didn't think about environmental protection back then", Hamburger Abendblatt dated July 10, 1984 (accessed on February 16, 2013) (PDF file; 2 MB)
  23. ↑ Goldbekhaus: Even more phenol, Hamburger Abendblatt No. 161, page 3 of July 12, 1984 (accessed on February 17, 2013) (PDF file; 1.9 MB)
  24. ^ Authority for Urban Development and the Environment, Hamburg: Contaminated site renovation Goldbekhaus , accessed on May 12, 2010
  25. ↑ Project database in the Department R of the Hamburg Environment and Health Authority: Redevelopment profile Goldbekhaus - Boden (PDF file; 88 kB)
  26. ^ Website of the Rudolf Schülke Foundation
  27. ↑ Mathias Eberenz: First prize for Schülke & Mayr, Hamburger Abendblatt of 20 December 2005 (accessed on 17 February 2013)
  28. ↑ Ulrike Hoffrichter: Schülke & Mayr: new brand design , interview with schülke , May 1, 2008 in Management & Krankenhaus, GIT Verlag (accessed on February 17, 2013)