Shame and filling ditch
| A shame u. Füllgrabe KG
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| legal form | KG |
| founding | 1878 |
| resolution | 1992 |
| Reason for dissolution | Sale to Tengelmann |
| Seat | Frankfurt am Main |
| Branch | Grocery retail |
The shame u. Füllgrabe KG (also known as Schade & Füllgrabe ) was a German retail company based in Frankfurt am Main . At its peak in the early 1970s, the company, which mainly operates in the Rhine-Main area , employed over 2,500 people and operated 140 supermarkets around Frankfurt. In 1992 Schade & Füllgrabe was taken over by the Tengelmann Group of the Mülheim trading company Erivan Haub and the markets were changed to Kaiser's Tengelmann .
history
Foundation and expansion
Schade & Füllgrabe was founded on September 18, 1878 by Conrad Schade and Oscar Füllgrabe in Frankfurt am Main as an open trading company. The first shop was located in Frankfurt's old town in the building at An der Markthalle 4 , offering high-quality food and delicatessen . In 1880 the two partners opened a branch on Frankfurt's Keplerstrasse. When Conrad Schade died on November 25, 1886, Oscar Füllgrabe initially continued the business alone, but had to leave Frankfurt in 1887 because, as a member of the Social Democrats , he was exposed to increasing reprisals as a result of the socialist laws passed in 1878 in the Prussian city of Frankfurt. He sold his company to Joseph Halberstadt from Stockheim , who kept the established company name.
By 1894, the number of stores rose to 10 branches, six of which were outside Frankfurt (including a branch on Leipziger Strasse in the then still independent town of Bockenheim ). In the following year, the company set up an administrative center in what was then Frankfurt's Kronprinzenstrasse (today Münchener Strasse ). In 1897 Joseph Halberstadt died unexpectedly, the management of the company was now taken over by his widow Susanne, who continued the company's expansion. From 1898 the free in-house advertising magazine “ Sonntagsruhe ” was distributed in the branches of Schade & Füllgrabe .
Susanne Halberstadt died in 1906 and passed the management of the company on to her son Julius Halberstadt and her son-in-law Lenor Helft. In 1908, the company acquired from the city of Frankfurt for 50 gold marks per m² in the newly created industrial area at Osthafen to build a new headquarters. On this site on Hanauer Landstrasse , a spacious new head office was built between 1909 and 1910, which provided the company with excellent service until the beginning of 1967 after the purchase of a neighboring house in 1930. By the First World War , the number of branches rose to 90, including shops in the greater Frankfurt area and, since 1903, in Aschaffenburg in Bavaria . Schade & Füllgrabe employed a total of around 200, exclusively male, employees at that time.
In 1923 the company was converted into a stock corporation and from then on operated under the name Schade & Füllgrabe AG . 1929 founded the meantime to 130 branches and 600 employees enlarged company in Leipzig , the subsidiary Schade u. Füllgrabe GmbH , which soon had 38 branches around Leipzig. In 1932, the Frankfurt company had 144 branches, 46 of which were in the city of Frankfurt, each of which offered an assortment of 1,100 articles. At that time, Schade & Füllgrabe was the largest grocery chain in the Rhine-Main area.
"Aryanization"
After the seizure of power by the National Socialists, the measures adopted in 1935 Nuremberg laws and the impending threats by the Jewish owner sold in anticipation of the impending " Aryanization " their company to the Neuss business family Wehrhahn . Lenor Helft died shortly afterwards in Frankfurt, Julius Halberstadt emigrated to New York and died there in 1939. From then on, the business was run by Hermann Josten. The headquarters in Hanauer Landstrasse and a large part of the business premises were destroyed in bombing raids during the Second World War . After the war, the Soviet occupation authorities confiscated and expropriated the Leipzig subsidiary.
Reconstruction after the war
As a result, business began again in the 30 remaining undestroyed and some poorly prepared rooms. In 1951, the company was converted into a limited partnership , which once specialized in delicatessen products increasingly transformed its businesses into ordinary grocery stores. In 1952 Schade u. Füllgrabe KG opened the city's first 400 square meter self-service shop on Stiftstrasse in Frankfurt . During the 1950s, the number of branches grew to 155 and the number of employees rose to around 1,500. From 1956, meat product departments were opened in the business premises, and in 1967 the company moved to a new company headquarters in Frankfurt-Rödelheim .
In the following years, the sales areas of the branches were significantly enlarged and the sales concept was completely converted to self-service. In the 1970s, the company's branches were spread across almost all of Hesse . After Herrmann Josten's death in 1974, Schade u. Füllgrabe KG restructured, modernized the business premises and adapted to the requirements of the times. The business was now concentrated on the greater Frankfurt area, more distant branches were sold. In 1978, for the company's centenary, there were 140 supermarkets in the entire Rhine-Main area, which Schade u. Füllgrabe KG employed around 2500 people.
Despite the modernizations carried out in the 1970s, the increasing competition from retail chains operating across Germany with more spacious business premises pushed the company, which relies on smaller branches in the city center, into the red. After several attempts in the 1980s to adapt the company to consumer tastes, the Werhahn Group finally sold it to the Frankfurt co op AG together with the similarly-owned and similarly positioned Bolle supermarkets in Berlin and Schätzlein supermarkets in Mülheim , which passed the property values on to the Swiss Bank Corporation and rented it back. After the Co op scandal became known and the associated breaking up of the retail group, the Schade u. Füllgrabe KG was sold to the Tengelmann Group in 1992 and fully integrated into the group (in 1995 Tengelmann also took over the Schätzlein supermarkets).
Tengelmann withdrew from the Rhine-Main area around 2010. The branches, mostly former Schade stores, were partly sold to Rewe and a smaller part to Tegut .
literature
- “ Schade Chronicle ”, contained in the “ 100 Years of Schade - Home Atlas ” on the occasion of the company's centenary in 1978.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schade & Füllgrabe, Festschrift for the 100th anniversary in 1978
- ↑ Company history of the Tengelmann Group, to be read at www.tengelmann.de ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
