Schlieper & Laag

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The piece dyeing works Schlieper und Laag AG was initially a merger of the silk weaving mills silk dyeing and finishing Alexander Schlieper ( Vohwinkel - Hammerstein , founded 1897) and the silk dyeing and finishing company Heinrich Laag & Cie. ( Düsseldorf , founded in 1880) . From 1911 Hildener Stückfärberei GmbH (1897–1983 Hilden , corner Neustraße 54-Hofstraße 34) was added. The merged companies were based in Vohwinkel, Buchenhofener Straße 49-55 and had branches in Düsseldorf and Hilden.

Piece dyeing is the dyeing of finished woven or knitted webs . The dyeing is done either tension-free in the loose fabric strand on the " reel skid " or in open width under tension for firm fabric on the "jigger".

Sole proprietorship: Schlieper; Laag; Hilden piece dyeing works (1880 to 1910)

Alexander Schlieper

The silk weaving mill Gebhard & Co. processed mulberry spider silk in the middle of the 19th century . In order to make the silk goods ready for sale, Gebhard ran a small finishing in a back building in Elberfeld , Obergrünstraße. The brothers August and Rudolf Bönten bought the company from her around 1880. In addition to silk fabrics, they also finished cotton fabrics from other weaving mills.

Edmond Gillet (1873-1931)

After the room became too small, they moved to Elberfeld, Weidenplatz. On October 1, 1887, the Bönten company passed to Alexander Schlieper (born January 16, 1862 in Elberfeld; † October 20, 1916). His father Gustav Schlieper (born June 20, 1837 in Elberfeld; † March 26, 1899 in Nice ), was a partner in the Elberfeld fabric printing company Schlieper & Baum . Alexander Schlieper's main customers were the Gebhard silk weaving mill and the HE Schniewind silk weaving mill in Haan .

In order to exchange experiences in piece dyeing, contacts were established between Elberfeld and the owners of the Lyon-based company Gillet & Fils , Edmond Gillet (born September 19, 1873 in Lyon; † October 15, 1931 in Paris) and Charles Gillet (born November 26, 1873 1879 in Lyon; † May 30, 1972 in Lausanne ). With French machines, Schlieper was able to offer so-called "Lyon articles".

Germany also imported dyed silk goods. However, since the quality of the silk imports left a lot to be desired, the Bremen company Barth & Könenkamp imported Asian raw fabric, which was then dyed and finished at Schlieper. With this he built up another foothold. That was the cornerstone that later Schlieper & Laag was the main supplier of Asian silk fabrics (Japanese Habutais and Pongés ) from Japan in Germany and remained for decades.

As the business grew more and more, Schlieper was looking for a new location on the Wupper . The new building in Hammerstein , a district of the town of Vohwinkel, was completed in late 1899 / early 1900. In the further expansion of the company, the site of the northern neighbor, the Hammerstein dye works of Carl Assauer , was included. This northern area later became the Hammersteiner Färberei GmbH (Vohwinkel-Hammerstein). Alexander Schlieper dyed cotton, umbrella and semi-silk lining materials. Semi-silk linings were used for jacket dresses , men's suits , coats , hats and bags . There were also grenadine , mousseline , crepe and crepe georgette fabrics.

Schlieper brought out the dyed fabrics with a finish.

In the original (southern) company premises, the finish was divided into two parts. The finish for all light clothing fabrics and fashionable items occupied the rooms in the middle section up to the dye works. In the southernmost part of the site, the finish for all classic articles including the East Asians and the lining materials was housed. The finishing departments later became Schlieper & Laag GmbH (Vohwinkel) .

KG Heinrich Laag & Cie.

After his apprenticeship in the "Jolly Belin Teinturerie" (Jolly Belin dye works), Paris , Heinrich Laag (* 1850 - May 14, 1933 Düsseldorf) got to know the Lyon silk dye factory Gillet & Fils . When the wealthy painter Adolf Eduard Storck (Düsseldorf) and Adolf Focke ( Bremen ) supported him financially, he founded the KG Heinrich Laag & Cie in 1880 . , Piece dyeing of silk and semi-silk fabrics and silk plushes (Düsseldorf, Kaiserswerther Strasse). The company JH Laag , which was founded by his father Johann Heinrich Laag in 1860, was affiliated with the dyeing and chemical washing facility at the same address.

While the silk and semi-silk lining materials were still dyed in hanks until around 1880, dyeing went over to piece dyeing. Heinrich Laag succeeded in avoiding the ugly white rubbing points when splicing fiber fibrils by using the dye on the “jigger” (1880 to the end of the 1890s) for the sensitive silk mixtures in a short liquor . The fabrics to be dyed were wound up in one piece on unwinding rollers. They were pulled through the dye bath in the trough, the liquor, and rolled up again on the other side. So that the first batch did not pull all the dye out of the liquor and get dark, the dye liquor was prepared separately and slowly dosed into the jigger.

The factory owners Heinrich Laag from Düsseldorf and Alexander Schlieper from Elberfeld were in 1898 board members of the "Association for the Protection of the Common Interests of the Dyeing and Printing Works - Industry of Rhineland and Westphalia".

Laag's right-hand man was Jean Schopp, who made it from apprentice (1887), through journeyman, master to operations director in the management. From 1901 Adolf Eduard Focke, the son of the financier Adolf Focke, was established in the management. He was already a partner in KG Heinrich Laag & Cie. and pushed the later merger.

Hildener Stückfärberei GmbH

Hilden piece dyeing works Schlieper & Laag, warehouse building in Hofstrasse, architect Karl Westip (1968)
Hilden piece dyeing works Schlieper & Laag, main building in Neustraße

At the Hilden silk weaving and umbrella weaving mill Gressard et Compagnie (Gressard & Co.) the production of foulard- dyed woven goods was stopped in 1882 as a result of the recession . They were replaced by standard fabrics, and for the production of these - also in 1882 - an in-house dyeing factory was initially set up on the company premises in Hilden.

Due to the following upswing from 1895, the in-house dyeing works at Gressard had to give way to a large new weaving room. For this reason, the Gressard company acquired a large field outside of its factory premises on Hofstrasse in 1897 and had a dyeing and finishing facility built there in 1899 on one hectare. The long building on Hofstrasse housed the raw material warehouse, part of the finishing, the boiling and drying room, the disposition, the canteen and changing rooms and the dispatch department. The company dyed as a piece dyeing factory in Hilden, Hofstr. 34, at the corner of Neustraße 54, initially the silk products of the local cloth makers Gressard & Co. and Kampf & Spindler . She supplied umbrella fabrics for W. Bauermann & Sons . In 1900 the office and company building were built in Neustraße. At that time Neustraße was still called Bachstraße.

Under Ernst Maurer from Hilden, the company was converted into Hildener Stückfärberei GmbH in 1908 as an independent company . She then also tried to get contract equipment orders .

When Ernst Niepmann senior (born September 24, 1842 in Schwerte ; † April 11, 1906 in Bonn ) died in the weaving mill , his son Ernst Niepmann junior († February 1947) sold his Gräfrath silk weaving mill for lining materials to the united silk weaving mills in Krefeld . For this he acquired the Gressard dye works on February 4, 1910. He made contact with the Lyon-based company Gillet & Fils . For a 50% stake he received know-how and the financial means necessary for the modernization.

Mergers of Schlieper & Laag AG (1910 to 1921)

Schlieper & Laag GmbH

Gustav Holthausen strove for a community of interests and a merger of the silk finishing industry. In 1910 he succeeded in merging the interests of silk dyeing and finishing Heinrich Laag & Cie. , Düsseldorf, with the silk processing company silk dyeing and finishing Alexander Schlieper , Vohwinkel-Hammerstein, to Schlieper & Laag Seidenfärberei GmbH (1888–1979) with headquarters in Vohwinkel and a branch in Düsseldorf.

Schlieper & Laag AG

Schlieper & Laag; Vohwinkel-Hilden, advertising

With retroactive effect from October 1, 1911, the three large silk dyeing factories in Bergisch, Hildener Stückfärberei GmbH and the two silk dyeing companies of Schlieper & Laag GmbH merged to form Schlieper & Laag AG (HRB 6750 District Court of Düsseldorf). based in Vohwinkel-Hammerstein at Buchenhofener Strasse 49-55 and branches in Düsseldorf and Hilden. The board of directors consisted of the following gentlemen: 1. Ernst Niepmann, businessman in Elberfeld, 2. Adolf Eduard Focke, businessman in Düsseldorf, 3. Kurt Schlösser (born July 16, 1882 in Elberfeld), businessman in Vohwinkel-Hammerstein and son-in-law of Alexander Schlieper , 4. Hugo Lohberg, factory director at Vohwinkel. The first supervisory board was made up of the gentlemen: 1. Alexander Schlieper, merchant and dye works owner in Vohwinkel-Hammerstein, sole owner of the Alexander Schlieper company there, 2. Heinrich Laag, merchant and dye works owner in Düsseldorf, 3. Charles Gillet, dye works owner in Lyon 4. Richard Frowein (born September 21, 1879 in Elberfeld; † 1937), lawyer in Elberfeld. The managing directors were Adolf Eduard Focke, Ernst Niepmann, Kurt Schlösser and Hugo Lohberg Senior († 1921). The company's shares were taken over by: Alexander Schlieper (42%), Heinrich Laag (24%), Charles Gillet (23.3%) and Ernst Niepmann (10.7%). The individual companies continued their business in the previous way alone.,

From 1912 the big dye works was built in Hilden. The boiler house and machine house were conveniently located for all operating departments. This expansion was the prerequisite for the Düsseldorf dyeing and finishing equipment to be relocated to Hilden in 1913.

The collaboration between Alexander Schlieper (Vohwinkel-Hammerstein) and Gillet & Fils (Lyon) developed extremely well. Gillet & Fils was a leader in silk piece weighting ("to weigh down"). The knowledge about the treatment with a tin - phosphate - silicate combination and the first machines (X-machine) were transferred from France to Germany.

The Hilden piece dyeing factory suffered from a lack of material due to the First World War in 1914. Nevertheless, the Rheinisches Volksblatt wrote on September 6, 1914: “Work is on Tuesday”.

Merger of Schlieper & Laag AG with Friedrich Cleff and Gustav Beeck,

After the First World War, the companies in Hilden and Vohwinkel-Hammerstein were rebuilt under the direction of Mr. Adolf Eduard Focke and the companies started up again.

On August 1, 1919, the merger with the Friedrich Cleff company ( Barmen ) followed . She owned a ribbon dyeing factory for black-dyed silk and semi-silk fabrics, which were used as black umbrella fabrics and black clothing fabrics.

In order to be able to offer rope dyeing in addition to piece dyeing, the Gustav Beeck rope dyeing plant (Elberfeld, Bleichstrasse) was integrated on October 24, 1919.

Westdeutsche Textil AG (WETAG) (1921 to 1924)

Westdeutsche Textil AG (Vohwinkel-Hammerstein) was founded in February 1921 . So at the headquarters of the old company of Alexander Schlieper. Ernst Niepmann and Kurt Schloesser became members of the Executive Board. All associated companies were incorporated into WETAG as subsidiaries in the form of companies mbH .

Incorporation of ten companies between 1922 and 1923 and during inflation

During the inflation from 1914 to 1923, the devaluation of the money that was earned through contract processing disappeared. That is why there was a dominant interest in investing in goods and buying subsidiaries through loans. The loans could then simply be repaid with inflationary money. From 1923 onwards, silk processing was only charged at gold mark prices.

As early as 1922, the processing industry had turned back to. Because they were interested in the development of artificial silk , in mid-1922 WETAG joined the Kunststofffärerei Rheinische Kunstseiden- und Seidenfärbereien Hugo Kaulen and Albert Herzog Söhne GmbH with operations in Barmen, Krebsöge on the Wupper and in Krefeld.

At the end of 1922, the silk black dyer Friedrich Colsman ( Langenberg ) was also incorporated into WETAG AG. a.

The interest of the supervisory board slowly turned more and more from the contract processing companies to the in-house processing companies. On April 30, 1923, two in-house finishing companies , the so-called iron yarn manufacturing companies, were incorporated, namely the companies Müller & Siller (Barmen) and Hasenclever & Hüser ( Beyenburg ) . Iron yarn made from cotton yarn was used as men's coat sleeve linings and laces . Both companies also still dyed cotton and rayon in hank. In 1922, Hasenclever & Hüser installed a modern hydropower plant with a barrage on the Wupper.

On October 1, 1923, the Gebrüder Müller & Co. spinning mill in Rheydt -Mülfort was incorporated into WETAG to complement the two cotton yarn processing companies . It was spun off again in 1925 because its spinning machines could not deliver the desired yarn counts.

Capable partners were found in Messrs H. and A. Pungs. At the beginning of 1924, the Mülforter spinning mill ( Rheydt ) was incorporated into WETAG.

Because Kampf & Spindler in Hilden started their own dyeing of strand-dyed rayon linings, the dyeing of half silk decreased at Hilden's piece dyeing factory. In the vacant rooms, a pipe drawing factory was set up under the direction of Ernst Funccius . She pulled pipes and made bicycle frames. In 1923, the Preyss & Co. cold rolling and tube plant ( Euenheim near Euskirchen ) was incorporated in order to obtain the necessary sheet metal inexpensively . It was in & Co. metal work Preyss renamed.

Because the company wanted to develop towards the dyeing of artificial silk, the cotton rope dyeing and bleaching factory Rudolf Schroers GmbH ( Schopfheim im Wiesental ) was affiliated to WETAG in the late autumn of 1923 , with the aim of gaining a foothold in the Basel area with a piece dyeing factory.

The main client was the Elberfelder Textilwerke under the management of Kurt Frowein (born September 28, 1885 in Elberfeld; † January 12, 1966 in Hamburg ) with the daughters of ribbon weaving mill Abraham & Gebrüder Frowein (Elberfeld, Uellendahler Straße 70/71); the two upholstery and lining fabric mills Boeddinghaus, Reimann & Co. , Reimann & Meyer , as well as the wool combing and wool spinning mill Stöhr ( Leipzig ) .;

WETAG was initiated by Elberfelder Textilwerke (Etag) to work together in the Hungarian region. The plan arose to build a lining weaving mill for iron yarns together with a contract dyeing works in Budapest . After purchasing the large workshop of the factory in Erzsebetfalva (later Pesterzsébet ), the Hungarian iron yarn factory was set up by the Elberfeld textile works and the dye works by WETAG. The iron yarn dyeing would have been unprofitable and was already covered during the construction phase. The Hungarian WETAG dye works struggled with financial difficulties until it was liquidated in 1928.

Time after the currency reform 1923 to 1928

WETAG Holding, consolidation (1924 to 1928)

After the currency reform and the introduction of the Rentenmark in November 1923, the financial markets stabilized and an economic upswing set in, which lasted until the onset of the global economic crisis in 1929. The relevant companies in the competing iron industry had recovered so much that the WETAG subsidiaries had little room. The spinning mills, rope dye works and finishing plants were also in financial difficulties. To prevent the collapse, contact was made again with Gillet & Fils (Lyon). It was jointly decided to split up WETAG again.

In 1924, the following remained in the holding company of the Bergische dye works of Westdeutsche Textil AG (WETAG) in Vohwinkel: Schlieper & Laag GmbH (Vohwinkel) ; the Hammersteiner dyeing GmbH ( Wuppertal-Hammerstein ) and Hilden piece dyeing (Hilden) ; the Friedrich Colsman GmbH (Langenberg) ; the Friedrich Cleff GmbH (Barmen) , the strand dyeing Kaulen & Herzog GmbH (Barmen and Krebsöge) , the strand dyeing Gustav Beek (Elberfeld) (closed 1925). The subsidiaries were represented on the Supervisory Board by Messrs Heinrich Laag and Kurt Frowein.

After Kurt Schlösser left the company in 1925, the board consisted of Richard Frowein and Ernst Niepmann. The management of Schlieper & Laag GmbH (Hilden) was until 1928 in the hands of Adolf Eduard Focke, supported by Jean Schopp (Hilden). Werner Berendt (born July 15, 1892 in Hamburg; † August 3, 1979) became managing director of Hammersteiner Färberei GmbH on January 1, 1925. He was supported by Alfred Risler (Vohwinkel). Werner Berendt was part of the management of Hammersteiner Kunstleder GmbH until 1957 and, from 1947, after the death of Ernst Niepmann, was also the sole director of WETAG.

Plain with linseed oil

Before the weaving process, a protective film, the so-called size, was applied to strengthen the warp yarn or the crepe yarn . Schlieper & Laag (Vohwinkel) was known for their flawless linseed oil solution sizing . A linseed oil film was applied to the yarn as an emulsion . Other companies that mastered this sizing technique were: Dyeing works Schetty (Basel) , EF Kreß Söhne (Krefeld) , textile equipment company (Krefeld) , Etablissement Gamma (Lyon) . After weaving and before dyeing, the size had to be removed by decoction.

Dye works

After the consolidation, the majority of the WETAG shares were taken over by Gillet. Nevertheless, each management of a subsidiary was able to make its own decisions, unless it was a matter of very large investments. Gillet & Fils entered all operations with a say and as a shareholder with 30%. On the Supervisory Board of WETAG, Gillet's interests were represented by Umberto Walter (born September 1, 1889 in Milan ; † June 13, 1945 in Como ). He was the managing director of the Como-based Italian sister company Tintoria Comense , later renamed Ticosa SA .

As the time for rope-dyed clothing fabrics such as B. the black silk taffeta and the rope weighting was over, and there were no more major orders, the rope dye works were closed one after the other or renamed by Schlieper & Laag GmbH . These included the companies Gustav Beeck (Elberfeld) ; Kaulen & Herzog (Krebsöge and Barmen) , Friedrich Cleff (Barmen) and Friedrich Colsman (Langenberg) .

In order to provide sufficient water for the aggravation, the aggravation and the decoction for the aggravated silk goods gradually moved from 1927 to 1929 to the upper course of the Wupper after Krebsöge. There was soft water with 1 to 2 degrees of German hardness .

Finishing process, equipment

If sharp folds were still present after weaving artificial silk crepe fabric, small loops broke out of the fabric along these folds, which then led to crepe breaks, also known as "ant passages". This was remedied by the pre-gaufrage process before boiling.

With the help of a roller, patterns were applied to the raw crepe fabric such as B. Crêpe-de-Chine fabric, silk-crepe-marocain fabric, flamengo or fabric made of viscose chain engraved with viscose crepe. This finishing step made the entire crepe pattern even and the dreaded crepe breaks disappeared. A finer crepe pattern was obtained by strongly causticizing the goods before boiling and then quickly washing out the residual caustic solution.

A further development was that you could not only emboss a crepe image on the crepe, but also figures. In the “Mawella” series, a wave-like drawing ran over the entire matted piece of crepe and gave it the elegant expression of a shaped fabric.

Great Depression (1929 to 1932)

Merger with the Fritz Colsman Langenberg dye works

In 1930 the Hilden piece dyeing factory Schlieper & Laag merged with the dye factory Fritz Colsman Langenberg .

Pre-war period (1933 to 1939)

Boyeux plain

In 1934 the patents for the Boyeux process for semi-sizing artificial silk had expired. Schlieper & Laag immediately began working with the synthetic fiber dye works Schetty (Basel) . In the Boyeux process (patent FR647178 of November 21, 1928), a rayon thread is coated with a layer of lacquer by dipping it into an alcoholic 15 to 20% rubber or resin solution. If you add dyes to the size solution, the yarn can be dyed at the same time. The yarns are then dried in air or in a heating chamber. Quoted in.

Dye works

The Schlieper & Laag GmbH (Vohwinkel) colored 1937 & Gebhardt Co. , tree KG , Frowein & Co. under Harald Frowein . In 1939 it had 471 employees and had a turnover of 2.5 million Reichsmarks .

In the Deutsches Architektur- und Industrie-Verlag (DARI) , WETAG was described in 1939 as: Schlieper & Laag GmbH : Finishing of silk, artificial silk and semi-silk fabrics, finishing of iron yarn sleeve linings, connected to: Hammersteiner Färberei GmbH (same address): Piece dyeing from silk and artificial silk clothing and lining materials, crepe de chine, crepe marocain, taffet-helvetia , satin grenadine, japon , silk / wool fabrics den Eoliennes etc. and Hildener Stückfärberei GmbH , Hilden, piece dyeing semi-silk linings, satin, serge , whole - and half-silk umbrella fabrics, finishing of cotton voile .

From 1933 to 1937 Ernst Niepmann was alone on the board of WETAG. Richard Frowein took over the chairmanship of the supervisory board. With Richard Frowein's death in 1937, the heavyweight division at WETAG was transferred to the Executive Board. Pro forma attorney Paul Kaufmann became chairman of the supervisory board. Until the outbreak of war, WETAG's board of directors, Ernst Niepmann, the partners Charles Gillet, Francois Balay (* March 12, 1897 in Lyon, † February 23, 1962 in Paris), and, if necessary, Umberto Walter, discussed and decided on all essential questions.

On April 6, 1937, factory director Jean Schopp celebrated his 50th company anniversary in Hilden.

End of the silk piece weighting

With the end of the silk piece weight, the Krebsöger plant was closed and sold after 1939.

printing house

The finish for classic, smooth fabrics moved to Hilden in the mid-30s. This created space for a printing house in Vohwinkel. In order to be able to keep up with the competition of the textile equipment company (Krefeld) , the film printing of highly fashionable things began on 8 tables of 80 m and 2 tables of 50 m. They got big in the areas of varnish printing, gold printing, and combining burnout with various printing methods.

Sales office in Krefeld

Schlieper & Laag opened a sales office in Krefeld for dyed fabrics with motifs. The representative was Karl Sauerborn (born July 6, 1914 in Krefeld), who later became managing director of Hilden's piece dyeing factory.

A large order from Deuss & Oetker , Schiefbahn , involved piece-dyed tie fabrics . The striped fabrics were dyed in three colors. The chain consisted of acetate silk and fine thread viscose silk. The chain was woven in acetate silk, partly in taffeta weave and partly in satin weave . In the context of tie fabrics, they were the first in Germany to develop the crease-resistant fabric. They had adopted the Lyon process, which used sulfated urea-formaldehyde in the equipment. They worked closely with Résines, Vernis artificielles (Paris) .

Wartime, World War II (1939 to 1945)

German character of the company

With the beginning of the Second World War , the threads and contacts with Gillet & Fils (Lyon) , the Gesellschaft für Textilwerte (Basel) and the Arena Trading Corporation (New York) had to be broken off. In order to emphasize the German character of the company, relations with the Italian sister company Tintoria Comense (Como) were broken off.

Werner Colsman (born November 28, 1899) was managing director in 1942.

Schlieper & Laag GmbH (Vohwinkel), military contracts

During the war, the company in Vohwinkel manufactured "gas tarpaulins". These were light, impregnated crepe papers that were soaked in casein - formaldehyde suspension and dried relatively quickly. They should protect the soldiers from gas attacks. Building on this, the company succeeded in manufacturing rainproof camouflage protection materials and developed the plastic coating with Oppanol in the tampour for gas-tight materials . That was the beginning of the artificial leather production and the Hammersteiner-Kunstlederfabrik GmbH . Artificial silk raincoat fabrics were first coated with acrylates . A military major order, from both sides coated synthetic leather for tarpaulins for tanks in khaki brown and on the back tarnbedruckt with Kunstofflacken. They also developed a completely wind- and weatherproof West - and cladding materials for pilots and submarine driver, who served as a fur substitute. The ruffled velvet made of a viscose base fabric with piece-matt acetate pile was coated on one side with PVC and grained. In the finishing department the employment situation was very good due to the equipment of parachute material for flares .

From 1942 the Vohwinkel company was called Schlieper & Laag GmbH, piece dyeing and finishing company, V.-Hammerstein . It was dyeing, printing and finishing for light silk and rayon fabrics; the complicated silk crepe fabric ; the Asian fabrics (such as pongés and Chinese oak moth ) and Helvetia and Toiles .

In June 1943 there was a major bomb attack on Wuppertal. Replacement space had to be created in the southern part of the company for the bombed out operations. It was the company Hamba machinery factory that manufactured aircraft parts and the gas meter factory Eickhoff , the timber generators for trucks produced. For this, the printing shop was closed and all finishes were relocated to the north site.

Hilden piece dyeing and fabric finishing

In 1943, under the influence of Wuppertal, the Hilden piece dyeing works, Schlieper & Laag, GmbH, in addition to the dyeing works, also did the fabric finishing. It employed a hundred people.

At the end of the Second World War, Hilden was shelled with artillery in March – April 1945. This also damaged the electrical overhead lines. The Hilden piece dyeing works had its own power generation plant. It was used to supply the hospital with emergency power and to operate the sirens. If the municipal utilities could not supply electricity, your steam pumps provided the emergency water supply.

Post-war period (1945 to 1983)

Schlieper & Laag GmbH (Vohwinkel) goes to Hilden (1945 to 1959)

Hilden piece dyeing works Schlieper & Laag, aerial view

The company Schlieper & Laag GmbH (Vohwinkel) was transferred to the Schlieper & Laag dyeing and finishing company . On January 1, 1948, the contract finishing of the textile finishing of Schlieper & Laag GmbH (Vohwinkel) together with the finishing machine park was transferred to the Hilden piece dyeing company Schlieper & Laag GmbH (Hilden). The southern area that was vacated was temporarily rented to Bayer AG .

After the finishing from Vohwinkel was relocated to Hilden in 1948, the final operational shutdown took place on June 30, 1959 in Vohwinkel.

Hammersteiner Kunstleder GmbH (Ha-Ku)

The division of the former Schlieper & Laag GmbH (Vohwinkel), which dealt with the production of artificial leather, fashionable artificial wax cloth and fabrics soaked in linseed oil, ran its production from 1947 under the name: Hammersteiner Kunstleder GmbH (Ha-Ku formerly Schlieper & Laag) in Wuppertal-Vohwinkel. Two sheds of the former finish were restored in the south area. The aim was to create a new type of oilcloth "Lavatex" in which a fabric printed with patterns or figures was transparently coated with plastics. It was widely sold by the manufacturers of bags, pouches , etc. and also by bookbinders for albums .

In 1953 the business for the raincoat area collapsed. Instead, the production of light, but air-impermeable coats made of imitation leather "Lederitmantel" and the production of synthetic leather saddles for bicycles came as a replacement . The Germans had discovered mopeds and motorcycles and so saddles and long seats were made for them. With the advent of air-permeable poplin coats and the wholesale auto industry, these customers were lost

In 1949, 40 employees were still working at Ha-Ku. After the currency reform, the number of employees rose to 117 in 1955, 120 in 1957 and to 128 in 1973.

Hilden piece dyeing works Schlieper & Laag (1945 to 1983)

The Hilden company was able to bridge the difficult post-war years. Werner Colsman moved to Hilden as a further managing director in 1947. He resigned from this position as managing director in 1952. His successor was Ernst Sippel in October 1952. He came from the United Silk Weaving Mills , Krefeld. Before that he was technical director of Georg Schleber AG , ( Greiz ). With the currency reform in June 1948, the weaving mills rushed to the finishing companies. The pent-up demand of the population ensured full employment. Together with HE Schniewind (Haan) and JP Bemberg (Wuppertal-Elberfeld) , the company developed and brought out the article “Taischan” made from Bemberg silk with a knobbed weft.

Hilden piece dyeing works Schlieper & Laag, inside

In Hilden, the dye works were first reorganized. A series of changes ensured the improved organic flow of goods. The decoction and the finishing have been set up again.

In February 1953, the laying and shipping department burned down completely due to carelessness in welding. Fortunately, the finish was protected and could not be accessed by the flames.

Ernst Sippel fell seriously ill in 1955 and Karl Sauerborn temporarily took over the technical management. In 1956 Ernst Stuber came from the Basel Schetty Group, who as technical manager had to manage the switch from yarn to the synthetic fibers perlon and nylon fabrics and then to polyester . These man-made fibers were obtained from the lingerie industry in particular the corsetry industry.

With the relocation of production and the headquarters of Schlieper & Laag GmbH (Vohwinkel) to Hilden to Hilden's piece dyeing works , Hammersteiner Kunstleder GmbH also became a 100% subsidiary of Schlieper & Laag in Hilden in 1960 .

On April 30, 1959, department head Fritz Lange received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon on his anniversary at work because he worked for the company Schlieper & Laag (Hilden) at Neustraße 54 for 50 years.

The Hilden piece dyeing works Schlieper & Laag built 21 new company apartments at Lehmkuhler Weg 1 in Hilden in 1963. The castle had to give way.

Schlieper & Laag (Hilden) switched to natural gas on April 22, 1972. Every year 11 million cubic meters of natural gas should be withdrawn.

At the beginning of 1982 the company belonged to the French conglomerate Chargeurs Réunis and only had 140 employees. The relocation of the textile industry abroad, the economic crisis and intensified market competition also affected the Hildener piece dyeing company Schlieper & Laag . In March 1982 she cut jobs.

Finally, in 1983, the Hildener piece dyeing company Schlieper & Laag had to be liquidated. As a result, 135 employees in the piece dyeing factory lost their jobs.

The Friends' Association Museum of the City of Hilden acquired old machines and tools from the Hildener piece dyeing company Schlieper & Laag.

Sale, clearance and renovation of the company premises in Hilden (1983 to 1992)

In order to quickly clean up a contaminated site and later relocate new businesses, the municipal property company Hilden mbH (GKA) first bought the site of the former Hilden piece dyeing factory on December 12, 1983 . They sold it on September 18, 1984 to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , which wanted to build a tax office for the cities of Hilden , Haan , Langenfeld (Rhineland) and Monheim am Rhein on the site. However, the floor was so heavily polluted with chlorinated hydrocarbons that it first had to be extensively renovated .

Hilden piece dyeing works Schlieper & Laag, blowing up the factory chimney

In September 1984 the demolition of the building of the Hilden piece dye works Schlieper & Laag began. The factory chimney was blown up shortly afterwards on December 13, 1984, and the great hall was blown up on December 27, 1984.

Because the soil pollution was so high, a groundwater desorption system was installed on the site in 1985 . It should reduce the pollution of the groundwater at this point from around 1000 micrograms of chlorinated hydrocarbons per liter to a permitted 25 micrograms.

In the meantime, the employees of the Hilden tax office, which was founded in 1986, initially moved into temporary rooms at the Immermannhof in Düsseldorf . The renovation then took 8 years until the tax office and the CiV insurance company (later Pro-Activ) could be built.

As a result of the closure of some large companies (including Mannesmann , Bremshey , W. Bauermann & Söhne and Schlieper & Laag), Hilden lost around 1978 to 1984 as part of the so-called involuntary "de-industrialization" caused by the economic crisis and the subsequent oil and steel crises. 4,500-5,000 jobs.

Tax office and insurance (1992 to today)

The first construction machines did not arrive on Neustraße until 1992. The tax officers of the tax office moved into the new building in September 1995.

The Talanx 1997 Group purchased the site of the former dye works Schlieper & Laag at the corner Hofstraße Neustraße to their headquarters CiV-Versicherungs-AG, a partner of Citibank from Dusseldorf to relocate to Hilden. In 1998 the foundation stone was laid for an administration building for CiV insurance. After that, Proactiv Servicegesellschaft mbH and Targo Insurance and today HDI Versicherung were active at Proactiv Platz 1

Web links

Commons : Schlieper & Laag  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Definition of piece dyeing
  2. ↑ Clothing through the ages Slide 20
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Werner Berendt: The history of the Schlieper & Laag companies (Hilden) (also the Westdeutsche Textil AG) from their beginnings to the end of 1957 . Reported and illustrated by Werner Berendt, former board member of Westdeutsche Textil AG and managing director of Schlieper & Laag companies, self-published: 1957.
  4. ↑ Finishing (textiles)
  5. ^ Heinrich Laag: Process for dyeing fabrics on the jigger (wide dyeing machine with fabric return) Patent DE106342C November 12, 1897, Heinrich Laag & Cie in Düsseldorf
  6. ^ Heinrich Laag: An Improved Process of Dyeing , Patent GB189729317 A 18981105
  7. ^ Heinrich Laag: PROCESS OF DYEING , Patent US688742 19011210
  8. ^ Association for the protection of the common interests of the dye works and printing industry of Rhineland and Westphalia Association Färber-Zeitung, magazine for dyeing, stuff printing and the entire color consumption, with the participation of Heinrich Lange published by Verlag von Julius Springer. Berlin
  9. ↑ Hofstrasse 34 Hilden City Archives
  10. ↑ Ernst Niepmann Senior
  11. ↑ Charles Gillet
  12. ↑ Wolfgang Wennig: Geschichte der Hildener Industrie , Hilden 1974, pp. 100, 124, 147.
  13. ^ Communications on the textile industry , Swiss specialist publication for the entire textile industry, issue 18, 1912, p. 350.
  14. ^ Merger of the companies: Hildener Stückfärberei, Alexander Schlieper and Heinrich Laag with retroactive effect from October 1, 1911 , Rheinisches Volksblatt, September 11, 1912.
  15. ↑ Textile Industry (1914)
  16. ↑ Hilden archive: September 6, 1914, work is going on on Tuesday
  17. ↑ Elberfeld Textile Works
  18. ↑ Kurt Götze, C. Richard Merten: Practical artificial silk dyeing in rope and piece , Springer Verlag 1933, pp. 83, 142.
  19. ↑ Berliner Börsen-Zeitung No. 385, August 19, 1941.
  20. ↑ Carola Groppe: The spirit of entrepreneurship ; An educational and social history, The Colsman family of silk manufacturers (1649–1840), chapter Peter Friedrich Colsman (1802–1833) 1827 Fritz Colsman dye works, Langenberg exists until 1930; 1930 Merger with the Hilden piece dyeing company Schlieper & Laag , Boehlau Verlag Cologne 2004, appendix p. 549.
  21. ^ Karl Süvern, H Frederking: The artificial silk, its production and use , Springer Verlag, Fifth Edition (2013) p. 564.
  22. ↑ Jean Boyeux: Procédé d'obtention de crin artificiel coloré ou non , patent FR647178 of November 21, 1928
  23. ↑ Historical companies in Vohwinkel
  24. ↑ A piece of Hilden industrial history, On the golden anniversary of factory director Jean Schopp, Hilden piece dyeing, The first German silk piece master , Rheinisches Volksblatt (Hildener Zeitung), April 7, 1937
  25. ^ Heinrich Strangmeier: Hilden Yearbook 1945–1946 , Verlag Peters, Hilden, p. 83.
  26. ^ Gerd Müller: Stadtwerke Hilden, foundation, structure and history. Hilden 1984, p. 165.
  27. ^ Hinrich Heyken: Historical companies in Wuppertal
  28. ^ Company files Schlieper & Laag GmbH (Vohwinkel) , Economic Archive Cologne
  29. ^ Company files Schlieper & Laag GmbH (Vohwinkel) , Economic Archive Cologne
  30. ^ Company files Schlieper & Laag GmbH (Vohwinkel) , Economic Archive Cologne
  31. ^ Heinrich Strangmeier: Hilden Yearbook 1956-1959. Verlag Peters, Hilden, p. 83
  32. ^ Schlösschen Hilden, former castle on Lehmkuhler Weg
  33. ^ Gerd Müller: Hildener Jahrbuch 1981 Stadtarchiv Hilden 1972, pp. 230, 235.
  34. ^ Gerd Müller: Hildener Jahrbuch 1985, Hilden town archive, March 31, 1982, p. 358.
  35. ↑ Gerd Müller: Hildener Jahrbuch 1987, Hilden Town Archives, February 17, 1983, p. 192.
  36. ↑ Gerd Müller: Hildener Jahrbuch 1987, Hilden town archive, April 19, 1984, p. 235.
  37. ↑ Gerd Müller: Hildener Jahrbuch 1987, Hilden Town Archives, September 8, 1984, pp. 250, 252.
  38. ^ Hilden Yearbook 1987, Hilden City Archives, September 1984.
  39. ↑ Hilden Yearbook 1987 Hilden Town Archives, Hilden 1984, pp. 192, 235, 250 (picture), 262, 263 (picture) 264, 272 (picture).
  40. ↑ Hilden Yearbook 1987, Hilden Town Archives, February 20, 1985, p. 272.
  41. ↑ Hilden historical data, de-industrialization 1978 to 1982
  42. ↑ Tax office: Dyeing becomes tax office , Rheinische Post, 25 August 2011
  43. ^ 50 Years of Hilden Industry Association, 50 Years of Economic History, 1955–2005 - Hilden Industry Association eV
  44. ↑ Talanx locations

Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 52.8 "  N , 6 ° 55 ′ 49.4"  E