Schoeller worsted yarn spinning mill

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Schoeller Textil
legal form AG
Seat Sevelen, Switzerland
Branch Textile industry
Website www.schoeller-textiles.com

Schoeller'sche worsted yarn spinning mill is the name of an industrial chain belonging to the Düren entrepreneurial family Schoeller , which began in Breslau in 1849 and, after several local and structural changes, is still represented worldwide to this day.

Worsted yarn spinning mill in Wroclaw

In 1843 the Königliche Seehandlungs-Societät Berlin founded a new worsted spinning mill in Breslau. Already on July 16, 1849, it was acquired by the secret councilor Leopold Schoeller from Düren , who then renamed the factory Schoeller'sche worsted yarn spinning mill . With the purchase, he aimed to have the corresponding yarns produced there for his home carpet office in Düren, which later became the Anker carpet company . Since Leopold Schoeller had to be present in his home country, he handed over management of the company to his son Rudolf Wilhelm Schoeller (1827–1902). In 1867 he relocated the headquarters to Zurich-West on the Hardturm site , keeping the Wroclaw factory , where he wanted to open up new markets. The production facility in Breslau was initially operated as a branch by Rudolph's brother (Philipp Eberhard) Leopold Schoeller and then by Rudolf's grandson Leopold (1878–1936) until it was closed in 1925. In 1884 the factory produced hand knitting yarn for the first time under the name Schoeller-Wolle .

Worsted yarn spinning mill Eitorf

The factory of the former Schoeller Eitorf AG
A share in Schoeller's worsted yarn spinning mill from 1961

In 1888, Karl Schäfer, an industrialist from Saxony, founded the Karl Schäfer & Co. worsted yarn spinning mill on the factory site of the Gauhe family in Eitorf . After a major fire in 1895, the company had to go into debt. When the local plant director shot himself in 1901 for fraud, the business collapsed and shortly afterwards was transferred to the worsted spinning and weaving mill Eitorf AG . The Breslauer Schoeller Group then joined the company. Under Rudolf's son Arthur Schoeller (1852–1933) from Zurich and Ernst Michels from Cologne, 900 people were employed again in 1904.

In 1908 the Schoeller'sche Kammgarnspinnerei acquired the majority of the shares. Both plants were merged on March 14th as Schoeller'sche and Eitorfer worsted yarn spinning mills with headquarters in Wroclaw. After the closure of the Breslau plant in 1925, the Eitorfer plant was renamed Schoeller'sche worsted yarn spinning mill Eitorf Aktiengesellschaft .

Change stamp from Schoeller's worsted spinning mill

In 1926 another major fire broke out in the Eitorfer factory, which was difficult to cope with during the period of inflation and as a result the share capital was reduced from 6.1 million gold marks to 2.44 million marks. Two years later it burned again in the factory and in March 1945 it was badly destroyed by two bomb attacks, but was quickly rebuilt both times. During the currency reform , the share capital was increased to 4.88 million German marks . In 1949, the factory again employed 800 workers who worked double shifts. Yarns for knitting mills and hand knitting yarns were produced. After the machine park was renewed at the end of the sixties, the company worked in three shifts.

In 1971 the company took over the southern German worsted yarn spinning mill Merkel & Kienlin and the company name (company) was again changed to Schoeller Eitorf AG . In addition to Schoeller wool , Essling wool has now also been sold. In 1975 the Württembergische Wollgarnfabrik D. Finkh GmbH & Co. KG in Süßen was also acquired and the Staufen wool produced there was also included in the joint program. Production increased steadily until 1985 and around 1200 employees produced up to four thousand tons of hand knitting yarn. The annual consumption in Germany at that time was thirty thousand tons. When the sales figures in Germany fell after that, Schoeller took over the largest German specialist wholesaler, Austermann Wolle GmbH & Co. in Wuppertal .

In 1990 the production of hand knitting yarn was discontinued at the D. Finkh wool yarn factory . At the Eitorf plant, the production of hand-knitting yarn had to be given up in the early 1990s and only industrial yarn could be made. Württembergische yarn factory D. Finkh in Sweet was like Austermann wool into the Schoeller AG Eitorf fully integrated, the Austermann headquarters moved to this sweet.

Production at the Eitorf plant has meanwhile been discontinued, from here only shipping and logistics take place. The workers' houses built by the Schoeller company around the company premises, in Unterroth, on Edmund-Lohse-Strasse named after the plant director, on upper Jahnstrasse and on Erlenberg, have all been sold. The Eitorfer Strasse, Schöllerstrasse, Spinnerweg, Färberweg, An der Kammgarn and Edmund-Lohse-Strasse still remind us of the successful times of worsted spinning mills.

Schoeller AG, worsted spinning mill

Worsted yarn spinning mills Switzerland / Austria

Schoellerwerk Bregenz

After Rudolf Schoeller relocated his business activities to Switzerland in 1867, he founded or acquired, like his sons later, further worsted yarn factories and cloth dyeing works in Schaffhausen , Sevelen SG , Derendingen SO as well as in Bregenz and Hard in Austria. Rudolf Schoeller's sons and grandsons also dared to move to the USA where they opened a sales office in 1939, a dyeing and finishing company in 1946 and an industrial yarn spinning mill in 1978. In the mid-1990s, another plant was added in Křešice , Czech Republic . In 1997 the hand knitting yarn division of Schoeller Eitorf AG and the worsted yarn spinning mill in Süßen, which had been partially taken over, were renamed Schoeller & Stahl GmbH , in which the German Schoeller AG held the majority. In the meantime, the individual companies of Schoeller Textil AG in Switzerland have been merged to form Schoeller Switzerland with its headquarters in Sevelen.

After Ulrich Albers was accepted as a new partner in 1953, all of these sole proprietorships, Schoeller Switzerland , Schoeller Bregenz GmbH & Co KG in Austria and the US American Spinnerin Inc., after the death of the last partner and Rudolf Schoeller's grandson, Walter Schoeller (1889–1979), changed to Albers & Co in the name of the family friends who were related by marriage to Schoeller .

In addition, a real estate division was added as a second pillar in Zurich and Bregenz, in order to be able to influence both the allocation of commercial real estate and company apartments for employees. The original Schoeller'sche worsted yarn spinning mill has thus transformed into an international group of companies with a focus on textiles and real estate.

Schoeller spinning group

In 2009, the individual companies were reorganized as part of a management buy-out . As a result , the real estate company Schoeller2Welten in Bregenz, the logistics location Schoeller Eitorf AG , Schoeller Süßen GmbH and Schoeller Switzerland based in Sevelen remained with Albers & Co. In contrast, the Schoeller GmbH & Co factories in Bregenz and Hard and in Křešice in the Czech Republic were combined to form the new Schoeller Spinnerei Group .

Literature and Sources

  • Hugo Schoeller, August Victor Schoeller: History of the Schoeller Family , 2 volumes. R. Eisenschmid, Berlin 1894. New edition by Stedman and Wallmoden 1994, ISBN 3-980-32882-1 .
  • Employee newspaper Schoeller Eitorf AG, issue 1, 1999
  • Hermann Josef-Ersfeld: Eitorfer Bildchronik, Eitorf 1980

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Theodor Rutt: Land on Sieg and Rhine - History-Culture-Economy, Scientific Archive, Urkunde-Bild-Chronic GmbH, Bonn 1960
  2. Schoeller2Welten Bregenz ( Memento from March 26, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  3. Schoeller Switzerland
  4. Schoeller Spinning Group with new owners

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