Silesia Association of Chemical Factories
AG Silesia Association of chemical factories or also Silesia, Association of chemical factories and Silesia, Association of chemical factories Ida- u. Marienhütte was a chemical company founded in Silesia in the second half of the 19th century and the first large chemical factory in Silesia to produce sulfuric acid , Glauber's salt , soda and chlorinated lime .
history
After the later ennobled entrepreneur Carl Kulmiz had explored the area between the Lower Silesian towns of Breslau and Waldenburg for sixteen years , he discovered a deposit with pebbles there . In the future mining area, Kulmiz first founded a partnership limited by shares (KGaA) in 1858 under the name Silesia, Verein chemischer Fabriken . For example, the chemists Julius Knoevenagel and Eugen de Haën initially worked in the factory that was then built in Saarau , before they both went to Linden near Hanover in 1860 to set up their own chemical factories.
In the early days of the German Empire , Silesia was converted into a stock corporation on January 8, 1872 . Around two decades later, the company was founded in Silesia, Verein chemischer Fabriken Ida- u. Renamed Marienhütte .
For the first time in 1905 the company was equipped with a steam engine from the works of August Borsig , in 1911 and 1912 with one each from the production of the Görlitz mechanical engineering company .
After the First World War and at the beginning of the Weimar Republic , Silesia was incorporated into the Rüttgerswerke in 1920 .
For the National Socialist era and up to the Second World War in found shareholders' meetings held the last Annual General Meeting on June 3 1,943th
After the two German states, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), were re-established, the headquarters of Silesia was relocated to West Germany in the city of Frankfurt am Main in 1949 . In the affiliation to the Rüttgerswerke, acids , hydrocarbons such as benzene as well as artificial fertilizers , herbicides and mineral paints were finally produced.
Archival material
Archival materials from and about Silesia can be found, for example
- Investigations of water, soil and air samples for the period from 1926 to 1930, from the provenance of the Reichsanstalt für Wasser- und Luftgüte (1942–1945), now in the German Federal Archives under the signature BArch, R 154/11585
Web links
- Andrzej Bielec: Spacerkiem po Żarowie: Silesia , Polish-language site (in German, for example: A walk through Żarów: Silesia ) on the izba.centrum.zarow.pl site
- Peter Haslinger : Saarau, Ida- and Marienhütte / Żarów, Huta "Ida" i huta "Maria" , lithograph around 1850 in the image format 25 cm × 45 cm from the publishing house of W. Vogt in Schmiedeberg ; from the collection Albrecht Haselbach , greatly reduced in size and with a copyright - Watermark covers on the side of the Herder Institute for Historical Ostmitteleuropa Research - Institute of the Leibniz Association (HI)
- Zjednoczone Zakłady Chemiczne Silesia w Żarowie 1872-1945.flv , pictures of the closed chemical plants on YouTube .com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Michael Weingarten (responsible): AG Silesia Verein Chemischer Fabriken with the illustration and description of a share offered for sale on the Hanseatisches Sammlerkontor für historic securities page , last accessed on June 20, 2016
- ↑ a b c d e f Albert Gieseler: Silesia, Verein chemischer Fabriken , last accessed on June 20, 2016
- ↑ a b Konrad Fuchs : Kulmiz, Carl von (Prussian Adel 1867) , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 13 (1982), pp. 279 f .; as a German biography online
- ↑ M. Heiner Ramstetter: Eugen de Haën , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Vol. 20 (1966), pp. 107–190; Preview over google books
- ↑ BArch, R 154/11585 in the German Digital Library
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 43.4 " N , 16 ° 29 ′ 40.9" E