Sinram & Wendt (company)

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"Always Presentable remains the dressing in trousers holder , Gnome '(for one to three trousers) and hanger , Union' for male and female wardrobe. Many times patented . Factory: Sinram & Wendt, Hannover III ”;
Advertisement from 1902
Reklamemarke "I've got it" from Sinram & Wendt, based in Hameln and Hanover

Sinram & Wendt was a company for the manufacture of clothes hangers founded at the end of the 19th century and the largest manufacturer of its kind in Germany in terms of sales. The main production site of the wood goods factory was on Afferder Landstrasse , which later became Hastenbecker Weg 86 , in the Afferde community near Hameln .

history

In the late founding period of the German Empire , the two entrepreneurs Friedrich Sinram and Carl Wendt began "manufacturing patent articles" in 1899 , first in Kanalstrasse and Domeierstrasse in Hameln, then in Afferde and Hanover . At first they made their clothes hangers on a handcraft basis. The entrepreneurs quickly specialized in high-quality, "polished, shapely hangers" to protect the fabrics and maintain the shape of the clothes. With the growing production of various types and shapes of hangers, after wood processing, the metal hooks and frames required for the clothes hangers were soon produced in-house and the later galvanic treatment of the metal parts was carried out in the factory.

Their various quality ironing, the company sales under the brand name Union for the hangers, Gnome for the trousers holder and pen for the "clothes-Ausklopf apparatus". Sinram & Wendt initially sold their products in Germany, but later also gained regular customers on the world market. At the beginning of the 20th century, the entrepreneur Arthur Buckwitz in Vienna was guaranteed the sole sale for Austria-Hungary . Around the same time, Sinram & Wendt was able to advertise in an artistically illustrated advertisement in the anniversary edition for the tenth anniversary of the weekly Simplicissimus in 1905 , stating that hangers with the company's embossed stamp were "in personal use to Sr. Majesty of the German Emperor" Wilhelm II.

Although a major fire in 1907 had hit the company hard economically, in 1914 the company once again described itself as the "largest patent coat hanger factory in the world."

In the middle of the First World War , the plant came into the possession of the Niehenke family.

During the Weimar Republic in 1926, the company expanded its range by producing furniture that could be taken apart.

For the period of National Socialism at the beginning of World War II , the company employed about 300 people, but continued as a large company with armor - or important war production soon and foreign forced laborers one, middle of the war was Rudolf Niehenke, the company's senior partner, according to the Land Registry of Glienig 1940 a loan to build four company apartments in Damsdorf in Brandenburg .

After Rudolf Niehenke's death, his son Johann Niehenke took over the management of the Hameln plant in 1942. especially since ammunition boxes were also produced in addition to small furniture . 1943 shifted the Franz Kaminski GmbH , which previously from the Ministry of Aviation a major contract for the revision of BMW - aircraft engines took over and for parts leased from Sinram & Wendt, part of its production on the grounds of Sinram & Wendt - and continued in the following year itself around 500 forced laborers.

In the post-war period in particular , with the advent of modern plastics, the proportion of wood as the company's main raw material decreased more and more in favor of plastic.

In the mid-1960s, Sinram & Wendt employed around 600 people in Hameln, and another 50 in a branch. At the time, the employees jointly produced “many millions of clothes hangers” every year.

At the beginning of the 1970s, Sinram and Wendt manufactured, among other things, the “WINDSOR Electric” suit stand for a delivery price of DM 278 .

Director's villa

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The - listed - director's villa Sinram & Wendt has been preserved from the former company on a tree-lined property in Hameln.

literature

Archival material

Archives from and about Sinram & Wendt can be found, for example

  • as process 2857 under the title loan for Rudolf Niehenke in Hameln - Afferde for the construction of four company apartments in Damsdorf , land register Glienig vol. 2 sheets .... (1940–1941) in the Brandenburg State Main Archive (BLHA), archive signature 2A I SW 2857 ( earlier call number : 26493 )

Web links

Commons : Sinram & Wendt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Karl Burkhoff: Hanover. State capital and administrative district (= space and economy ), Essen: Burkhard-Verlag Ernst Heyer, 1966, pp. 22, 23
  2. ↑ a b Bernhard Gelderblom: “The worst were homesickness and hunger.” Letters after sixty years. Foreign forced labor in and around Hameln 1939–1945 , Holzminden: Mitzkat, 2004, ISBN 978-3-931656-66-9 and ISBN 3-931656-66-7 , passim ; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ^ Albert Gieseler: Union, Sinram & Wendt GmbH & Co. KG in the database power and steam engines on the page albert-gieseler.de [ undated ], last accessed on August 30, 2019
  4. ↑ a b c Ulrich Manthey , Wolfgang Jung , Herbert Krieg : Hameln. Empire until the Nazi era , 1st edition, Erfurt: Sutton, 1998, ISBN 978-3-89702-015-3 and ISBN 3-89702-015-7 , p. 123; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ↑ a b History of the City of Hameln , Part 2 = Delivery 1–6: From the Renaissance to the Modern Era , Hameln: Seifert, 1955–1963, pp. 337, 483; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ Advertisement in the supplement of the Simplizissimus , 10th year, number 1 of April 4, 1905, p. 10; Digitized on the website simplicissimus.info , published by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in conjunction with the German Literature Archive Marbach and the Institute for German and General Literary Studies and the teaching and research area of ​​German-Jewish literary history
  7. ↑ Bernhard Gelderblom ; Mario Keller-Holte: The Sinram & Wendt wood goods and clothes hanger factory , in this: Foreign forced labor in Hameln and in the Hameln-Pyrmont district 1939–1945 , Holzminden: Mitzkat, 2006, ISBN 978-3-931656-96-6 and ISBN 3-931656-96-9 , pp. 193-194 et al .; limited preview in Google Book search
  8. ↑ a b c Information from the BLHA
  9. ^ Bernhard Gelderblom: Forced labor in Hameln and in the Hameln-Pyrmont district. From letters from former slave laborers. Chapter 7.3.2: Franz Kaminski GmbH , as well as Chapter 7.4: The rest of the Hamelin (armaments) industry on the gelderblom-hameln.de page [ undated ], last accessed on August 29, 2019
  10. ↑ Europa , Volume 21 (1970), p. 62; limited preview in Google Book search
  11. ↑ Ute Fehn: Director's villa , description of the property by the real estate agent [undated], last accessed on August 29, 2019

Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 12.6 ″  N , 9 ° 23 ′ 24 ″  E