Spinning and weaving on the Sparrenlech Kahn & Arnold

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Spinning and weaving on the Sparrenlech Kahn & Arnold
legal form GmbH
founding 1863
resolution 1938
Seat Augsburg , Germany
Number of employees last 940 (1933)
Branch Textile industry

The spinning and weaving mill at Sparrenlech Kahn & Arnold (Eckert & Pflug around 1900/1920)

The spinning and weaving mill at Sparrenlech Kahn & Arnold was a German cotton spinning and weaving mill based in Augsburg . It was between Provinostrasse and Prinzstrasse on the Sparrenlech, a side canal of the Lech .

history

Companies

On December 17, 1869 were Aaron Kahn and Albert Arnold in the commercial register one of Augsburg general partnership enter, they under the name Kahn et Arnold operated. The company, which was initially based at Annastraße 27, was initially very successful in the textile trade .

In 1863, Carl, Julius and Moritz Forster, the partners of the textile company Schöppler & Hartmann, founded a weaving mill on Sparrenlech, which was transferred to the Augsburg calico factory in 1882 . When the Augsburg calico factory was liquidated in 1885, the company Kahn & Arnold , which had previously only been active in the textile trade, bought the production facility and since then has operated as a weaving mill on Sparrenlech Kahn & Arnold , based in Provinostraße 8. However, the established wholesale of cotton goods was continued by the owners. In 1898, the company was expanded by building its own spinning mill and since then has been known as Spinnerei und Weberei am Sparrenlech Kahn & Arnold .

After the death or retirement of the two founders, their sons Benno Arnold , Arthur Arnold , Alfred Kahn and Berthold Kahn successfully continued the textile company. The factory premises were rounded off with the purchase of the property at Prinzstrasse 7, where there was another spinning mill building with a part of the wool magazine.

Finally, around 1922, the company acquired Wilhelm Butz & Sons' weaving mill at Vogeltor , which was operated as a branch .

When the Neue Augsburger Kattunfabrik got into financial difficulties as a result of the global economic crisis, Kahn & Arnold acquired a controlling stake of 80% of the shares by 1923 and thereby stabilized the company.

The flourishing family business, which began in 1885 with 80 employees, employed a total of 940 people in 1938. Production, for which 180 spindles and 126 looms were initially available , was carried out with around 50,000 spindles and 1,000 looms.

As part of the exclusion of Jews in Germany by the National Socialist rulers, the Jewish industrialists were forced to sell their shares in the New Augsburg Kattunfabrik and the spinning mill in 1938 by the regulation to exclude Jews from German economic life and the regulation on the use of Jewish assets and the weaving mill at Sparrenlech Kahn & Arnold to the Neue Augsburger Kattunfabrik . The new shares in the Neue Augsburger Kattunfabrik received in return had to be sold again immediately and the equivalent of Reich bonds subscribed, which were blocked until the end of the Second World War . At the end of the war they were worthless.

The spinning and weaving mill on Sparrenlech was continued as a branch of the New Augsburger Kattunfabrik after the war . At the end of 1969 the plant was closed.

Social facilities

Like other Augsburger textile entrepreneur and the owner of tried spinning and weaving on Sparrenlech Kahn & Arnold about social institutions to institutionalize, often at the same time as employee retention systems were used. Four residential buildings with company apartments were made available to the workers and employees . In addition, a works savings bank was set up, which was only compulsory for young employees. Finally, funds were made available from which married women who had recently given birth and recipients of disability pensions received support.

owner

On the company's founders, the Commerce Councilor Albert Arnold (* February 6, 1844 in Jebenhausen ; † August 4, 1913 in Augsburg) and Aaron Kahn (* March 5, 1841 in Gemmingen ; † December 21, 1926 in Augsburg), one of the most important Augsburg's textile company was followed by four of her sons, who had already joined the company in the first decade of the 20th century. Benno Arnold (born November 21, 1876 in Augsburg; † March 3, 1944 in the Theresienstadt ghetto ), took over as managing director and co-owner of the spinning and weaving mill at Sparrenlech Kahn & Arnold with the other partners , his brother Arthur Arnold (born August 9, 1880 in Augsburg; † November 23, 1941 in Dachau concentration camp ) and his brothers-in-law Alfred Kahn (born July 8, 1876 in Augsburg; † December 4, 1956 in Kew Gardens , New York ) and Berthold Kahn (born October 28, 1879 in Augsburg; † unknown) the management of the spinning and weaving mill at Sparrenlech Kahn & Arnold . While Benno Arnold, his wife and brother perished in National Socialist concentration camps and Arthur Arnold's wife committed suicide in Augsburg in 1941, the two brothers-in-law managed to leave Germany with their families in time and thus survive the Second World War.

building

factory

Originating from the years 1885 to 1925 factory building, including in the style of Neo-Renaissance held geziegelten workshops of the former spinning and weaving on Sparrenlech Kahn & Arnold between Provinostraße and Prince Street were demolished 1,972th Today there are multi-storey residential buildings on the site.

Director's villa

Director's villa at Schwibbogenplatz 1, built in 1880

At Schwibbogenplatz 1 (formerly Remboldstrasse 1) is the director's villa from 1880, which used to belong to the factory and is now a listed building ( location ). It is a late Classicist tent roof construction with dwelling houses and central projections . To the north of the two-story building is the associated garden, which is surrounded by a garden gate and a fence. There is a summer house that was renovated and rebuilt in 1989/90. When it was built, the area surrounding the villa was undeveloped.

Exhibitions

  • June 27 to November 26, 2017: "Kahn & Arnold - Rise, persecution and emigration of two Augsburg entrepreneurial families in the 20th century" in the State Textile and Industry Museum Augsburg, Provinostraße 46, 86153 Augsburg.

literature

  • Peter Fassl: History and culture of the Jews in Swabia . Vol. 2, Recent research and contemporary witness reports . Verlag Jan Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 2000, ISBN 3-7995-4176-4 .
  • Conrad Matschoss: Contributions to the history of technology and industry. Yearbook of the Association of German Engineers. Vol. 14. Verlag Julius Springer, Berlin 1924.
  • Gernot Römer (Ed.): To my community in the dispersion. The circular letters of the Augsburg rabbi Ernst Jacob (1941–1949). Wißner Verlag, Augsburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89639-584-9 .
  • Gernot Römer (Ed.): Swabian Jews. Life and achievements from two centuries in testimonials, reports and pictures . Presse-Druck- und Verlags-GmbH, Augsburg 1990, ISBN 978-3-89639-049-3 .
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
  • Wolfgang Zorn: Trade and Industrial History of Bavarian Swabia 1648–1870. Economic, social and cultural history of Swabian entrepreneurship. Publications of the Swabian Research Foundation at the Commission for Bavarian State History. Series 1. Studies on the history of Bavarian Swabia. Vol. 6. Verlag der Schwäbische Forschungsgemeinschaft, Augsburg 1961.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian Gazette for Commercial Courts and Commercial Interests 1869 . Volume 1, No. 51 . Printing and publishing of the k. Hofdruckerei Dr. C. Wolf & Sohn, Munich 1869, p. 405 .
  2. ↑ A. Kaiser (Ed.): Latest address book of the kb district capital Augsburg. Due to the last census from Decbr. Compiled in 1875 and based on other authentic sources . Verlag der Math. Rieger'schen Buchhandlung, Augsburg 1876, p. I / 49 .
  3. ^ Kahn & Arnold. Rise, persecution and emigration of two business families from Augsburg in the 20th century. Special exhibition from June 27 to November 26, 2017. State Textile and Industry Museum Augsburg (tim), 2017, accessed on June 12, 2017 .
  4. ^ Wolfgang Zorn: Trade and Industrial History of Bavarian Swabia 1648–1870. Economic, social and cultural history of Swabian entrepreneurship . In: Publications of the Swabian Research Foundation at the Commission for Bavarian State History. Series 1. Studies on the history of Bavarian Swabia . tape 6 . Verlag der Schwäbische Forschungsgemeinschaft, Augsburg 1961, p. 163 .
  5. ^ Conrad Matschoss: Contributions to the history of technology and industry . In: Yearbook of the Association of German Engineers . tape 14 . Verlag Julius Springer, Berlin 1924, p. 176 .
  6. ↑ Stadtmagistrat Augsburg (Ed.): Address book of the city of Augsburg together with house directory 1895 . Self-published by the city council of Augsburg, Augsburg 1895, p. III / 46 .
  7. ↑ Stadtmagistrat Augsburg (Ed.): Address book of the city of Augsburg for 1901. Edited on the basis of official sources by the magistrate's address book office . Verlag des Stadtmagistrats Augsburg, Augsburg 1901, p. III / 56 .
  8. ^ Georg Walther: Benno Arnold (1876–1944). In: MemoriesWerkstatt Augsburg. Jewish Culture Museum Augsburg, 2013, accessed on June 12, 2017 .
  9. ^ A b Franz August Düll: The industrial security in the Augsburg textile industry. An investigation into its effects in economic and social significance. Public economics dissertation from the Maximilian Ludwigs University of Munich from June 16, 1926 . Gebrüder Memminger Verlagbuchhandlung, Würzburg 1927, p. 13 .
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  11. ^ Georg Walther: Benno Arnold (1876–1944). In: MemoriesWerkstatt Augsburg. Jewish Culture Museum Augsburg, 2013, accessed on June 12, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Gernot Römer (Ed.): Swabian Jews. Life and achievements from two centuries in testimonials, reports and pictures . Presse-Druck- und Verlags-GmbH, Augsburg 1990, p. 105 .
  13. ^ Georg Walther: Benno Arnold (1876–1944). In: MemoriesWerkstatt Augsburg. Jewish Culture Museum Augsburg, 2013, accessed on June 12, 2017 .
  14. ^ The special archive of the German economy (ed.): The large companies in the German Empire. Handbook of German stock corporations . tape 49 , part 4. Verlag Hoppenstedt & Co., Berlin 1944, Sp. 3535 .
  15. ↑ Gunther Gottlieb: History of the city of Augsburg from Roman times to the present . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 978-3-8062-0283-0 , p. 656 .
  16. ↑ Gernot Römer (Ed.): Swabian Jews. Life and achievements from two centuries in testimonials, reports and pictures . Presse-Druck- und Verlags-GmbH, Augsburg 1990, p. 107 .
  17. ^ Necrology Jewish Cemetery Augsburg at Haunstetter Strasse (1867–1940). Vol. 3. Alemannia Judaica. Working group for research into the history of the Jews in southern Germany and the neighboring region, accessed on June 12, 2017 (English).
  18. ↑ Gernot Römer (ed.): To my community in the dispersion. The circular letters of the Augsburg rabbi Ernst Jacob (1941–1949) . Wißner Verlag, Augsburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89639-584-9 , pp. 176 .
  19. ↑ Gernot Römer (ed.): To my community in the dispersion. The circular letters of the Augsburg rabbi Ernst Jacob (1941–1949) . Wißner Verlag, Augsburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89639-584-9 , pp. 265 .
  20. ^ Georg Walther: Benno Arnold (1876–1944). In: MemoriesWerkstatt Augsburg. Jewish Culture Museum Augsburg, accessed on June 12, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Open Monument Day 2013. Beyond the good and the beautiful - Inconvenient monuments? German Foundation for Monument Protection., 2013, accessed on June 12, 2017 .
  22. ^ Augsburg, Schwibbogenplatz 1. D-7-61-000-939. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, 2017, accessed on June 12, 2017 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 42 "  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 23.6"  E