CWS hosiery factory

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The stocking factory CWSchletter KG Thalheim was founded in 1879 and liquidated in 1990 with 1400 employees.

history

Carl Wilhelm Schletter was born on March 1, 1831 in Thalheim , his family belonged to one of the oldest families of hosiery in Germany. In 1877 he founded his stocking knitting factory near the Thalheim train station. In 1879 he bought a neighboring property and built a stocking factory with a residential building on it. The factory grew rapidly, so in 1906/1907 a new factory was built in the neighboring village of Dorfchemnitz . In the same year, a finishing and shipping factory was added in Chemnitz . In 1907, his son bought the later “Schletter Villa” in Dorfchemnitz, a prestigious building belonging to the textile family. Company founder Carl Wilhelm died on May 26, 1907 and his son and grandchildren Max and Albert continued to run the company. Max Schletter took over the management of the plant in Thalheim, his brother Albert the plant in Dorfchemnitz.

In 1924 the Eisenhammer AG property and building in Thalheim were acquired and the production of hosiery continued there. At times, 1400 workers worked in the Schletter hosiery factories, 500 of them in the Dorfchemnitz plant. In 1934 Gustav Schletter handed over the business to his sons, who founded a limited partnership in 1935 . In 1931 the "Floridsdorfer Strumpffabrik GmbH" was founded in Vienna , a production branch of the Thalheim company. With an export share of 80%, the company became one of the most important fine stocking plants in the German Empire . The Carl-Gustav-Schletter Foundation was established during the Second World War to maintain social welfare. The plant in Vienna was destroyed by bombing and the plant in Chemnitz burned down.

After the Second World War

After the end of the war, around 50% of the machinery was dismantled and relocated to Russia; expropriated the family in 1948. Production started again, albeit very slowly, and the family members were now only employees of their old company. Albert Schletter died at the age of 90 in 1972, he was buried in the family grave next to his brother in Thalheim. The factories were transferred to VEB Strumpfwerke Thalheim 3 Tannen and later to VEB ESDA Thalheim .

After reunification , production in the Thalheim works was discontinued. The Dorfchemnitz plant was sold to FALKE Strumpffabrik GmbH for 1 Deutsche Mark via the Federal Office for Central Services and Unresolved Property Issues , without consulting the legal owners of the Schletter family, who are still fighting for the return of their company.