Towarzystwo Zakładów Metalowych B. Hantke

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The former French neo-baroque villa by Bernard Hantke in Częstochowa (Raków district) , built around the turn of the century . Today the villa is used as a youth culture center
Gravesite of entrepreneurs Bernard and Gustaw Aleksander Hantke in the Evangelical Reformed cemetery in Warsaw

The Towarzystwo Zakładów Metalowych B. Hantke SA (German: the metal industry as Hantke , even metal factories B. Hantke ) was in the 1870s in Warsaw based company for the production and processing of metal. In the interwar period it merged. The factory buildings in Warsaw no longer exist today.

history

In 1860, the German-born Bernard Ludwik Hantke (1826–1900) took a stake in the factory for agricultural machines Scholtze, Repphan i S-ka , owned by August Repphan and the Scholtze brothers . After Hantke had paid out the partner Repphan in 1866, the company traded under Fabryka Machin, Kotłów Parowych i Wszelkich Odlewów pf "Bracia Scholtze i B. Hantke" . In 1870, Hantke founded his own company for the manufacture of screws, nails, wires, chains and other metal goods at ul. Srebrna 7-13 . This company developed rapidly; A short time later, 150 workers were employed here. In addition to production facilities, social buildings such as a kitchen, canteen and bathroom, as well as a further training facility and a library were also built. Hantke was one of the first entrepreneurs in Poland to introduce electricity into his operations. In 1882 the company was converted into a stock corporation.

Subsidiary in Czestochowa

After Hantke had other metal goods manufacturing plants in Yekaterinoslaw and Saratow as well as 7 iron ore mines (including at Kamienica Polska , Klepaczka and Konopiska ), limestone quarries and extensive land and forest holdings in the Częstochowa district , Hantke began building one in 1896 large ironworks in what was then the village of Raków near Częstochowa. His three sons Henryk, Gustaw and Alfred (1871-1929) and the engineer Emil Kukawski were appointed to the board of the Huta "Częstochowa" . Soon 2,500 people were employed here. The modern plant had 2 blast furnaces , 6 Martin furnaces , 4 roller mills and powerful electric motors. Cast iron, iron wire, steel girders, bar iron, sheet metal and railway accessories as well as spring steel were produced. The entrepreneur built a spacious residence with a public park in Raków.

Oberschlesische Eisenindustrie AG as a partner

The ongoing high investments in the steelworks had overwhelmed the Hantke family's financial resources. As early as 1898, the Oberschlesische Eisenindustrie AG group, founded by Carl August Wilhelm Hegenscheidt (to be precise: Oberschlesische Eisenindustrie AG for mining and smelting operations in Gliwice , called "Obereisen") had a long-term loan to complete what was then the most modern and, since 1904, the second largest smelter in the Kingdom of Poland and as a result the majority of the shares and the management were taken over.

20th century and fusion

Bernard Ludwik Hantke's successor was his son Henryk Hantke (1867–1908), who was succeeded by his brother Gustaw Hantke (1868–1939). The last representative of the family in the company was his son, Gustaw Tadeusz Hantke (1906–1940), who was murdered by the NKVD in Katyn during World War II .

In December 1903 the Warsaw company joined the Wire and Nails Syndicate, which was responsible for standardizing the industry. During the First World War , the company's facilities were destroyed. In the post-war period there was an upswing up to the Great Depression . The Hantke family sold their shares at that time. The majority of the company was taken over by Modrzejowskie Zakłady Górniczo-Hutnicze SA After a merger, the Zjednoczone Zakłady Górniczo-Hutnicze SA "Modrzejów-Hantke" (German: Modrzejow-Hantke Vereinigte Berg- und Hüttenwerke AG ) group was created in 1934.

During the Warsaw Uprising , units of the Polish Home Army fought in buildings on the former factory site at ul. Srebrna . These buildings were destroyed after the uprising was put down. The smelter in Częstochowa was taken over by Związek Przemysłowy Donbasu ( Industrialnyj Sojuz Donbasa ) in 2005 and now operates under the name ISD Huta Częstochowa Sp. Z oo

literature

  • Zofia Jurkowlaniec and Roland Borchers, Polacy z wyboru: Rodziny pochodzenia niemieckiego w Warszawie w XIX i XX wieku / Poland of free choice: Families of German origin in Warsaw in the 19th and 20th centuries , ISBN 978-83-62020-46-1 , Fundacja Wspołpracy Polsko-Niemieckiej / Dom Spotkań z Historią, Warsaw 2012, p. 147 ff.

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c Industrial history of Upper Silesia in the 19th century: Framework conditions, creative forces, infrastructural requirements, regional diffusion , Volume 8 of the studies of the Research Center East Central Europe at the University of Dortmund , Research Center East Central Europe, ISBN 978-3-447-03286-5 , Toni Pierenkemper , Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1992, p. 293
  2. ↑ The Harnack Principle Bernhard vom Brocke; Hubert Laitko, The Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society and its Institutes, ISBN 978-3-11-080244-3 , Walter de Gruyter, 1996, p. 208
  3. ↑ The Hantke family came from the Bautzen area .
  4. ↑ Bernard Ludwik Hantke studied agriculture in Warsaw (Marymont) and initially worked as an agricultural journalist. His wealthy parents (presumably Jewish, according to the directory of the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw ) were Adolf Hantke (1796–1859) and Anna Karolina, nee. Kohen (1804-1830)
  5. ^ Handbook of Poland (Congress Poland): Contributions to a general geography, publications of the geography commission at the Kaiserl. German Generalgouvernement Warsaw , Regional Studies Commission (Ed.), Erich Wunderlich (Red.), Edition 2, Verlag D. Reimer (E. Vohsen), 1918
  6. ↑ The family also owned land in Drybus in today's Powiat Grodziski , which Hantke had inherited.
  7. ^ Saling's Börsen-Papiere: Saling's Börsen-Jahrbuch for 1914 , Volume 2, Saling's Börsen-Papiere, Verlag für Börsen- und Finanzliteratur AG, p. 884
  8. ^ Papers by Command , Volume 101, Part 1, Great Britain Parliament, House of Commons, HM Stationery Office, 1904 p. 33
  9. ↑ Heinz Lemke, Bruno Widera (ed.), Russian-German Relations from Kiever Rus' to the October Revolution: Studies and Essays , Volume 19 of Sources and Studies on the History of Eastern Europe , ISSN 0079-9114, Akademie-Verlag, 1976
  10. ↑ a b Steel and Iron: Journal for the German Ironworks , Volume 71, Association of German Ironworkers, Association of German Iron and Steel Industrialists. Northwestern Group, 1951, p. 1054
  11. ↑ On January 30, 1908, Henryk was shot in front of the factory in Srebrna Street . Circumstances and perpetrators could not be identified.
  12. ^ Economic reports , Volume 19, Austrian Trade Museum, Austrian Trade Ministry (ed.), Austria 1904, p. 31
  13. ↑ Website ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of ISD Huta Częstochowa Sp. z oo (in English, accessed on August 28, 2014) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / huta.isd-poland.com

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