VEB Novotex

The VEB Novotex was a state-owned industrial company in the GDR . The head office was in Greiz in Thuringia . The company was established on January 1, 1953 through the merger of former silk or wool and silk weaving mills in Greiz and the surrounding area and existed until 1970.

history

After all large textile companies in the GDR were expropriated from 1945 to 1949, attempts were made to merge companies that produced the same or similar goods. In the field of silk and artificial silk processing weaving mills in the Greiz area, VEB Novotex was created on January 1, 1953. The following companies were united in it:

• Plant I: formerly Hermann Dietel in Greiz
• Plant II: formerly Otto & Vaupel in Mohlsdorf
• Plant III: formerly Ernst Engländer in Berga / Elster
• Plant IV: formerly Ernst Engländer in Creuzburg
• Plant V: formerly Gebr. Albert in Greiz

The largest part of the business was Ernst Engländer's former silk weaving mill in Berga. The VEB Novotex employed min. 2,500 people. On April 1, 1970, in the course of the restructuring of the companies and combines in the GDR, the companies previously included in the VEB Novotex were re-integrated into the VEB Greika Works III and IV and the VEB Novotex dissolved.

literature

• Dietfried Köhler: The historical-geographical development of the industry of the Greiz district - with special consideration of the development of the city of Greiz. Inaugural dissertation: Greiz, 1968. Greiz City and District Library
• The history of the Greiz textile industry: prosperity and decay. Developed by Günter Kanis, Ursula Frosch and Monika Bucksch. Greiz 1992/93, published in 3 issues of the "Heimatbote" 1994/1995