Valentin Klein (wholesale)

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Valentin Klein was the company name of a specialist wholesaler for electrical , lighting -, radio - and television - dealer . The large and service company founded in the 1930s was one of the most important of its kind in Germany in the 20th century.

history

Towards the end of the Weimar Republic , Valentin Klein founded his initially comparatively modest company in Hanover in 1932 , which continued to expand in the decades that followed, especially in the post-war period .

In the early 1980s, Valentin Klein had eight branches in Lower Saxony , Bremen and East Westphalia in the cities of Minden , Braunschweig , Hameln , Hildesheim , Verden , Bremen, Celle and Uelzen , in addition to the central administration in Hanover at Ikarusallee 15 in the Hanover district of Vahrenheide around 3000 customers from the specialist trade and the trades were looked after. Around 50 trucks delivered from an assortment of around 35,000 items.

Around 1983 Valentin Klein employed around 430 people, including more than two dozen field workers, but also advertising specialists, printers, carpenters and painters.

When, towards the end of the 1980s, a sustained structural change in the electrical industry became apparent, not least due to the fall of the Wall and the establishment of the new federal states, Hans-Valentin Klein, at the same time chairman of the Federal Association of Electrical Wholesalers (VEG), sold his up Most recently as a family- run wholesaler mainly to what was then CMDE (later: Rexel ).

Valentin Klein real estate

Since the late founder of the company, Valentin Klein, wanted to treat his three sons equally as heirs of the family business, he also paved the way for the sale of his life's work. As the successor to the wholesale company, Valentin Klein Immobilien GmbH & Co. KG was finally founded, as Hans-Valentin Klein later explained in an interview on the occasion of a study on the generation change in medium-sized businesses.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e o. V .: Valentin Klein / Fachgroßhandlung ... , in Reimar Hollmann , Brigitte Huhn, Martina Liedtke, Klaus Meyer, Bob Scholber, Wolfgang Steinweg , Helmut Zimmermann : Hannover. Portrait of a city , texts partly in German, English and French, Munich: Kunstverlag Josef Bühn, 1983, [section economic chronicles of the city of Hanover without page numbers, sorted alphanumerically]
  2. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Ikarusallee , in ibid .: The street name of the state capital of Hanover . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 124
  3. ^ O. V .: "The luck of not being allowed to breathe" , in: Elektrowirtschaft . The organ of the Federal Association of Electrical Wholesale (VEG) eV , issue 5/2010, Dortmund-Mengede: Fachverlag Dr. H. Arnold GmbH 2010, pp. 10-18; here: pp. 12-14; as a PDF document from elektrowirtschaft.de
  4. ↑ Hans-Valentin Klein: "I was sitting on the shorter lever" , in: "The day X plus 1." An interview with entrepreneurs. How entrepreneurs arrange their succession. A study on the generation change in medium-sized companies. 20 + 3 interviews with personalities in business , 1st edition, Lehrte: Lüders, Warneboldt & Partner, 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-034487-9 , pp. 143ff .; Preview as a PDF document from kommposition.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 25 '12.7 "  N , 9 ° 45' 2.6"  E