Vase oil
Vasenol has been a registered trademark for wound and skin care products since 1903 . The Vasenol body and foot powder became popular as early as the 1920s, as were child hygiene products that were as well known as Penaten today .
Vasenol (also Vasenoloform ) is also the name for an ointment base, which the Merck Lexicon describes as follows: "A mixture of Vaseline and paraffin oil with a little cetyl alcohol or another high fatty alcohol is used as an ointment base because of its high water-binding capacity".
The vase oil factory in Leipzig
The Vasenolwerke Dr. Arthur Köpp AG , later KG, were originally founded in Leipzig at the end of the 19th century and were family-owned until the end of the Second World War . The founder was Commerce Councilor Arthur Köpp. The company headquarters was at Hillerstraße 4. The products of the Vasenolwerke included body, wound and foot powder, wound and healing powder for children, vasenol paste and skin creams and wound disinfectants.
The last owner of the company, Heinrich Köpp, son of the company founder, was expropriated on August 17, 1945 by the Soviet occupying forces, including his manor in Röcknitz an der Mulde (family property since 1917). Various production lines had previously been outsourced to Röcknitz during the war. The company was considered important to the war effort, as it also supplied the powder for the Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS . In 1946 the factory was rededicated to the state-owned company , VEB Vasenolwerke Leipzig . Heinrich Köpp then went west to Oberndorf am Neckar, in what was then the French occupation zone . The Vasenol brand was also produced there, sold several times over the course of time, and finally it was transferred to Unilever AG.
The Vasenol children's home
In 1926, at the GeSoLei (Great Exhibition for Health, Social Welfare and Physical Exercise in Düsseldorf), the Vasenol Children's Home , a model infant home “to convey basic ideas about modern child care under the organizational direction of the Fatherland Women's Association in Düsseldorf”, was created by the architect Karl Ackermann (according to other sources Eduard Lyonel Wehner ). Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann , the wife of Albert Eckstein , the Jewish director of the Düsseldorf Children's Clinic, took over the management of the home until 1935.
Publications
Various health hygiene and sports medicine publications appear in the late 1920s as proprietary writings of Dr. Arthur Köpp AG. In the 1950s, a medical publication series Literaturdienst Vasenol was published in Leipzig with 17 editions.
Fonts
- A visit to the Vasenol children's home on the "Gesolei". Düsseldorf 1926.
- Arthur Köpp: Leaflet for mothers and foster mothers. Vasenol-Werke Dr. Arthur Köpp, Leipzig 1936.
- How do I keep a young body? (Advertising leaflet) Vasenol-Werke, Leipzig 1952.
- Gustav Ranft: Leaflet for mothers and foster mothers. VEB Vasenol-Werk, Leipzig 1950/1958.
- Our baby. A guide for young mothers. Care and maintenance, nutrition, baby's development. Vasenol-Werke KG, Oberndorf / Neckar 1963.
Individual evidence
- ^ Vasenol trademark register
- ↑ Vasenol ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Adolf Beythien, Ernst Dressler (Ed.): Merck's Lexicon of Goods for Trade, Industry and Commerce. 7th edition. Gloeckner, Leipzig 1920. (Reprint: Manuscriptum, Recklinghausen 1996. ISBN 3-933497-13-2 )
- ↑ Eckstein estate
- ↑ DNB 560302460
