Wilh. Boetticher
Wilh. Boetticher in Hanover was a "mechanical weaving and clothing factory ". The company was founded by Wilhelm Boetticher in the middle of the 19th century and at times employed several hundred seamstresses and tailors . One of the last production locations was Weidendamm 4 (today: 6) in the Nordstadt district ; the building is now used by Sporthaus Kaufmann , the trademark rights have been with Höhne & Mischke since 1999 .
history
1857, nor at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , Wilhelm Boetticher opened its first office in the residential city , Knochenhauerstraße 44. After about seven years ago was one of the wholesaler "English and German manufactured goods " the most respected merchants in the city. In 1872 he incorporated IG von der Linde into the company.
After the purchase of Osterstrasse 93 and 94 and Karmarschstrasse 14 , the “wholesale company Wilh. Boetticher ”and the“ detail company IG von der Linde ”moved there; IG von der Linde was not replaced by Wilh. Boetticher separated.
Shortly before, Wilhelm Boetticher had been awarded the title of Royal Prussian purveyor to the court in 1899 .
In 1911 Ludwig Sarstedt took over the Wilh company. Boetticher and after the First World War opened a sewing shop with around 100 seamstresses and tailors in the Nordfelder Reihe and in the Ballhof .
Shortly after the German hyperinflation , Ludwig Sarstedt bought the buildings at Weidendamm 3a and 4 in 1924 , in which the Kaisersalon had previously been the meeting place for the royal ulans and riding students. Three years later, Sarstedt added a weaving mill to the company at Harenberger Strasse 69 in Limmer .
During the Second World War , the company had to manufacture military clothing; the weaving mill was shut down. During the air raids on Hanover , however, the clothing factory was completely destroyed on January 30, 1944; The old looms were quickly removed from the disused weaving mill and the clothing factory relocated there within ten days in order to produce military clothing again “under the most primitive conditions but with the highest possible capacity ”.
In the first few days after the end of the war, the workforce on Weidendamm began removing the rubble and restoring machine parts that were still usable. The reconstruction was difficult and slow, but on June 15, 1946, modest production was resumed at the old location. Since raw materials were scarce after the end of the war, this period was bridged mainly by contract orders . When Rolf Sarstedt became a co-owner of the company in the autumn of 1946 , the production of Manchester fabric started up again through export orders .
The currency reform in 1948 changed the picture suddenly: Standard items were produced again, an extension to the clothing factory was built in the winter of 1948, and the administration was relocated to a new office building. Due to the increasing demand for Manchester clothing, the weaving mill was enlarged by an extension. In 1952, the weaving room of the weaving mill was redesigned - Hagama qualities were produced in the new weaving room.
In the 1960s, the company exported its products to 24 countries.
In 1999 the company Höhne & Mischke GmbH & Co. KG took over the trademark rights from Wilh. Boetticher and sells guild and work clothing.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i N.N. : Wilh. Boetticher , in: The Book of the Old Companies of the City of Hanover 1954 , with textual and editorial assistance from Heinz Lauenroth (Director Press Office Hanover), Ewald Brix (IHK Hanover), Herbert Mundhenke (City Archives Council) and the Chamber of Crafts Hanover , Adolf Sponholtz Verlag , Hannover 1954, pp. 142f.
- ↑ a b c d Traditions for Generations , website of Höhne & Mischke GmbH & Co. KG , last accessed on June 19, 2012
literature
- 100 years of Wilh. Boetticher mechanical weaving and clothing factory Hanover: 1857–1957 . Festschrift , Hannover 1957 ( limited preview in Google book search).
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Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '2.1 " N , 9 ° 43' 48.7" E