Wilhelm Vortmeyer

Wilhelm Vortmeyer (born September 11, 1866 in Harlinghausen , now a district of Preußisch Oldendorf; † October 5, 1931 in Preußisch Oldendorf ) was a farmer, entrepreneur and manufacturer as well as a local politician and mayor.

origin

Wilhelm Vortmeyer was born in Harlinghausen as the youngest of four children and was entered as Heinrich Wilhelm Große Vortmeyer in the baptismal register of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of Preussisch Oldendorf. His parents come from influential peasant families with farms in the farms of Engershausen on his father's side and Getmold on his mother's side. His grandfather Christian Friedrich Niemeier had been an inheritance in Engershausen and married into the Harlinghausen site at Harlinghausen 19, Große Vortmeyer. Wilhelm Vortmeyer's grandmother is Clare Elisabeth Nölker from Sehlingdorf, City of Melle .

Wilhelm Vortmeyer was initially a farmer; In 1900 his father Colon Christian Heinrich Große Vortmeyer let him run the farm, he died at the end of 1904. In the meantime, son Wilhelm was elected community representative in his home village of Harlinghausen until 1921, chairman of the local agricultural association and initially fire chief of the Harlinghausen volunteer fire brigade founded in 1907 .

He used the technical innovations of the time enthusiastically: they ranged from the sewing machine , which he had to demonstrate himself so that it could be accepted in the household, to the first Flitzepee in Harlinghausen, the velocipede ; later he owned the first automobile in Oldendorf - an open Chrysler .

The entrepreneur

The development of the office and city of Preußisch Oldendorf during Wilhelm Vortmeyer's lifetime was significantly influenced by him. The history of the margarine factory in the first third of the 19th century. at the same time illustrates the economic history of this area.

Margarine factory

The farmers Wilhelm Vortmeyer from Harlinghausen and Heinrich Hüsemann from Engershausen founded the company Westf. Margarine- und Pflanzenbutterwerke H. Hüsemann & Comp. based in Preussisch Oldendorf. Before the end of 1904, the privateer and gendarme a. D. Theodor Köllmann of the society.

From this, today's VORTELLA Lebensmittelwerk W. Vortmeyer GmbH , one of the most stable industrial companies in the city of Preussisch Oldendorf, developed.

Society

The first small factory building was erected on a property belonging to Hüsemann to the north, immediately adjacent to the Wittlager Kreisbahn AG train station , and equipped with the essential mechanical equipment, especially the cherries , in which the mixing process between the main fatty component and the aqueous phase takes place. On October 15, the first 500 kg of margarine was produced and initially - as was the case with butter - quickly dispatched in buckets or barrels from Blasheim . The nearby rescue house for boys Pollertshof , founded in 1851, had for years urgently needed income from crate nails, which did not come about in the middle of World War I after margarine production was stopped. At the time, housewives had quantities weighed as desired in retail stores, and cubes of 250 g or 500 g in parchment paper were also on the market, especially from 1910, when a semi-automatic packaging machine was purchased. The dispatch took place with wagons to stations of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Holzhausen or Bohmte , with larger quantities directly with railway wagons from the own siding. Raw materials were delivered by rail in barrels and later in tank wagons. In 1905, a second building with office space was added to the factory, and a modern freight elevator now carries the barrels up to the smelter. The first 20 HP Lanz locomobile had been purchased beforehand. From 1906 Fritz Detering , one of the pioneers, looked after the steadily growing machine park during the 51 years of its activity up to 1957.

The Renne brand received a silver medal at an exhibition in Leipzig in 1905. This pure vegetable margarine with the trademark jumping horses achieved the gold medal at the 1909 bakery and confectionery exhibition in Herne. Vortmeyer himself was present with his daughter; the future head of the company was already preparing for her future position in the company at the age of seventeen and was experiencing a business breakthrough.

After beef tallow could be replaced by the raw material vegetable oil , an additional food source was developed and margarine production on a large scale became possible; numerous margarine factories were built on this new basis around the turn of the century. Initially margarine production was still closely with dairy products linked been.

The later company name Preußisch Oldendorfer Süßrahm-Margarinewerke und Dampfmolkerei W. Vortmeyer illustrates the desire for effective marketing of the domestic agricultural product milk in large cities and the Ruhr area. - The increase in population due to industrialization in the field of technology required modern industrialized production in the field of nutrition. - For this purpose, a cooperative dairy was considered by several farmers in Oldendorf and the surrounding area in 1903 . Together with the railway connection established in 1900, the buying and selling cooperative eGmbH , which was founded in the same year, already enabled the sale of slaughter cattle and, for example, potatoes in the up-and-coming industrial area on the Ruhr. When this additional initiative failed at the beginning of March 1904, the idea was put into practice by the farmers Hüsemann and Vortmeyer from Oldendorf's neighboring villages in April by founding their company - in conjunction with a margarine production facility. In fact, during the First World War, the dairy alone ensured the continuation of at least this part of the business; Five horse-drawn carts a day collected milk from farmers.

In 1909, the later authorized signatory Otto Tischer was won over, he brought the valuable experience gained through his work in the margarine factory Wilhelm Edel in Schüttorf. After Köllmann's expressed intention to manufacture soap in 1910 was not complied with, he resigned as a partner in 1913 with the payment of his share; his residential property to the east of the company was acquired and was available for future expansion of the margarine factory.

Before the outbreak of the First World War, the very difficult period in which sales were built up had been mastered by a field service; the company was doing very well with around 2,000 customers. The major setback came with the discontinuation of the production of margarine due to a lack of personnel and raw materials in the second year of the war, as well as compulsory cultivation. Wilhelm Vortmeyer had given up the independent management of his Harlinghauser agriculture in 1913 by leasing in order to be able to serve the business himself and with further capital; he takes over the responsibility of the butter master. - At the 25th anniversary celebration, he thanked the Homann company, Dissen , for the generous introduction to the practice of margarine production when he founded his own factory. - He takes care of the procurement of raw materials and sales associated with travel. In mid-1915, accountant Hugo Hornberg , who later became known as the Oldendorfer auctioneer, was called up for military service, now partner Heinrich Hüsemann had to get involved directly and manage the treasury and finances. - He was rendant of the Oldendorfer savings and loan association eG since the founding of this cooperative in 1887; Wilhelm Vortmeyer was a member of the Board of Directors from 1907 to 1918. - A settlement was reached between the two partners in 1917: Hüsemann would leave the company as soon as the agreements reached after the war were settled. Heinrich Hüsemann was recalled by death in mid-1917 at the age of 60 and the heir Heinrich Hüsemann jun. took its place until 1920.

The sole owner

As the sole owner in the meantime, Wilhelm Vortmeyer chose the above-mentioned company name in 1921, which at the time emphasized the terms sweet cream margarine and steam dairy . "Hard times" began for him, during which, however, buildings were enlarged, equipment such as a packing machine for the well-known margarine cubes purchased and production increased with a 1,000 kg churn. Using all his fortune and additional guarantees from relatives and friends, he overcame this period with confidence in the sales markets of his company by persistently "recapturing the territory that was lost in the war and post-war era". Against the tough competition of the more than 100 margarine factories in Germany during these years, the years of building enlargement and modernization and expansion of the machine park, which were satisfactory for the strong-willed, progressive entrepreneur, began - while the inflation was stubbornly overcome - a period that continued after his early days Deaths lasted until the beginning of World War II .

At the time the margarine factory was founded, Oldendorf's infrastructure and that of the surrounding area were fully adapted to farms, water mills and windmills, mostly small businesses such as carpentry, locksmiths, cigar makers, brickworks and shops for daily needs and services - often characterized by the fact that apart from the owner family, only a few workers were employed. The different kind of industrial company constantly required large amounts of water and generated problematic wastewater, was dependent on a considerable rapid turnover of raw materials or goods and employed a large number of employees, who at first could not all live in the immediate vicinity.

Such challenges were accepted by Wilhelm Vortmeyer as the company boss who was directly active at all times. For example, due to the lack of a suitable public infrastructure , he needed company-owned wells that were productive in all seasons near the northern slope of the Oldendorfer foothills of the Wiehengebirge and consequently a correspondingly long water pipe; Likewise, clarification ponds had to be created that drained into the Bodenbach.

These experiences were an additional motivation and decisive for his work as Mayor of Preußisch Oldendorf in seven years from 1924 until his death.

Wilhelm Vortmeyer became a citizen of Oldendorf and had lived in Bahnhofstrasse, now Rathausstrasse, since 1920, where after 1923 the “Stramannsche Villa” was also built.

When the company celebrated its 25th anniversary in 1929, the company had branch offices in several large cities with their own vehicle fleet or general agencies that looked after a large area themselves. The sales area around 1930 is outlined by naming some distant places: Jever, Celle, Rheine, Detmold, Essen, Hagen, Cologne, Frankfurt / M., Leipzig, Berlin.

Vortmeyer's fame, 1950s

• The brands Vortmeyers Ruhm ^® and Oldendorfer Stolz made the city of Preußisch Oldendorf known in large parts of Germany.

• During his lifetime, Wilhelm Vortmeyer brought his company to the largest industrial company in what was then the Preussisch Oldendorf office. The jobs created as well as the orders to the domestic economy cannot be overestimated.

• The company was and is of great importance for the city of Preußisch Oldendorf.

Senior boss Wilhelm Vortmeyer - son-in-law Enno Stramann now supported him as a co-owner. - In times that were becoming more difficult economically, had repeatedly and far-sightedly informed his employees of the considerable sales opportunities offered by an assortment tailored to bakeries. His insight secured 35 employees and 60 workers jobs in Preussisch Oldendorf alone at the time, plus a great many in the field. - It was initially a response to initially two large margarine groups in Germany and was successfully and consistently further developed.

• Echte Oldendorfer ^® is the "trust-free" (advertising) new brand, which in 1931 - at that time as Echte Oldendorfer in a box - was immediately brought to market in a targeted manner against a challenge from corporate competition.

This major action on the market is the last that Wilhelm Vortmeyer himself helped shape for his company, he died in November 1931.

The great effort involved is rewarded with an extraordinarily great success. A credit crunch , caused by a number of emergency ordinances with regard to currency and money transactions, has an inhibiting effect and calls for great caution - for example when granting payment terms or delivering new customers on credit; The sales force must be warned of the increase in fraudulent bankruptcies.

The government is throttling the import of dairy butter , the "good butter" , due to a lack of foreign currency - the favorable opportunity for Vortmeyer's top brands like Oldendorfer Stolz . During this time the Vortella ^® brand is introduced.

However, in March 1933 it was necessary to offer the cheapest Volksblume brand margarine at the “popular” price . In fact, the cheapest time for margarine was arguably before the seizure of power . Wholesalers are supplied directly from the factory. A whole wagon goes to a department store in Berlin, probably at the lowest price per kg ever allowed. The vernacular preserved gallows humor in this time of crisis: “Margarine is cheaper than boot wax!” - In accordance with the poor profit situation of the company, the employees had to accept considerable cuts in monthly and hourly wages in 1932. It was not until 1934 that the followers could be granted a wage increase.

From 1934 the company name is Pr. Oldendorfer Margarinewerke W. Vortmeyer GmbH .

The dairy section had previously been closed. In 1926 almost 7 tons of butter had been produced and for the first time over 2,000 tons of margarine. Under the new company name, it remained with steam operation: the smoke plume from the chimney, the wooden cooling tower and the tank wagons - the latter wrapped in white clouds - remained symbols of the world of work at the Preussisch Oldendorf station long after the Second World War. One was dependent on superheated steam for even longer anyway; because the raw material delivered to the railroad in tank cars was liquefied so that it could be pumped into the factory's tanks.

Eastern Germany represented a considerable part of the sales area; this made the - ultimately successful - departure into the post-war period from spring 1948 more difficult, as the commemorative publication for the 50th anniversary impressively shows.

In 1981, after expanding the product range, the name was changed to VORTELLA Lebensmittelwerk W. Vortmeyer GmbH .

Sawmill

Wilhelm Vormeyer's entrepreneurial drive passed on; In the birthplace of Harlinghausen, he ran the sawmill with wooden shoe factory Rieke & Vortmeyer together with August Rieke on the site Harlinghausen 9, the shop after the former Colon Oberkrämer . After 1920 up to 30 employees made margarine boxes in large numbers. The shareholders of this steam-powered sawmill separated in mid-1923 and the number of employees had decreased significantly. Rieke founded his own sawmill with a wooden shoe factory in Preußisch Oldendorf and took over the steam engine; the electrically operated Harlinghauser plant was incorporated as a department : sawmill of the margarine factory. Both companies existed until well after the end of the war; a full gate was installed in Harlinghausen .

motto

Wilhelm Vortmeyer died in autumn 1931 at the age of 65 and was buried in the cemetery of his home community in Harlinghausen with the participation of high officials and the many associations he set up or sponsored. - This true entrepreneur had given all his strength to his industrial enterprise for 27 years, served his city effectively and never escaped social obligations.

In the tomb of this highly respected citizen of Oldendorf , the scene of a farmer plowing vigorously until evening is carved deep in stone - underlined by his motto:

I have to work as long as it is day, night comes when no one can work.

The family business

The 24-year-old Wilhelm Vortmeyer had married Sophie Dorothee Lisette Pollheide. Starke from Hedem in 1891, they had a daughter. Annemarie Vortmeyer became the owner after the death of her father and ran the company together with her husband, pharmacist Enno Stramann , who was born in Natrup-Hagen and became a co-owner in 1928; he died in 1946 and Wilhelm Vortmeyer's daughter Annemarie Vortmeyer-Stramann nee. Große Vortmeyer managed the company alone as a personally liable partner in difficult times.

As early as 1925, the independent industrial company VORTMEYER had to assert itself against the overpowering international trusts and their "unbelievable advertising effort" (Wilhelm Vortmeyer) - keyword Rama ^® - as well as against the very tough competition of the 85 free margarine factories that were still operating in 1950, but mostly only of local importance . Many fought in vain in the tough cutthroat competition and were taken over by the Unilever group, the history of which should be given special attention.

• The company VORTELLA Lebensmittelwerke W. Vortmeyer GmbH asserts itself in the fourth generation as a family company and with almost 300 employees is the largest industrial company - located in the city of Preussisch Oldendorf.

Public effect

The city ​​of Preußisch Oldendorf was promoted politically and socially during the difficult economic period in German history between the two world wars by Wilhelm Vortmeyer as a politician and patron in a variety of ways.

The politician

Wilhelm Vortmeyer had been a member of the Harlinghausen council from 1903 and was chairman of the local agricultural association. At that time, the Harlinghausen Voluntary Fire Brigade was founded, and he was its first fire chief.

After he moved his residence from Harlinghausen to Preußisch Oldendorf in 1920, Wilhelm Vortmeyer was elected to the city council and in 1924 became the city ​​councilor of Preußisch Oldendorf. "The old Vortmeyer", as many called him in recognition of his services, held this office until his death in 1931.

During his seven-year tenure there were great difficulties to be overcome, which he was able to master with his usual energy, ingenuity and personal, including financial support. When the manufacturer Wilhelm Vortmeyer was elected mayor on June 24, 1924, he immediately offered the city council at this meeting that the city could lease or acquire land on the Bodenbach from the Harlinghausen farmers, Kötter and Vortriede, for a sports field and bathing establishment.

This outdoor pool on the Bodenbach was used by the Oldendorf schools and enthusiastically accepted by the population. Although the system had to give way to the air tank farm at the beginning of the war, the building authority of Luftgaukommando VI Münster was forced to create a generous replacement in Oldendorfer Switzerland. This beautiful and sport-friendly forest swimming pool offered favorable starting conditions for tourism that began in Oldendorf in 1953.

Even before 1914 there was a desire for a direct traffic connection between Preußisch Oldendorf and the Eggetal . In the years 1919/20 the plans were postponed by the city representatives for cost reasons, although efforts had to be made to create job opportunities for the unemployed; with the soldiers returning home, the problem becomes more pressing. In fact, the project of the 4 km long Chaussee Bergstrasse to the Eggetal was realized in the years from 1924 to 1927 with the breakthrough of the Egge ridge in 1926 . Considerable efforts by bailiff Hermann Hohmeier and city councilor Wilhelm Vortmeyer were necessary to ensure that this measure of “productive unemployment welfare” , which the city council decided under city councilor Hugo Hornberg towards the end of 1923, could be carried out in full as a major emergency work for 80 unemployed people; a plaque on the breakthrough indicates this.

• The mountain road with an elegant route was largely designed as an elm avenue and is an important transport link . It opens up a wonderful landscape with a view over Oldendorfer Switzerland to the Limberg castle ruins . Before the road turns towards the top of the pass with the neighboring Wiehenturm, it snuggles up to the Egge through high forest, in which the tunnels of the former colliery are located. - Such a successful route naturally attracts motorists and motorcyclists, such as the Osnabrück Motorbike Club, which drives along the new Bergstrasse at the grand opening ceremony on September 24, 1927.

Wilhelm Vortmeyer had built his forest house halfway up, known as the Old Peace, in order to pursue his traditional passion as a hunter and hunter. The inauguration ceremony was held there. The fact that he was denied permission for a restoration may have been for the sake of the wild loneliness he enjoyed. The founder and chairman of the silvicultural cooperative campaigned for the preservation and care of the forest.

During his tenure, the feeding on the mountain road present Town Hall Street to one of was hawthorn -lined avenue, the residents of Spiegelstraße received a sewerage and other roads were paved.

The further settlement of Oldendorfer Switzerland , which had been dominated by peasantry until then, was made possible from 1925 by the development of Oldendorfer and Engershauser farmers' lands for twelve building sites and, according to the recently passed law on house interest tax, publicly promoted - after war and inflation - state-decreed burden compensation. Several employees of the margarine factory were able to settle there; today “Switzerland” is a preferred residential area.

Wilhelm Vortmeyer had a supraregional influence, for example for 10 years as a member of the Minden Chamber of Commerce and Industry .

The sponsor

War memorial on the Brümmel, 2017

After the end of the First World War, a memorial was to be erected for the 50 fallen from Oldendorf and Engershausen . Wilhelm Vortmeyer topped up the donations with a considerable amount. The war memorial on the Brümmel was inaugurated on November 12, 1922 and handed over to the city's care.

The warrior club was re-established by him in April 1921; As its first chairman, he revitalized the chapel, which was first founded in 1893, by pulling out the old musical instruments and subsidizing the manufacturer Vortmeyer for repairs, the purchase of additional instruments and sheet music. This excellent chapel gave him great pleasure, was very well received by the population and, thanks to its reputation, was often committed to outside. - During these difficult times, the population enjoyed the pleasure of listening to open-air concerts, for example on a leveled area next to the war memorial on the Brümmel. - The depressions of the time all caught up again by the end of the year at the latest, when the children of members or fallen soldiers were invited to the Christmas party of the Warrior Association; Wilhelm Vortmeyer gave them generous consideration on this occasion.

On May 1, 1926, citizens and farmers from Preußisch Oldendorf and the surrounding area founded the riding and driving club “St. Georg ". After "Reitersmann" factory owner Vortmeyer had given the suggestion, he could not ignore the assumption of the post of first chairman. A few weeks later they had big plans together with the athletes from town and the surrounding area (founder of the sports club: Wilhelm Vortmeyer). To build a multi-purpose hall , a cooperative was founded at the end of June 1926, headed by the chairman of the equestrian club in personal union and whose share certificates of at least 100 RM were subscribed within one month in large numbers. Factory owner Vortmeyer provided the property purchased from Kaufmann Meyersieck for 6,000 RM on his own account.

The multi-purpose hall, commonly known as the riding hall , was around 1,100 m² in size. Eight wooden innovative arched girders carried the roof, the column entrance under a balcony, flanked by turrets, looked inviting for festive or representative events. On this side inside there was the gallery for a chapel and next to it a gallery for spectators, at one end there was a cloakroom or counter with a small kitchen. The building was a training facility for gymnastics and sports clubs as well as schools and was particularly suitable for large exhibitions. The removable floor made it possible for equestrian events and the riders of the club to train their horses in winter; seventeen stables were attached. Preußisch Oldendorf was the envy of the surrounding communities for the modern hall, which was built without public subsidies; in this way, important major events could be brought to the benefit of the city.

Hindenburg Hall, 1957

In May 1927 the hall was inaugurated with participation from the entire district with a march through the decorated city, riding and driving tournaments and dancing. It was named Hindenburg Hall. The gymnastics and sports department organized a sports advertising day with gymnastics and athletics demonstrations, competitions and football in July of that year. In 1935 the Gauturn Festival took place in Oldendorf; the hall attracted many political events. The hall and the Oldendorf fair , which takes place twice a year in front of the Hindenburg hall, benefited each other.

There was no shortage of large events because of the seldom large hall, named the district show festival in 1928 and the large trade show in 1930 for handicrafts, trade and agriculture from Ascension Day to Whit Monday, combined with district craftsmen's day and apprentice exhibition, schools and vocational schools visited the exhibition, which even had rooms in the municipal secondary school occupied. The various guilds and companies took part in the historical pageant with more than 20 festively decorated floats. Lectures and other supporting events complemented the event, to which thousands of visitors came to Oldendorf; even special trains were used. The amazed visitors were greeted by music from the radio and gramophone. The radio now caused a greater stir after the strict requirements for radio had been relaxed in 1928 - for several years.

Wilhelm Vortmeyer experienced the big fire department festival with the 56th fire department day of the Ravensberg-Lippischen fire department in the Hindenburg-Halle in July 1931; 300 delegates from 116 fire services took part in the conference. In the pageant led by cars with the dignitaries, 1,500 firefighters marched. “It was a unique experience for the city of Pr. Oldendorf and for the many guests from near and far”.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erich Tischer: Chronicle of the Vortmeyer company. City of Preussisch Oldendorf - Archive.
2. ↑ Separate phases are initially required so that nutritionally important water- or fat-soluble substances such as vitamins and the indispensable emulsifier can be introduced. After mixing in the cherries , the margarine mass is subjected to a primary crystallization process in the tube cooler , which is followed by maturation . This means the setting of larger or smaller crystals for the desired consistency at a controlled temperature and duration. From this it becomes clear that the way to the consumer is decisive for optimal quality - a condition that is not easy to meet in the beginning. For a simple schematic of the manufacturing process see p. Web links .

   Churning means scenic Rhine- churning , Low German cores, karnen, see. dialect de Botterkarn: the butter barrow or kaare for butter churn. You reach the core, the cream, the milk. Accordingly, the term churning originally indicates butter, but what happens by separating , not by mixing .

3. ↑ Poor people could at best afford scratch butter from sold out barrels. To distinguish it from butter, margarine was only allowed to be offered in tubs or cubes until the 1950s. The later margarine cups as "small buckets" circumvented this regulation.
4. ↑ Ulrich Rottschäfer, Awakening and Diakonie in Minden-Ravensberg. P. 224.
5. ↑ As early as 1913, a 50 hp locomobile was manufactured by Petermann-Werke , Warendorf (later known for its threshing machines). For their operation, training as a boiler attendant was necessary, which machinist Detering acquired in the Technikum Lage . In 1927 a stationary steam boiler is purchased.
6. ↑ The chemist Wilhelm Normann , who was born in Petershagen , discovered a way to spreadable fat through catalytic hydrogenation in 1901: fat hardening.
7. ↑ The complaints of the farmers in the area, who had had enough of the hard work of buttering, were what led to the establishment of the Vortmeyer dairy in Pr. Oldendorf in 1904. As formulated in 1994 after a - presumably abbreviated - press report Annemarie Gnegel, b. Stramann, a side effect. At the time she was managing the company together with her brother Wilhelm Stramann. The granddaughter of the founder, Vortmeyer, surely strives to avoid routine work. Westfalenblatt No. 99 of April 29, 1994.
8. ↑ When the First World War broke out in August 1914, six long-serving top executives rushed to the flags. Of the workers employed in 1914, only five returned to the company after the end of the war.
9. ↑ Another company name of this time and the region is quoted after an advertisement in the calendar for Minden-Ravensberg from 1925: Herford Westphalian Sweet Cream-Margarine-Plant Butter-Refining Works H. Meyer-Lippinghausen. This margarine factory was demolished in 1984 after 90 years; the clock tower remained .

   The clock on the tower of the margarine factory, visible from afar, was a welcome timer for some residents in Oben Oldendorf. In the past, the signals from steam whistles during breaks set the pace in the Oldendorf working world . Signals from the steam brick had to be perceptible at the clay pit on Bergstrasse and therefore largely influenced the rhythm of the field work. During the work breaks, the steady, pleasantly echoing hum of the many support rollers on the high wooden supports of the cable car suddenly stopped - and the idle hiker became all the more aware of the peculiar silence of the forest.

10. ↑ Since this time in particular, brands have been promoted with great effort when they are introduced; Free gifts, discount stamps or series photos for scrapbooks are necessary for customer loyalty, comparable to cigarette advertising . If instead of butter you only buy “Real Oldendorfer in a box”, the advertisement for this brand in a scrapbook in 1931 read The German Reichswehr - a topic that was widely noticed at the time.
11. ^ A "popular" price was asked for the Volkswagen a year later .
12. ↑ 50 years of Vortmeyer margarine. Prussian Oldendorf: Kölle Nachf. 1954.
13. ↑ The address book of the Oldendorf Office from 1902 only lists the steam-powered sawmill at Heinrich Haake's Mühle in Oben Oldendorf .
14. ↑ Directly following his father-in-law in office, director Stramann became city councilor of the city of Oldendorf after his death; he remained so until his death on March 6, 1946.
15. ↑ Fette und Seifen 54 (1952) Ed. 3, p. 191.
16. ↑ Erich Tischer: As a reminder. In: Preußisch Oldendorfer Rundblick with the official gazette of the city of Preußisch Oldendorf. Prussian Oldendorf: Kölle-Druck 2006 ff.
17. ↑ This made it possible to realize the concern of the Volksbadegenossenschaft Pr. Oldendorf mbH , which was founded in February 1924 to promote health and exercise .
18. ↑ The swimming pool at this new location undoubtedly favored the repeated construction of holiday camps for North German young people in the nearby forest in the early 1950s.
19. ↑ This suggestion was only supported by the Lübbecke district, the Wittlage and Melle districts refused. For a few decades, however , there has been a road connection to the city of Melle past the Green Lake .
20. ↑ 100 Years of the Voluntary Fire Brigade Preussisch Oldendorf 1885–1985, undated (1985).

Web links

VORTELLA Lebensmittelwerk W. Vortmeyer GmbH

Scheme of margarine production (accessed May 15, 2010; PDF; 944 kB)