Wolf Netter & Jacobi

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Carl Leopold Netter

Wolf Netter & Jacobi , often incorrectly spelled Wolf, Netter & Jacobi with a comma, was a German company in the iron and steel industry that was " Aryanized " in 1938 and taken over by the Mannesmann Group.

history

In 1833 the merchant Wolf Netter (1783-1859 ) founded a hardware store in Bühl (Baden) . Under his sons Jacob and Joseph Netter, the company increasingly turned to the manufacture of iron and steel products. In 1873 Salomon Jacobi established a branch in Strasbourg in what was then the realm of Alsace-Lorraine , which soon became the headquarters of the company now trading as Wolf Netter & Jacobi . The branch founded in Ludwigshafen in 1853 , however, remained with the trade under the traditional name of Wolf Netter and became independent.

The company expanded the most under Carl Leopold Netter . From 1890 to 1905 the number of employees rose from 900 to 3,000. The rolling mill in Finnentrop , which produced sheet metal, was one of the most efficient in Germany. With a total annual production of 70,000 tons, Wolf Netter & Jacobi was the largest company of its kind on mainland Europe at the time.

  • Strasbourg seal mark (before 1918)

  • Seal mark Berlin (before 1918)

  • Wellblechbau advertising brand (before 1918)

  • Steel cabinet advertising brand (before 1918)

Wolf Netter & Jacobi exclusively sold the Lipman shelves developed by Robert Lipman and thus had a dominant position in the furnishing of archives and libraries. The new building of the Berlin State Library (Unter den Linden house) was also equipped with shelves by Wolf Netter & Jacobi for 3 million volumes by 1914. At the first international exhibition for book trade and graphics (Bugra) in Leipzig in 1914, Wolf Netter & Jacobi showed a three-story, free-standing shelving system that attracted a lot of attention at home and abroad. In addition to the shelves, the company produced a complete range of equipment for archives and libraries with items such as book supports, signature frames, book trolleys, storage tables, desks, filing boxes in wood and steel, capsules for cards and archives and the associated cupboards and cloakrooms, etc.

  • Magazine of the State Library Unter den Linden with Lipman shelves and accompanying book trolley (1949)

  • One floor of the store of the State Library Unter den Linden shortly after the restoration was completed, still without shelves (2008)

With the defeat of Germany in the First World War in 1918, the facilities in Alsace and thus around 80% of the company's assets were lost. The headquarters came to Berlin. In 1925, the company, which had previously been a general partnership, was converted into a partnership limited by shares as Wolf Netter & Jacobi-Werke . Business owners at this time were Ludwig Netter in Berlin, Eugen Jacobi (1877–1933) in Frankfurt am Main and Julius Seligsohn-Netter, Carl Leopold Netter's son-in-law in Berlin. The sole prokurist was director Eduard Goldschmidt in Berlin. In 1926 Wolf Netter & Jacobi took over the majority of shares in Butzke-Bernhard Joseph AG in Berlin; the following year, the company entered into a longstanding syndicate with Hoesch AG .

After a collapse in sales and profits and a halving of capital due to the global economic crisis , the 1930s and the takeover of the National Socialists initially brought economic success through the emerging arms industry, but at the same time the greatest threat to the Jewish family business. The owners negotiated with Wilhelm Zangen , the general director of Mannesmannröhren-Werke , which in 1938 led to a complete takeover by Mannesmann. The price of 10.3 million Reichsmarks and 38,000 pounds sterling , one-off special payments and monthly payments for two years to Ludwig Netter and Julius Seligsohn-Netter, who had emigrated to England, “did not correspond to the findings of the Mannesmann archivist Horst A. Wessel the actual value of the company, but went beyond the usual conditions of the “Aryanization” of companies. On March 29, 1938, the limited partnership shareholders approved the takeover. Mannesmann formed the Mannesmann-Stahlblechbau-AG from the factories . Deutsche Bank took over the majority in Butzke Bernhard Joseph AG .

Wolf Netter & Jacobi was not restored after the Second World War. The restitution of a small part of the property in Switzerland only took place in 2010.

Products

Title of the 1912 catalog
Lipman shelf
  • Bühler steel door frames, steel doors, steel gates
  • Lipman shelves
  • Steel furniture: filing cabinets, filing boxes, desks, cupboards
  • Armored roller shutter Rollador ( DRP 395058)
  • Galvanized pan sheets (Siegener pans)
  • Garbage cans and bins
  • concrete mixer
  • Iron transport barrels
  • Boiler and tank systems
  • Corrugated iron buildings
  • Bicycle racks and garages (corrugated iron and steel)
  • Conveyor systems
  • Iron building and bridge construction

Locations

literature

  • In memory of the 25th business anniversary of Wolf Netter & Jacobi in Strasbourg I./E. Dedicated to his dear Socien Salomon Jacobi and Adolf Netter, In Liebe und Treue by Carl Leop. Nice one. Berlin 1898 digitized
  • The modern library building (Lipman system). On the occasion of the 20th Librarians' Day on June 11th and 12th, 1924 in Erfurt.
  • Archive facilities and library buildings; Lipman system. Berlin: Elsner 1930
  • Horst A. Wessel :  Nice. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 86 f. ( Digitized version ). - family items

Web links

Commons : Wolf Netter & Jacobi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Horst A. Wessel :  Nice. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 86 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ See, for example, the report of the American delegation in Library Journal 39 (1914), p. 592
  3. ↑ See the catalogs in the Wolf Netter & Jacobi Collection and the advertising leaflet Der Moderne Bibliotheksbau. on the occasion of the 20th Librarian's Day in 1924
  4. ^ A b Franz Lerner:  Jacobi, Eugen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 236 f. ( Digitized version ).
  5. ^ Advertisement for the establishment of the limited partnership based on shares, Wolf Netter & Jacobi-Collection , Box 1, Folder 5
  6. ↑ Even beer consumption is monitored , article by Helmut Selter on the history of the Hausach factory, Schwarzwälder Bote from April 5, 2011, accessed on November 3, 2011
  7. ↑ Kurt Pätzold, Irene Runge: "Kristallnacht". (Small library 503) Pahl-Rugenstein 1988, ISBN 978-3-7609-1233-2 , p. 209.
  8. ^ Nachlass CL Netter (PDF; 105 kB), decision of the Claims Resolution Tribunal of April 16, 2010 (Case No. CV96-4849), accessed on November 3, 2011