Wullbrandt + soul

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Wullbrandt + soul
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1550
Seat Braunschweig
management Heinz Schmidt, Henrik Schmidt
Number of employees 112
Branch Hardware, building services
Website wullbrandtundseele.de

Wullbrandt + Seele , formerly Wullbrandt & Seele , is a company from Braunschweig that was founded in 1550. It is the oldest still existing commercial enterprise in the city. It now has several branches in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt .

history

The Brunswick citizen and merchant Hans Woltmann († 1580) founded a " spice and junk shop " in the Küchenstraße 3, in the Weichbild Neustadt , in 1550 at a time when the city was a member of the Hanseatic League . Woltmann probably came from the same family that provided several councilors to the Neustadt between 1437 and 1498 , namely Evert, Hinrik, Ludeke and Tile Woltmann.

The company was managed by the Woltmann family until 1763. The family's sons were sent to Hamburg or Nuremberg for this purpose , where they received commercial training in order to be able to continue the company in Braunschweig. In 1771, as there was no successor within the family, the shop clerk at the time, Johann Christian Wullbrandt from Fallersleben, took over the business, which at that time had specialized in the iron trade. Together with his wife Elisabeth Knust, Wullbrandt was accepted into the Braunschweig shopkeeper's guild in 1772 . In 1791 Wullbrandt received a ducal concession to trade in iron.


After Johann Christian Wullbrandt's death in 1809, his unmarried son Christian Georg Wullbrandt took over the business and at the same time took his brother-in-law Johann Friedrich Seele into the company as a partner . From October 1809 the company operated under the name “Wullbrandt & Seele”. As a result, the company developed into the leading iron wholesaler in northern Germany.

Later Friedrich Seele , Johann Friedrich Seele's adopted son, ran the business. He expanded the company and in 1853, together with Christian Pommer, Wilhelm Hasenbalg and Lorenz Schöttler, founded the "Maschinen- und Wagenbauanstalt Friedrich Seele & Co.", from which on April 1, 1870 the Braunschweigische Maschinenbauanstalt (BMA) emerged. From 1881 his son Friedrich Franz Seele managed the company as the sole owner.

The company had been a limited partnership since 1937, which was taken over by Gustav Heibey, Friedrich Seele's son-in-law, as a personally liable partner. Towards the end of the Second World War , the commercial buildings were destroyed by air raids on the Braunschweig city center . The old Achtermannsche patrician house at Reichsstrasse 3 was rebuilt between 1947 and 1949 and served as the headquarters of the company's headquarters.

In 1989 Thyssen Handelsunion from Düsseldorf bought the company shares in Wullbrandt + Seele KG. In 1998 two separate business areas were created, Wullbrandt + Seele Bautechnik, sales area of ​​Schulte GmbH & Co. KG in Essen with a branch in Braunschweig and Wullbrandt + Seele Werkstoffe, sales area of ​​Thyssen Schulte Werkstoffe in Düsseldorf. In 2000, Wullbrandt + Seele celebrated its 450th anniversary in Braunschweig. The company has been part of the Heinrich Schmidt Group from Mönchengladbach since 2007.

Companies

The company Wullbrandt + Seele operates at eleven locations and has seven warehouses for self-collectors from the trade and five exhibition houses in Hanover, Halberstadt, Magdeburg, Peine and Braunschweig with bathroom inspiration. The approximately 112 employees include 12 trainees. The articles on offer are divided into the six product groups "Sanitary", "Heating", "Air conditioning and ventilation", "Electrical installation", "Innovative building technology" and "Industrial supplies". The company also offers its products on the Internet via "HS-Online", a 24-hour online branch of the Heinrich Schmidt Group.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Trapp: Wullbrandt & Seele - 1550–1950 Braunschweig. 400 years in the service of the economy. P. 11.
  2. ↑ a b B. Berg: Wullbrandt & Seele Eisengroßhandlung. P. 251.
  3. ↑ Werner Spieß : The councilors of the Hanseatic city of Braunschweig 1231–1671. With a constitutional introduction. Second edition increased by a council line , Braunschweig 1970, In: Braunschweiger Werkstücke. Series A, Volume 5, of the whole series Volume 42, Braunschweig 1970, 235 f.
  4. ↑ a b Four Hundred Years (June 1, 1950) on zeit.de, accessed on September 24, 2013.
  5. ↑ Ursula Wolf: Economy and social situation in the Duchy of Braunschweig. In: Jörg Leuschner , Karl Heinrich Kaufhold , Claudia Märtl (Hrsg.): The economic and social history of the Braunschweigisches Land from the Middle Ages to the present. Volume 3: Modern Times. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-13599-1 , p. 177 f.
  6. ^ Hans-Walter Schmuhl : The gentlemen of the city. Bourgeois elites and municipal self-government in Nuremberg and Braunschweig from the 18th century to 1918. Focus Verlag, Giessen 1998, ISBN 3-88349-468-2 , p. 501.
  7. ↑ 2. The service building at Reichsstrasse 3 on braunschweig.de (PDF; 8.5 MB).
  8. ^ ThyssenKrupp Schulte GmbH ( Memento from October 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on September 24, 2013.
  9. ↑ History on wullbrandtundseele.de, accessed on September 24, 2013.
  10. ↑ Official website wullbrandtundseele.de, accessed on September 24, 2013.