W. Lande cigarette factory
The W. Lande cigarette factory (in marketing only Lande for short , formerly known as Lande, cigarette and tobacco factory "Kasaky" ) was a cigarette industry company in Dresden that existed until 1942 . " Aryanized " as early as 1933 , the company was renamed Karl Geissinger KG in 1942 and the name Lande was deleted from the commercial register. After its expropriation in 1946, it traded again as VEB Macedonia , before it was merged into VEB Vereinigte Zigarettenfabriken Dresden (VEB VEZIFA) in 1959 .
history
1897 founded Wilhelm landing his cigarette factory land in Halberstadt and moved it around the turn of the century to Dresden. His partner was Max Lande, a relative of his who came from Dessau .
The headquarters of the company, now trading as Lande, cigarette and tobacco factory "Kasaky" in Dresden, was initially on Zöllnerstrasse in Johannstadt , and from 1913 on in Striesen (Laubestrasse 24, the company was now called Zigarettenfabrik W. Lande or just Lande ).
At first, Lande produced the cigarettes exclusively by hand. From 1906, the acquisition of modern tobacco cutting and cigarette machines made it possible to increase production to up to 72,000 cigarettes a day. In 1929 he founded the subsidiary "Macedonia", which was primarily responsible for sales and delivery.
After more than 25 years, he moved his company in Striesen to Junghansstrasse 5 in 1932, the buildings at Laubestrasse 24 were taken over by the company Yramos, also active in the cigarette industry : Lande acquired the buildings of the former United Cigarette Machine Company . Receiving high awards in 1932, around 600 employees produced 1.2 billion cigarettes that year. Cigarette brands and types of the W. Lande cigarette factory were: Atoffa , Effendi , Lande Auslese , Lande Gold , Lande Kohary (also called Lande Freres ), Lande Without , Lande Privat , Lande Vier , Mokri , Mokri Superb , Moktar Auslese and Turkish Extra .
Unlike other Dresden Jews, the family decided immediately after the National Socialist seizure of power to sell the then highly modern company and to emigrate: Wilhelm Lande and his wife emigrated in spring 1933, daughter Cäcilie sold Lande and Macedonia in June / July 1933 to the Nazi functionary Karl Geissinger and also left Germany. Even under the direction of the new owner, the promotional company name, now Lande GmbH (or W. Lande GMBH ), was retained. In 1938 Reemtsma acquired a "covert" 50% stake in the company. In 1942 the company was renamed Karl Geissinger KG and the name Lande was deleted from the company register.
After the destruction of Dresden , production was outsourced to a furniture factory in Wilsdruffer. After the end of the war, the company was used by the Soviet military administration to pay reparations and at times produced exclusively for the needs of the Red Army. In 1946 the company was expropriated and renamed VEB Macedonia . From 1959 it belonged as Plant II to VEB Vereinigte Zigarettenfabriken Dresden.
In West Germany, after the war in Wiesbaden and Munich, initially by Karl Geissinger and others. a. cigarettes continued to be produced under the name of W. Lande Cigaretten GmbH Munich . The rights to the brand name Mokri passed to the company Martin Brinkmann in 1950. Mokri cigarettes were still being made in the 1970s .
The building on the Junghansstraße is under United AG cigarette machine factory in the monument list been included Dresden and now belongs to f6 Cigarettenfabrik Dresden GmbH .
literature
- Erik Lindner: Jewish entrepreneurs in the Dresden cigarette industry . In: Dresdner Geschichtsverein (Hrsg.): Between Integration and Destruction - Jewish Life in Dresden in the 19th and 20th Centuries (= Dresdner Hefte - Contributions to Cultural History. No. 45, 2nd, modified edition, June 2000). Dresden 2000, ISBN 3-910055-34-6 , pp. 53-57.
Web links
- LANDE cigarette factory on cigabox.de
- Company Lande on dresdner-stadtteile.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Taken from: cigabox.de , accessed on June 7, 2018.