Sugar factory Jacob Hennige & Comp.
The Jacob Hennige sugar factory was an important company in the Magdeburg sugar industry. The Magdeburg Exchange as an important location for the European sugar industry and the city of Magdeburg with the Magdeburg Exchange as an internationally important sugar trading center created favorable conditions for the company's development.
history
Foundation and development
The company was founded on January 1st, 1826 by Jacob Hennige as a regional products business under the company "Hennige & Wiese" on the Bonehauerufer in Magdeburg. In addition, Hennige built a sugar refinery under the company name "Hennige, Freise and Comp" on the property at Mittagstrasse 16 in Neustadt near Magdeburg in 1829 .
On November 15, 1838, Hennige and his partner Wiese started a beet sugar factory on the property at Lübecker Straße 122, in which raw sugar was obtained from beetroot . The company developed into a top company in the industry. Jacob Hennige was the first chairman of the Association of the German Sugar Industry from 1850 to 1853. From 1856 until his death in 1858 he held this office again. From March 31, 1852 Jacob Hennige took over the sugar factory under his own direction and continued to run it under the name "Jacob Hennige". In 1856 he bought the refinery "Jaehnigen, Freise & Comp." Founded in 1838 and merged the two companies. The new company now stretched on both sides of Mittagstrasse, and both parts of the company were linked by a massive overpass.
In 1858, Bernhard Freise, Jacob Hennige's son-in-law, took over sole management and, after the death of his father-in-law, became the general representative of the Hennige family.
From September 1, 1863, the son of the company founder Moritz Paul Hennige and his brother-in-law Bernhard Freise ran the factory as joint owners, with Bernhard Freise taking over the operative business. The Henniges and Freises houses were next to each other on Lübecker Straße (No. 122 and 123). From 1879 onwards, raw sugar production was carried out exclusively using the refined process.
After the death of Bernhard Freise, Moritz Paul Hennige took over the sole management of the company in 1884 and the company expanded steadily until 1914. In 1889 the "Baumann und Maquet" refinery in Magdeburg-Buckau was taken over. In the same year Paul Hennige joined the company's management as an authorized signatory and became a partner in 1890. In the years 1894 and 1895 the production was combined in the Mittagstrasse. The number of employees rose to 200.
On April 1, 1921, the previously open trading company "Jacob Hennige" with the partners Paul Hennige, Werner Freise and Max Hennige was converted into a limited liability company under the company name "Jacob Hennige Zuckerraffinerie mbH". The management remained with Werner Freise and Max Hennige.
Sale and decline
On July 1, 1930, after World War II, inflation and economic shocks, the company became the property of the United Silesian Sugar Factory under the new name of "Jacob Hennige Successor - Sugar Refinery with Limited Liability". The management and direction at the Magdeburg headquarters remained with Max Hennige. After his unexpected death in 1937, the Hennige family was no longer involved in the management of the company.
In 1940 the company stopped production. The "Jacob Hennige successor - sugar refinery with limited liability" was dissolved. The “Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke” and then the “Magdeburger Maschinenfabrik” later produced on the area at Mittagstrasse 16. During the heavy air raid on Magdeburg during the Second World War on January 16, 1945, both the former factory building and the home of the Hennige family at Lübecker Straße 122 were destroyed by fire bombs.
literature
- Sabine Ullrich: Industrial architecture in Magdeburg . Magdeburg 2003, p. 220 ff .
- Hennige family archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sabine Ullrich, Industriearchitektur in Magdeburg , Magdeburg 2003, p. 220.
- ↑ Deviating information from Ullrich: Sale to Meyer, Tangermünde
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 12.5 ″ N , 11 ° 38 ′ 20 ″ E