Fonds Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, 11727 - 11727 Hermann Schubert / VEB Textilwerke Zittau

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History: The company was founded in 1862 by Hermann Theodor Schubert as a small contract dyeing company. In 1904 a twisting mill and a sewing thread factory were added. In 1907 the company founded a branch in Grottau in Bohemia and a cotton plantation in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a, which was lost at the end of the First World War. In 1933 the cotton spinning mill was opened in Zittau. In 1945 the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) confiscated and dismantled the plant. Since it was transferred into public ownership in 1948, it has carried the name VEB Textilwerke Zittau. The main part of the textile works was absorbed in 1963 in the textile combine Zittau. Other parts of the company were spun off and subordinated to various VEBs. In the 1950s and early 1960s, the company produced spun yarns, twisted yarns and sizing chains and operated a contract dyeing plant. In 1970 he joined VEB Oberlausitzer Textilbetriebe Neugersdorf. In 1990 the Ostsächsische Textil GmbH was founded from the Zittau location, which was renamed to Textil GmbH Ostsachsen in 1992.<br /><br />Content: Articles of Association.- Participating interests.- Patents, licenses, trademarks.- Property matters.- Business relations with foreign countries.- Cooperation with the Soviet occupying power and state institutions - Company history.<br /><br /> Detailed introduction: 1. Significance and history of the registry trainer<br /><br /> In the second half of the 19th century the industrialization process accelerated in the city of Zittau. Several large textile industries were established, including spinning mills, weaving mills and finishing plants. One of these companies is the company Hermann Schubert, which has achieved its importance in economic history not only through a leading position on the world market for sewing threads, but also through the fact that it was operated as a pure family business until 1945.<br /><br />The company was founded in 1862 by Hermann Theodor Schubert (1836-1927) as a small contract dyeing company. In 1870, the first steam boiler was used to start the industrial boom. Mercerisation was introduced in 1885, cops dyeing was invented in 1891 and a twisting and sewing thread factory was built in Zittau in 1904, which developed rapidly. In the last decades of the 19th century, the sons of the company founder entered the business (particularly important through his inventions: Dr. Hermann Schubert), followed in the 1930s by the generation of grandchildren. In 1907-08 a Bohemian branch was established in Grottau (Hrádek), where twisting and sewing thread production was also carried out and, as in Zittau, there were dyeing, bleaching and mercerisation plants. Dr. Hermann Schubert also owned a wood and metal goods factory in Aussig (Ustí n.L.). In 1919 a bleaching plant in Hänischmühle (Bertsdorf) was attached to the Zittau factory because of the better water conditions. In 1907 the company founded a cotton plantation in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a in cooperation with the imperial colonial authorities. The purpose was to ensure a cheap supply of cotton. Due to a lack of experience in the cultivation of cotton in tropical regions, the plantation worked with great loss and was finally lost in the World War. During the World War, the company Hermann Schubert mainly produced sewing thread for military needs; later the paper spinning mill was started. The development of the company after the world war was initially favourable. The plants were expanded and modernised. The main sales were made on the German market, but extensive exports were also made overseas. At the end of the 1920s the economic situation deteriorated: in 1931/32 employment fell to 70%; economic and political crisis, unemployment and export difficulties led to a low point at the beginning of 1933. With the takeover of power by the National Socialists, the economic situation improved temporarily. The cotton spinning mill was opened in 1933. In 1935, the development and broad application of an artificial silk dyeing process (KZ process) was successful. In 1937 a process for the chemical refinement of rayon products (FK process) was developed, which was used by other companies under licence. In the 1930s, the company Hermann Schubert employed more than 1000 people and produced spun yarns from cotton and rayon, sewing threads, manufacturing threads and sizing chains. In 1939 the company was one of the first textile companies in the Zittau area to take over non textile armaments production from the metal industry (sheet metal processing for the aircraft industry, assembly of variometers and altimeters). In 1944, with a total workforce of 900 people, approximately 360 people were employed in metal armament production. The factories of the company suffered only minor damage as a result of the war. As a precaution, some parts of the company had been relocated to the Vogtland and Upper Franconia.<br /><br />Up to the end of the Second World War, the company remained a pure family business.<br />On 8.5.1945, the main factory and office building in Zittau were occupied by the Red Army. Several shareholders and executives were arrested by the occupying power. In accordance with SMAD Order 124/1945, the company was confiscated and a trustee was appointed in February 1946. From August 1945 to January 1946, the Red Army largely dismantled the building. After the referendum of 30.6.1946 the company was added to the list of the

Saxon State Archives (Archivtektonik) >> 09. economy >> 09.15 Textile, leather and tobacco industries >> 09.15.01 Spinning mills and twisting mills

Es gilt die Sächsische Archivbenutzungsverordnung (SächsGVBl. Jg.2003, Bl.-Nr. 4 S. 79)

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