Fonds Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, 20927 - 20927 Leipzig cotton spinning mill

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History: The Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei was founded in 1884 as an AG in Lindenau (today Leipzig). In 1886 she took over the Leipziger Baumwollweberei Wolkenburg. At the turn of the century, the company operated several spinning mills in Leipzig with dyeing and combing facilities as well as its own cotton plantations in what was then German East Africa and Egypt. The expropriation took place by the referendum of 1946 to 30 June 1946, the deletion of the enterprise in the commercial register 1948. The successor enterprise traded as VEB Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei. <br /><br />Content: Legal status of the enterprise - Supervisory Board meetings - Annual reports - Labour and social affairs - Forced labour - Finances and assets - Material. Absatz und Werbung.<br /><<br />Comprehensive introduction: Preliminary remark<br /><br />This finding aid is the result of a conversion of the typewritten finding aid already available for this stock from 1983. The aim of the conversion was to improve the search possibilities by entering it into the Augias-Archiv indexing database. The typewritten information was converted into digital form with minimal changes in content. The terminology used in the 1983 find book, which also reflects the social conditions at the time of processing, thus remained unaffected.<br /><br />History of the Leipzig Cotton Spinning Mill<br /><br />The Leipzig Cotton Spinning Mill was founded in June 1884 by eleven Leipzig merchants and bankers as a public limited company with a share capital of RM 3 million for the construction, acquisition and operation of cotton spinning mills and related branches in Leipzig. In 1885, Johann Morf, owner of the spinning mill in Sontheim am Neckar, who came from Switzerland, took over the management of the company. The choice of the building site fell on an offered property along the Alte Salzstraße in Lindenau (since 1891 incorporated into Leipzig) not far from the Plagwitz railway station with a size of 59,000 sqm. The construction of the first factory building was completed at the end of 1884. Production started with five spinning chairs. In 1885, the first spinning mill with 30,000 selfactor spindles and the associated pre-works was in full production, and the company was now based in Lindenau. In 1887, it employed 318 workers and salaried employees. The weekly working hours amounted to 70 - 77 hours, the dividend distributed for the first time 5.5%. Over the next few years, the high-rise building in Spinnereistraße, a building used as a medical room, cloakroom and doctors' room, the first workers' dwelling house was built in 1886, the second spinning mill together with the dye works in 1888 and the third spinning mill in 1889. <br /><br />On 22 July 1886, the Leipzig cotton spinning mill took over the entire share capital of the Leipziger Baumwollweberei Wolkenburg, founded in 1886, which thus became a subsidiary. In 1894, the supervisory board gave notice to the director Johann Morf without notice and in 1895 appointed Gustav Hertle to the company's management board. In 1895 and 1907 a fourth and fifth spinning mill and a combing mill could be built due to the increased demand. The annual turnover in 1902 was about 10 million Marks, the dividend 14%. In 1908, the Leipzig cotton spinning mill was connected to an electrical centre. <br /><br />1912, with the establishment of the motorized weaving mill in the dyeing building, the foundation was laid for the largest and most efficient autocord twisting mill (production of tire cord for the tires of cars) in Germany. In 1921 the twisting and weaving mill was founded due to the constantly growing demand for motor material. In the following years, too, high profits had been achieved and demand could never be fully met. Around the turn of the century, the Leipzig cotton spinning mill had the idea of acquiring its own cotton plantations in Egypt and D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a in order to become independent of the market with regard to cotton. From January 1908, plantations were taken over, which were considerably expanded in the following years. The name of the planting company was

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

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