Genealogie GROHN

NSTG - Corporation north German steingutfabrik in Bremen Grohn

On 2 October of the yearly 1869 by Vegesacker and of Bremen buyers with a capital by 125,000 Reichstalern Courant (375,000 realm Marks) a corporation one created, whose purpose lay in the production of fine-ceramic haushaltsgeschirr. Directly been located at the Weser, established one in the following year the production plant, which could take up production due to the transportation restrictions by the French-German war only in the year 1871 in its entirety. In the year 1872 the share capital was increased by 25,000 Reichstaler to 150,000 Reichstaler, which brought a dividend of 9 per cent with the favorable market situation. The good paragraph of the goods made a constant increase for the production possible, which in the year 1874, after which establishment of energy-saving Mendheim gas furnaces drew, an increase of the capital on 300.000 Reichstaler after itself. Starting from 1879 the fine-ceramic enterprises that lowered Rhine country the prices, in order to animate the stagnating market by intensified attraction to the purchase. To this regional competition came the high English stoneware production, which involved a further lowering of the German home-market prices in the offer in excess. Despite the price-fixing arrangment with other companies starting from the spring 1883 it was not possible for the north German steingutfabrik in Grohn to intercept the losses fully; for this reason it was forced to change itself over starting from the year 1886 to the more favorable production from light stoneware to the export into countries with duty by weight.

Toward end of the yearly 1889 beside dishes also wall tiles in the wet pressing were manufactured, because "this article belongs only manufactured by few factories and therefore to those, whose price is not yet pressed by excessive competition". The increase of the conversion was allotted according to the business report for the year 1891 mainly to the production of the wall slabs, with which a lively demand made itself valid. Up to the spring 1894 production worsened however in such a manner that the losses had to become balanced by pool of the 900,000 m-shares on 548,000 M. The new production procedures, which one had introduced after the reconstruction of the burned down work, planned a dry pressing of the tiles dry. After numerous problems and initial attempts production could be increased by wall tiles on 70,000 pieces per week by the more rational procedure, so that the enterprise was put into the position to win crucial market shares. With the complete conversion to the production of wall tiles starting from the year 1891 again a dividend at a value of 6 per cent was to be paid for ten years. The lowering of the plate thickness of 10 to 6 mm had a lastingly positive influence on the export of the commodity, since the duty by weight remained alike with increased numbers of items. Like that it was possible despite high tariffs to increase the paragraph into the export areas. While one had referred the raw material by ship from England, with the year 1902 the exclusive ladder petrol Freise changed over the raw material supply starting from 1904 to rail carriage from the Rhine country and acquired beyond that its own sand camp in favorable proximity to the production plant.

Toward end of the Second World War also the Actiengesellschaft north German steingutfabrik Grohn lay quiet and resumed only around 1945 with the conclusion of necessary structural alteration measures the production of fine-ceramic goods, in order to reequip then, after the currency reform, the plants again for the production of wall tiles. While daughter work II, which Grohner wall slab factory, and the work III, which had of Bremen wall slab factory ltd., to which years 1948 and 1950 again took up the work, the work IV, which steingutfabrik Witteburg AG are shut down, after the conversion to bodenfliesen in the year 1949 by unprofitable production in the outdated plants in the year 1953. After the introduction of the 45-Stunden-Woche in the May of the yearly 1957 in the subsequent year the three subsidiaries were converted on the exclusive companion.