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- | ===== Karl Louis Krauss - Krausswerke ===== | ||
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- | | Brief history | ||
- | | ::: | 1920 - The „Krausschiffchen“, | ||
- | | ::: | With the change in management and logo, in two steps the company name was changed:\\ On May 19th, 1919 from “Louis Krauss Metallwarenfabrik“ | ||
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- | | ::: | 1927 - Karl Louis Krauss dies in a traffic accident\\ 1935 - Krausswerke started participating in arms production (cable drums, food containers, car bonnets and other bod parts …)\\ Till 1937 Friedrich Emil Krauss has filed more than 500 national and international patents ranging from washing machines to explosion-proof motorcycle tanks. His company by that time was the largest manufacturer of washing machines and bathtubs in Germany.\\ In the same year Krausswerke was awarded for their social commitment to their workers and extraordinary economic achievements as „Nationalsozialistischer Musterbetrieb“ (Nazi regime model plant).\\ 1938-45 - World War II during which civil production continued on a low level. Staff increase to 800 in 1939 and 1000 at the end of the war. | | | ||
- | | ::: | Post war summary:\\ In the months directly after the end of the war F. E. Krauss was enjailed (till 1954) and his company expropriated and taken into trust administration*.\\ By January 1946 all factory equipment was disassembled and transported to the East. \\ In March of the same year government gave permission to restart production which was certainly a huge challenge given the circumstances..\\ On July 1st, 1947 the Krausswerke were renamed to VEB Erzgebirgische Waschgerätefabrik Schwarzenberg. About 70% of the factory was rented out and about 200 employees re-started the production. Initial products were equipment for harvesting and transporting potatoes and cattle muzzles. More details on the successor company can be found in the Wirtschafts-Chronik page 147 (details below).\\ \\ *For interested individuals I recommend a research paper issued 2015 by Leonore Lobeck. In this article the role of F.E. Krauss in Nazi Germany is laid out from a historic and the recent research perspective. He was NSDAP member and certainly benefitted from the regime. Recent research however leaves valid doubts whether characterizing him as ruthless promoter of Nazi-Germany and rude capitalist, as done after the war in the German Democratic Republic, is not a too single sided view on his lifetime contribution to the city, its inhabitants and the region. His fate is not an isolated case where formerly successful entrepreneurs and probably in modern terms “socially responsible good citizens” by engaging with the Nazi regime lost afterwards everything (whether justified or not is not on me to judge). \\ For Friedrich Emil Krauss it meant losing control and ownership of his company and confiscation of his private possessions. In the age of 59 years he was released from prison and re-started from scratch to work in the Western part of Germany as industry consultant for Buderus in Wetzlar. He retired in 1973 with 76 years (!!) and died 1977 in Stuttgart. | ||
- | | Status 2021 | Expropriated 1945, disassembled and ultimately renamed mid 1947 to VEB Erzgebirgische Waschgerätefabrik Schwarzenberg. | ||
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- | | Oil Cans | The bathtubs used to carry the company logo & “KRAUSS” but I have found so far no oil can with a stamp referencing to a Krauss manufacturing origin. Shapes shown are not unique and several other local companies produced them as well (e.g. Paul Hedrich in Schwarzenberg). | ||
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- | | Catalogue pages | So far I have found only the picture above | ||
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- | | Thanks to | Maximilian Lehmann for his wonderful [[https:// | ||
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