Badische Gesellschaft für Zuckerfabrikation in Waghäusel Overview

Badische Gesellschaft für Zuckerfabrikation in Waghäusel
Overview
Name
Badische Gesellschaft für Zuckerfabrikation
Founded
March 20, 1837
Decommissioned
After completion of the 1995 campaign
Founders
Sebastian Schuzenbach, Bankhaus von Haber in Karlsruhe
Type of company
AG
1837
Zuckerfabrik Waghäusel founded under the name "Badische Gesellschaft für Zuckerfabrikation"
[Baden company for sugar production]. The first elected managing directors were Baron Friedrich of
Ellrichshausen, Franz Josef Monnè, Friedrich August Walchner and Louis von Haber.
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1847
Sickness and support association founded, from which Südzucker's current company health insurance
plan evolved.
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1847/48
After the collapse of the Haber bank, Baden's economy entered a period of significant turmoil.
Overnight, the state's three largest industrial companies, Badische Gesellschaft für Zuckerfabrikation
in Waghäusel, Maschinenfabrik Kessler [mechanical OEM] in Karlsruhe and Spinnerei und Weberei
[textiles] Ettlingen became insolvent. Only thanks to state intervention were they able to survive.
After heated debates in Baden's state parliament, it was decided to help the companies by providing
guaranteed state loans. The event is recorded in the history books as the "Drei-Fabriken-Frage" [three
factories issue].
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June 21, 1849
During the battle near Waghäusel, the factory becomes a showcase for the revolution. The Baden
freedom fighters and the invading Prussian troops meet face-to-face at the factory. Initially the Baden
freedom fighters are able to drive the Prussians from the sugar factory toward the Rhine River. But
due to a tactical blunder, almost 15,000 freedom fighters left their positions in chaos and fled to
Heidelberg, because they erroneously thought that the Prussian troops were about to encircle them.
The initial victory was followed by the beginning of the final defeat of Baden's freedom fighters.
1850
"Badische Gesellschaft für Zuckerfabrikation" is a founding member of the association for the beet
sugar industry within the customs union.
1855/56
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Pension fund established.
1859
Refinery fire.
1863/64 bis 1879
Company is the last in Germany to switch from the Schuzenbach dry process to the green process
(maceration).
1870
The factory has direct rail access after construction of the Mannheim-Graben rail line.
1873
"Badische Gesellschaft für Zuckerfabrikation" acquires "Württembergische Gesellschaft für
Zuckerfabrikation", with factories in Züttlingen and Altshausen.
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1910
Grand Duke Friedrich II of Baden visits the sugar factory on October 24.
1920
The company forms a special interest group with Zuckerfabrik Frankenthal, an alliance which is legally
binding for fifty years.
The Stuttgart, Offstein and Heilbronn sugar factories join the group the same year.
1926
Badische Gesellschaft für Zuckerfabrikation with factories in Waghäusel and Züttlingen is absorbed by
the newly founded Süddeutsche Zucker-Aktiengesellschaft, headquartered in Mannheim.
1944
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Despite bombardment, Waghäusel continues to operate during the entire war.
1967
Processing capacity is expanded to 5,500 tonnes of beets per day.
The step was taken in conjunction with closure of the Stuttgart, Heilbronn and Züttlingen factories and
construction of the factory in Offenau as part of the "1971 restructuring plan".
1986
Energy consumption was reduced by 30 % and daily processing capacity to 5,000 tonnes in a bid to
prevent closure of the factory.
1995
The Waghäusel plant is decommissioned after the end of the campaign.
Further reading:
150 Jahre Werk Waghäusel [150 year history of the Waghäusel factory] 1837-1987
100 Jahre Zuckerfabrik Waghäusel [100 year history of the Waghäusel sugar factory] 1837-1937
Manfred Pohl; Die Geschichte der Südzucker AG [history of Südzucker AG]; pp. 51 to 65
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Photo credits:
Eckert und Pflug, view of factory/ Palais Haber:
Send reproduction requests to StA Karlsruhe
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