The neckermann.de GmbH - until 31 December 2005 Neckermann dispatch AG - is a distributing house with seat in Frankfurt/Main. In the post-war period of Josef Neckermann created enterprises grew up into the 1950er and 60's to a company. The advertising slogan "Neckermann macht"´s "became possible a synonym for the German Wirtschaftswunder.

Beside the core business the universal sender appeared also as a tour operator, operated over two decades a chain of department stores and sold among other things a family houses, insurance and unit trust fund. After a financial crisis in the middle of the 1970er years was by the majority taken over the enterprise 1977 by the Karstadt AG and is today a subsidiary of the KarstadtQuelle company.

Prehistory of the enterprise

Josef Neckermanns career in the third realm

The Josef Neckermann originating from a wealthy entrepreneur family had occurred after bank teachings 1931 the paternal coal action. In the course "of the Arisierung of "Jewish companies the young entrepreneur acquired 1935 of victory mouth Ruschkewitz its textile department store in peppering castle as well as the low price business Merkur with altogether 130 employees as well as 60 field representatives. The purchase price was far under value, but before the background briefly before of the issued of laws Ruschkewitz remained hardly another choice to set than on 25 October 1935 its signature under the sales contract. A third department store acquired Neckermann with the department store cousin, likewise in peppering castle resident and already by the previous owner "arisiert ".

From the assumption of a further enterprise in the Jewish possession, the Karl Joel 1937 the laundry and dress factory Josef Neckermann resulted. Of Karl Amson Joel 1928 in Nuremberg created and since 1934 with a mail-order center also in Berlin resident enterprise was at that time the fourth largest textile dispatch trade of Germany. Joel did not receive from the NSDAP member Neckermann for the assumption one as purchase price agreed upon 2.3 million realm Marks: It had, pursued by Gestapo and SS, over which into the USA flee Switzerland, and only 1957 in a lengthy compensation procedure with 2 million DM was compensated. "The purchase "contained also the lease of the citizens of Berlin mansion of Karl Joel, which referred Neckermann 1938 together with his Mrs. Annemarie.

Josef Neckermann tried in the following years to come apart from the department stores and the Versandhandel also to national orders. A first important contact Neckermanns was to Fritz the Todt, which had come on the occasion of the planned west barrier. On the orders of the organization Todt "of the inspector general at that time for building industry "Neckermann starting from 1938 blankets and work clothes for the 100,000 workers supplied. Besides Neckermann in the NS time took advantage of also its acquaintance with the textile manufacturer Hans Kehrl, which was starting from 1934 of restaurant economics of the leader and realm chancellor.

Together with Hertie boss George meager, which had justified its department store into the 1930er years such as Neckermann through "Arisierung ", created Josef Neckermann end of 1941 the central storage depot community for clothing (ZLG). The enterprise created as a society of the public right served the textile manufacturers as interface between "the users of "national and military places and, then Ministry of Economic Affairs and armed forces announced their need of clothes of the ZLG, which thereupon to the manufacturers assigned orders. The fact that the ZLG in this function reached a monopoly owed Neckermann above all to its acquaintance with Otto Ohlendorf, which he 1939 during an operating inspection know had learned, and which was also quiet partner to the ZLG. The Ohlendorf was it also, which could provide Neckermann information both for raw material sources of supply and over transportation facilities. The ZLG had to supply all Textilmanufakturen equally with orders, but Neckermann had so control of the competition and dug its enterprises attractive orders too.

After Fritz Todt at the beginning of of 1942 had had an accident with an aircraft crash, Albert Speer was used as new realm Ministers for armament and ammunition. Neckermann contacted it immediately, and received from it the order to sketch winter uniforms for the armed forces. Speer had the idea that Neckermann his collection Hitler to dessem 53. Birthday in leader headquarters wolf-digs to present is. The uniforms convinced and received the order to Neckermann to manufacture in the summer 2.5 million pieces which was needed for the winter at the east front. Neckermann ascended under Speer to the director/conductor of the realm place clothes.

Postwar years 1945 to 1948 in Munich

The mansion at in citizens of Berlin the fir mountain avenue had been destroyed with a bomb attack in December 1943, the family pulled thereupon to Annemarie Neckermanns after father rot oh at the Tegernsee. Josef Neckermann lived in the year 1944 and in the last war months 1945 in the citizen of Berlin hotel Adlon, and fled only at the end of of April, few days before end of war, to its family at the Tegernsee.

In June 1945 it turned assigned in Munich to Arthur long, since 1941 boss of the brewery and from American crew power as a new Bavarian minister of economics to find with the request, the remaining clothe existence of the ZLG in Bavaria. For a long time Neckermann began as "a director/conductor of the Bavarian national place for textile economy "and put to it an official residence in Lochham at the disposal.

To the war transferred in the third realm through "the Arisierung had come "enterprises in accordance with military law No. 52 of August 1945 into the trust shank of the allied control council, which became new owners the resumption of the business activity and that access on their fortunes forbidden.

Despite the prohibition Neckermann apart from its activity for the Ministry of Economic Affairs tried to take up its business in peppering castle again (its enterprises were with the Fliegerangriffen to 16 there. March however zerbombt up to the mode house cousin) to bring as well as two enterprises of the ZLG under its control. But it was condemned by a military court in the December of 1945 because of offence against the control council law to one year labour camps. Approximately half of its detention time spent the Neckermann in a hospital, gotten sick in the summer 1946 at Tuberkulose. The recovery time was taken into account to Neckermann on the punishment, was at the end of of 1946 recovered and a free man. A health setback bound it at the beginning of again of 1947 for some months to the patient bed.

In Munich also the Entnazifizierungsprozess of the Josef Neckermann took place, it ended at the 3. May 1948. Neckermann owed it primarily to his lawyer Rudolf anger that he was classified under the category III "the "of the LV regime and a fine of 2.000 Marks got off. Its behavior opposite the Jewish "business partners "- could not be of a partnership on eye level in view of the circumstances and Neckermanns NSDAP Parteibuch a speech - was represented as always correct.

Establishment and ascent in and the 60's 50's

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