Suitbertusstraße 137
North Rhine-Westphalia
40223 Düsseldorf
Deutschland
<p>The first world war saw a further extension of business of the Maschinfabrik A. Freundlich .</p><p>In 1915, on request of the military, a cold storage house was built with the intention of a moth-secure summer storage of 120.000 fur coats, which had been donated as part of the so called "Hindenburg-Spende", for soldiers at the eastern front. As the coats never returned from the front, Abraham Freundlich, the proprietor, started to successfully experiment with how to freeze whole halves of cows and pork, something which until then had not been done successfully. Thus the storage facility became an important element in safeguarding the provision of meat for the population of the Rhine/Ruhr area during the war.</p><p>In those days there where probably only about a dozen such cold storage companies in Germany and with 3.000sqm storage space it was one of the more sizable once.</p><p>With the ascent to power of the Nazis in 1933 everything was to change for the business and the families. The anti-Semitic boycott and recrimination against the family made it impossible to carry on and in March 1936 the family was forced to sell its main business the Maschinenfabrik A. Freundlich, at an inappropriate low price to an “aryan” proprietor.</p><p>In 1938 after, even by the standards of the time, particularly nasty and personal campaign against the business by the then Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf, Hans Wagenführ, who in September 1936 brought legal charges against all firms and persons still using the "no- aryan" cold storage facilities of the Freundlich family, the cooling storage facilities (Kaltlagerhäuser) also had to be sold well below market value to a local "aryan", butter trader Robert Lemmerholz. Even that insufficient purchase price was not fully paid to the family, but had was partly converted into a "compensatory levy" in favour of the NSDAP by Lemmerholz.</p><p>In 1953, the Neuss based, Schütten & Lemmerholz GmbH agreed to pay a court approved compensation payment in lieu of restitution to the family. </p><p> </p><p> </p>
has never addressed or made transparent until today under what circumstances they "expanded" from butter trading into cold storage.
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