Textile factory - M.S. Landauer

The origins of the Augsburg textile factory M.S. Landauer lie in Hürben. There, in 1833, the weaver Moses Samuel Landauer set up his own business and by 1835 was already working on twelve hand looms in the cellar of his house in Hürben. In 1847, he set up his first mechanical business in a leased former oil and sawmill in Neuburg an der Kammel. At that time, the product range included cotton fabrics, bedding, calico, linen, meubling, sackcloth and much more. With increasing mechanization of production, hand weaving decreases. In 1857, Moses Samuel Landauer also establishes a mechanical weaving mill in Hürben, making it the first industrial enterprise in Hürben. In 1862, a fire destroys the weaving mill in Hürben. But as early as 1871, 200 looms were again in operation in the newly built factory. In 1868, Moses Samuel Landauer moved the company's headquarters and commercial administration to Augsburg. The decision to move the administration to Augsburg was followed in 1876 by a first construction phase in Oberhausen, with the decision also to produce in Augsburg. However, Hürben also remained a production site until the factory there fell victim to an arsonist in 1906. By the 1920s, the first construction phase in Augsburg was followed by five further construction phases, so that Textilwerke M.S. Landauer was now one of the largest textile plants in Augsburg. In 1938, Moses Samuel Landauer's successor generations finally bowed to political pressure and parted with the life's work of four Landauer generations. Finally, during the war, the factory became the victim of an English firebombing raid.