Albert & Louis Cohen rubber goods factory - Harburger Phönix

The Harburg Phoenix is one of the oldest companies in Harburg. The founders, the brothers Albert and Louis Cohen, sons of a Jewish banking family, received the civil rights from the Harburg mayor August Grumbler on June 13, 1856. They had been commissioned by the city to operate a factory for the production of rubber shoes and vulcanized rubber. The factory changed its name several times. In 1872, it merged with an Austrian company and was now called Vereinigte Gummiwaren-Fabriken Harburg – Wien". In 1922, the company collapsed again with the onset of inflation. The Harburg company operated under the name "Harburger Gummiwarenfabriken Phoenix", later "Phoenix-Gummiwerke" and finally "Phoenix AG". Since 2007, when the company Continental took it over, it has been called "Conti-Tech".