A year later, at the Gelnhausen site a new compounding plant - one of the most modern in Germany - started production. With it, 133 years came to an end, an era that started with the founding of the first Rubber factory in Germany (1849) and the cornerstone of what today is Veritas AG. In 1982 the Berlin-Lichterfelde operation closed. The production at Berlin gradually moved to Gelnhausen. Particularly for the manufacture of rubber hose, the old plant had become very small.
1968-69 came with an enormous economic upswing and the turn over grew 30% compared to the previous year.įrom 1978 on, Veritas in Gelnhausen purchased land in the Stettiner Street, and began construction of a new production facility. In the Veritas rubber facilities in Berlin and Gelnhausen, 700 workers and employees are active. Veritas reinvested its profit and a generously equipped laboratory was erected in Gelnhausen. However, the Berlin blockade put the plant there in raw material difficulties.ġ955 presented excellent economical conditions. The currency reforms brought new leverage and working enthusiasm in the Berlin and Gelnhausen works. Additionally, the war-winning forces' agreements kept Berlin away from west-Germany.
Two years after the war ended, also the headquarters of the company were officially relocated from Berlin to the Gelnhausen works. The production buildings in Gelnhausen endured the war almost intact. Hence were the companies' archives rescued, because shortly after the move, the operation in Berlin-Lichterfelde was severely destroyed, as a result of the continuous air raids. That operation never generated a loss and was of great help for the whole corporation.īecause of the war, the management was moved from Berlin-Lichterfelde to Gelnhausen. The danger of a second world war moved the board of directors to abandon business in east-Europe. The first innovation of the new material was the use in brake hoses for the German National Railway ( Deutsche Reichsbahn). In 1933 the Berlin operation, in collaboration with the IG-Farben (Leverkusen) test laboratories, succeeded in introducing the synthetic rubber "Buna" for practical manufacture. Only the operation at Grottau, now Czechoslovakian, was fully booked. The impact of the economic crisis of 1929 almost brought production to a halt. In 1929, and linking to the trade name of its successful tire, the corporation was renamed Veritas Gummiwerke AG (Veritas Rubber Works). The company had grown into a large corporation, with two plants in Berlin, one in Gelnhausen, one in Bremen, as well as one in the then-Bohemian Grottau (what today is Hrádek nad Nisou). In 1905, these particular, spiked tires fitted with metal tacks, were a first-time world novelty.ĭuring the years before World War I, the corporation stood at its highest success levels. The corporation began to market tires both with and without spikes, under the trade name Veritas. In 1900 the Vereinigte Berlin-Frankfurter Gummiwaaren-Fabriken AG started to produce tires for automobiles. In 1899 a fire burned down most of the production hall there at Gelnhausen. The headquarters of the now Vereinigte Berlin-Frankfurter Gummiwaaren-Fabriken AG (United Rubber Factories of Berlin-Frankfurt) moved to Berlin, but a production plant remained in the Barbarossa street in Gelnhausen. In 1886 Berliner Gummiwaarenfabrik AG merged with Frankfurter Gummiwarenfabrik Wendt, Buchholz & Co., being the latter based in the city of Gelnhausen. In 1883 the company signed a public stock and became Berliner Gummiwaarenfabrik AG where AG stands for Aktiengesellschaft or stock company. Veritas was founded in 1849 as Berliner Gummiwaarenfabrik (Rubberware Factory of Berlin) and is today the oldest rubber manufacturer in Germany. In 2011 the turnover of the company was around €580 million. The family-owned company employs today over 4,300 people worldwide. Veritas AG is an international, automotive corporation based in Gelnhausen, Germany, in the Main-Kinzig circle of the Hessen state.
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