Cassella Farbwerke Mainkur Aktiengesellschaft
The color works Mainkur Cassella Aktiengesellschaft was a German chemical and pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Frankfurt am Main. It had established its origins in a 1798 by Leopold Cassella in the Frankfurt Jewish street Spezereiwarenhandel.
History
1789, the company was founded in 1828, took the childless Cassella Ludwig Aaron Gans as a partner in his company, which changed its name from now on as Leopold Cassella & Co. and mainly trading operation with dyes. Gans ' sons Friedrich ( Fritz) and Leo Gans extended in 1870 his father's trade at a coal-tar dyes, which they had founded together with her brother Bernard Weinberg and the chemist August Leonhardt at the Mainkur in Fechenheim am Main, Frankfurt aniline dye factory of goose and Leonhardt. This date was later regarded as the founding date of the Cassella Color works. 1879 brought Fritz goose five million mark in the company. They came to the legacy of his brother G. Ettling, who had led the Spanish Rothschild branch in Madrid. In the same year August Leonhardt resigned from the company, which has since been renamed as the Frankfurt aniline factory Goose & Co.. New technical director of the company was M. Hoffmann.
1882 were the sons Bernhard Weinberg, Arthur and Carl Weinberg, in the management of the company. Under her leadership, the color works quickly developed the world's biggest manufacturer of synthetic dyes. 1894 merged with the partners of the Frankfurt aniline factory with the colors wholesale business. The new company traded as Leopold Cassella & Co..
1900, when the work on the Mainkur already employed more than 2,400 workers, Arthur Weinberg founded a pharmaceutical department. Weinberg worked there together with his friend Paul Ehrlich, whose 1899 at the Royal Institute conducted in Frankfurt for experimental therapy research in 1906 led to the creation of chemotherapy.
1904 led Leo Goose and the Brothers Vineyard Farbwerke Leopold Cassella & Co. in the then so-called Dual Alliance with the color Höechst. They exchanged a quarter of their shares for shares of the inking units. Cassella refrained from then on the production of acids, aniline and soda that you moved from the maximum. Instead, they concentrated on the Mainkur entirely on the dye production.
At the founding of I.G. Colors in 1925 also went Cassella on in the new company. Leo Gans and in 1908 raised to the peerage Arthur von Weinberg belonged to the supervisory board of IG, until they were forced by the Nazi seizure of power, lay down all public offices.
After the Second World War, the Allies established the IG Colors in receivership and in 1951 annexed a number of successor companies from including Cassella Farbwerke Mainkur AG. The previous connection with the color Höechst was initially not resumed, instead the three great IG Farben successor BASF, Bayer and Hoechst AG each acquired a 25.1 percent stake in Cassella. Only in the jubilee year 1970, it came to the so-called by the press land clearing. BASF and Bayer sold its shares in Hoechst, which thus strengthened its position as a manufacturer of dyes and pharmaceuticals. To Cassella now included the subsidiary Cassella - Riedel Pharma and the Riedel -de Haen AG Seelze near Hannover, a manufacturer of specialty and laboratory chemicals.
1981 established the Cassella AG together with Hoechst AG, a sewage treatment plant for sewage treatment of Cassella AG and the work Offenbach Hoechst AG. For the sewer line from Offenbach Arthur von Weinberg bridge was built as the main crossing. 1995, Cassella AG was merged with Hoechst AG. Shortly thereafter, the pharmaceutical research at the site Cassella was closed in the same year, the cosmetics division was sold, sold under the name Jade firmierte.1997 Hoechst its Specialty Chemicals business to the Swiss Clariant AG. The Cassella site in Fechenheim was the work of the German Clariant Cassella - national company. 1998 merged the works of Offenbach and Cassella Clariant to work Cassella -Offenbach. The two plant parts are about three miles apart on different sides of the River Main. In the course of working fusion infrastructure sectors of the works have been merged. The work of the school and the area analysis were summarized at the site Cassella.
2001, Clariant sold the work Cassella -Offenbach, with the exception of two research departments, a group of former Hoechst managers who continue the business under the name AllessaChemie. AllessaChemie - the name is a ananym of Cassella - has around 1,000 employees specialty chemicals for industrial clients, including in Fechenheim especially pigments, dyes, and a variety of intermediate products. A significant portion thereof is made on behalf of Clariant. On 31 December 2011, the time between completely gutted factory part Offenbach of AllessaChemie was again returned to Clariant. The industrial life on the former site of Cassella -Offenbach station was so that his end. The future should be in the residential and service sector. Plans for this are not yet completed.
2012, AllessaChemie secured the trademark rights to Cassella and uses the traditional brand logo since December of year again as a neon sign on the roof of Cassella - building in Frankfurt- Fechenheim. The logo has a diameter of five meters and is equipped with 208 tubes of a total of 178 meters in length.
Since 1 October 2012, the former AllessaChemie trades as Allessa GmbH.
TC Cassella
The tennis club Cassella was founded on November 24, 1949 under the direction of Wilhelm Weber. The club was intended as Sports Association of the Cassella Color works. However, could be included in the club, according to the statutes formulated in 1959 and up to 20 % Factory strangers. Since the Cassella Color works in Frankfurt's Fechenheim were and there was no suitable tennis courts at the time, the members of two former private tennis courts built in the forest Fechenheimer scratch. On 21 May 1950, the game operation could be started after solemn opening. Due to ever increasing number of members, the tennis courts in the years 1960, 1965 and 1970 has been extended by a further three places.
In 1970, the company sports club was in a non-profit organization, and finally converted into a registered association in 1975. Thus, the association now all working stranger was open. Due to the construction of a further two tennis courts and an air-supported structure was initiated. The two new tennis courts were opened in 1979. It was further renovated the clubhouse and enlarged.
In 1999, the 50th anniversary of the TC Cassella, the club logo was adapted to the new time. The date in the yellow and blue pennant club located Erlenmeyer flask, the character of the former chemical plant Cassella, was replaced with a tennis ball. Despite the conversion to an association, the association is in close contact with the company AllessaChemie, which is also a sponsor.
On 31 December 2010 the club had over 300 members, including 85 teenagers and children.