1914 - 1949

A pioneering woman

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    A self-employed eighteen-year old?
    After finishing her training at the age of eighteen, she then changed sides, sat in the driving seat of the horse-drawn cart every day and started to build up her own clientele. Her independence and own income ensured that she was able to rent her own small building at 15, Brunnenstraße in Schwelm in which she also lived until she died.
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    Because the business grew well, she was soon in the position to afford a small van with a carbide-powered engine. Thanks to her financial acumen, she was able to successfully withstand the booms and busts of the Weimar Republic.

    She supplied her former tutor until well into the 1930s, but with the accession to power of the National Socialists, everything changed. Otto Vollmer was Jewish. He recognised the signs of the times and left the country with his family while there was still time. Selma Kämper secretly helped him and then succeeded him as the broker.
  • Worldwide events in the same period
    1914 // Assassination in Sarajevo // Outbreak of the Great War
    1916 // The hell of Verdun
    1917 // The Russian Revolution
    1918 // Defeat of Germany, abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
    1921 // Adolf Hitler elected Chairman of the National Socialist Party
    1927 // The first transatlantic flight
    1928 // Disney created Mickey Mouse // Penicillin was discovered
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    The fate of the company in the Second World War
    Little is known about the fate of the company in the Second World War. Waldemar Kämper survived military service in Norway and imprisonment in France. In spite of the difficulties presented by the years of war, Selma Müller continued to buy up scrap metal which was easy to acquire at the end of the war on account of the rubble and ruins, and stored the majority on the warehouse floor of her building.
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    Currency reform of 1948
    Things went uphill again economically
    The demand for raw materials quickly increased prices. The materials stored in the warehouse netted her receipts of over 50,000 DM, which was a small fortune in those days. With these new-found riches, she acquired the premises at 178 Hauptstrasse in Schwelm, had storerooms, truck garages and living quarters built thus setting up her own first company building.
  • Worldwide events in the same period
    1929 // Black Friday on the New York stock exchange: start of the global financial crisis
    1933 // Transfer of power to the National Socialists
    1936 // Olympic Games in Berlin // Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
    1938 // Annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland by the German Reich
    1939 // Invasion of Poland; start of the Second World War
    1942 // Battle of Stalingrad; turning point of the war
    1947 // Hyperinflation grows
    1948 // Currency reform: Introduction of the Deutsch Mark in the three Western zones of Germany
    1949 // Berlin airlift // Founding of the Federal Republic of Germany and of the German Democratic Republic

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Müller & Sohn GmbH & Co. KG
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D-45543 Sprockhövel-Haßlinghausen

Harkortstraße 22
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