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Find aids: Findbuch 2013 (online searchable) Registraturbilder: Hermann Moritz Bertram founded the company Herm in 1884. Bertram Halle/S. with headquarters at Torstraße 61, which manufactured and sold special machines for bakeries. Over the years, Bertram has developed a large number of patents for special bakery machines which have been supplied to customers at home and abroad. From 1896 the company produced kneading machines and from 1905 steam ovens. Between 1915 and 1918, the factory also supplied cast iron grenades and light mobile field ovens to the military. In April 1909 Otto Bertram became a partner in the company. At the same time, the company was transformed into a general partnership under the new company name "Herm. Bertram, Hallesche Dampfbackofen-Fabrik - Hallesche Misch- und Knetmaschinen-Fabrik". In March 1921, Bertram Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH was founded in Halle, Thielenstrasse 4, to improve the marketing of the company's products. The company offered complete equipment for bakeries and bread factories, as well as steam ovens, electric ovens and bakery machines of all kinds. In 1931, Herm. Bertram GmbH took over the uneconomical distribution company. In order to prevent the use of the name "Bertram" by other companies, the fictitious registered office of the sales company was moved to Berlin in 1936. Until 1938, the deletion of the Vertriebs-GmbH from the local commercial register could thus be prevented. In 1924 Otto Bertram was the sole owner of the company, which was renamed Herm. Bertram, Hallesche Dampfbackofen-Fabrik-Hallesche Misch- und Knetmaschinen-Fabrik umändern. At the beginning of 1929 the company Herm. Bertram, Hallesche Dampfbackofen-Fabrik-Hallesche Misch- und Knetmaschinen-Fabrik GmbH whose main shareholders were Otto and Charlotte Bertram, from April 1937 also Wolf Günther Bertram. From 1939, the company again carried out army orders and, in addition to bakery machines for army building offices and various offices in the occupied territories, also produced grenades and supplied machines to important war factories. In 1942 the GmbH was converted into a limited partnership. By order of the President of the Province Saxony Main Department of Economics of July 3, 1946, Herm. Bertram KG was placed under the direct supervision and power of disposal of the Province of Saxony, but the company was neither placed under sequestration nor expropriated. Only fiduciary administrators and managing directors were appointed. In March 1948 the limited partnership was converted back into Herm. Bertram, Hallesche Dampfbackofen-Fabrik-Hallesche Misch- und Knetmaschinen-Fabrik GmbH. The purpose of the company was to manufacture and sell ovens and machines of all kinds for the bakery, food and chemical industries, and in particular to continue the business of Hermann Bertram KG. On 19 March 1953, the then managing director filed a petition for bankruptcy against the assets of the company and its owners on account of tax debts with the Halle City Council (Finance Department, UA Abgaben). By "private sale" the company inventory was sold to the VEB (K) Bäckereimaschinen und Ofenbau Halle (Saale) on 15 April 1953 as part of the compulsory execution and the company was thus transferred into public ownership. On 1 Jan. 1957 this company was merged into Nagema "Habämfa" VEB Hallesche Bäckereimaschinen- und Ofenfabrik, Halle. Inventory information: In the years 1999, 2000 and 2004 the Stadtarchiv Halle handed over about 8.7 linear metres of untapped documents to Herm. Bertram, Hallesche Dampfbackofen-Fabrik - Hallesche Misch- und Knetmaschinen-Fabrik GmbH to the former Landesarchiv Merseburg (later Landeshauptarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt, Merseburg Department), where it was processed and recorded in 2012. Cards included: 18 Photos included: 8