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Brocades-Stheeman & Pharmacia

Brocades-Stheeman & Pharmacia was a pharmaceutical company that did business with the Nederlandsche Opekta Mij.

Location

Amsterdam

52.368266 N 4.881189 E

Looiersgracht 27-35

Amsterdam

Nederland

Addresses: Meppel; Looiersgracht 27-35, Amsterdam.[1]

Brocades-Stheeman, since 1927 fully N.V. Koninklijke Pharmaceutische Fabrieken v/h Brocades-Stheeman & Pharmacia,[2] was a pharmaceutical company that did business with the Dutch Opekta Mij.[3] The company's owner was P.J. Stheeman.[4] The Brocades commissioners founded N.V. Sangostop on 10 August 1934. This company was named after the astringent manufactured by the company. In addition to this drug, it also made other chemical and pharmaceutical products.[5] Sangostop was produced with pectin from Pomosin.[6]

On Tuesday, 30 November 1934, a representative of Brocades-Stheeman from Meppel demonstrated the Opekta product for the Dutch Christian Women's Union in the Groene-Kruis building in Lisse.[7] As far as we know, this promotion, by a party other than Opekta, was a one-off.

In 1938, Brocades-Stheeman was Opekta's debtor for more than twelve hundred guilders.[8] The Brocades factory in Meppel filled bags with dry pectin for Opekta. In 1940, the company mixed twelve hundred kilos of dry pectin for Opekta, but could no longer manage the packaging.[9]

Bep Voskuijl's sister Willy worked at Brocades during the war. This way she was able to obtain vitamin preparations and other substances, some of which she also gave to Bep.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Algemeen Adresboek der stad Amsterdam. 85ste jaargang, 1938-1939, Amsterdam: Ellerman, Harms & Co., p. 990.
  2. ^ See: Wikipedia: Brocades.
  3. ^ For a profile of the company, see: Geheugen van Drenthe: Brocades & Stheeman.
  4. ^ Nationaal Archief (NL-HaNA), Den Haag, Ministerie van Justitie 1915 – 1955 (toegang 2.09.22), inv. nr. 1304: Brief Otto Frank aan Mr. Th.H. de Meester, 9 februari 1946.
  5. ^ NL-HaNA, Handelsregister Kamer van Koophandel Delft (toegang 3.17.19), inv. nr. 508, dossier 16118.
  6. ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Anne Frank Collectie, Otto Frank Archief, reg. code OFA_071: Brief Otto Frank aan Erich Elias, 24 juli 1945.
  7. ^ “Demonstratieavond Vrouwenbond”, Nieuwe Leidse Courant, 21 november 1934.
  8. ^ AFS, AFC, A_Opekta_I_003: Verslag over het boekjaar 1938.
  9. ^ AFS, AFC, A_Opekta_I_005: Verslag over het boekjaar 1940.