Düsseldorf railway supplies
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1882 |
| resolution | 1927 |
| Seat | Dusseldorf |
| management | Kurt Heggemann, Paul Erdmann and Walter Rudolph (board member 1925) |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
The Düsseldorfer Eisenbahnbedarf AG, formerly. Carl Weyer & Cie. was a Mechanical Engineering - Company in Dusseldorf . It was created in 1882 from the railway carriage and machine factory Carl Weyer & Cie. , which in turn went back to the company Overweg & Bünger , which was taken over after bankruptcy in 1861 , and was thus one of the oldest wagon construction companies in Germany.
In the main plant in Düsseldorf- Oberbilk at Kölner Strasse 170 and in the later branch in Düsseldorf- Reisholz , wagons and multiple units for railways and trams were manufactured. In 1927 the company went through fusion to the United West German Waggonfabriken AG (West wagon) over, but gave up the two production sites in Dusseldorf.
history
Prehistory ( Overweg & Bünger , railway carriage and machine factory Carl Weyer & Cie. )
In 1861 the bankrupt company Overweg & Bünger was bought by Carl Weyer (Deutz) and Emil Peill (Cologne) in an auction for 36,000 thalers and sold under the company Eisenbahnwagen- und Maschinenfabrik Carl Weyer & Cie. operated in the legal form of a limited partnership . The share capital was 60,000 thalers. That of & Overweg Bunger in 1856 built, located in Dusseldorf-Oberbilk factory had a small wheelwright , a blacksmith and a turning shop and locksmith . It was supposed to be used for the construction of railroad cars - however, until the bankruptcy apparently one had not got beyond attempts.
As early as the founding year 1861, the first delivery of open freight cars still provided with wooden frames to the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (KME) and the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft took place . In 1863, the first passenger carriages were built for the KME, which was quickly followed by other types of railroad car. So were z. B. In 1867, covered freight cars were delivered to the Grand Ducal Oldenburg State Railways , some of which were also prepared for the transport of horses . In 1873, 1,500 freight cars were produced annually.
Conversion to the stock corporation Düsseldorfer Eisenbahnbedarf
On June 13, 1882, 21 years after its founding, the company, under the leadership of the industrialist Emil von Gahlen, became a stock corporation with the company Düsseldorfer Eisenbahnbedarf, due to the owner Carl Weyer's illness for many years . Carl Weyer & Cie. transformed. The initial share capital of 1.2 million marks was increased to 4.5 million marks by 1912. In addition to wagon construction, woodworking, furniture manufacturing, superstructures for trucks and buses and truck trailers were named as the company's purpose in the 1920s . From 1882 a new plant was built in Reisholz for the construction of passenger, dining, sleeping and saloon cars.
In 1921 the company became a member of the Eisenbahnwagen Liefergemeinschaft GmbH (EISLIEG) based in Düsseldorf. Further members were the Dessauer Waggonfabrik AG , the H. Fuchs Waggonfabrik AG , the Siegener Eisenbahnbedarf AG , the Waggon-Fabrik AG Uerdingen and Wegmann & Co. Subsequently the companies Waggon- und Maschinenbau AG Görlitz (WUMAG) and Gottfried joined Lindner AG . With a production capacity of 18,000 to 20,000 vehicles per year, this wagon construction group represented the strongest and most efficient group within the German wagon construction industry.
Merger in 1927
In 1927, the company was Düsseldorf railway requirements, formerly Carl Weyer & Co. in cooperation with the Deutsche Bank AG of Cologne Wagon Construction of Zypen & Charlier Van adopted after the merger, the combined company was renamed as United West German Waggonfabriken AG ( West wagon ) . In 1928 the Gastell brothers wagon factory in Mainz-Mombach was added. For reasons of rationalization, the production facilities in Hagen and Düsseldorf were closed and from then on Westwaggon only produced in Cologne and Mainz.
Product gallery
Examples of the company's products, illustrations from the 1911 commemorative publication and from the book Das deutsche Eisenbahnwesen der Gegenwart (see literature )
four-axle express train wagon 1./2. Class AB4ü Pr 09
four-axle express train compartment car ABC4ü
Dining car of ISG with two-axle bogies
Express train carriages of the Baghdad Railway
four-axle benzene railcar
two-axle combined mail and baggage car
Special trolley for shipping beer with a brakeman's cab
Refrigerated truck for transporting meat when being filled with ice
Electric railcar of the Düsseldorf tram
Low-level passenger car of the Düsseldorfer Eisenbahnbedarf
literature
- Düsseldorfer Eisenbahnbedarf vorm. Carl Weyer & Cie. In memory of the 50th anniversary. Düsseldorf 1911.
- R. Wilhelm Hoff: The German railway system of the present. Reimar Hobbing, Berlin 1911, Volume 2.
- Sebastian Beck: The entrepreneur Emil von Gahlen (1828-1919). A contribution to Düsseldorf's industrial history . In: Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein (Ed.): Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch , Volume 86 (2016). Klartext Verlag, Essen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8375-1666-1 , pp. 171–212, especially pp. 193–198, 211.