Gebr. Schöndorff
The brothers Schöndorff stock company was a German company based in Dusseldorf , which was active from 1890 in the field of wood processing, first in the construction of furniture and shop fittings, and later in the fabrication of tram and railway wagons . It was renamed Düsseldorfer Waggonfabrik AG (DÜWAG) in 1933 and incorporated into Waggonfabrik Uerdingen AG in 1959 .
history
1890 to 1910
The brothers Albert Schöndorff (1870-1942 or 1944) and Hermann Schöndorff (1868-1936; later board member of the department store group Karstadt ) founded in 1890, the company Gebrüder Schöndorff as a special factory for wooden bed frames, which soon also created the interiors of cars. In 1896 the factory was relocated to a new building on Rather Strasse in Düsseldorf, which was sold in 1916. 1910, the company was a limited company converted its shares in Berlin listed were, until 1934 in Essen .
1910 to 1959
From 1915 onwards, a modern, efficient wagon production facility was set up as part of the Hindenburg program. Towards the end of the First World War , the company moved from Derendorf to Lierenfeld on Königsberger Strasse, where a new building made it possible to concentrate on the construction of railway wagons. This move marks the beginning of the development of heavy industry in the Düsseldorf district of Lierenfeld. A stake in the Fuchs wagon factory in Heidelberg in 1929 was sold again in 1930. During the Great Depression , the number of employees fell from 1,600 (1929) to 350 (1933), the number of vehicles produced in the same period from 276 to 85 with a capacity of over 5,000 wagons. In 1930 Linke-Hofmann-Busch-Werke AG in Breslau took over the majority of the shares.
In 1933, the timber construction department for interior fittings was shut down and the company was renamed Düsseldorfer Waggonfabrik AG (DÜWAG) . Albert Schöndorff was a Jew after the seizure of power was forced by the Nazis already in September 1933 from his position as director of his wagon factory, the exact circumstances remain unclear. In 1935, the Uerdingen wagon factory became the majority shareholder, and another 25% went to the Talbot wagon factory in Aachen . Then the focus was on the construction of local transport vehicles, especially trams. In 1959 the company was fully incorporated into Waggonfabrik Uerdingen AG , which was officially renamed DUEWAG AG in 1981 . The major shareholder until 1990 was the Talbot wagon factory from Aachen, then the Siemens Group , which in 2002 fully integrated DUEWAG AG into Siemens AG. In the tram sector, DÜWAG had a dominant market position for a long time. The vast majority of tram vehicles procured in the Federal Republic of Germany after the Second World War came from DÜWAG or were manufactured under license. In 2000, the Düsseldorf location was closed and incorporated into DÜWAG's Uerdingen plant .
Individual evidence
- ↑ DER SPIEGEL 16/1998: Time history: With the cutting torch. The successful wagon factory Duewag celebrates its anniversary: without annoying retrospectives on its dark past. , accessed April 4, 2015