Gmeinder

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Company sign on a locomotive
Small locomotive Köf II (year of construction 1958)

The Gmeinder & Co GmbH from Mosbach was a manufacturer of locomotives , gearboxes and machinery. From this company, today's corporate group “Gmeinder Getriebe Gruppe” (written in capitals ) and the “Gmeinder Lokomotivenfabrik GmbH”, which was sold to investors in 2003, emerged. After the bankruptcy in 2012, the latter was taken over by Zagro Bahn- und Baumaschinen GmbH and has been operating as "Gmeinder Lokomotiven GmbH" ever since .

history

Badische Motor-Lokomotivwerke AG shares over 1,000 marks from October 1, 1921

The company was founded in 1913 as Steinmetz & Gmeinder KG and after August Steinmetz left the company in 1919 it became Anton Gmeinder & Cie. renamed. The first locomotives with a benzene engine were delivered as early as 1919 and work continued on the manufacture of machine and workshop equipment. Under the name Badische Motor-Lokomotivwerke , Gmeinder joined the newly founded MBG Motor-Lokomotiv-Vertriebs-Gesellschaft Baden GmbH, Karlsruhe , together with the Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Karlsruhe and the Motorenwerke Mannheim . After the bankruptcy of Baden Engine Locomotive Works in 1925 founded Anton Gmeinder with Carl and Hermann Kaelble the Gmeinder & Co. GmbH , headquartered in Mosbach. With the support of Kaelble, the production of light rail and standard gauge locomotives as well as mine locomotives could be further expanded. In 1932 the Gmeinder company became the main supplier of the standard shunting locomotives for the Deutsche Reichsbahn . During this time the production of gear wheels and gear drives began. After Anton Gmeinder's death in 1942, Carl Kaelble GmbH became the main shareholder of Gmeinder & Co GmbH. While the locomotive business can be seen as a distribution problem, the transmissions developed into profit products with quantities of more than 2500 per type.

Diesel-hydraulic locomotive series V 51 for 750 mm track width (built in 1964)

Gmeinder & Co GmbH continued to produce shunting locomotives and gear drives even after the Second World War . These have now been delivered to the successor to the DR, the Deutsche Bundesbahn , including the V 60 series . In 1964, with financial support from the state of Baden-Württemberg , Gmeinder built a small series of narrow-gauge diesel-hydraulic locomotives of the series V 51 (gauge 750 mm) and V 52 (gauge 1000 mm) for the Federal Railroad in order to be able to use the relevant routes in the state completely to replace outdated steam locomotives . Some diesel railcars such as the WEG T 23 and 24 were also built by Gmeinder and Auwärter .

In 1976 Gmeinder merged with Kaelble from Backnang , and from then on the company was run as "Kaelble-Gmeinder GmbH". At the beginning of 1996 the new company had to file for bankruptcy due to the Libya embargo, and the Gmeinder part was sold. The "Gmeinder Lokomotiven- und Maschinenfabrik GmbH", based in Mosbach , was created, which again produces locomotives and gearboxes for rail vehicles.

At the end of 2003, Gmeinder Lokomotiven- und Maschinenfabrik GmbH sold the locomotive construction division in order to concentrate on the core competence of gearbox construction. Due to the sale, the company became "Gmeinder Getriebe- und Maschinenfabrik GmbH" in 2004 (written in capitals). In 2008, Gmeinder Getriebe- und Maschinenfabrik GmbH founded "GGT Gmeinder Getriebetechnik AG" (capital letters) with headquarters in Berlin, which was relocated to Mosbach in 2015, and in 2010 "Gmeinder Getriebeservice GmbH" (capital letters) with headquarters in Mosbach . "Gmeinder Management GmbH", founded in 2008 (in capitals), holds shares in the other Gmeinder gear companies and acts as a holding company.

The locomotive production sold to an investor became "Gmeinder Lokomotivenfabrik GmbH" in 2004 and was given the right to continue to use the name "Gmeinder" as part of the name.

On February 23, 2012, the "Gmeinder Lokomotivenfabrik GmbH" filed for bankruptcy. One of the reasons for this was that for the new Gmeinder D 180 series, an extended proof for axle shafts required by the Federal Railway Authority since 2011 with regard to torsional vibrations could not be provided and therefore the sale of the locomotive was not possible. The "active assets" were sold on June 6th of the same year to the managing partner of the company Zagro Bahn- und Baumaschinen GmbH from the Bad Rappenau district of Grombach , which specializes in the construction of road-rail vehicles and shunting equipment . Business operations will continue as "Gmeinder Lokomotiven GmbH". A time frame of up to 2014 was planned for the liquidation of the remaining parts of the insolvent locomotive factory.

Used Gmeinder gears

  • Transmission type: GGT 210S / 1440 - crane vehicles multitasker from Kirow Leipzig
  • Gearbox type: GGT 190H / 266 - DSB MF (IC3)
  • Gearbox type: GGT 200S / 368 - NSB Type 70

Well-known rail vehicles

Historic series

Factory locomotive of the Eilenburg celluloid factory , 1949
Locomotives
Railcar
Multi-system locomotive E / DE of the Berlin S-Bahn (built in 1989)

Current series

Locomotives
Special locomotives
  • Gmeinder DE 500 (diesel-electric shunting locomotive DE 500 with three-phase drive technology)
  • Gmeinder AL1 (two-power work locomotive - electric, diesel or battery-electric drive)
  • Gmeinder E / DE (diesel-electric or electric work locomotive)
Rebuilt and repaired locomotives

See also

literature

  • Rudolf Mickel: Gmeinder-Lokomotiven , EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2004 ISBN 3-88255-865-2
  • Sebastian Parzer: A great player in German locomotive construction - the traditional Mosbach company Gmeinder was founded 100 years ago , in: Hierzuland 28 [2013], pp. 19–23.
  • Jürgen Rech: A small but fine locomotive forge , em 6/2000
  • Reinhard Wolf: Anton Gmeinder - an important personality from Mosbach's industrial history , in: Mosbacher Jahresheft 2013, pp. 183–193.

Web links

Commons : Gmeinder  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who does what? Zagro Group, 2013, accessed March 17, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Entries from the commercial register 2010
  3. ↑ Gmeinder Lokomotivenfabrik has filed for bankruptcy. Eurailpress, March 1, 2012, accessed March 17, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Dietmar Schall: Gmeinder: Also still locomotive construction in Mosbach . In: freight railways . No. 1 , 2013, p. 46-47 .
  5. ↑ The locomotives can continue to run. , Report by Heiko Schattauer, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, June 8, 2012, accessed on September 25, 2018.