Machine factory Fahr

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Machine factory Fahr

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legal form Corporation
founding 1870
resolution 1977
Reason for dissolution merged into Deutz-Fahr
Seat Gottmadingen , GermanyGermanyGermany 
Branch Agricultural engineering

The Maschinenfabrik driving was a manufacturer of agricultural machinery based in Gottmadingen , Constance district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

F22
D177S , 1959
Combine harvester MDL
Hay tedder
Driving cereal mower on a driving tractor

The company was founded by Johann Georg Fahr in Gottmadingen in 1870 . In 1892 the first branch was founded with an iron foundry in Stockach. In 1903 it became a general partnership , and Johann Georg Fahr passed the management on to his two sons and his two sons-in-law. On October 24, 1911, the company was converted into a stock corporation, but remained family-owned.

In 1938, Fahr began producing tractors . Most of the engines came from Güldner and Deutz . Fahr's first tractor was the F22 with a 22 HP engine from Deutz, the transmission came from Fahr itself. During the Second World War , Fahr was only allowed to produce the HG25 wooden gas tractor due to the Schell plan .

In 1951, Fahr showed the first German self-propelled combine harvester at the DLG exhibition in Hamburg . Series production began a year later. Also in 1952 a subsidiary in Argentina was founded with Fahr-Argentina SRL in Buenos Aires . The mobile home was manufactured from 1955, of which around 1,000 were produced until 1966. The Fahr MDL combine harvester was also presented in 1955 . In 1958 a cooperation was agreed with Güldner for the production of tractors. A year later, both manufacturers presented the Europa series, the models of which were largely identical.

In addition to the Fahr agricultural machinery and tractor plant in Gottmadingen with construction, hammer mill, forge, mechanical production, sheet metal working, hardening shop, material testing, final assembly, test driving and shipping, Fahr maintained an iron foundry with the Stockach plant in which up to 1000 employees produced cast parts and the Fahr-Zahnradfabrik in Karlsruhe .

In 1961 Deutz AG acquired 25% of the share capital of Fahr, in the following year the production of Fahr tractors was stopped. In 1968 Deutz acquired the majority of the Fahr shares. A year later Deutz took over the combine harvester manufacturer Ködel & Böhm . In its factory, machines were manufactured under the Fahr brand from 1970, as well as a waste disposal system from 1973. In 1975 Deutz took over the remaining Fahr shares. Two years later, Fahr was fully integrated into the Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz Group and from then on formed Deutz-Fahr together with Deutz's agricultural machinery division . From 1981, tractors were also manufactured under this brand name. In 1984, the typical red in which the Fahr agricultural machinery was painted was replaced by the new light green from Deutz-Fahr.

From 1988 the plant in Gottmadingen was operated by the Dutch agricultural machinery manufacturer Greenland . After this was taken over by the Kverneland Group , the production facility in Gottmadingen was closed in July 2006. The so-called Kverneland competence center, which develops hay machines and fixed chamber balers, remained at the site.

Wallet jacket

In June 2000 the financial holding Sparta AG bought the stock exchange shell of the machine factory Fahr. A year later, in June 2001, the company was sold to an international group of investors around the shareholders of AIG AG with the associated renaming on September 10, 2001 to FAHR Beteiligungen AG and the company's headquarters relocated to Cologne . In turn, Fahr then bought the industrial plant subsidiary KHD Humboldt Wedag AG from Deutz AG . In the following years the company was renamed MFC Industrial Holdings AG (October 15, 2004), KHD Humboldt Wedag International (Deutschland) AG (November 20, 2006) and KHD Humboldt Wedag International AG (March 23, 2010).

literature

  • Wolfgang Baader: The big driving book , DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005 ISBN 3-7690-0647-X
  • Kurt Häfner, Rainer Bank: Diesel tractor brochures from 1938 to 1961 , Kosmos, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-440-07794-2

Web links

Commons : Driving  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikibooks: Details on individual driving models in the tractor lexicon  - learning and teaching materials

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Prospectus , KHD Humboldt Wedag International AG, December 29, 2010, p. 8
  2. ↑ From the ventures . In: Die Zeit of July 23, 1953
  3. ↑ a b c SPARTA AG sells the shell of Maschinenfabrik FAHR AG at a profit , presseportal.de, June 28, 2001
  4. ^ KHD Humboldt Wedag International AG , Börsen-Zeitung