Hamburg engine plant

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The former MAN engine plant in Hamburg is an industrial plant in the port of Hamburg . It consists of six large halls, which are also known as "MAN halls" .

The company, which was founded as Motorenwerk Hamburg GmbH , was an important manufacturer of marine diesel engines and a supplier to shipbuilding for shipyards in Hamburg between 1942 and 1983 . Today, as MAN Diesel PrimeServ Hamburg, the company forms a department of MAN Diesel SE , a sole subsidiary of MAN AG . Since the end of production, the company has served as a workshop for ship engines, which are maintained, overhauled and repaired there, and only uses one of the halls. The other five are now rented to various port companies that use them as storage space forUse raw cocoa , coffee and grain .

The facility is located on Roßweg in Hamburg-Steinwerder . It is about the factory Hachmannkai on Roßhafen for ocean-going vessels to 90,000 dwt reached. Immediately adjacent is the site of the former volcano shipyard ( Howaldtswerke from 1930 ). It can be viewed from the eastern driveway of the Köhlbrand Bridge.

architecture

The six halls of the engine factory were designed in 1938 in the architectural office of Wilhelm Wichtendahl under the responsibility of his colleague Bernhard Hermkes . They belong to Hermkes' early works and are based on Herbert Rimpl's hall structures for the Heinkel-Werke Oranienburg , which Hermkes was involved in building in 1935/36. The design is characterized by a filigree construction without any monumentality that was otherwise common in architecture under National Socialism . In doing so, he preserved the ideals of the New Building of the Weimar Republic under the Nazi regime ; the architect Rudolf Lodders later referred to this phenomenon as “refuge in industrial buildings ” .

history

The MAN engine plant in Hamburg was 1939 - 42 on behalf of the Navy built to be produced there diesel engines for warships. Because of the focus on submarine warfare , engines for submarines were built there instead during World War II . The armaments factory was badly damaged by Allied air raids . Like the construction, the architect Hermkes was in charge of the constantly required reconstruction until 1944 . The plant benefited from the labor of forced laborers who were housed in " civilian labor camps " on the plant premises and on Neuhöfer Strasse in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg .

In the years 1946 to 1949, the military government of the British occupation zone had the remaining production facilities dismantled . It was not until 1955 that the plant could be fully used again for the construction and repair of marine diesel engines, for which the shipyards located in the Port of Hamburg in particular had a considerable need. In 1969 the engine plant employed over 2,100 people. In the following years the orders in shipbuilding decreased; The German Navy , a major customer of the engine plant, switched its ships to other drives or engines from other manufacturers. MAN cut back production accordingly, which resulted in considerable employee protests, and in 1983 completely stopped boiler and engine construction in its Hamburg plant.

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  1. ^ Portrait of the architect Bernhard Hermkes
  2. ^ Portrait of the architect Rudolf Lodders
  3. ↑ MAN 1970, p. 87ff.
  4. ↑ Weinmann, p. 79
  5. ↑ Weinmann, p. 84
  6. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Dismantling of companies and intended averting, mitigation or reversal, Motorenwerk Hamburg (MAN) , 1946–1949, inventory Senate Chancellery Gesamtregistratur II, No. 4105@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / fhh.hamburg.de
  7. ↑ Schmidt 1981, p. 129ff.

literature

  • MAN AG Hamburg plant (ed.): Hamburg. The city and our work . Nuremberg 1970
  • Gudrun Schmidt: If we don't move, nothing moves at all. The fight against the closure of the boiler construction at the MAN plant in Hamburg. Berlin 1981
  • Hans Walden: As lubricated - arms production and arms trade in the Hamburg area , Idstein 1999, ISBN 3-929522-49-7
  • Martin Weinmann (Ed.): The National Socialist Camp System , 3rd edition, Frankfurt am Main 1999, p. 79 u. 84

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Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '22 "  N , 9 ° 57' 4"  E