Austrian Brown, Boveri Works
The Austrian Brown, Boveri Werke were an Austrian company that eventually became part of the Swiss Brown, Boveri & Cie. rose.
Emergence
In 1862, the mechanic Béla Egger, who was born in Ofen , founded the mechanical workshop and telegraph construction company B.Egger in Vienna . Twenty years later, he converted it using his brothers in the First Austrian factory for electric lighting and power transmission B.Egger & Co. to. He also set up a second plant in Budapest , where he produced low and high current devices. Another incandescent lamp production facility soon followed .
In 1896 all three plants were merged into the newly founded United Electricity AG. B. Egger & Co. brought in. The Egger company was still represented on the board of directors, but the Lower Austrian Escompte-Gesellschaft was the new main owner. In 1899 the Hungarian and Austrian plants were separated. While the Vienna plant was run by the Lower Austrian Escompte Bank and the Pest Hungarian Commerzialbank as Vereinigte Elektrizitäts AG , the Hungarian plants were continued as a subsidiary as Vereinigte Glühlampen- und Elektrizitäts AG . In 1907 the heavy current division in Budapest split off as the United Electricity and Machine Works AG .
The incandescent lamp production later became the parent company of what would later become the Tungsram group.
The Swiss Brown, Boveri & Cie originally wanted to build a factory in Austria, but eventually took a stake in the already existing Vereinigte Elektrizitäts AG in 1910. From that point on, this company traded as Österreichische Brown, Boveri Werke , in which Vereinigte Elektrizitäts AG participated 45% was involved. the rest of the shares were shared between the Swiss BBC and the Lower Austrian Escomptegesellschaft. Walter Boveri became first vice chairman and Sidney Brown became a member of the board of directors, although the two only owned the smaller portion of the shares.
In Cisleithania eight engineering companies have been set up in which the jointly manufactured products with Switzerland were sold. A joint office with the Italian BBC was set up in Bucharest. Several power stations also belonged to the Austrian Brown, Boveri Werke, whose workforce in 1913 comprised around 600 employees.
First World War and the interwar period
In 1917, the Swiss parent company took over all the shares in the Austrian company. Switzerland also took over all the shares in the United Electricity and Machine Works Ltd. in Budapest . After the First World War , the Hungarian branch was converted into a national BBC company, in which the Austrians retained an 80% stake.
Further subsidiaries were founded in Yugoslavia , Romania , Poland and Czechoslovakia in the 1920s .
In Austria itself, the initially existing branches in the provincial capitals were limited to Linz , Graz and Innsbruck . The number of employees initially fell to 350 due to the global economic crisis , but rose to around 700 by 1937.
During the First World War, the Austrian BBC came under the influence of Daimler and then the Castiglioni Group . In 1936 the main shareholders were both the Lower Austrian Escomptegesellschaft and the Swiss parent company. The Egger family should also have owned a small package. The Escomptegesellschaft itself was renamed Österreichische Investbank AG and in the meantime belonged to the ÖNB .
Connection and occupation time
After the connection, however, the majority of the shares went to the BBC subsidiary in Mannheim . The number of employees rose to over 2,000. After the World War these shares went on to the Swiss parent company. The Vienna plant, which was destroyed and dismantled, came under the administration of the Soviet USIA as German property . However, the Soviets supplied much of the production to the BBC itself.
Due to the uncertainty of the plant in Vienna, the parent company founded the Neue Österreichische Brown-Boveri AG , based in Innsbruck , which built a new production plant in Steyr .
Reconstruction and end of the Austrian BBC
After the state treaty , the two companies merged in 1956 and in 1960 they relocated production from Vienna and Steyr to a new plant in Wiener Neudorf . A switchboard factory was built in Neutal in Burgenland in 1972. The pipeline construction division was continued in Steyr. The Austrian BBC employed around 2,700 people in the 1970s.
In most of the state capitals, branches with sales and engineering offices were established. The branches in Eastern and Central Europe were all nationalized.
In the course of the merger of the Swiss parent company in 1988 with the Swedish Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget (ASEA), the Austrian BBC finally merged into Asea Brown Boveri (ABB).
Production areas of the BBC were both energy technology and traffic technology. When ABB parted with traffic technology, this area was taken over by today's Traktionssysteme Austria , which is part of Trasys Beteiligungs- und Management GmbH . Traktionssysteme Austria is located in Wiener Neudorf.
The switchboard construction in Neutal was soon sold by ABB and now operates under the name SAM (switchgear and metal construction).
In January 2015, the demolition of the historically significant building began.
literature
- Brown, Boveri (BBC). In: Franz Mathis : Big Business in Austria. Austrian large companies in brief presentations. Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, Vienna et al. 1987, ISBN 3-486-53771-7 , pp. 73 ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Development of the “Neutal industrial location” accessed on December 12, 2010