ADE plant

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Multicar diesel ant M 21 as a tipper
Multicar M22, produced in Waltershausen in 1974

The ADE factory was a manufacturer of tractors and agricultural equipment in Waltershausen in the 1920s . After nationalization, it produced as VEB Fahrzeugwerk Waltershausen, formerly: Goodbye, the Multicar special vehicles developed since 1956 .

Waltershausen

The Ade factory was founded on August 2, 1920 by the engineer Arthur Ade (1882–1957) in Waltershausen as a factory for tractors and agricultural equipment with a partner as Ade & Irrgang . After the Second World War it was nationalized in the GDR and traded as VEB Fahrzeugwerk Waltershausen, formerly: Ade and manufactured diesel ants with various bodies, trailers for trucks and tractors, and trailer couplings for trucks and tractors. The company was affiliated with the German Association of Vehicle Construction (IFA).

From 1958 the first Multicar was produced, the M 21 , of which over 14,000 had left the factory in Waltershausen by 1964. Between 1964 and 1974, 42,500 vehicles of the successor M 22 rolled off the production line. The vehicles from Waltershausen were part of the basic inventory of every agricultural production cooperative . After the fall of the Wall in 1991, the state-owned company was privatized, and in 1998 the Hako -Werke in Bad Oldesloe became majority shareholders. The Multicar is still in production today.

Offenburg

In 1949, of the refugees to West Germany Arthur Ade in Offenburg the ADE plant in Offenburg newly established. In the beginning, rotary clothes dryers and engine brakes as well as exhaust flaps for commercial vehicles were produced. Today the focus is on the development, manufacture and sale of electric lifting cylinders and lifting tables for various areas of application. ADE lifting cylinders and ADE lifting tables are used by industry and trade.

literature

  • Peter Kirchberg: Plastic, sheet metal and planned economy: the history of automobile construction in the GDR , Nicolai, Berlin, 2001 ISBN 978-3-87584027-8 , p. 109.
  • Klaus Herrmann: Tractors in Germany: Companies and Manufacturers from 1907 to Today , DLG Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-76900582-0 , p. 159.

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