Stock company for the energy industry
The Aktiengesellschaft für Energiewirtschaft ( AG für Energiewirtschaft for short ) in Berlin - the former Allgemeine Gas- und Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft in Bremen - was an electricity company that had taken over the Eisenbahnbau-Gesellschaft Becker & Co. GmbH in 1935 . This had built and also operated trams and small railways in Germany since the turn of the century. It was one of the smaller companies of this kind, but was temporarily responsible for some well-known railways - such as the Spreewaldbahn. However, only the trams were operated electrically by it.
The statistics for the period before the First World War include seven companies:
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Königs Wusterhausen-Mittenwalde-Töpchiner Kleinbahn AG 19.6 km
(until March 31, 1920; then Vering & Waechter) -
Reinickendorf – Liebenwalde – Groß Schönebecker Eisenbahn 60.4 km
(Leased until March 31, 1913; then own management) -
Lübben – Cottbuser Kreisbahn 89.5 km
(from 1923: Spreewaldbahn AG) -
Isergebirgsbahn AG 10.8 km
AGfE holds 10% of the shares (1945) -
Kleinbahn Kreuz – Schloppe – Deutsch Krone 60.2 km
Owner: Kreis Deutsch Krone; -
Kleinstein – Waldbröl railway 18.3 km
Owner: Kreis Gummersbach -
Tram of the city of Kreuznach 5.4 km
(construction and operation until 1924, then Rhein-Nahe-Kraftversorgungs-AG)
The 1928 statistics include four small railways and one tram:
- Isergebirgsbahn AG, 10.8 km
AGfE holds 10% of the shares (1945) - Kleinstein – Waldbröl Railway, 18.3 km
Owner: Gummersbach district, from 1932: Oberbergischer Kreis - Kleinbahn Kreuz – Schloppe – Deutsch Krone, 60.2 km
Owner: Kreis Deutsch Krone;
Management ends in 1942/44 with the transfer to the Pomeranian State Railways - Spreewaldbahn AG (AG since August 16, 1923), 89.5 km
AGfE holds 25% of the shares (1945)
(1939 at the Brandenburg State Transport Authority ) - City tram by Beuthen (own operation from around 1938), 19 km
After the addition of the Butjadinger Bahn (30.1 km) on April 1, 1938, which belonged to the Wesermarsch district, and the Spreewaldbahn retired, the company ran four small railways with a total length of 119.4 km. Vehicles were available for this: ten steam locomotives, eight railcars, 17 passenger cars, eight baggage cars, 58 freight cars and three special cars that belonged to the individual railways.
In the years 1942/44 the small railway Kreuz – Schloppe – Deutsch Krone was incorporated into the Pomeranian State Railways , so that at the end of the Second World War in 1945 only three railways were operated by the AGfE. Then the company's business activities as the operator of railways ended.
The AG für Energiewirtschaft ( Mannheim ) merged in 1987 with the Lahmeyer AG to form the Lahmeyer AG für Energiewirtschaft based in Bad Homburg .
In 2000, Lahmeyer AG finally merged with its mother, RWE. The 100% Lahmeyer subsidiary AG für Energiewirtschaft , which emerged from the Elektrizitätswerk Bad Homburg AG and supplied the cities of Bad Homburg and Oberursel with electricity, merged with three other companies to form Süwag Energie AG in Frankfurt am Main in 2001 .