Adolf Ferdinand Gustaph Wagener

Adolf Ferdinand Gustaph Wagener (born February 5, 1835 in Brandenburg an der Havel , † May 2, 1894 in Küstrin ) was a mechanical engineer and later the founder of one of the most famous machine factories in Küstrin.

Life

His father, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wagener, was a master shoemaker. In his youth, the family moved from Brandenburg to Küstrin, where Adolf Wagener was one of the three technical workshop managers at the GH Fritze company in the Küstrin suburb.

Adolf Ferdinand Wagener, factory founder

In the summer of 1879 Wagener founded his own factory in the upper Landsbergerstraße 40/43 which, under the management of his sons, Fritz and Max Wagener, became one of the leading companies for agricultural machines in the Brandenburg metal industry. The factory, a machine factory and iron foundry was also a special plant for distillery construction and had several departments. One department was for agricultural industrial plants where mechanical equipment for alcohol distillers such as the mash distilling apparatus, potato drying systems such as the universal drying apparatus were manufactured according to the Schütz system and starch factories, among others. In the iron foundry department, gray cast iron pieces of all shapes and sizes were made, and in the agricultural machinery department, tractors, agricultural machines and other equipment were manufactured. The factory also had its own laboratory, repair shop and trained fitters.

Wagener, like his son Max, were very creative. Among other things, he developed a special potato drying device based on his own patent and the Simplex Dephlegmator which had patents not only in Germany, but also in Hungary, Spain, France, Italy and Austria.

After Wagener's death in 1894, his two eldest sons took over the factory. Fritz worked as an accountant and businessman and Max was the engineer. He followed in his father's footsteps and developed several other devices. His youngest son, Adolf, studied medicine. Fritz died in 1909 and Max continued to run the factory until 1930 when it went bankrupt . In 1931 Max founded his own engineering office for agricultural industrial plants in Küstriner Neustadt for apparatus construction, which he operated until 1939.

factory

The company A. Wagener Maschinenfabrik, iron foundry and boiler forge, copper and brass goods factory was a trading company with its own chemical and physical institute for checking production. The workshops included an iron and metal foundry, mechanical workshops and a copper and boiler forge. Up to 400 people worked in the company. In 1893 there were also two branch offices; one in Gdansk with representation for East and West Prussia , Pomerania and Poznan and a second in Hanover . Deliveries were made to the best companies in general machine and apparatus construction as well as the electricity, machine tool, railway and transport industries, the lighting industry, the pianoforte industry and the agricultural machinery industry.

In 1922 the company founded the factory progress agricultural machinery AG in Küstrin and Neustadt in Saxony . From 1924 it operated as a GmbH with Adolf Wagener, the youngest son, as operations manager. In 1928 a department for threshing machines was added.

1929 after the bankruptcy in the time of global economic crisis , the factory was by a consortium acquired its own employees and operated under the name Kümeis, GmbH (Küstriner engine works and iron foundry). In 1937 it went over to Oderhütte Franck & Co KG until 1945.

Products:

• Steam boiler
• Steam power plants
• Steam pumps
• Simplex dephlegmator
• Threshing machines
• Gray cast iron
• Mash pumps and stills
• Grating, piano and grand piano plates
• pump
• Simplex dryer
• Alcohol distilleries
• Starch factories
• Transmissions
• Drying systems (pulp and flake apparatus)
• Water supplies

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• Georg Heinrich Fritze and the founding of the Küstriner metal industry. Association for the History of Küstrins eV
• From Cüstrin's industry: the Wagenersche machine factory. Association for the History of Küstrins eV
• Special catalog about distillery equipment: A. Wagener: machine factory, iron foundry, boiler forge, copper and brass goods factory. Cüstrin Neustadt, 1921, German Museum.