Alcatel-Lucent Germany

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Alcatel-Lucent Germany AG

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legal form Corporation
founding
resolution August 17, 2017 (deletion)
Reason for dissolution Consolidation of the Nokia Group (merger with Nokia Solutions and Networks GmbH & Co. KG )
Seat Stuttgart , Germany
management CEO
  • Wolfgang Weik (2007-2009)
  • Alf Henryk Wulf (2009–2012)
  • Wilhelm Dresselhaus (2012-2017)
Number of employees
  • 4,061 (2007)
  • 1,352 (2016)
sales
  • 1,120 million euros (2007)
  • 450 million euros (2016)
Branch telecommunications
Website www.alcatel-lucent.com/de

The Alcatel-Lucent Germany AG was a subsidiary of the French manufacturer of network and telecommunications equipment Alcatel-Lucent . Its seat was in Stuttgart - Zuffenhausen .

The company was created at the beginning of 2007 through the merger of Lucent Technologies Network Systems GmbH in Nuremberg with Alcatel SEL AG in Stuttgart, as part of the merger of their respective parent companies Alcatel SA and Lucent Technologies, Inc. The two German subsidiaries came from a long tradition that went up to reached back to the early days of the electronics industry in the 19th century. At the time of the merger, however, they were only a small fraction of their former size and their production facilities had long been shut down. They mainly served research and development. The decline in business and the number of employees continued even after the merger. As a result of internal group regulations, essential functions of the management were transferred to the head office in France from 2011.

With the takeover of Alcatel-Lucent SA by Nokia on January 14, 2016, Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG also became part of the Nokia Group. The new corporate management announced that they would no longer use the brand names "Alcatel" or "Alcatel-Lucent". In the following period, operations in the Nokia Group went on and the public limited company was deleted from the commercial register in August 2017.

history

prehistory

With the establishment of Alcatel-Lucent SA , the group founded Alcatel-Lucent International SAS , based in Boulogne-Billancourt, to manage international investments. Alcatel SEL AG , which was brought into the merger by Alcatel SA, took over all shares in Lucent Technologies Network Systems GmbH, previously managed by Lucent Technologies , for € 76.8 million with effect from January 1, 2007 . Subsequently, the German subsidiaries merged to form Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG .

The Alcatel SEL AG goes to the Lorenz AG Standard Elektrik back, scored a conglomerate of electrical industry, the largest in the 1960s and 1970s, the ten German companies. The frequently used abbreviation SEL for the company name was used equally by both predecessors. The resulting impression of continuity was welcome, but only partially justified. From Standard Elektrik Lorenz , which emerged in 1958 from the merger of C. Lorenz AG with Standard Elektrik AG , larger areas had already been separated and sold or shut down to change the name. The long-time owner was the American International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT), which had already bought German electrical companies such as C. Lorenz and Mix & Genest in Berlin in the 1930s and rebuilt them in Stuttgart after the war . After a very expensive attempt in the 1980s to penetrate the home market dominated by AT&T in the United States with its communications technology division, which was focused on Europe , and the knowledge at SEL of not being able to step out of the shadow of the German market leader Siemens in the long term , the American decided Management to withdraw from the telecommunications business.

From the end of 1986, ITT merged a large number of European holdings with the smaller but similarly positioned French Compagnie Générale d'Électricité (CGE) to form Alcatel NV and sold its shares in two steps to CGE . Standard Elektrik Lorenz thus also belonged to Alcatel , the second largest telecommunications supplier in the world in terms of arithmetical market share from its foundation. Increasing competition, wrong decisions and scandals by both German and French managers led to a severe crisis to which the company responded with layoffs, shutdowns and the sale of areas. Part of the Electronic Components Engineering and the no longer profitable consumer electronics took over on January 1, 1988 Nokia . The cable plant, defense systems and air navigation systems were outsourced and the last two were sold to Thomson-CSF , a predecessor company of the Thales Group . Until Alcatel-Lucent Germany was founded, only one core area around communications technology was retained.

Nuremberg was among Felten & Guilleaume (F & G) with the Süddeutsche telephone apparatus, cable and wire Werke AG created a center for electrical engineering (TeKaDe), from the 1980s in the years of the Dutch Philips , the Philips Kommunikations Industrie AG (PKI) was formed. After several waves of layoffs, the American market leader AT&T took over the business in early 1996 in order to transfer it to its new subsidiary, Lucent Technologies, Inc. , which was founded as part of the deregulation of the US market . Except for a small number of researchers that made up AT&T Laboratories , Bell Laboratories were also part of the new company. In the general crisis of the New Economy , Lucent Technologies went into decline. Several departments were split off as independent companies, such as Avaya and Agere . Locations had to be closed, production was outsourced. After the development department in Huizen / Hilversum in the Netherlands was closed, Nuremberg was the company's largest development location outside the United States.

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Already under its predecessor Alcatel SEL , the transport division was spun off as Alcatel Transport Solutions Deutschland GmbH on August 31, 2006 . In the course of the merger, Alcatel-Lucent Germany transferred all shares to the Thales Group on January 5, 2007 . In addition to Siemens, the division had been a supplier to the Deutsche Bundesbahn for relay interlockings Sp Dr L since the 1950s and had promoted electronic control and safety technology ( LZB , ESTW , ETCS ) for railways in Germany from the 1970s .

In 2008, the company ended basic research at Bell Labs , relocated development topics relating to the UMTS mobile communications standard from Nuremberg to a research site near Paris that was recently taken over by Nortel and initiated the move of the Bell Labs German branch to Stuttgart. The subsidiary Dunkermotoren , a manufacturer of drive systems in Bonndorf , which was acquired by Alcatel SEL and remained with Alcatel-Lucent , went to the German-Swedish private equity company Triton Partners in 2009 , which sold the company to Ametek in 2012 .

At Cebit 2009, Alf Henryk Wulf, then CEO of Alcatel-Lucent in Germany, said that the company had said goodbye to broadband expansion via Wimax , which had been hoped for for a long time, in order to also switch to the 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE ) to set. In the spring of 2010, Alcatel-Lucent was awarded the bid by the Federal Agency for Digital Radio of Authorities and Organizations with Security Tasks (BDBOS) to operate the new digital BOS radio , which was originally supposed to replace the outdated analog radio in 2006 , for the next ten years . For this was Alcatel-Lucent Digital Radio Co Ltd with its head office in Berlin, the operation of the digital radio network of EADS Secure Networks GmbH took over on July 1 of 2010.

Also in 2009, the Stuttgart-based company agreed a joint research project with Airbus and Deutsche Telekom for air-to-ground connections with LTE technology for use in aircraft. The first tests began two years later. With the British Inmarsat as a technology partner from 2014, the European Aviation Network (EAN) emerged.

On January 1, 2011, the company also formally relocated the management of operational business, which had already been largely influenced by the group headquarters, to France by introducing the “principal model”. In doing so, the social risk, the exercise of the factors that determine value creation and all of Alcatel-Lucent Germany's key assets were transferred to its “principal”, Alcatel-Lucent International SAS , based in Boulogne-Billancourt .

As part of the concentration on the Stuttgart and Nuremberg locations, the operations in Berlin, Bonn , Hanover , Munich and Neu-Isenburg were closed in 2013 and the previous subsidiaries Alcatel-Lucent Networks GmbH and Alcatel-Lucent Internetworking Deutschland GmbH changed to Alcatel-Lucent Germany AG merged.

The expansion and operation of the E-Plus Group's cellular network, which has been overseen by Alcatel-Lucent since 2007 , switched to the Chinese ZTE at the beginning of 2014 . Alcatel-Lucent Network Services GmbH (ALNS) with 750 employees, which had previously specialized in this task , was taken over by ZTE Services Deutschland GmbH on January 8, 2014. On July 1, 2014, the German share in the Enterprise division was spun off as Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Deutschland GmbH and transferred to a French holding company on October 1, 2014. On October 2, 2014, the parent company sold 85% of the shares in Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise with 2,700 employees in 80 countries for 202 million euros to the Chinese investment company China Huaxin .

Further development at Nokia

In April 2015, the Finnish company Nokia presented the Alcatel-Lucent group with a takeover offer for 15.6 billion euros in shares. On January 6, 2016, the corresponding shares were exchanged for Nokia shares and Alcatel-Lucent in the CAC 40 was replaced by Nokia. Since January 14, 2016, the two companies have been operating together under the name Nokia. The brand name Alcatel-Lucent disappeared completely. Insofar as “Alcatel” and “Alcatel-Lucent” continue to be used, these are only their former partners or former sub-areas who contractually secured the brand name and its continued use when they were separated.

Shortly after the merger, Nokia announced that it would lay off 1,400 employees in Germany. On August 15, 2017, the stock corporation was merged with Alcatel-Lucent Holding GmbH and deleted from the commercial register on August 17. The holding was then merged into Nokia Solutions and Networks GmbH & Co. KG a day later .

Company-related foundation

Standard Elektrik Lorenz founded a non-profit foundation on October 21, 1979. Their task was to promote research that contributes to a better interaction between humans and technology in communication systems. After the company was sold and renamed Alcatel SEL , the foundation changed its name to Alcatel SEL Foundation . By the time it celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2004, under the motto “for humane technology”, it had sponsored more than 500 lectures and over 150 publications. In addition to the research award for technical communication , the highest endowed individual award for extra-industrial research with 20,000 euros, up to two completed economic dissertations on the subject of "communication and information technology" were each awarded a prize of 5,000 euros.

After the creation of Alcatel-Lucent , the name of the foundation was again adapted to the company name to Alcatel-Lucent Foundation for Communication Research . In mid-2015, the foundation stated on its website that the future work was uncertain due to the economic situation of its donor. Since then it has ceased its activity.

Individual evidence

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