Badische Maschinenfabrik Durlach

Badische Maschinenfabrik Durlach
legal form	GmbH
founding	1855
Seat	Kürnbach
management	Yubao Ren
Branch	mechanical engineering
Website	bmdfoundry.de

In front on the left the building of the former Baden machine works Durlach

The Badische Maschinenfabrik Durlach was a mechanical engineering company in Durlach . The company owned a patent for a machine for making matches.

history

Johann Georg Sebold, a trained carpenter, applied for a license to operate a mechanical workshop (machine factory Sebold) in Durlach in 1855 . For this he had to take the citizenship of Baden before the "Grand Ducal Baden Oberamt Durlach" granted him this in 1857. He initially took over a workshop in which he began to build his match machine as well as pumps, steam machines and machine tools. This laid the foundation stone for what would later become the Badische Maschinenfabrik . The company had modern operating rules for the time, which stipulated working hours at 72 hours per week. In 1866 he acquired a piece of land from the foreman Christian Hengst and in 1875 the adjacent land, on which there was a residential building and a park-like garden. He had a coach house and stables built and gradually acquired additional neighboring properties, which was useful for the later expansion of the production facilities. His son-in-law Friedrich Neff joined his company as a partner (Sebold & Neff) in 1872 and became head of the newly built foundry in order to ensure the company's own requirements for cast parts for the sewing machine industry.

1880 to 1980

Baden machine factory and iron foundry

Driving reel as a fur dyeing machine (1914)

Share of more than 1,000 marks in the Badische Maschinenfabrik and iron foundry from July 1914

In 1880, the company owners sold the company, which at that time had around 180 employees, to Emil Gerber, who sold it in 1885 to a stock corporation , which from then on was called “Badische Maschinenfabrik und Eisengießerei”. G. Sebold and Sebold & Neff ”. The product range had meanwhile expanded to include the production of machines for brickworks, steelworks and tanneries and in 1921 the number of employees was around 1000. Products included machines for wood and metalworking, steam engines and match machines . In 1929 the company went to the Swedish company Svenska Tändsticks Aktiebolaget . In 1978 the foundry was closed due to the poor economic situation.

Development since 1981

In 1981 the company was again given a new owner when it was sold to the “Passavant-Werke” and only two years later passed to the “Riepl Bau Group”. In 1986 the company gave this to the Danish “A. P. Möller Group ”, which she incorporated into“ DISA A / S ”. The company moved to Karlsruhe in 2002, sold the molding technology and molding sand processing technology division to Somako (Sondermaschinen und Konstruktions GmbH) in 2007 and was continued as Somako-BMD. Since 2013 the company has been managed again as an independent GmbH with the name "BMD Foundry Technology".

The former residence of the director of the Badische Maschinenfabrik from 1928 has been classified as a cultural monument of the city of Karlsruhe.

literature

Badische Maschinenfabrik und Eisengiesserei (Ed.): One hundred years Badische Maschinenfabrik A.-G. Seboldwerk, Karlsruhe-Durlach: 1855–1955. Karlsruhe 1955, OCLC 312461442 .
Badische Maschinenfabrik und Eisengiesserei (Ed.): Badische Maschinenfabrik Durlach. Machines for foundry operations. Karlsruhe, OCLC 32708078 .
Susanne Asche , Konstanze Ertel, Anke Mührenberg, Karlsruhe City Archives: Factory in the Museum. Industry and commerce in Durlach. Info Verlag, Karlsruhe 2003, ISBN 3-88190-328-3 . ( online excerpt as PDF )

Web links

Commons : Badische Maschinenfabrik Durlach - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Brief history of the company on the BMD Foundry Technology homepage
History at P 90 commercial and service center on p-90.de
Materials at the Baden-Württemberg Economic Archives
Baden machine factory and iron foundry vorm. G. Sebold & Sebold & Neff A.-G. at albert-gieseler.de
Early documents and newspaper articles on Badische Maschinenfabrik Durlach in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Remarks

↑ Commercial Register 2015
↑ ^a ^b Susanne Asche, Konstanze Ertel, Anke Mührenberg, Karlsruhe City Archives: Factory in the Museum. Industry and commerce in Durlach. Info Verlag, Karlsruhe 2003, ISBN 3-88190-328-3 . P. 52ff.
↑ ^a ^b Rainer Roth 2005: 150 years ago in Durlach: Founding of the BMD- Badische Maschinenfabrik Durlach in 1855. on p-90.de, accessed on February 20, 2014.
^ History of the BMD. at bmdfoundry.com, accessed February 20, 2014.
^ Director of the residential building of the Badische Maschinenfabrik. on karlsruhe.de, accessed on February 20, 2014.

[1] Commercial Register 2015

[Info_Verlag-2] Susanne Asche, Konstanze Ertel, Anke Mührenberg, Karlsruhe City Archives: Factory in the Museum. Industry and commerce in Durlach. Info Verlag, Karlsruhe 2003, ISBN 3-88190-328-3 . P. 52ff.

[P-90-3] Rainer Roth 2005: 150 years ago in Durlach: Founding of the BMD- Badische Maschinenfabrik Durlach in 1855. on p-90.de, accessed on February 20, 2014.

[4] History of the BMD. at bmdfoundry.com, accessed February 20, 2014.

[5] Director of the residential building of the Badische Maschinenfabrik. on karlsruhe.de, accessed on February 20, 2014.