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The CEAG (formerly Concordia Electrizitäts-AG ) was a holding company for different industrial activities of the Quandt family . It was founded on June 27, 1906 with its seat in Cologne . In 1973 the company was divided into three core areas, of which only the business area for emergency lighting systems , which has belonged to the US EATON Group since 2012, still carries CEAG as a brand name.
history
Concordia Elektrizitäts AG, founded under the management of the Berlin manufacturer Sigmund Bergmann , was originally supposed to primarily take over the distribution of products from Bergmann Elektrizitätswerke . The company expanded rapidly as there was a great need for electrical machines and equipment in the smelters and mines. Shortly after moving to Düsseldorf in 1907, the technical director of Concordia, Fritz Färber , succeeded in using his newly developed electric miner's lamp underground for the first time - Färber relied on the just invented, shock-resistant tungsten filament as a light source . After the firedamp accident at the Hammer Zeche Radbod , probably caused by a petrol miner 's lamp, the workforce at this colliery was completely equipped with electric miner's lamps in 1909. The miner's lamp business flourished as a result, especially since the product was awarded the title of "best electric miner's lamp" in London in 1912 and then also prospered internationally. In the middle of the same year Bergmann Elektrizitäts-AG sold its Concordia share, and in 1913 Accumulatorenfabrik AG Hagen-Berlin acquired a stake.
In 1917 the company left the rented production facilities in Dortmund, which had become too small, and moved into a new building on Münsterstrasse. In 1919 it was taken over by Wilhelm Seippel mine safety lamps and machine factory in Bochum, which was founded in 1848 and, in addition to the electric lights manufactured in cooperation with Concordia, also manufactured petrol and carbide lights. In 1921 the mining authority decreed that only electric lights were to be used underground. From 1925, Concordia also provided fire extinguishing systems and fire extinguishers (brand name: "Favorit") after a small fire in the Dortmund production facility had shown the inadequacy of the previous extinguishing device. The main distinguishing features of the CEAG extinguishers were that they could be switched off again and that they had a level or pressure indicator.
During the economic crisis in 1931, CEAG relocated its headquarters from Düsseldorf to Dortmund in order to save costs. During the upswing triggered by the rearmament, CEAG introduced a hand-held air foam extinguisher in 1934 , in which the foam-forming liquid, compressed air tank and mixing chamber were combined in one housing. In 1935, the Carl trade union in Bochum was taken over, which had previously manufactured Davy safety lamps itself , but had then switched to running lamp rooms.
With the beginning of the Second World War, CEAG also became the largest filter and dust separator manufacturer in Germany alongside DELBAG. In May 1943 the Dortmund plant was almost completely destroyed, the machines that were still working were relocated to Ritschenhausen / Thuringia - where they were expropriated in 1947. In 1948 the reconstruction of the still-preserved production and administration building in Dortmund was completed, to which extensive production halls were attached until 1956. The business with plant technology for air pollution control was only resumed in 1954, when filter and dedusting technology was manufactured under license from AAF (American Air Filter).
In 1962, Concordia Elektrizitäts AG was renamed CEAG Concordia Elektrizitäts AG . The extinguishing system business was sold to Minimax in 1970 , as a market-determining position could no longer be achieved without extensive investments.
In 1971 CEAG merged with Dominit's Briloner, founded in 1921, to form CEAG Dominit AG, and in the same year took over competitor Friemann & Wolf ("FRIWO") in Duisburg. From 1972 onwards, CS CEAG Schirp Reinraumtechnik, which was founded together with AWSchirp KG in Selm- Bork, combined the cleanroom areas of both companies.
As a subsidiary of the Varta group, originally founded as a battery manufacturer and controlled by the Quandt family since 1923 , CEAG posted double-digit million losses. As a result of the restructuring by Herbert Quandt in the 1970s, CEAG became independent again.
division
At the beginning of 1973, in the course of a reorganization, the three business areas "Air purification technology", "Light and power supply" and "Electrical wholesaling" of CEAG Dominit AG were split up into three independent subsidiaries - Ceagfilter und Entstaubungstechnik GmbH in Dortmund, CEAG Licht- und Power Supply Technology GmbH in Soest (the former Dominit factory) and CEAG Elektro Wholesale in Bochum. The heavy current technology area and transformer construction were sold.
Air purification technology
The competitor DELBAG (Deutsche Luftfilterbau AG, Berlin) was taken over in 1973. In 1979 the filter business is sold to the GEA Group and CEAGFilter- und Entstaubungstechnik GmbH and CEAG-Schirp Reinraumtechnik in Selm- Bork, which u. a. Flowboxes is being renamed CEAG Verfahrenstechnik GmbH . The Dortmund location was given up around 1980 after the company's headquarters had been relocated to Bad Homburg vor der Höhe in 1977 .
Electrical wholesaling
In 1977 CEAG Industrieaktien und Anlagen AG was founded with its headquarters in Frankfurt. 1983 CEAG AG takes over the power supply manufacturer FRIWO (Friemann & Wolf). In the same year the first electronic plug-in power supply was brought onto the market. On May 25, 2009, CEAG AG was renamed FRIWO AG .
Light and power supply technology
CEAG light and power GmbH, based in Soest was in 1984 ABB sold to ABB CEAG lighting and power equipment renamed. From 1990 the company traded as CEAG Sicherheitstechnik GmbH and was taken over in 1996 by Cooper Industries Inc. based in Houston, Texas (USA). Renamed again in 2006 as CEAG Notlichtsysteme GmbH , after the purchase of Cooper Industries by Eaton in 2012, it became part of this group of companies.
Others
The CEAG site in Dortmund's Nordstadt was converted into residential development as part of the Emscher Park International Building Exhibition . Previously, rehearsal rooms in the main building were rented to bands for a long time.
literature
- CEAG - We serve security. CEAG 1906-1956. Concordia Elektrizitäts-AG Dortmund, Hoppenstedts Wirtschaftsarchiv, Darmstadt, 1956
Web links
- Early documents and newspaper articles on CEAG in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c company history on ceag.de , accessed on May 24, 2014
- ↑ Patent DE696565A from August 24, 1934
- ^ History of the fire extinguishers from Dierker Brandschutz, accessed on March 11, 2010
- ↑ CEAG Annual Report 1970
- ↑ CEAG DOMINIT AG (Ed.): CEAG Dust Journal No. 58, September 1972, p. 3
- ^ Rüdiger Jungbluth: The Quandts . Campus, Frankfurt 2002, ISBN 3-593-36940-0 , pp. 312–313 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ CEAG DOMINIT AG (Ed.): CEAG Dust Journal No. 59, December 1972, p. 5
- ↑ History of Schirp air filters. Retrieved May 24, 2014 .
- ^ History - Friwo AG. Retrieved May 24, 2014 .
- History of the GEA-Delbag air filter (accessed on March 10, 2010)
- The project as part of the IBA Emscherpark