Deutsche Edelstahlwerke AG

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Logo of the German Edelstahlwerke AG 1929
Logo of the German Edelstahlwerke AG 1951

The German steel Werke Aktiengesellschaft ( DEW ) was from 1927 to 1974 an alliance of several steel works , the largest with 15,000 employees temporarily European stainless steel producer were.

history

Weimar Republic and Third Reich

Deutsche Edelstahlwerke AG was founded by Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG in January 1927 and brought together their stainless steel activities. The company's headquarters were initially in Bochum , but as part of the concentration on the Krefeld location at the end of 1929, the company's headquarters were relocated to Krefeld. The following locations and plants or parts of plants formed the core of DEW:

During World War II, DEW produced armor for tanks and artillery, but also grenades, artillery pieces and steel helmets. Above all, the board member Walter Rohland ensured a strong expansion of the DEW armaments production. This production took place partly with the use of forced labor or prisoners from concentration camps; one example is the Neubrücke subcamp . In 1938, " Aryanised " DEW the metal Plansee in Austria Reutte ( Tyrol ) from the USA emigrated Paul Schwarzkopf . 1952 this work was to Schwarzkopf restituted .

post war period

The works of the DEW were to be largely dismantled according to the will of the Allies, but they could be retuned so that only a part was dismantled.

After the reorganization of the coal and steel industry at the beginning of the 1950s, the Krefelder, Remscheider, and Werdohler works as well as the Dortmund magnet factory remain with DEW, which was founded on October 16, 1951 and is based in Krefeld; Stahlwerke Südwestfalen AG (SSW) founded in 1951 with headquarters in Geisweid (Siegen). The Bochum plant, which was run by the Bochumer Verein as Hochfrequenz Tiegelstahl GmbH and had already belonged to DEW from 1927 to 1929, was also re-affiliated to DEW. In addition to cast parts made of special alloys and welding electrodes, magnets were also manufactured in Bochum .

In 1955 the factories that remained in DEW produced around 35% of the stainless steel in Germany and around 50% of the electrical steel produced in Germany.

The majority of shares in SSW was initially in the hands of the Flick Group , which was sold in 1968 to the Merck Finck & Co bank and to Hoesch .

In 1957, August-Thyssen-Hütte AG took over the majority of shares in Deutsche Edelstahlwerke AG, thereby promoting the diversification of the Thyssen Group on the one hand and acquiring its own electrical steel capacities on the other. In 1961 the joint venture Sinterstahl GmbH was founded in Füssen together with the Plansee Group , which mainly produced powder metallurgical products for the automotive sector .

In 1964 Dieter Spethmann became CEO of DEW - and later also head of the entire Thyssen group. In 1970, the steel and rolling mill C. Kuhbier & Sohn in Dahlerbrück was taken over by DEW, which still rolls precision strips made of stainless steel at ThyssenKrupp Nirosta GmbH.

After August-Thyssen-Hütte and the Essen-based Rheinstahl group, which held the majority in Edelstahlwerke Witten AG , merged in 1974, Deutsche Edelstahlwerke AG and Edelstahlwerk Witten merged to form Thyssen Edelstahlwerke AG in 1974/1975 . The magnet factory and centrifugal casting production in Bochum were closed, the casting area of ​​the Bochum plant initially remained with Thyssen as Thyssen Feingusswerk Bochum (TFB) before it was sold in April 1997 with 400 employees to the British Triplex Lloyd International , which in turn was at the end of 1997 company Doncasters was acquired. In the same year Thyssen also sold the Dortmund magnet production to the Tridelta company . Thyssen Edelstahlwerke AG was merged with Thyssen Stahl AG in 1992, before being spun off again in 1994 as Edelstahl Witten-Krefeld GmbH .

The Bergische steel industry remained until 1996 in Thyssen Guss AG, was sold to SAB WABCO, since October 2004 the Remscheid is one operation for Faiveley Group.

Also in 1974 Krupp took over the majority of SSW shares from Merk, Fink & Co, Allianz and Hoesch and increased the stake to more than 97% by 1977, before Stahlwerke Südwestfalen AG finally merged with Krupp Stahl in 1984 AG was merged.

At the beginning of the 1980s, the steel crisis led to strong concentration movements abroad (e.g. the incorporation of the stainless steel division of Creusot-Loire into the Usinor group in France, the merger of Finsider and Teksid in Italy), which set the stainless steel market in motion - Thyssen and Krupp therefore agreed to cooperate in the stainless steel sector, but the actual aim of a merger was rejected. As part of the intensified cooperation between Krupp and Thyssen, Krupp Nirosta GmbH and Thyssen Stahl Rostfrei were merged into Krupp Thyssen Nirosta GmbH in 1995 , before the two groups completely merged in 1997. The ThyssenKrupp group finally sold its subsidiary Edelstahlwerke Witten-Krefeld in March 2005 to Swiss Steel AG, which is part of the Schmolz and Bickenbach group .

today

Most of the operations of the original Deutsche Edelstahlwerke AG still exist today, the Krefeld location in the Schmolz & Bickenbach Group even again under the name Deutsche Edelstahlwerke Specialty Steel . ThyssenKrupp Nirosta GmbH, which remained in the ThyssenKrupp Group, also produced stainless steel at the same location . It was the largest single company in ThyssenKrupp's former stainless steel division, Inoxum, and was sold to Outokumpu, a Finnish materials company based in Espoo, in December 2012.

The Siegen, Hagen and Witten locations are also part of Deutsche Edelstahlwerke Specialty Steel today .

Most of the plants, however, have now adopted other names or have been incorporated into other companies.

CEO of DEW

  • Heinz Gehm
  • from 1964: Dieter Spethmann
  • 1973: Winfried Connert

Chairwoman of the board of the SSW

  • Karl Barich , 1951–1970
  • Helmut Treppschuh, 1970–1975
  • Hans-Georg Rosenstock, 1975–1979

See also

literature

  • Helmut Uebbing: Paths and waymarks - 100 years of Thyssen. Siedler, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-88680-417-8 .
  • Günther Schmidt: The development of a Remscheid forge BSI-DEW-ThyssenKrupp 1925–2002. 75 years of Schmiede Remscheid. RS Society for Information Technology, 2003, ISBN 3-9811757-1-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ B. Dietrich: United steel works. (= Sites of German work.) Widder-Verlag, Berlin 1930, p. 97f. (Bochum city library, signature WDL123 VEREI)
  2. ↑ a b Website on the history of the Dortmund branch (later moved to Gelsenkirchen or Essen) ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from ThyssenKrupp-Schulte; accessed September 1, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thyssenkrupp-schulte.de
  3. ↑ Uebbing, p. 54
  4. ↑ Good business in stainless steel . In: Die Zeit , No. 12/1956
  5. ↑ Flick out - listen in . In: Die Zeit , No. 21/1968
  6. ↑ Thyssen - From steel to technology group to Thyssen group history (accessed July 16, 2009)
  7. ↑ Uebbing, p. 60
  8. ↑ The automotive supplier business is to be expanded. on news.at from March 4, 2002 (accessed on July 16, 2009)
  9. ↑ The stainless steel industry in motion - major reorganization of the Thyssen / Rheinstahl and Krupp groups.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) In: Hamburger Abendblatt , July 1, 1974@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / suche.abendblatt.de  
  10. ^ History of Nirosta products from ThyssenKrupp (accessed on July 16, 2009)
  11. ↑ Thyssen Industrie sells investment casting . (PDF; 2.2 MB) In: Maschinenmarkt , 103, 1997, page 10, Vogel-Verlag Würzburg
  12. ↑ Group of companies of the Tridelta Group (accessed July 16, 2009)
  13. ↑ Squeeze out at the stainless steel plant in Witten? In: Handelsblatt , April 5, 2002
  14. ↑ Bochum Commercial Register HRB 8490
  15. ↑ Lesser Evil .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) In: Hamburger Abendblatt , September 2, 1974, page 19.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / suche.abendblatt.de  
  16. ↑ Krupp and Thyssen merge at Edelstahl .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) In: Hamburger Abendblatt , December 23, 1982, page 14@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / suche.abendblatt.de  
  17. ↑ The men on the command bridge . In: Siegener Zeitung of February 28, 2009, p. 10.