Diehl (company)
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| legal form | Foundation & Co. KG |
| founding | 1902 |
| Seat | Nuremberg , Germany |
| management | Karl Tragl |
| Number of employees | 17,865 (2019) |
| sales | 3.790 billion euros (2019) |
| Branch | Household appliance industry suppliers, aviation equipment, defense technology, electronic controls, measuring device technology, semi-finished products |
| Website | www.diehl.de |
The Diehl Stiftung & Co. KG is a German group of companies, based in Nuremberg , which completely located since its founding in 1902, family-owned. In 2017 it generated sales of EUR 3.749 billion with 17,173 employees.
The largest division by far is the Diehl Aviation subgroup with over 5,300 employees and sales of over 1.5 billion euros ; This makes the Diehl Group one of the largest German aerospace suppliers. The Diehl Defense division produces defense technology , including guided missiles , semi-finished products , fuses and electronic controls. Sales in 2017 amounted to 456 million euros. This made the Diehl Group one of the largest armaments groups in Germany.
In the 2017 financial year, the five divisions and subgroups contributed to the total turnover of the Diehl Group as follows: Diehl Aviation 1,532 million (40.8%), Diehl Metall 917 million (24.5%), Diehl Controls 558 million ( 14.9%), Diehl Defense 456 million (12.2%), Diehl Metering 275 million (7.3%) and other 11 million (0.3%) euros.
history
The company was founded on September 5, 1902 by Margarete, b. Schmidt (born August 25, 1880 in Nuremberg), and Heinrich Diehl (born August 3, 1878 in Kölschhausen , † 1938 in Nuremberg) as a blacksmith's shop in Nuremberg. After the company's own metal, casting and pressing plant had already been built in 1917, an extrusion press was built in the 1920s.
After the industrial production of precision mechanical products commenced in 1934, a new semi-finished product plant was built in Röthenbach an der Pegnitz in 1938 and shortly afterwards the company was classified as an important war operation. After Heinrich Diehl's death, his son Karl Diehl took over management of the company. During the Second World War , the company also used prisoners of war and forced labor. The Diehl company later had the events of the war years reviewed by independent historians. Finally, in 1997, a fund was set up to support former forced laborers.
Despite severe destruction by air raids and dismantling, precision mechanical production was resumed very soon after the Second World War, and the first Diehl watch came onto the market in 1947. After the Bundeswehr was established , Diehl returned to the defense technology business and also supplied other NATO countries.
In the 1980s, the company developed into an important system provider with the assembly of the MLRS artillery missile system; this position was further expanded through the takeover of Bodenseewerk Geräteechnik , the general contractor for the European production program of the Sidewinder AIM-9B air-to-air missile and a leading system house for guided missiles.
In the 1990s the company was transformed into a Foundation & Co. KG . In 1994 Diehl took over AKO-Werke GmbH & Co.KG in Wangen im Allgäu . However, these initially continued to operate under the traditional name AKO. It was not until 2001 that the merger took place under the name Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co.KG or Diehl Controls with several branches abroad.
In 1998 the founder's grandson, Thomas Diehl, took over management of the company. In July 2002 Karl Diehl handed over the position of Chairman of the Supervisory Board to his son Werner Diehl .
In 2004 the subsidiary Comet , formerly the market leader for fireworks in Germany, was sold to Li & Fung .
In 2007, the civil aviation activities of all Diehl companies were bundled in Diehl Aerosystems, and in 2008 Diehl and the French Thales Group also took over the Airbus plant in Laupheim in this subgroup .
On his 62nd birthday on June 1, 2008, Werner Diehl handed over the chairmanship of the Supervisory Board to Claus Mänz-Siebje. Klaus Maier has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board since June 2014.
In April 2018 the Diehl Aerosystems division was renamed Diehl Aviation . This renaming also affected the subsidiaries Diehl Aircabin, Diehl Comfort Modules and Apparatebau Gauting.
Group structure
Since 1998 the company has been run as a limited partnership , whose partner is a family foundation.
The more than forty independent corporate units and joint ventures are divided into five subgroups according to their activities. These are Aviation (29.9% share of sales), Metal (29.7%), Defense (18.3%), Controls (11.4%) and Metering (10.2%). (Stand 2013)
Diehl Aviation
| Business unit | place |
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| Diehl Aviation Holding GmbH | Nuremberg |
| Diehl Aerospace GmbH | Überlingen |
| Diehl Aerospace GmbH, Frankfurt plant | Frankfurt a. M. |
| Diehl Aerospace GmbH, Nuremberg plant | Nuremberg |
| Diehl Aerospace GmbH, Rostock plant | Rostock |
| Diehl Aerospace Inc. | Sterrett, AL, USA |
| Diehl Aerospace Asia Pacific Customer Support | Singapore |
| Diehl Aerospace GmbH, Customer Service Center Toulouse | Toulouse |
| Diehl Aerospace GmbH, Customer Support Center Donauwörth | Donauwörth |
| Diehl Aerospace GmbH, Customer Support Center Hamburg | Hamburg |
| Diehl Aviation Hamburg GmbH | Hamburg |
| Diehl Aviation Laupheim GmbH | Laupheim |
| Diehl Aviation Laupheim GmbH | Tianjin, China |
| Diehl Aviation Laupheim GmbH | Toulouse |
| Diehl Aviation Gilching GmbH | Gilching |
| Diehl Aviation Gilching GmbH | Dresden |
Diehl Controls
| Business unit | place |
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| Diehl AKO Foundation & Co. KG | Wangen in the Allgäu |
| Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG, Nuremberg location | Nuremberg |
| Diehl Controls (Nanjing) Co., Ltd. | Nanjing |
| Diehl Controls Mexico, SA de CV | El Marques, Querétaro |
| Diehl Controls North America, Inc. | Naperville, IL, USA |
| Diehl Controls Polska Sp. Zoo | Wroclaw |
| Diehl Controls Polska sp.zoo | Namysłów |
Diehl Defense
| Business unit | place |
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| Diehl Defense GmbH & Co. KG | Überlingen |
| AIM Infrared Module GmbH | Heilbronn |
| Diehl & Eagle Picher GmbH | Roethenbach |
| Diehl Defense GmbH & Co. KG, Maasberg plant | Nonnweiler-Bierfeld |
| Diehl Defense GmbH & Co. KG, Nonnweiler-Mariahütte plant | Nonnweiler-Mariahütte |
| Diehl Defense GmbH & Co. KG, Röthenbach ad Pegnitz plant | Roethenbach |
| Diehl Defense GmbH & Co. KG, Steglitz office | Steglitz |
| Diehl Defense GmbH & Co. KG, Koblenz office | Koblenz |
| Diehl Defense Representative Office | Abu Dhabi |
| Diehl Iberia Sistemas, SA | Seville |
| Diehl Retrofit Missile Systems GmbH | Überlingen |
| DynITEC GmbH | Troisdorf |
| EuroSpike GmbH | Roethenbach |
| GIWS society for intelligent active systems mbH | Nuremberg |
| HIL - Army Repair Logistics GmbH | Bonn |
| JUNGHANS Microtec GmbH | Dunningen-Seedorf |
| JUNGHANS T2M SAS | La Ferte Saint-Aubin / France |
| PARSYS GmbH | Schrobenhausen |
| RAM-System GmbH | Ottobrunn |
Diehl Metall
| Business units | place |
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| Diehl do Brasil Metalúrgica Ltda. | São Paulo |
| Diehl metal brass | Roethenbach |
| Diehl Metall Schmiedetechnik | Roethenbach |
Diehl Metal Applications GmbH
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| Diehl Synchro Tec Manufacturing (Wuxi) Co., Ltd. | Wuxi, Jiangshu, China |
| Franconia Industries Inc. | Meriden |
| SMH Süddeutsche Metallhandelsgesellschaft mbH | Roethenbach |
| The Miller Company | Meriden |
Diehl Metering
| Business unit | place |
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| Diehl Gas Metering GmbH | Ansbach, Germany |
| Diehl Metering (Jinan) Co., Ltd. | Jinan, China |
| Diehl Metering Aps. | Esjberg, Denmark |
| Diehl Metering FZE | Dubai, UAE |
| Diehl Metering GesmbH | Vienna, Austria |
| Diehl Metering GmbH | Ansbach, Germany |
| Diehl Metering GmbH, Apolda plant | Apolda, Germany |
| Diehl Metering GmbH, Nuremberg plant | Nurnberg, Germany |
| Diehl Metering Iberica SL | Madrid, Spain |
| Diehl Metering Ltd. | Oldham, UK |
| Diehl Metering Ltda | Recife / PE, Brazil |
| Diehl Metering Pte. Ltd. | Singapore |
| Diehl Metering SAS | Saint-Louis, France |
| Diehl Metering Sp. Z oo | Bazanowice, Poland |
Central areas, head office, investments
| Business unit | place |
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| Diehl Foundation & Co. KG | Nuremberg |
| Diehl Stiftung & Co. KG, Berlin office | Berlin |
| Diehl Stiftung & Co. KG, Brussels office | Brussels |
| Diehl Stiftung & Co. KG, Koblenz office | Koblenz |
| Diehl Assekuranz Rückversicherungs- und Vermittlungs-AG | Nuremberg |
| Diehl training and qualification GmbH | Nuremberg |
| DIEHL Informatik GmbH | Nuremberg |
| Diehl Werkzeugbau Seebach GmbH | Seebach |
Chairman of the Board of Directors
- 1998 to April 2017: Thomas Diehl
- interim Wolfgang Weggen (Deputy CEO)
- since May 2018: Karl Tragl
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
- 1998–2002: Karl Diehl
- 2002–2008: Werner Diehl
- 2008–2014: Claus Mänz-Siebje
- since 2014: Klaus Maier
Products and services
Aviation
In the avionics sector, Diehl develops and produces systems and subsystems for aircraft manufacturers. The company supplies, for example, Airbus and Boeing with lighting technology for all aircraft programs, or offers system solutions from avionics and cockpit equipment to the design of aircraft cabins for commercial aircraft and VIP aircraft.
- Flight control and engine control equipment
- Cockpit and display systems
- Cabin and supply systems
Controls
In the Diehl Controls division, the company produces electronic controls for home appliance and heating manufacturers. Diehl AKO, for example, produces controls and accessories for household appliances and solar systems.
- Drive systems for washing machines
- Customer-specific devices and system solutions
- Mechanical, electromechanical and electronic controls for washing machines, dryers, dishwashers and refrigerators / freezers, stove clocks
- Platinum inverter
- Room control with radio data transmission
- Controls for glass ceramic cooking surfaces
Defense
In the field of defense technology, Diehl u. a. Guided missiles, ammunition and vehicle chains.
- Artillery missiles
- Awareness and warning systems
- Infrared and multimode search body
- Increase in combat value and conversion of tracked and wheeled vehicles
- Guided missile
- ammunition
- Self-protection systems
- System repair
- System chains and drives including drive rings, track rollers, support rollers and deflection rollers
- Training systems
- Detonator
metal
The Diehl Metall subgroup is an international manufacturer of semi-finished products, forgings and rolled products, high-precision stamped parts with surface coatings as well as press-fit zones and metal-plastic composite systems.
- Ribbons and wires made of bronze, nickel silver and brass
- Ribbons and wires made of copper-iron and special copper alloys
- Contact wires made of copper and copper alloys
- Die-pressed parts made of light metal and brass
- Hollow bars
- Conductor ropes made of copper and copper alloys
- Metallic coatings
- Brass profiles
- Tube
- Key blanks
- Sintered products
- Poles
- Step band made of copper and copper alloys
- Synchronizer rings
Metering
In the Metering subgroup, Diehl produces measuring devices and is a provider of transmission and evaluation systems for consumption data of all types of energy.
- Measuring devices for building services
- Thermal energy meters
- Measuring devices for water consumption
- Measuring devices for gas consumption
- Energy management software
- Systems for remote reading of measured values
criticism
The Diehl Group has come under public criticism because of the ammunition production of its subsidiary Diehl Defense . In July 2008 Diehl obtained an injunction against the journalist Stefan Aigner, who had described the company as a manufacturer of cluster munitions , referring to the "point target ammunition " SMArt 155 .
Cluster munitions are outlawed internationally according to the Oslo Accords prohibiting cluster bombs . However, this convention contains special exceptions, according to which SMArt 155 is not classified as (forbidden) cluster munitions in the “classical sense”, but as “intelligent submunition”. However, this expressly does not represent a definition of the term “cluster munitions” under international law . The United Nations regards ammunition as cluster munitions when smaller projectiles are released from a main floor.
The process before the Regional Court of Munich I ended on March 2, 2009 with a settlement . In the course of the trial, the judge stated that SMArt 155 could be designated as cluster munitions, provided that it was differentiated from other types of cluster munitions.
literature
- Gregor Schöllgen : Diehl - A family company in Germany. 1902-2002. Propylaea, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-549-07170-1 .
- Hans Drtil, August Heinzle, Rudolf Meller, Manfred Pütz, Hans-Peter Reerink, Hans Sautter, Peter Wüst: BGT Bodenseewerk - The history of a high-tech company. Diehl BGT Defense, Überlingen 2005.
- Stefan Aigner, Thomas Rödl: Diehl - portrait of a German arms factory. , Brochure of the DFG-VK , 1st edition, Munich July 2012 ( digital copy (PDF) )
Web links
- Official website of the Diehl Group
- The production of office machines by Diehl in Nuremberg (PDF; 481 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Press release of April 25, 2018
- ↑ a b company presentation 2019/2020. (PDF, 3.5 MB) In: diehl.com. Diehl Stiftung & Co. KG, 2020, accessed on July 8, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e Company information: 2017 Annual Report
- ↑ The SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing and military services companies in the world excluding China, 2012 on sipri.org (English)
- ↑ diehl.com - History (Weimar Republic and World War II)
- ↑ diehl-defence.de: Homepage military areas of Diehl Stiftung
- ^ Diehl Aviation: Diehl Aviation introduces its new name at the leading annual trade fair for aircraft cabins
- ^ Diehl Stiftung & Co. KG: Annual Report 2017
- ↑ Diehl.com - locations .
- ↑ a b Nuremberg concern Diehl mourns the CEO. In: Nürnberger Nachrichten . April 18, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
- ↑ a b c Point target ammunition meets freedom of the press on heise.de
- ↑ Build weapons, clean up language on taz.de.
- ↑ Comparison in the process of cluster munitions on taz.de