Dornier Works Altenrhein
| Dornier Werke Altenrhein AG | |
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| legal form | Corporation |
| Seat | Altenrhein , Switzerland |
| management |
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| Branch | Aircraft manufacturer |
The Dornier Werke Altenrhein AG was an operating company, financed by the AG for Dornier Aircraft (Do-Flug AG) in Altenrhein , at today's St. Gallen-Altenrhein airport and the predecessor company of Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein in Switzerland . Do-Flug AG was founded in 1926 by the German Reich , Dornier Metallbauten GmbH (DMB) and Claude Dornier for the purpose of financing the large flying boat Dornier Do X , as well as creating the operating facilities for the construction of the aircraft in Altenrhein, but in 1933 after the Do development program came to an end X dissolved again. The Dornier Werke Altenrhein AG then continued to belong organizationally to the DMB, or from 1938 to the Dornier-Werken Friedrichshafen (DWF), where Dornier aircraft were built and parts were manufactured up to the beginning of the Second World War . A branch was also set up at Emmen Airport . During the Second World War, the Altenrhein plant was placed under Swiss state supervision and only civilian business was allowed there, or only orders for the Swiss military were carried out. Colonel Jacob Schmidheiny was the chairman of the board of directors until 1945 as trustee of the military department and as liaison to the war engineering department (KTA).
The ownership structure has not become clear. It is unclear how the German Reich , which had financed the facilities in Altenrhein through Do-Flug AG, and the DWF as the successor to DMB, remained involved. It is likely that Claude Dornier himself was involved in the facilities and operations in Altenrhein with an Aero-Metall AG , Zurich . In the literature, Claudio Caroni, an entrepreneur from Ticino , is also mentioned as a co-owner, to whom Claude Dornier sold his shares in 1948. From then on Claudio Caroni took over the management of the company and called it Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein (FFA) from 1949 . In 1952 Caroni took over shares of other unnamed owners, with which the FFA changed entirely into his family ownership.
literature
- Brigitte Katzwandel-Drews: Claude Dornier. Aviation pioneer. Klasing, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-7688-1970-1 .
- Jörg-Michael Hormann: Airship DO-X. The Chronicle. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-7688-1841-1 .
- Claude Dornier : From my engineering career. Self-published, Zug 1966.
Web links
- Peter Hug: Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein (FFA). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Existing portfolio: Dornier-Werke Altenrhein AG / Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein AG (FFA). State Archives St. Gallen. approx. 1927 - approx. 1990. Signature: W 241. Link
See also
- Altenrhein (Do X tugboat)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans O. Staub : From Schmidheiny to Schmidheiny. (Swiss pioneers in business and technology. Volume 61). Association for Economic History Studies, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-909059-07-4