Drägerwerk

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Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA

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legal form Limited partnership based on shares
ISIN DE0005550636
founding 1889
Seat Lübeck , GermanyGermanyGermany 
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Number of employees 14,845 (2019)
sales € 2.78 billion (2019)
Branch Medical and security technology
Website www.draeger.com
As of December 31, 2018

The headquarters in Lübeck
The headquarters in Lübeck

Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA is a listed company in Lübeck . It develops, produces and sells devices and systems in the fields of medical and safety technology (including diving technology).

Even today, rescue workers in mining in the USA are referred to as Drägermen due to the breathing apparatus from Drägerwerke .

Divisions

The group is divided into two main divisions with over 100 subsidiaries worldwide.

  • Intensive care ventilator Evita 4, 2011
    Medical technology: Medical technology accounts for around two thirds of Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA's sales and, before the merger with the parent company in 2015, operated independently as Dräger Medical AG & Co. KG and most recently as Dräger Medical GmbH . Since 2003 there has been a     joint venture in medical technology between Drägerwerk AG (75 percent) and Siemens AG (25 percent). In 2009 Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA bought back the minority stake of 25% in Siemens AG. The safety technology continues to operate under the name of Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA. In medical technology, Dräger offers, among other things, anesthesia workstations, ventilators for intensive care and emergency medicine , patient monitoring and devices for the medical care of premature and newborn babies in perinatal medicine (the Babylog ventilator for small children was created in 1975 ). Ceiling supply units, IT solutions for the operating theater and gas management systems are among the other products for the hospital. From 1985, Dräger launched its Evita series with further developed screen and computer technology and the associated expanded approach of mechanical ventilation to spontaneous breathing. In medical technology, Dräger generated earnings before taxes and interest of EUR 92.9 million in 2017. In 2019, the medical technology division generated declining sales of 2.8 billion euros. With the COVID-19 pandemic , the division's importance increased again.
  • Recon Marines soldier with LAR V rebreather , 2009
    Safety technology: Dräger is one of the world's leading manufacturers of personal protection equipment and gas detection technology as well as a system provider of safety services in industry, fire protection , mining, the military and other sectors. In safety technology, Dräger generated earnings before taxes and interest of € 62.8 million in 2017. The company is represented with around 4,000 employees in more than 100 countries and around 40 subsidiaries. Dräger Safety has production sites in Germany, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, USA, Sweden, South Africa and China. The safety technology production program includes respiratory protection equipment, stationary and mobile gas measuring systems, professional diving technology as well as alcohol and drug measuring devices . In addition, Dräger works with customers to develop complete fire training systems , training concepts and courses.

history

Lubeca valve 1890

On January 1, 1889, the company was founded by Johann Heinrich Dräger and Carl Adolf Gerling as the Dräger & Gerling headquarters in Lübeck. In the same year the Lubeca valve , a pressure reducer , was patented. 1899 brought a Dräger as a pressure gauge designated today gauges for breathing gas bottles on the market. With the Roth-Dräger anesthetic machine , named after the Lübeck doctor Otto Roth , the development of an anesthetic machine succeeded in 1902 , which was used in Germany until the end of the Second World War.

In that year Heinrich Dräger's son Bernhard joined the management; from this point in time the company operated as Drägerwerk Heinr. and Bernh. Dräger .

In 1907 a diving rescuer for submarine crews and the emergency ventilator Pulmotor were developed; 1912 a tubeless helmet diving device that increased safety for divers by eliminating the risk of the air hose tearing or jamming. Deep diving tests in a diving simulator led to the development of an early decompression table in 1914 . In 1926, Dräger developed a swimming diving rescue device , an oxygen circulation device to rescue swimmers who had had an accident. From 1928 to 1984 the company was headed by Heinrich Dräger .

During the Nazi era, forced laborers were employed in the Drägerwerk . In 1941 there were around 1,200 of 7,000 employees. In June 1944, almost 500 women were transported from the Ravensbrück concentration camp to the Drägerwerke in Hamburg-Wandsbek for forced labor . By April 1945, she lived in the satellite camp Hamburg-Wandsbek the Neuengamme concentration camp in barracks on the factory premises. They were used in the production of gas masks and for cleaning up after bombing raids on Hamburg. Human experiments were carried out with some of the prisoners on survival in gas-tight air-raid shelters. SS-Hauptscharführer Max Kirstein was one of the leaders of the camp . The liberation of the up to then 550 women succeeded in May 1945 by British soldiers and the Swedish Red Cross .

The collaboration of the Drägerwerk with the Lübeck surgeon Albert Lezius and the Hamburg-based Paul Sudeck and Helmuth Schmidt (1895–1979) resulted in further modern anesthesia, resuscitation and ventilation devices.

In 1953, an alcohol test tube and the military oxygen rebreather Lund II were developed. In 1969, Dräger built an underwater laboratory off Heligoland .

The Drägerwerk has been a stock corporation since 1970 . Heinrich Dräger's successor as CEO was his son Christian Dräger , who had been with the Drägerwerk since 1961 . In 2003 the aerospace engineering division was sold to the British aerospace engineering group Cobham plc and in 2004 Air-Shields was taken over .

Sales in 2009 totaled 1.9 billion euros, of which around 1.5 billion were generated abroad. Stefan Dräger has been the CEO since July 1, 2005 .

In August 2006, the foundation stone was laid for the new headquarters of the Dräger Medical subgroup, which has now been occupied. In 2010 a concentration camp memorial was opened in Wandsbek and a memorial for the forced laborers was erected. In mid-2016, the production of medical and safety technology was brought together in a new production facility at the Revalstrasse site in Lübeck.

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic , demand for the company's ventilators skyrocketed . In February 2020, the production capacity was doubled and is to be doubled again (as of March 2020). The German federal government commissioned the company with 10,000 devices, which are to be delivered in the course of 2020. An even larger part of the production is sold abroad. In addition, the production of respiratory masks was doubled.

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Board

The board consists of the following members:

  • Stefan Dräger (Chairman)
  • Gert-Hartwig Lescow
  • Rainer Klug
  • Pure Piske
  • Anton Schrofner

Supervisory board

The Supervisory Board consists of the following members:

  • Stefan Lauer (Chairman)
  • Siegfrid Kasang (Deputy Chairman)
  • Bettina van Almsick
  • Nike Benten
  • Daniel Friedrich
  • Thorsten Grenz
  • Uwe Lüders
  • Thomas Rickers
  • Reinhard Zinkann
  • Astrid Hamker
  • Stephan Kruse
  • Maria Dietz

Capital structure and shareholders

Drägerwerk was a stock corporation (AG) until 2007 and has been a partnership limited by shares ( AG & Co. KGaA ) ever since . The subscribed capital is divided into 10,160,000 ordinary shares and 7,600,000 non-voting preference shares . The preference shares are 100% in free trading and are part of the TecDAX . 71.32% of the ordinary shares are (2018) in the hands of the Dräger family, mainly through Dr. Heinrich Dräger GmbH.

The only general partner of the KGaA is Drägerwerk Verwaltungs AG, which is 100% owned by Stefan Dräger GmbH.

Sponsorship

Dräger supports the German Fire Brigade Museum in Fulda .

literature

  • Johann Heinrich Dräger: World in Transition. Life memories . Leibniz Verlag, St. Goar 2003, ISBN 978-3-931155-01-8 (first edition: 1913).
  • Back then. Dräger employees remember . Drägerwerk AG, Lübeck 1989.
  • Stefan Romey: A concentration camp in Wandsbek. Forced labor in the Hamburg Drägerwerk . VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 978-3-87975-613-1 .
  • Martin Thoemmes : Heinrich Dräger. In: Alken Bruns (ed.): New Lübeck resumes. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2009, ISBN 978-3-529-01338-6 , pp. 175-182.
  • Welf Böttcher, Martin Thoemmes: Heinrich Dräger. A biography. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, ISBN 978-3-529-06123-3 .
  • Ernst Bahns: It all started with the Pulmotor. The history of mechanical ventilation. Drägerwerk, Lübeck 2014.
  • Michael Kamp : Bernhard Dräger: inventor, entrepreneur, citizen. 1870 to 1928. Wachholtz Verlag, Kiel / Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-52906-369-5 .

Web links

Commons : Drägerwerk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Annual Report 2019 , accessed on July 9, 2020
  2. ↑ Bernd Müller-Dauppert: Logistics Outsourcing: Tendering, Awarding, Controlling, p. 109 . Verlag Heinrich Vogel, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-574-26090-2 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ Dräger press release of December 29, 2009. (PDF; 22 kB) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 20, 2011 .  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.draeger.com  
  4. ↑ Ernst Bahns (2014), p. 48 f. ( Ventilating small patients - The way to the Babylog ).
  5. ↑ Ernst Bahns (2014), 46 f. ( The non-invasive ventilation with Carina ).
  6. ↑ Ernst Bahns (2014), pp. 40–43.
  7. ↑ a b Annual Report 2017. Accessed October 4, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Drägerwerk is urgently looking for skilled workers during the pandemic , New Germany , April 6, 2020
  9. ^ Meinolfus Strätling, A. Schneeweiß, Peter Schmucker: Medical University of Lübeck: Clinic for Anesthesiology. In: Jürgen Schüttler (Ed.): 50 Years of the German Society for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine: Tradition and Innovation. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2003, ISBN 3-540-00057-7 , pp. 479-486, here: p. 479.
  10. ↑ a b Drägerwerk: the history of the company. (PDF; 1.5 MB) Retrieved July 20, 2011 .
  11. ↑ Ulrich Koppitz, Alfons Labisch, Norbert Paul: Historicity: Experience and Action, History and Medicine, p. 234 . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-515-08507-6 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  12. ^ Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial: Hamburg-Wandsbek. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 18, 2014 ; Retrieved July 20, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de
  13. ↑ State Center for Political Education Hamburg: Interactive map on forced labor in Hamburg. Retrieved July 20, 2011 .
  14. ^ M. Strätling, A. Schneeweiß, Peter Schmucker: Medical University of Lübeck: Clinic for Anesthesiology. 2003, p. 479.
  15. ↑ Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . German Standards Editions, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .
  16. ↑ Foundation stone for new Dräger Medical headquarters. In: HL-Live. August 24, 2006, accessed July 20, 2011 .
  17. ↑ The memorial at the former Wandsbek-Drägerwerk satellite camp is inaugurated. In: press archive. City of Hamburg, October 29, 2010, accessed on July 20, 2011 .
  18. ↑ Dräger's "Future Factory" is being built on schedule. Retrieved October 4, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Lukas Eberle, Martin U. Müller: "An absolute mission impossible" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 2020, p. 48 f . ( online - March 28, 2020 ).
  20. ↑ Annual Report 2016. (PDF) Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA, accessed on March 13, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Supervisory Board on draeger.com, accessed on August 7, 2018
  22. ↑ Overview of the company's shareholder structure website
  23. ↑ Annual report 2011, page 44 (PDF; 4.4 MB)


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