Dr. Paul Meyer
The Dr. Paul Meyer AG , from 1941 Elektrofinanz AG was a German manufacturer of electrical engineering . The company, headquartered in Berlin , was founded in 1899, has been almost 100% owned by AEG since 1927 and was finally absorbed by AEG in 1970.
The company manufactured products for electrical engineering, precision engineering and metalworking . It specialized in electrotechnical measuring instruments, switchgear and switchgear for high and low voltage.
history
A forerunner, also called Paul Meyer, was created in Berlin-Rummelsburg in 1893 .
The Dr. Paul Meyer AG was founded in 1899, Paul Meyer remained the director. The headquarters were on Lynarstrasse in the Berlin-Gesundbrunnen district in the Berlin district of Wedding . The company began with the production of switchgear for electrical engineering and the associated measuring instruments. The Dr. Paul Meyer AG started producing low-voltage systems and only added high-voltage systems to its range around 1910 . Important customers in this line of business were, for example, the Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerke .
In 1913 the company had sales of 3 million Reichsmarks and a profit of 300,000 marks. At that time it had about 800 to 900 workers.
At the beginning of the 1920s, AEG and Dr. Paul Meyer AG together to push through the introduction of the distance protection relay to secure power grids. In the 1920s, the AG employed 3,000 workers in the Berlin district of Wedding alone. In the mid-1920s, Siemens-Schuckert and AEG began to build an oligopoly on the German market for meter and transformer systems. They bought all of the smaller competitors - including Dr. Paul Meyer AG - on.
After AEG had acquired almost 100% of the company in 1927, AEG bought the entire inventory from Dr. Paul Meyer AG and leased all of their production facilities. As a result of restructuring within the AEG group, Dr. Paul Meyer AG in 1935 to the shares that AEG owned in Deutsche Werft , in 1937 Dr. Paul Meyer AG acquired the shares of AEG in Bergmann Elektrizitätswerke . In 1941, Dr. Paul Meyer AG in Elektrofinanz AG.
AEG reorganized the group in 1966/1967. Former legally independent subsidiaries such as Telefunken or Nationale Automobil-Gesellschaft have been fully integrated into the company, including Elektrofinanz AG. In 1969 the head office was relocated to Frankfurt am Main , before AEG deleted the company in 1970.
literature
- Dr. Paul Meyer AG Spezialfabrik, Berlin: 1893–1913; Electrotechnical measuring instruments, switchgear, switchgear for high and low voltage , 1913
- Pictures from our company. Dr. Paul Meyer AG 1893-1918 , Sternfeld, 1918
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Collection of historical metrology, Berlin: Dr. Paul Meyer A.-G. ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed December 7, 2015
- ↑ David Blumenthal: The importance of the German electrotechnical special factories for heavy current products and their position in the electrical industry, Springer-Verlag, 2013 (reprint of 1915) ISBN 3662263459 p. 6
- ↑ David Blumenthal: The importance of the German electrotechnical special factories for heavy current products and their position in the electrical industry Springer-Verlag, 2013 (reprint from 1915) ISBN 3662263459 p. 5
- ^ Walter Schossig: Distance Protection: The Early Developments , PacWorld Winter 2008
- ↑ Mark Hobbs: Visual representations of working-class Berlin, 1924–1930 PhD Thesis p. 57
- ^ Jürgen Bönig: The introduction of assembly line work in Germany until 1933 LIT Verlag Münster, 1993 ISBN 3894731117 p. 268
- ^ Albert Giesler: Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft , accessed on December 7, 2015
- ^ Karl Wendt: New Form for Old Companies , Die Zeit May 20, 1966
