EHT machine tools

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EHT machine tools GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1771
resolution 2015
Seat Teningen , Germany
management Christof Lehner (Managing Director)
Number of employees 118
sales EUR 27 million
Branch mechanical engineering
Website www.eht-werkzeugmaschinen.de

The EHT Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH was a leading provider of machine tools based in Teningen , Germany . In 2015 the company was taken over by Trumpf and incorporated into the Trumpf Group. EHT remained as a brand name.

business

The company was founded in 1771, making it one of the oldest companies in Germany. The company's headquarters are in Teningen on Emmendinger Strasse. ▼ Since 1950 the main line of business has been the manufacture of machine tools for sheet metal working. The medium-sized company was family-owned until 2014. The main shareholder was Theisen GmbH in Munich. In 2015, the Trumpf Group in Ditzingen took over the shares of the Theisen family.

history

The EHT brand goes back to Eisen- und Hammerwerke Teningen .

The beginnings go back to the two Teningen blacksmiths Martin Junghenni and Jakob Zimmermann, who received approval in 1771 to build a hemp grater, grinding mill and hammer forge. The Emmendingen master builder Carl Friedrich Meerwein suggested building the production facility between Elz and Mühlbach on the boundary between Teningen and Mundingen , as the Mühlbach had a particularly high water gradient there. Georg Friedrich Zimmermann, the founder's son, built a hammer mill in 1815 that was powered by a water wheel in the Mühlbach. This hammer mill was built in 1830 for the production of tools such as those used by farmers, winemakers and forest owners in Breisgau: axes, hatchets, chairs , spades, shovels, hoes , Riddi hoes , wagon axles or iron wheel tires. Up until a few years ago, farmers in Teningen and the surrounding area were proud to be the owners of an ax in which a Z was sunk, the logo that was derived from the first letter of the founder, Zimmermann.

The hammer mill, which was modernized in 1830, was in use until the 1950s, is still operational today and was one of 18 hammer mills that existed in the then Grand Duchy of Baden in the 1830s .

The company remained in family ownership after a daughter of Georg Friedrich Zimmermann married the Emmendingen mechanic and master watchmaker Karl Saaler in 1866. In addition to the hammer mill, Saaler opened a mechanical workshop and later an iron foundry. He expanded the product range to include machines for the textile and leather industry, for mills and breweries and produced water wheels, turbines and steam engines. Elevators for people and goods, fruit and grape presses, transmissions, bridges and crane systems as well as wall and church tower clocks were also manufactured. In 1898 the Saaler machine factory employed around 82 workers who worked around 70 hours a week. By 1911 the workforce had risen to 166. Saaler also operated a tube rolling mill from 1904, and a galvanizing plant was set up shortly afterwards. In 1898, Karl Saaler built the Villa Saaler , a neo-renaissance family villa in the neighboring district town of Emmendingen. More than a hundred years later, the villa was awarded a prize for exemplary construction by the Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Architects in 2009 after an extensive, listed restoration .

In 1911, Maschinen und Eisengießerei Saaler AG acquired the license to produce sheet aluminum from the Swiss industrialist Heinrich Alfred Gautschi . Saaler and the Ludwigshafen entrepreneur Netter founded Aluminum GmbH , which was the first German company to produce aluminum foil. Emil Tscheulin , who had also been the operations manager of the Saaler machine factory for several years, was entrusted with the technical management of the film production . Aluminum GmbH was merged with the aluminum works in Emmishofen and Singen to form Aluminum Walzwerke AG , based in Schaffhausen , as early as 1912 .

In 1931 the company faced bankruptcy and was taken over by the Munich entrepreneur Hans Theissen and Emil Tscheulin. Both held half of the shares.

From 1935 machines for steel wool production were added to the product range. In 1941 the iron and hammer mill employed around 170 workers.

Since 1950, machine tools - cutting and bending machines - have been produced for sheet metal processing.

Production sites

Owners and management

  • The main shareholder is the Trumpf Group in Ditzingen; The managing director is Tom Schneider.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.badische-zeitung.de/teningen/lehner-haben-auf-gross
  2. ^ Badische Zeitung of February 5, 2015
  3. ↑ EHT is now part of TRUMPF. EHT / Trumpf , February 4, 2015, accessed July 28, 2016.
  4. ^ Norbert Ohler: The community in the 19th and 20th centuries . In: Peter Schmidt (ed.): Teningen. A home book . Teningen 1990, ISBN 3-9802631-3-4 , p. 372 f.
  5. ↑ Volker Watzka (ed.): Between Kandel and Kaiserstuhl . Emmendingen 1995, ISBN 3-926556-09-9 , p. 122.
  6. ↑ [1]
  7. ^ Badische Zeitung of November 27, 2008
  8. ↑ Volker Watzka (ed.): Between Kandel and Kaiserstuhl . Emmendingen 1995, ISBN 3-926556-09-9 , p. 123.

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 46.6 ″  N , 7 ° 48 ′ 51.3 ″  E