First machine factory in Chemnitz

Hauboldwerk around 1890, today partly used as the ERMAFA-Passage shopping center

Household appliance production at ERMAFA in the 1970s (Photo: Federal Archives)

The First Chemnitzer Maschinenfabrik (from 1953 VEB Erste Maschinenfabrik Karl-Marx-Stadt , ERMAFA) was a traditional and important mechanical engineering company based in Chemnitz . It was founded in 1852 by Carl Gottlieb Haubold and, in addition to its headquarters on the northern edge of the Kaßberg, had several foundries and other production sites in the city. Main products were mainly machines for textile finishing and paper processing ; During the Second World War , armaments for the Wehrmacht were also added.

In 1948 the company was expropriated and large parts of it were dismantled. During the GDR era, ERMAFA belonged to the combine for plastic and elastomer processing machines as a parent company and also produced household appliances such as B. Spin dryers . After the end of the GDR, the company was reprivatised and initially relocated to the Borna district . The former main factory on Hartmannstrasse was placed under monument protection and converted into a shopping center under the name ERMAFA Passage .

One part of the company still produces special machines for the plastics and rubber processing industry under the name ERMAFA Sondermaschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH at two locations in Chemnitz-Siegmar as well as systems for the sterilization of clinical waste and in Ellefeld in Vogtland under the name Ermafa Auerbach deep drilling machines for cubic and cylindrical workpieces , Milling machines and combined deep drilling and milling centers for applications in general machine and plant construction, in tool and mold construction or in the gas and oil industry.

literature

• W. Beckmann: 150 years of mechanical engineering 1837–1987 . VEB ERMAFA Karl-Marx-Stadt 1987.
• Armin Reif, Wilfried Vogt: ERMAFA in structural change. In: Work and technology in the new federal states. Dortmund 1993, pp. 142-151.
• Wolfgang Hähnel: Consumer goods production in the first machine factory in Karl-Marx-Stadt . In: Chemnitz Roland. Club mirror for home, customs, history, art . Vol. 24 (2017), Issue 2, pp. 23-25.

Web links

Commons : Ermafa-Passage Chemnitz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Information on the history of the Haubold works before 1945 at historisches-chemnitz.de
• VEB ERMAFA files in the Chemnitz State Archives

Individual evidence

1. ^ Industrial culture East: VEB Maschinenfabrik Chemnitz. Retrieved August 5, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Website of the ERMAFA Passage shopping center. Retrieved August 5, 2017 . 
3. ↑ ERMAFA Sondermaschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH. Retrieved August 5, 2017 . 

Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 16.9 ″  N , 12 ° 54 ′ 27.8 ″  E