Eilenburg engine factory

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Eilenburger Motoren-Werk AG (EMW)
Eilenburger Motoren-Werke AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1900s
resolution 1930
Seat Eilenburg , Germany
management Max Alverdes
Branch Engine manufacturers , automobile manufacturers

The Eilenburger engines-Werk AG ( EMW ), from 1921 Eilenburger Motoren-Werke AG was a German manufacturer of motors and between about 1909 and 1914, from automobiles . They are not to be confused with the Eisenach automobile plant , which operated under the abbreviation EMW between 1951 and 1953 .

history

Advertisement for the EMW car (around 1914)
Eilenburger Motoren-Werke AG shares of more than 1,000 marks on March 14, 1922

Around 1902 the entrepreneur Dürr set up an engine factory in the suburb of Kültzschau near Eilenburg . The Dürr-Motoren-Gesellschaft initially developed poorly, so that in 1905 there was a change of shareholders. The mechanical engineer Max Alverdes, who originally came from Hamburg , acquired all shares in the company by 1909 at the latest and renamed the company to Eilenburger Motoren-Werk AG. Under the new management the economic situation improved noticeably. At around the time when Alverdes became the sole shareholder, automobile manufacture began in Eilenburg. For example, the EMW was an exhibitor at the 1909 International Motor Show in Berlin .

With the outbreak of the First World War , the production of automobiles ended. The company now served lucrative orders for equipping the imperial army. After the war, the upswing continued, which was reflected in the expansion of the company between 1919 and 1921. Eilenburger Motoren-Werke AG was founded on July 5, 1921. The EMW survived the crisis year 1923, which was characterized by enormous devaluation among other things, largely unscathed. Its high export ratio brought the engine manufacturer, however, during the Great Depression in 1929 in dire straits. Due to a lack of orders, an application was made to close the plant at the end of 1929. On January 28 of the following year, the company's ordinary general meeting decided to dissolve it and then liquidate it. The EMW were bought and dismantled by a "large southern German company". In 1933 the Eilenburger Propellerwerk Gustav Schwarz GmbH set up in the factory halls , which supplied aircraft parts for the Wehrmacht .

Products

Model range of Eilenburger Motoren-Werk AG (around 1914)

Automobiles

The EMW manufactured five different automobile models based on a uniform chassis type . The number of vehicles built and the price at which they were offered is currently not known. Likewise, no surviving copy is known. Due to the largely manual production, it was probably a higher-class car. The following five models were offered:

designation Engine power description
Model a 8/22 hp comfortable travel car
Model B. 8/22 hp Combination body, closed with a highly elegant sedan landaulette
Two-seater 8/22 hp Sports execution
Delivery truck open 8/22 hp Delivery truck with an open loading platform, loading weight: 12 quintals
Delivery van closed 8/22 hp Delivery van with closed loading platform, loading weight: 10 quintals

The track width of the vehicles was 1,300 millimeters. With a width of 1670 millimeters and a length of 4250 millimeters, the cars reached a top speed of 70 kilometers per hour.

It seems unlikely that, as has been postulated several times, at least five cars were manufactured after 1920, since the vehicle catalog for “EMW Turen- und Lieferungs-Wagen [sic!]” Cited as the source only contains the company name that was used until 1921. In addition, the location was named Eilenburg-K. (for Eilenburg- Kültzschau ), which was already obsolete in 1914 when it was renamed Eilenburg-Ost . However, few remaining vehicles are said to have been exhibited in company premises until after 1920.

Engines

Others

In addition, at least in the early days of the company, small locomotives and traction engines were built.

Whereabouts

Company publications are now in the holdings of the Deutsches Museum in Munich and the Eilenburg City Archives.

A large part of the operating facilities is still there today and is used for other purposes. These include the former large assembly hall in Torgauer Landstrasse 73 (around 1902, later VEB Kraftverkehr, today Vergölst ) as well as the former office building (around 1920, today daycare center Löwenzahn) and the dispatch warehouse with presentation room (around 1920, later cinema Ostlichtspiele , today craft businesses) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jürgen Scheller: History of the Eilenburger Motorenwerke-AG in the yearbook for Eilenburg and the surrounding area 2010 , publishing house Heide-Druck Bad Düben , p. 58
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Beuche: Die Eilenburger Industriegeschichte Part I, Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2008, p. 32 f.
  3. ↑ Andreas Bechert: The Autostadt Eilenburg in The Sorbenturm - Volume 6, Eilenburg 2009, p. 81
  4. ↑ Jürgen Scheller: History of the Eilenburger Motorenwerke-AG in the yearbook for Eilenburg and the surrounding area 2010 , publishing house Heide-Druck Bad Düben , p. 56
  5. ↑ Unknown locomotive manufacturers (accessed on August 18, 2013)
  6. ↑ Deutsches Museum : deutsches-museum.de → Archive → Holdings → Company publications → E (accessed on August 18, 2013)