Iron foundry Klett & Comp.

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The iron foundry Klett & Comp. , according to other sources Eisengießerei und Maschinenfabrik Klett & Comp. In Nuremberg there was a machine factory founded in 1841 for the railway requirements and one of the two predecessor companies of MAN . As part of the MAN Group, rail vehicles were manufactured at the Nuremberg location until 1990 .

history

Company sign "Klett & Co." on Marienbrücke (1866)

The company initially manufactured steam engines and from 1844 cast parts for a state-owned Bavarian wagon construction company. In 1847 the company's founder, Johann Friedrich Klett, died . The company was taken over by the publisher Theodor Cramer , who married Klett's daughter.

On February 28, 1851, the first vehicle to be delivered was a freight car . Together with Johann Ludwig Werder ( Werder-Gewehr M / 1869 ) the company grew massively under Cramer-Klett and from then on also manufactured bridges and high-rise railway structures (e.g. Munich Glass Palace ). The company covered the increased capital requirements through intensive cooperation with the Darmstädter Bank for Trade and Industry .

In 1865 the first of numerous changes of name took place, then in Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Nürnberg, Klett & Co. , in 1873 in Maschinenbau-Actien-Gesellschaft Nürnberg . In 1898 this company merged with Maschinenfabrik Augsburg to form the Vereinigte Maschinenfabrik Augsburg und Maschinenbauges. Nürnberg AG together. From 1908 to 1986 it was a division of MAN.

In 1986 the rail transport technology division of the Augsburg Nürnberg AG machine factory was outsourced to MAN Gutehoffnungshütte Eisenbahnverkehrstechnik AG , which was sold to AEG in 1990 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Merte: locomotive factories in Germany. MAN, Nuremberg. Company history. 2014.
  2. ↑ Johannes Bähr, Ralf Banks, Thomas Flemming: The MAN. A German industrial history. 2nd Edition. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57762-8 , pp. 175 ff. , (Digitized extracts on Google Books).
  3. ^ Bernhard Hoffmann:  Cramer-Klett, Theodor von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 394 ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG (MAN) at historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de, accessed on November 18, 2018