Flottmann works

Street side of the Flottmann-Hallen

The Flottmann-Werke AG was a German mechanical engineering - companies based in Herne . It was an important mining supplier.

history

The company's founder was Friedrich Heinrich Flottmann (1844–1899), who acquired an existing brass foundry and metal turning shop in Bochum in 1872 and continued it under the company of Metallgießerei H. Flottmann . After his death, his widow Emilie Flottmann (1852–1933) continued the company. The eldest son Otto Heinrich Flottmann (1875–1944) received the Reichs patent in 1904 for the "pneumatic hammer drill with ball control and automatic implementation", which among other things revolutionized the Ruhr mining industry. Otto Heinrich Flottmann relocated the factory to Herne due to the lack of expansion possibilities at the original location.

In 1957, when the coal crisis began, the company ran into persistent economic difficulties. In 1983 the main location was relocated to Baukauer Straße in Herne. The Flottmann-Hallen emerged from the old factory in 1986 as a cultural center . In 1988 took place fusion with Secair and farmers to Ecoair under the umbrella of MAN . The sale in 1994 to the Ingersoll Rand Company led to the abandonment of the Herne production site.

literature

• Karl Brinkmann: The history of the Flottmann works. Anniversary publication for the 80th birthday of the building councilor Dr.-Ing. Eh Otto Heinrich Flottmann on December 24, 1955. Bochum 1955.
• Flottmann-Werke (Ed.), Josef Arens: Between the Bosporus and the North Cape. A European sketchbook with notes by Josef Arens. Herne 1969.
• Ralf Piorr (Ed.): Flottmann. A history of the district. Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1229-8 .

Web links

Commons : Flottmann-Hallen  - collection of pictures

• Pictures of the rotary hammers and a list of former branches: doi : 10.3932 / ethz-a-000021643 , doi : 10.3932 / ethz-a-000021644 , doi : 10.3932 / ethz-a-000021646 , doi : 10.3932 / ethz-a-000021647
• Flottmannhallen. From the machine factory to the culture factory. on the website of the vocational college in Herne
• Flottmann-Hallen on the route of industrial culture
• Flottmann-Hallen: history
• Flottmann-Werke at wiki.huen-un-perduen.de , accessed on May 25, 2016
• Early documents and newspaper articles on Flottmann-Werke in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Brinkmann: "Bochum. From the history of a major city in the area." Schürmann & Klagges, Bochum 1968.

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 19.5 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 33 ″  E