Fredenhagen (company)
| Fredenhagen | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1872 |
| resolution | 2011 |
| Seat | Offenbach am Main |
| management | Clemens Vollmer |
| Number of employees | 70 (2011) |
| sales | 5.84 million euros (2010) |
| Branch | Metal construction |
The Fred Hagen GmbH & Co. KG was a German company in the metal construction industry , based in Offenbach am Main . The company delivered its products worldwide.
history
Wilhelm Fredenhagen took over the iron foundry founded in 1829 from his father-in-law Alfred Richard Seebaß and continued to run it under the Fredenhagen company . The company built hot air engines, among other things, under license from the Belgian entrepreneur Dirk Willem van Rennes between 1877 and 1880 .
In 1904, production was relocated from the old location on Waldstrasse to the newly built plant on Sprendlinger Landstrasse in Offenbach's Lauterborn district . Initially 200 people worked there, and the plant was gradually expanded. In 1922 Victor Fredenhagen sold the company to Joseph Kupczyk. In the following years the focus shifted to the manufacture of conveyor systems , hoists and elevators .
Fredenhagen was one of the first companies to produce conveyor systems such as assembly lines.
The factory facilities were badly damaged in the Second World War . After the reconstruction, Fredenhagen specialized in the manufacture of transport systems.
Most recently, the company manufactured electric monorail systems , automatic transfer devices and bulk material conveyors and had locations in Belgium , China , Germany, Great Britain , Mexico , Sweden , Spain and the USA . As a supplier to the automotive industry, his customers included Audi, BMW, Brilliance Automotive, Citroën, DAF, Daimler, FAW-VW, Fiat, Ford, Freightliner, General Motors, Hummer, Jeep and Karmann.
In 2007 Fredenhagen received the VW Group Award Entrepreneurial Performance Prize.
In 2008 the company was taken over by Stotz Fördersysteme , which belonged to the Berlin financial investor KV Kapital GmbH, and had 150 employees. Fredenhagen Industries , based in Lilienthal near Bremen, was founded as a subsidiary to manufacture conveyor systems for the wind power industry, with which the company wanted to reduce its dependence on the automotive industry.
In July 2009 the company had to file for bankruptcy. Stotz also filed for bankruptcy in October 2010.
The company's former factory hall in Offenbach has been used for events under the name Eventlocation Fredenhagen since 2015 .
The former factory site is part of the Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main project .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b hoppenstedt-hochschuldatenbank.de 323540788 (only accessible for licensed users)
- ^ Wiebke Rannenberg: Uncertainty, fear of the future, financial worries . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , September 1, 2009.
- ^ The introduction of assembly line work in Germany by 1933
- ^ Museum of the History of Elevators and Escalators
- ↑ a b Werner Waldner: Stotz Fördersysteme files for bankruptcy. In: stuttgarter-nachrichten.de. October 30, 2010, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved April 17, 2015 .
- ^ Wiebke Rannenberg: Auto supplier Fredenhagen: Bankruptcy victims complain. In: fr-online.de. March 10, 2010, accessed April 17, 2015 .
- ↑ Fredenhagen in Offenbach is insolvent. In: op-online.de. July 9, 2009, accessed April 17, 2015 .
- ↑ Konstanze Löw: Fredenhagen lives on. In: op-online.de. April 17, 2015, accessed April 17, 2015 .
- ↑ Local route guide No. 13 of the Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main. (PDF; 686 kB) In: krfrm.de. KulturRegion FrankfurtRheinMain gGmbH, August 2006, archived from the original on November 17, 2015 ; accessed on November 14, 2015 .