Freundsche machine factory
The Freund Maschinenfabrik was a German mechanical engineering company with headquarters in Berlin .
history
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Georg Christian Freund founded a machine factory in Berlin in 1815. The production facility was located at Mauerstraße 34, in the precision engineering workshop of the Post Councilor Carl Philipp Heinrich Pistor . In collaboration with Pistor, Freund succeeded in building the first functional steam engine in Berlin in 1816 . When Georg Christian Freund died unexpectedly in 1819, his brother Julius Conrad Freund, who joined the workshop as an apprentice in 1816, took overtook over the management of the company and ran the company together with Hans Peter Kreiner (1804–1882) as "JC Freund & Co." away. Production was relocated to Holzgartenstrasse near the Spree. In 1821 it was relocated again to the former Sieburg factory in Kasernenstrasse (today Ebertstrasse) at the Brandenburg Gate . Around 1824 the second youngest brother of Julius Conrad Freund, Martin August Freund (1806–1827) joined the company as a mechanic and became a partner.
The company received more and more government and private contracts. The focus was on steam engine construction with constant improvements. The company also built complete facilities for distilleries and sugar factories , mills , rollers , oil presses , lifts , etc.
Between 1837 and 1839 a boiler construction and iron foundry was built in Charlottenburg between the Landwehr Canal and the Spreebogen , on the so-called Tiergartenfeld (later Salzufer and Franklinstrasse 9 & 10) .
Around 1870 a new factory hall was built at Franklinstrasse 9 & 10 and in 1871 the company was transformed into the "Berliner Aktiengesellschaft für Eisengießerei und Maschinenfabrikation (formerly JC Freund & Co.)". By 1873 the existing factory at Salzufer No. 9-12 was expanded. In 1883 part of the site with the factory facilities (Franklinstrasse 28/29) was acquired by Siemens . A steel foundry was put into operation at the end of 1922 .
In 1925, the outdated and no longer expandable workshop operations had to be shut down due to inflation. Through a joint venture agreement with the company "Starke & Hoffmann" in Hirschberg (Silesia) , the hydraulic steel construction department was brought back to life there. The three lock construction departments, d. H. Engines for civil engineering structures in hydraulic engineering and railway construction, malting plants and pumping machines for pure and dirty water were taken over by Starke & Hoffman. The technical offices of this department remained as bases in Berlin.
From 1926 the hydraulic steel construction department operated as an independent company "Freund-Starkehoffmann-Maschinen-Aktiengesellschaft", Berlin-Charlottenburg. Well-known orders were carried out there, B. for the largest locks in Europe in Anderten for the Mittelland Canal as well as mechanical equipment that was required for the expansion of waterways and locks at home and abroad. In 1927 production had to be stopped after sales collapsed.
From 1929, the private Tell Halaf Museum was set up in some of the buildings in the disused factory on Franklinstrasse . In 1943 the buildings were largely destroyed by bombs. The preserved building at Franklinstrasse 9 & 10 is listed as a monument.
literature
Berlin-Archiv, Archiv-Verlag, Braunschweig, 1980–90, collection sheet 06070