Luther works
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The Luther works on a map of the city of Braunschweig, 1899.
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The Luther works were a mill and mechanical engineering company in Braunschweig .
history
Foundation and development
The Luther works were founded on July 1st, 1875 by Gottlieb Luther as G. Luther, Maschinenfabrik und Mühlenbau . Luther ran Germany's first mill construction institute with a partner in Wolfenbüttel from 1852 and was also involved in the Eitzum oil mill , where he tried out the latest mill construction techniques . In 1878 Luther acquired the Rüningen mill . After Luther's death in 1879, his son Hugo continued the business. He started producing large grain mills on the premises on Frankfurter Strasse . In 1888 it was converted into a limited partnership (KG).
Due to financial problems and disputes, the limited partners Ernst Amme , Carl Giesecke and Julius Konegen left the company and built their own company in 1895 under the name Braunschweigische Mühlenbauanstalt Amme, Giesecke & Konegen (AGK).
The Luther works were then converted into a stock corporation (AG) in 1898 .
Merger to form MIAG
On August 1, 1921, Hugo Greffenius founded five large mill construction companies in Frankfurt / Main. a. the AGK and the Lutherwerke MIAG Mühlenbau und Industrie Aktiengesellschaft , whose individual companies merged in 1925. MIAG's headquarters were relocated to Braunschweig in early 1930.
Due to the rapidly increasing arms orders (1938 73 percent of the total order volume), the number of employees in Braunschweig grew from around 3,500 in 1933 to more than 8,000 in 1936/37.
MIAG's aircraft production - mainly the Messerschmitt Bf 110 , Me 210 and Me 410 types under license - then took place in the outsourced Luther works until the end of the war. For this purpose, a production area was acquired at Waggum airfield .
For post-war history 1953–1979, see MIP Mainz Industries Panzerwerke . The former company premises of the Luther-Werke on Frankfurter Strasse in Braunschweig are today (2010) largely used by the Braunschweig branch of ALBA AG as a depot for city cleaning.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Braunschweiger Zeitung of January 7, 2010, p. 34.
- ↑ www.muehle-rueningen.de, accessed on January 17, 2010 ( Memento from March 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).