Garbe, Lahmeyer & Co.
| Garbe, Lahmeyer & Co. (German Electricity Works in Aachen) |
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| legal form | Established as KG , from 1899 AG |
| founding | April 1, 1886 |
| resolution | 1993 (operational business) |
| Seat | Aachen , Germany |
| Branch | Electrical engineering |
Garbe, Lahmeyer & Co. (before 1938 also: DEW - Deutsche Elektrizitäts-Werke zu Aachen ) is a former electrical engineering company based in Aachen .
history
The company was in 1886 under the technical guidance of the engineer Wilhelm Lahmeyer and the merchant Heinrich Garbe on Pontdriesch in Aachen German Electricity works to Aachen, Garbe, Lahmeyer & Co. founded. Two years later, the Aachen industrialists Carl Gustav Talbot , Jean Louis Piedbœuf , Gottfried Pastor and Carl Eduard Springsfeld joined the company as additional limited partners . Wilhelm Lahmeyer left the company as early as 1890 and founded Wilhelm Lahmeyer & Co. KG in Frankfurt am Main , since 1893 Elektrizitäts-AG, formerly W. Lahmeyer & Co. However, his name remained with the Aachen company after he left the company, which began in 1899 was converted into a stock corporation.
After large companies such as Siemens and AEG dominated the market at the turn of the century, Garbe, Lahmeyer also had to develop structurally. For this purpose, the company acquired available space in the Aachen-Nord industrial district on Jülicherstraße in the immediate vicinity of the Talbot wagon factory and the Aachen Nord train station , where the management had new assembly halls with a forge and joinery as well as administrative and social buildings built according to plans by the architect Flocke around 1910 the north and south workshop buildings were added according to plans by Heinrich Salzmann and Curt Ganzlin. After the name was changed to Garbe, Lahmeyer & Co. AG in 1938 , the company had the assembly halls for the ever larger transformers significantly expanded, which were included in the Todt Organization's Urgency Level 1 due to the necessity due to the war .
During the Second World War , production had to be gradually outsourced to Düsseldorf-Benrath , while the Aachen plant was affected by bombing. After the war, the company returned to its headquarters in Aachen and the reconstruction took place, followed by necessary expansions and additions as early as 1950 and 1960. In 1973 Garbe, Lahmeyer was taken over by CGEE Alsthom after it ran into financial difficulties due to a delay in delivery of silicon metals.
At the beginning of the 1990s, all operational areas (hydraulics, drive technology, power converter technology, household appliances / vacuum cleaners) were outsourced to independent companies and largely sold, and production at the parent company was discontinued around 1993. Only the hydraulics department, founded in 1958, which traded under the name of GL Hydraulik GmbH from 1993 and relocated its headquarters to Debyestrasse 163 in the Eilendorfer industrial park, is still in existence. The Hamburg- based formal legal successor as a stock corporation, the investment company GL AG , existed until 2015 and was eventually dissolved.
Parts of the Aachen buildings were either rented or sold from 1993, including to Talbot for the production of their StreetScooter . Through the RWTH Aachen University and the nationwide "Schlaun Competition" for students and young professionals from the fields of architecture, civil engineering as well as urban development and landscape planning under the motto "Aachen North 2030", plans for the conversion of the entire complex have meanwhile been drawn up, but have not yet been decided have yet to be implemented.
Products
The first Garbe-Lahmeyer product was a type of self-regulating arc lamp newly developed by Lahmeyer . A short time later, a new type of electric motor was added (see picture), which quickly became the standard on the market. Over the years, the portfolio has been steadily expanded and a wide variety of electrical devices and machines have been manufactured: electric motors of all kinds, dynamo machines (generators) , alternators and starters for car engines, power converters , converters , welding power sources , right up to hydraulic systems and electrical household appliances.
Before the First World War, mainly three-phase motors, countless DC machines for ships and submarines and ever larger generators and transformers were produced, with the first main propulsion engine of a submarine manufactured in Germany being developed by Garbe, Lahmeyer & Co in Aachen. One of these submarine engines is now part of the collections of the Deutsches Museum in Munich . In 1925 the first overburden locomotive drove in the Rhenish lignite mining area with a "Garbe-Lahmeyer-Krupp" engine and after 1933 machine tool drives and engines were built to equip the hydrogenation plants .
"Lahmeyer-Type" DC external pole machine (1886)
Converters from Garbe-Lahmeyer with the old GL logo
Hydroelectric power plant Oleftalsperre with GL generators
Share over 1000 RM in Garbe, Lahmeyer & Co AG from August 1942
literature
- Garbe, Lahmeyer & Co. (Ed.): The book of Garbe, Lahmeyer and Co. AG. Aachener Verlags-Druckerei, Aachen undated
- Heinz Steguweit: Light and Power. April 1, 1886 - April 1, 1961. For the 75th anniversary of the Garbe, Lahmeyer & Co. Aktiengesellschaft. (Company commemorative publication, printed as a manuscript) Aachen 1961.
Web links
- Walter Buschmann: Garbe, Lahmeyer & Co. on Rhenish industrial culture
Individual evidence
- ^ The company Garbe, Lahmeyer & Co., Aktiengesellschaft on garbe-lahmeyer.info.
- ↑ Stronger than the state? In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 1974, p. 46 ( Online - May 20, 1974 ).
- ↑ GL Hydraulik GmbH - company profile , on the company homepage
- ↑ Company data GL Hydraulics on genios.de
- ↑ GL AG on amiculum.eu.
- ↑ GL AG Hamburg on moneyhouse.de
- ↑ GL AG Hamburg on northdata.de
- ↑ Conversion of the Garbe-Lahmeyer Halle, Aachen , Schlaun competition project on the RWTH Aachen website
- ↑ Location and market analysis of the commercial areas Aachen-Nord , final report by Kadawittfeldarchitektur from August 2016 on the website of the city of Aachen; Pp. 36-46
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 6.2 " N , 6 ° 6 ′ 35.8" E