Deutz AG

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DEUTZ AG

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legal form Corporation
ISIN DE0006305006
founding 1864
Seat Cologne , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management
  • Frank Hiller ( CEO )
  • Andreas Strecker
  • Michael Wellenzohn
Number of employees 4,645
sales 1.778 billion euros (2018)
Branch Engine construction
Website www.deutz.com
As of December 31, 2018

The Deutz AG is a listed, 1864 established German manufacturer of diesel, gas and electrified engines based in Cologne . In the past, the company operated under different names, including the well-known abbreviation KHD for Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz . In addition to the existing production of air, water and oil-cooled diesel engines , the company has also been involved in the construction of gasoline engines , locomotives , motor vehicles , commercial vehicles ( trucks and buses ), construction machinery , agricultural machinery and plant engineering in the past .

The company's logo, which has been in use since 1964, is originally that of the acquired vehicle manufacturer Magirus from Ulm : It shows a capital "M" for Magirus in combination with the stylized silhouette of Ulm Minster .

history

NA Otto & Compagnie (1864–1872)

Since the beginning of the 1860s, the self-taught Nicolaus August Otto has been concerned with the question of how the first reliably functioning gas engine from the French Étienne Lenoir could be optimized. Together with the sugar manufacturer Eugen Langen , Otto founded NA Otto & Compagnie on March 31, 1864 . While Otto, as a personally liable partner, had a capital of 2,500 thalers , Langen bore the majority of the financial risk with 10,000 thalers. Langen initially took over the commercial department, Otto was responsible for engine development.

Three years after the company was founded, Otto manufactured his first atmospheric engine, also known as the aviation piston engine . Otto and Langen presented this new type of construction at the 1867 World's Fair in Paris, which attracted 52,000 exhibitors and around 13 million visitors. The jurors there were initially not convinced by Otto's invention because the 700 kilogram, 0.5 HP internal combustion engine from Cologne was designed too loud and strange. The critical experts were only impressed by the low gas consumption of the new type of engine. Otto's engine only required a third of the amount of gas that Lenoir's machine had consumed per horse power and hour. As a result, the atmospheric engine won the “Golden Medal” as the most economical drive machine for small businesses, and thus the highest award that could be given at the World Exhibition.

Thanks to the award-winning presentation in Paris, the atmospheric engine was able to go into series production in Cologne and the machine developed into a worldwide best seller. Otto and Langen exported the engine from Cologne to Russia and the USA. By 1868 an engine could be completed almost every week. A year later, a production license was awarded to the Crossley Brothers from Manchester for the first time, which marked the beginning of internal combustion engine construction in England. Due to their upper power limit of two horsepower, the engines from Cologne were of particular interest to craft, trade and small industries. The equipment of the workshop and the working capital of NA Otto & Compagnie less and less met the increased production requirements. Despite promising business, the young company was still not in the black.

To expand, Otto and Langen dissolved the company NA Otto & Compagnie and decided to re-establish it together with the Hamburg businessman Ludwig August Roosen-Rungen. The Hanseatic had already got to know the engine business at Otto und Langen as a freelancer for six months and saw the factory's chances of success. From March 13, 1869 they traded under the name "Langen, Otto and Roosen". With the financial support of Roosen-Runge, engine production could take place under completely different conditions. The newly founded company bought three acres of farmland on Deutz-Mülheimer Chaussee for 15,000 thalers. On November 25, 1869, the company headquarters with new, modern factory buildings were officially relocated from Cologne across the Rhine to the then still independent city of Deutz. In the year of the move, the name “DEUTZ” appeared on the nameplates of the gas engines for the first time. A year later the company was already making a profit, but Roosen-Runge was dissatisfied with his profit sharing and left the company. A new partner had to be found in order to keep the grown company going.

Langen's brother Gustav suggested that he and his brother Jacob Langen join the company. Even Emil and Valentin Pfeifer , who came from the sugar industry, participated. In this constellation, the company was re-established for the third time in eight years on January 5, 1872. The company's share capital when it was re-established was 300,000 thalers, which were divided into 1,500 shares worth 200 thalers each. The company was called "Gasmotoren-Fabrik Deutz AG".

Gas engine factory Deutz AG (1872–1921)

Newspaper advertisement from 1910
Deutz mine locomotive
Deutz light rail locomotive
Sign on the petroleum locomotive type 3514 from 1913
Deutz MTH 222 , built 1925-1930, 14 HP, displacement: 2,861 cm³, 1-cylinder (multi-fuel) diesel engine.

Shortly after the transformation into a stock corporation in January 1872, personnel changes followed: Eugen Langen took over the management of the company, while Otto was officially responsible for the commercial side. In March, Gottlieb Daimler came to Deutz from southern Germany as a specialist for technical management . His close colleague Wilhelm Maybach followed him and rose to chief designer in January 1873. Both were now in charge of technical production until they left the engine factory in 1882.

In order to meet the increased demand, around 240 employees worked on the completion of engines on the enlarged factory premises on Deutz-Mülheimer Chaussee in the mid-1870s. In 1875 the Deutz gas engine factory produced 634 engines. In the same year, the gas engine factory had branches in Paris, Vienna and Milan that were already manufacturing a small number of machines themselves. The money for the expansion was abundant, because the dividends of the stock corporation alone fluctuated between eleven and 23 percent from 1872/73 to 1876/77.

In 1876 the Deutz gas engine factory was able to present a new and more powerful engine with the world's first four-stroke engine, also known as a gasoline engine. As with the atmospheric gas engine, the Deutz company issued licenses to the Crossley Brothers in Manchester. The new type of engine was sold overseas shortly after its invention, when a branch of the Deutz gas engine factory was established in Philadelphia in 1877, which was the first engine factory in the USA. As early as 1880, 132 of the new motors were in use for electric alternators, 353 for elevators and cranes, 254 made work easier in mechanical engineering and mechanical workshops, 307 were used for pumps and irrigation systems and 211 for woodworking. The book printing shops also remained an important customer, with 1,396 machines running in 1880 alone.

Building on the discovery of the dynamo-electric principle by Werner Siemens in 1866, Otto was able to present the low-voltage magneto ignition in 1884. It was an electric ignition device with a voltage of 40 volts and high amperage. The electrically ignited petrol engine, invented by the Deutz gas engine factory, was honored at the Antwerp World Exhibition in 1885. The power of the four cycles could therefore also be used for mobile use on the road.

By the 25th anniversary in 1889, almost 30,000 engines had been manufactured on the Rhine and by the subsidiaries and licensees in Vienna, Paris, Liège, Manchester, Copenhagen and Philadelphia. At that time, 700 people were working for the company. In addition, in 1888 the company opened another branch in Milan and in 1889 the "Casa Deutz" in Barcelona. As early as 1892, the Deutz gas engine factory began manufacturing the first locomotives with combustion engines. Two years later, the US subsidiary “The Otto Gas Engine Works” produced a first so-called “plow locomotive” in Philadelphia. The 26 hp vehicle, powered by a gasoline engine, was a kind of self-propelled locomotive that could pull a plow across fields. In addition to rail and field, the company also expanded into water. In 1893, two eight hp marine engines drove the boats "Otto" and "Langen" on the Rhine.

Deutz F1 M414 "Bauernschlepper" , built in 1946, 1-cylinder diesel engine with 11 HP, displacement: 1,100 cm³.

The next decades were characterized by a steady expansion of the production area, especially through acquisitions of other companies. From 1892 to 1970 Deutz built locomotives in the power range from 4 HP to 2000 HP. Up to 1927 with gasoline engines, from 1927 increasingly with diesel engine drive . From 1897, stationary diesel engines were also built, initially under license from MAN . The gas engine factory Deutz AG in Cologne provided for the first of the company August & Charles Greten in Luxembourg built with internal combustion engine driven fire engine to the drive motor of the world. The fire fighting vehicles built by Magirus-Deutz later achieved world fame.

In 1906 the attempt to mass-produce an automobile began . The basis was a design by Bugatti. The large four-cylinder vehicles were to be built in the Berlin branch. Only a few test cars were produced until 1909, and a 1.3 liter racing car for the Italian Ettore Bugatti was built at the same time . The most famous model, however, is the Deutz Prinz Heinrich Type 9C from 1909. Overall, however, only a few passenger cars were built by Deutz until 1913.

In 1907 Deutz rose with the two models, the Deutz " plow locomotive" (40 hp petrol engine) and the Deutz " automobile plow" ( 25 hp petrol engine), which were used to operate various agricultural implements and with a pulley to drive stationary threshing and chopping machines were equipped, as well as from 1919 with the Deutz tractor (40 HP petrol engine) in the tractor construction .

In 1924 Deutz began producing the first single-cylinder (multi-fuel) diesel tractor models MTH 122 (14 hp, displacement: 3,861 cm³) or MTH 222 (14 hp, displacement: 2,861 cm³, gearbox: 2 forward and 1 reverse gears) , Production numbers (of the different model variants) approx. 1,000 pieces. The two-cylinder (multi-fuel) diesel tractor models MTH 120 , MTH 220 and MTH 320 (27–30 PS, displacement: 5,722 cm³, gearbox: 3 forward and 1 reverse gears, top speed: approx. 18 km / h) followed in 1926 , Production numbers (of the various model variants) over 2,000 pieces.

All models had a belt pulley to drive a large number of additional devices (such as large grinder , threshing machine , wind sweeper , baler , hay and crop conveyor, forage harvester (crop chopper ), stone breaker , (firewood) circular saw, cone splitter , water pump, workshop machines , etc.). Thus, the Deutz tractors combined the advantages of a farm and tractor unit and a stationary drive motor for operating additional equipment; they also had a cutter bar drive with an optionally available cutter bar and, from 1929, also a geared PTO shaft if required . Alongside Lanz , Deutz was one of the two most important tractor manufacturers in Germany, which in the first half of the 20th century played a decisive role in the development and commercial success of the mechanization of agriculture and the resulting agricultural and social upheavals. Although other manufacturers also made significant contributions to the technical developments in tractor construction, they were initially economically (and socially) less influential for the upheaval in the mechanization of agriculture at that time.

Deutz achieved its first major sales successes with the two-cylinder model that went into production in 1933 F2M 315 (28 PS, displacement: 3,400 cm³, water tube cooler with fan, gear: 3–5 forward and 1 reverse gear, length: 3.26 m, weight: 2,590 kg, top speed: 22 km / h), as well as the Inexpensive and relatively light and particularly compact and manoeuvrable "farmer's tractor" produced from 1936 for 2,300 Reichsmarks, model: F1M 414 with 1-cylinder diesel engine with 11 HP, displacement: 1,100 cm³, water circulation cooling, gearbox: 3 forward and 1 reverse gear, Dead weight: 1,130 kg, length: 2.28 m, width: 1.53 m, wheelbase: 1.43 m, turning radius (with steering brake): 2.45 m (without steering brake: 3.3 m), trailer load: max. 8 tons, belt pulley, cutter bar drive , optional gear PTO shaft , steering brake, folding grapple and electrical system with vehicle lighting.

From the mid-1930s onwards, Deutz also produced several more, e.g. Some equally successful, more powerful model series were also produced with 3-cylinder and later 4-cylinder diesel engines, which were located in the higher performance and price segment. Especially with the two more cost-effective successful models, the Deutz F1M 414 and the Deutz F2M 315 , of which more than 10,000 units were sold by 1942, Deutz developed into the second large tractor manufacturer alongside Heinrich Lanz AG .

The Deutz F1M 414 "Bauernschlepper" continued its sales success after the war with slightly modified models (especially the Deutz F1M 414/46 ) with a further 10,000 units sold, as well as the Deutz F1L developed on the basis of the Deutz F1M 414 with a similar performance and conceptual profile 514 models with air-cooled 1-cylinder diesel engine with 15 HP (displacement: 1,330 cm³, weight: 1,180 kg, length: 2.28 m, width: 1.53 m, wheelbase: 1.43 m, turning radius with steering brake: 2, 50 m, trailer load: max. 10 tons), of which over 60,000 pieces were sold.

During the First World War in 1916, the 3,400 employees at the time also built trucks with a payload of 5 tons according to plans by Josef Vollmer . In addition to subsidy trucks, the “Deutz Trekker” was also built as an artillery tractor . Series production of the MTH, Deutz's first diesel tractor, began in 1927 . In addition to diesel oil , this could also be operated with crude oil , gas oil , paraffin oil and petroleum . It was only partially suitable for use in the field. This deficiency was only remedied by the MTZ presented two years later, which received the silver award coin at the DLG exhibition in Hanover in 1931 .

The agricultural technology has been for a long time one of the main pillars of the company. The product portfolio included air, oil and water-cooled diesel and gas engines for both stationary and mobile use. The power range was between 40  kW and 4 MW.

Deutz engine factory, Humboldt-Deutzmotoren (1921–1938)

Humboldt-Deutzmotoren AG shares of RM 1000 in December 1930

In 1921, an interest group was formed with the Oberursel engine factory , and aircraft engines and truck engines were also built. The Oberursel plant is now part of Rolls-Royce Germany. The name changed to Motorenfabrik Deutz AG .

In 1930 the Deutz engine factory merged with the Humboldt AG machine construction company , a manufacturer of locomotives from Cologne-Kalk , and the Oberursel AG engine factory to form Humboldt-Deutzmotoren AG . The company name was now Humboldt-Deutz .

In 1936, Humboldt-Deutz took over the ailing Magirus vehicle factory in Ulm . The two companies complemented each other well: Magirus produced commercial vehicles , but urgently needed diesel engines. Humboldt-Deutz manufactured engines, but did not manufacture complete commercial vehicles itself. The merger enabled full trucks , buses, and fire engines to be built . The brand name was Magirus-Deutz .

Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz (KHD) (1938–1997)

KHD logo
KHD general share from 1961

Arms factory in World War II

In 1938, the Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG (KHD) was created through the conclusion of an interest group agreement (organ agreement) with Klöckner-Werke AG Duisburg . Also in 1938 a community of interests was established between Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG and Isselburger Hütte AG . The takeover of the Isselburger Hütte followed in 1939.

During the Second World War , a large part of the production was reserved for armaments of the Wehrmacht, in particular for engines, trucks, tracked vehicles, spare parts and repairs of tanks. A newly developed air-cooled Deutz diesel engine was used for the first time in 1944 to drive the tracked vehicle Raupenschlepper Ost (RSO).

In 1942, because of its activities, the National Socialist German Workers' Front declared KHD a model of war for its "services for the military economy". The company relied heavily on the use of forced labor. In the 1942/1943 financial year, 2,127 people, mainly from Western Europe, had to work for KHD. Sometimes up to 40 percent of the workers in the factories were forced laborers.

expansion

The large fan wheel of the air-cooled engine can be seen behind the grill of this Magirus Deutz truck
A look at the engine production of KHD in 1959
Magirus-Deutz Frontlenker tanker lorry
Diesel locomotive type T4M625R , built in 1954

The factory facilities were largely destroyed in the course of the Second World War. Towards the end of 1945, the production of crawler tractors was temporarily resumed, which should now be used in forestry. The first trucks built after the end of the war were still powered by water-cooled Deutz diesel engines. From 1948 onwards it was replaced by air-cooled diesel engines of our own design, which became a kind of trademark of KHD in the post-war period (only the Czech company Tatra still produces vehicles with air-cooled diesel engines developed in-house). Instead of a water cooler, there was a large fan wheel in front of the engine of the trucks and buses equipped with it, which, in addition to cooling, also provided some of the typical noise that the Magirus-Deutz trucks and buses emitted.

These engines were also installed in construction site compressors from Irmer & Elze , whereby, for example, the six-cylinder in-line was modified so that three cylinders each ran as the engine and three (with different cylinder heads) as the compressor .

After a joint venture with the United Westdeutsche Waggonfabriken AG (Westwaggon) in 1953 and the final takeover in 1959, tram cars were also manufactured for a few years . In 1955, Magirus-Deutz bus production was relocated from Ulm to the Westwaggon factory in Mainz .

From 1961 onwards, KHD increasingly acquired shares in Maschinenfabrik Fahr AG in Gottmadingen , a manufacturer of agricultural machinery.

In 1968 a majority stake followed and in 1969 the takeover of Ködel & Böhm GmbH (KöLa) in Lauingen . Also in 1969, Linde took over the supply of spare parts for Güldner tractors .

Deutz F1L 612 , production: 1953–1958, 11 hp, displacement: 763 cm³, air-cooled 1-cylinder diesel, 6/3 gearbox, dead weight: 830 kg, length: 2.78 m, turning radius with steering brake: 2.6 m, maximum speed: 20 km / h

In the 1960s, KHD had become one of the largest German commercial vehicle manufacturers with its Magirus-Deutz brand . The vehicles were sold all over the world, the engines and, in some cases, trucks built abroad under license . At the beginning of the 1970s, Magirus-Deutz's trucks and buses accounted for around 40% of group sales, making them KHD's most important business area.

In 1968 the company started production of the D-06 series tractors .

In 1969 a majority stake in WEDAG was taken over, which culminated in 1972 in the complete takeover and merger with the plant construction of the former Humboldt mechanical engineering institute under the name of KHD Industrieanlagen . In 1979 the name of the company was changed to KHD Humboldt Wedag .

In 1974 a cooperation for the manufacture of tractors was established with the Kirloskar Group , an Indian mechanical engineering company.

Consolidation

Magirus Deutz bus (already with an additional Iveco emblem on the radiator grille)

Large investments in new models from Magirus-Deutz and the construction of a new truck assembly plant in Ulm had financially weakened KHD. In 1970 locomotive construction was discontinued. In 1974, the delivery of around 10,000 Magirus-Deutz trucks to the Soviet Union , which were used in Siberia for the development of oil fields and for the construction of the Baikal-Amur highway (so-called delta project ) , brought a financial delay . The air-cooled diesel engines from KHD had the decisive competitive advantage here: they were less sensitive to temperature: There was no cooling water that could have frozen or evaporated.

Nevertheless, it became apparent that the air-cooled diesel engine was no longer up-to-date compared to the water-cooled one and that there was steadily less demand from customers. For this reason and for various other reasons (see in detail Magirus-Deutz ) and like many manufacturers during this time (see also the history of the West German commercial vehicle industry from 1945 to 1990 ), KHD was looking for a partner. After failed negotiations with Daimler-Benz, KHD incorporated its commercial vehicle division Magirus-Deutz AG into a new company called Iveco at the beginning of 1975 . Iveco was an amalgamation of European commercial vehicle manufacturers, in which KHD had a 20% stake, the remaining shares were owned by Fiat .

Meanwhile, KHD concentrated again on the construction of engines. So one sensed big business in the USA and tried to sell air-cooled diesel engines to the American military. In order to obtain funds for this feat, KHD sold the remaining Iveco shares to FIAT. The formerly illustrious name Magirus-Deutz then gradually disappeared from trucks and buses - and also from FC Bayern Munich's jerseys - and was replaced by the IVECO logo. In the USA, however, the new supplier of diesel engines was not exactly welcomed with open arms. Intensive sales work, however, led to the successful distribution of the air-cooled Deutz diesel engines, which are also valued in North America.

An air-cooled V8 engine developed jointly with the Canadian government at the end of the 1970s for the dieselization of US mid-range trucks did not come onto the market against the backdrop of the “Buy American” campaign, despite clear technical advantages. After completely taking over the machine works Fahr in 1975, the company entered the agricultural machinery market from 1977 under the new Deutz-Fahr brand .

In 1985, KHD took over Motorenwerke Mannheim (MWM) from Knorr-Bremse AG. In the same year, the agricultural machinery division was taken over by Allis-Chalmers and renamed Deutz-Allis . Five years later, Deutz-Allis was sold to Allis-Gleaner Corporation in a management buyout . In 1995 the then KHD agricultural technology division (tractor production) with the Deutz-Fahr brand was sold to the Italian SAME Group .

12-cylinder marine diesel engine , 1200 HP

In 1996 it emerged that the plant construction division KHD Humboldt Wedag had not secured risky foreign projects in Saudi Arabia and Jordan with reserves and had disguised balance sheets and thus put the entire KHD Group in trouble.

Deutz AG (1997 to today)

By resolution of the Annual General Meeting on September 10, 1996, the name was changed to the previous name Deutz AG on January 1, 1997.

In 2001, Deutz separated from industrial plant construction and became a pure engine manufacturer. First, the aluminum technology division was sold to Outokumpu in March , then in June the industrial plant subsidiary KHD Humboldt Wedag AG with around 500 employees , which is active in the cement and processing technology, was sold to FAHR Beteiligungen AG with retroactive effect from January 1st .

At the beginning of 2001, a three-year restructuring program was started in order to increase profitability. Among other things, the number of engine series has been reduced, the components standardized and the in-house foundry closed.

In March 2004 Lister Petter acquired a development center in Dursley and two engine series. In 2005, Deutz transferred its marine service business with medium and large engines to the company Wärtsilä for 80 million euros and thus contractually committed to Wärtsilä not to build any new medium and large engines in the marine segment. The Deutz subsidiary MWM in Mannheim has since been called Deutz Power Systems GmbH und Co KG . Deutz Power Systems was one of the world's leading system providers of highly efficient and environmentally friendly complete systems based on diesel and gas engines for power generation.

View into the KHD factory hall in 2014

In March 2007 Deutz moved its headquarters from Cologne-Mülheim to its largest production site in Cologne-Porz . In 2007 the company sold Deutz Power Systems (formerly Motorenwerke Mannheim) to the 3i Group for 360 million euros . Most recently, gas engines for decentralized power generation in block-type thermal power stations and, to a lesser extent, large diesel engines were produced in Mannheim . In 2006, the division generated sales of EUR 314 million with around 1,000 employees. On September 30, 2007, the previous chairman of the board, Gordon Riske, left the company and moved to the management board of the Kion Group as spokesman for the forklift truck manufacturer Linde Material Handling . The post of CEO of Deutz was temporarily taken over by the then CFO Helmut Meyer. The Supervisory Board appointed Helmut Leube as the new Chief Executive Officer effective February 1, 2008.

On September 27, 2017, Deutz took over the electric drive specialist Torqeedo . In September 2018 Deutz presented hybrid-electric and fully electric drive prototypes for construction machinery for the first time.

In June 2019, Deutz signed the contract for a joint venture with the Chinese construction machinery manufacturer Sany. A high-performance engine assembly plant will be built in Changsha City in Hunan Province by 2021. Engines for off- and on-highway applications are produced in this plant. For example, the companies are planning to produce around 75,000 Stage IV (China IV) or Stage 6 (China 6) engines for Sany by 2022. Deutz holds 51 percent of the shares in the joint venture.

On October 9, 2019, Deutz acquired the development service provider Futavis, which specializes in battery management hardware and software. Futavis has technical know-how in the fields of electronics, software, battery technology and testing as well as in safeguarding functional safety. With the acquisition of Futavis, DEUTZ is expanding its electrification strategy and is able to develop sustainable, electrified drive systems in cooperation with its subsidiary Torqeedo.

Corporate structure

The Deutz Group is divided into three segments:

  • Deutz Compact Engines - liquid-cooled engines with a capacity of up to eight liters
  • Deutz Customized Solutions - air-cooled engines and large liquid-cooled engines with more than eight liters displacement as well as exchange engines and parts under the name "Deutz Xchange"
  • Other - subsidiary Torqeedo, which produces electric drives for boat applications, and subsidiary Futavis, development service provider for stationary and mobile battery systems

Shareholder structure

After signing a cooperation agreement, the Swedish truck and construction machinery manufacturer Volvo acquired a 10% stake in 1998 . In 2003 SAME Deutz-Fahr (SDF) acquired a stake of 22.2% and has since increased to 45% of the capital. After the sale of shares, SDF's stake was 8.4% in summer 2012, after which Volvo was the largest shareholder with 25% of the shares. SDF has now sold all of its shares in Deutz, and Volvo also sold its shares in July 2017.

The shareholder structure in May 2019 was as follows:

  • Norges Bank 4.9 percent
  • Dimensional Holdings Inc. 5.0 percent
  • Union Investment 5.1 percent
  • Remaining free float 85.0 percent

Former business areas

Locomotive and wagon construction (1892–1970)

Until the 1950s, only small locomotives (e.g. light rail locomotives) were produced. After the interest group formed in 1953 with the United Westdeutsche Waggonfabriken AG (Westwaggon) and their final takeover in 1959, KHD was also able to build large bogie diesel locomotives.

Other types of construction for industrial and private railways were also produced between 1959 and 1970, including:

Commercial vehicles (1936–1975)

see Iveco Magirus

Aeronautical engineering

KHD also had an aeronautical engineering department in Oberursel . In 1990 it had 900 employees, sales of 180 million marks and was mainly active in the military sector. For example, it manufactured engines for military aircraft, but also the Airbus A 320 . In 1990 the company management sold KHD Luftfahrttechnik to BMW for 100 million marks . The former KHD subsidiary later became BMW Rolls-Royce AeroEngines GmbH .

Agricultural machinery (1907–1995)

See above: Tractor construction .

Plant engineering (1930-2001)

For decades, KHD had a plant construction division, mainly in the field of coal and coking technology and cement production technology . Well-known were the company parts KHD Wedag in Bochum on Herner Straße (coking technology) and the cement plant construction in Cologne, which still exists today (as of March 2012), but was resold as a company part in 2001. The new owner is MFC Bancorp, which has renamed itself KHD Humboldt Wedag. In Germany, shares in KHD Humboldt can also be obtained from MFC Industrial Holding, the former Fahr Beteiligungen. Wedag in Bochum was closed as a manufacturing company in the mid / late 1980s and the headquarters of the activities were combined in Cologne.

In the early 1990s KHD Wedag underwent spectacular plant transactions with cement plants talked about, when the then open Saudi Arabian tender procedure ( tender -Aufforderungen of investors ) are all against sharp competition ended as orders in Cologne. Later dramatic failure showed calculations . It turned out that a long-term underfunding had already been clearly recognizable when the order was signed. KHD had offered its Arab customers prices that were in the order of 30% below those of its competitors. The undersigned on the part of KHD had obviously been interested in unusually high agreed down payments from Arab customers that were supposed to help plug holes in the constantly ailing engine industry. In the later partly legal processing of this scandal , it remained unclear until how far up the KHD company hierarchy the knowledge of conscious loss-taking had gone. The chairman of the board at the time was not held responsible. It could not be proven that he knew about the manipulations. However, some managers at division manager level were sentenced to several years in prison.

See also

literature

  • Winfried Wolf: Steel crisis using the example of Klöckner. On the history, structure and politics of the Klöckner Group (Klöckner Werke AG, Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG, Klöckner & Co.) . 1980, ISBN 3-88332-045-5 .
  • Gustav Goldbeck: Power for the World, 1864–1964 Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG . Econ-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1964, no ISBN.
  • Arnold Langen: Nicolaus August Otto .
  • Hans-Jürgen Reuss: Nicolaus August Otto .
  • Friedrich Sass: History of German Internal Combustion Engine Construction from 1860 to 1918 .
  • Chronicle of the Pfeifer family , around 1975 (only published in the family circle).
  • H (ans) Neumann: The museum of the Deutz gas engine factory. A contribution to the history of the gas machine . In: Conrad Matschoss (ed.): Contributions to the history of technology and industry . Volume 1. Springer, Berlin 1909, ZDB -ID 2238668-3 , pp. 212-240. - Full text online .
  • Albert Mößmer: Deutz - The type book . GeraMond Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7654-7705-8 .

Web links

Commons : Deutz AG  - Collection of images
Wikibooks: Tractor Lexicon: Deutz  - learning and teaching materials

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Sven Tode, Marco Hölscher, Beate John: Innovation Motor. Four bars move the world. Greven Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-7743-0629-5 .
  3. ^ German Society for Railway History (DGEG)
  4. ^ August & Charles Greten - Heldenstein, Luxembourg. In: Industrie.lu. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
  5. ^ The history of German truck construction , pp. 60, 81. Weltbild-Verlag 1994, ISBN 3-89350-811-2 .
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  7. ↑ Bernd Ertl: The history of the Deutz tractors. From MTH to Agroton. Heel Verlag, 2010, ISBN 3-86852-169-0 .
  8. ↑ Karel Vermoesen, Michael Bruse: All tractors from Deutz. K. Rabe Verlag, 2009, ISBN 3-926071-38-9 .
  9. ↑ Jürgen Hummel, Alexander Oertle: Deutz 1: Tractors 1927–1981 (type compass). Motorbuch Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-613-02920-0 .
  10. ^ Albert Mößmer: Deutz farm tractor. Geramond Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86245-618-5 .
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  13. ↑ Deutz tractors. www.fahrzeugseiten.de, accessed on April 4, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Deutz F1M414 (1939). On: tractorclassicsmarco.nl (in Dutch) (archive). ( Memento from April 10, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
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