Gebr. Heinemann Maschinenfabriken
The Gebrüder Heinemann Maschinenfabriken AG was a medium-sized industrial company in St. Georgen in the Black Forest , which enjoyed a worldwide reputation for its lathes . It existed until the 1990s.
history
The company was founded in 1836 from a forge . Later, the brothers Christoph, Heinrich and Jakob Heinemann succeeded their father and steadily expanded the company. Around 1880 the company had 60 employees and had its own offices in Chemnitz and Berlin.
Until the 1880s, in addition to blacksmithing and locksmith work, small lathes, hand tools for watchmaking, but also individual watch components such as hands and chains were manufactured. Later larger lathes for mechanics and opticians, turret lathes and milling machines for industrial articles, so-called "eccentric presses", and more recently multi-steel lathes and sophisticated machine tools were manufactured.
Christoph Heinemann was honored with the Baden Order of the Zähringer Löwen for his services to machine manufacturing and was a member of the VDI. After a son was killed in World War I , the Heinemann family set up a foundation to support talented engineers from financially poor circumstances at the Grand Ducal Badische Baugewerkeschule , which later became the Badische Higher Technical College (Staatstechnikum). The foundation existed until after the Second World War.
The special products achieved world renown at the beginning of the 20th century. The company then specialized in the manufacture of multi-steel lathes. In addition, the company owned forest, land and the St. Georgen monastery pond.
Because of the dismantling by France, the first years after World War II were very difficult. In the following years an advantage arose from this, because the machines that were now in the company corresponded to the latest state of the art.
As part of the German economic miracle, there was also an enormous boom for Gebr. Heinemann, so that at the beginning of the 1960s, the then company boss Hans Heinemann recruited workers in Spain who contributed to the company's further boom in the following years.
From the 1970s a new sales market opened up in what was then the Soviet Union. Whole “machine lines” were delivered there by Heinemann.
In 1979 the company went bankrupt for the first time.
For a time, Gebr. Heinemann had its own power supply. In the southeast corner of the monastery pond there was a lock to access an approx. 300 meter long canal that ran along the B 33. It ended in the turbine house. There, a Francis turbine generated electricity according to the conditions (amount of water, gradient). A museum-suspect centrifugal governor connected to the turbine was remarkable. The building still stands today. The turbine and governor are still in the basement and can be viewed.
There are three "Heinemann villas". One is at Friedrichstrasse 21 and was built by Christoph Heinemann in 1912. The second is at Friedrichstrasse 25. It was built by Wilhelm Heinemann in 1916 (the architect was Armand Weiser ). The Villa Wilhelm Heinemann was last inhabited by Harald Otto Heinemann and Hilde Heinemann, geb. by Leibitz-Piwnicki. Otto Heinemann was the brother-in-law of the Schramberg entrepreneur Kurt Steim from the Kern-Liebers -Werke. Half of the villa was owned by Heinemann's sister Irene-Helene Kaiser, b. Heinemann, who was married to the watch manufacturer Oskar Johann Kaiser from Villingen. The building was sold by the family in the 1990s for lack of heirs. The builder Wilhelm Heinemann was the uncle of the local researcher Bartholomäus Heinemann. The third so-called "Villa Heinemann" is on Klosterbergstrasse. It was built by Hans Heinemann in 1960 and the family lived in until 2005. All three houses are still inhabited. Half of it is still owned by the family.
The company buildings were demolished at the beginning of the 21st century. The estate of the Heinemann family and parts of the company archive are in the possession of the St. Georgen Historical Society.
literature
- Gebrüder Heinemann AG, company chronicle, 1919, St. Georgen im Schw.
- Court calendar, Grand Duchy of Baden, University of Freiburg
- Schwarzwälder Bote, various online articles since 2010
Individual evidence
- ^ Villa Heinemann. In: arch INFORM .