Pekrun machine factory

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Maschinenfabrik Pekrun,
today: Auma Drives GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1896
Seat Coswig , Germany
Number of employees 250 (June 2012)
sales EUR 58 million (2012)
Branch mechanical engineering
Website www.auma-drives.de

The Maschinenfabrik Pekrun was before the First World War, a German manufacturer of automobiles and worm drives. Under the name still used until the end of the Second World War, in GDR times as VEB Getriebefabrik Coswig and today as Auma Drives GmbH , the company based in Coswig in Saxony is a manufacturer of drive systems and worm gears .

history

Hermann Arthur Pekrun founded the company in Kötitz near Coswig in 1896 . In 1909 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Pekrun . In addition, parts created for the trucks of Emil Nacke , whose car factory was also sitting in Coswig. In 1911 the company's own automobile production ended.

In 1911 Nacke presented his first two-ton truck, which was followed in 1913 by a three-ton truck and a bus. All trucks and buses had a worm drive from the neighboring Pekrun machine factory. The bus lines operated by Nacke for a short time also ran with Nacke buses, which were equipped with Pekrun worm drives so that the mountain support could be omitted.

Before the First World War (1908) the company on Grenzstraße had 600 employees, during the Weimar Republic in 1927 the number of employees had doubled. The focus of gearboxes for drive technology was on globoid worm gears developed in-house . The brand name was Pekrungetriebe . The company owner originally found the basis for this type of gearbox by looking through British patent documents, whereupon he was able to acquire the patent from the English inventors at relatively low cost.

The machine factory was used for war production during the time of National Socialism, the products supplied were worm gear and hydraulic transmissions for tanks and submarines.

The company's founder, Pekrun, ran the company until his death in 1947. In October 1948, the Pekrun machine factory was expropriated, then nationalized and in 1949 renamed VEB Getriebefabrik Coswig . Also in 1949, in West Germany, in Iserlohn , the machine factory pekrun Getriebebau was re-established as a GmbH, which today refers to the same company roots through family ties.

Through its incorporation in the 1950s, the Coswig company became part of the Magdeburg combine gearboxes and clutches . The gear factory Coswig was the only manufacturer of worm gears in the GDR, which brought it a market-leading position in the Eastern European economic area. The main buyer for the worm gears was the USSR.

In 1967, the product technology was switched to so-called high-performance worm gears, for which the company received a gold medal at the Leipzig trade fair that same year . In 1984 the production hall was built on Grenzstraße 8.

The Coswig company was involved in the construction of the café in the Berlin television tower and in the realization of the Berlin Urania world clock . The gear factory founded the company sports club BSG Stahl Coswig on site .

Logo of GFC AntriebsSysteme

After the reunification, VEB Getriebefabrik Coswig was converted to Getriebefabrik Coswig GmbH (GFC). This was acquired in 1991 by the Müllheim company Werner Riester GmbH & Co. KG. As a result, GFC became a subsidiary of the AUMA-Riester Group (abbreviation derived from: Armaturen- und Maschinen-Antriebe), a company with 2200 employees. In 1997 a new assembly hall with an administration building was built on Grenzstrasse.

In 1998 the product range consisted of compact gear units in block design, and new drive systems were developed for elevator technology.

In 2004 the name was changed to GFC AntriebsSysteme GmbH . In 2006 the plant built a new, second production hall in order to be able to significantly expand the production capacity. In 2015, the Auma Group initiated a change in the brand and organizational structure, and GFC has been trading as Auma Drives since then .

family

Hermann Arthur Pekrun was related to Karl Arthur Pekrun (1852-1940), the Dresden “ Pomologist from the White Stag” ( Villa Paulus , Stangestrasse 2). He was a co-owner of the Menz, Pekrun & Co bank . The autodidact, known as a fruit growing expert, wrote two specialist books about the breeding and pruning of fruit trees around 1903, which were published for decades under the name Arthur Pekrun as standard works in this field: Raising and rational pruning of all fruit tree shapes, peach and vine pruning appeared in 1947 after the Anniversary edition from 1922 already with an edition of 126. – 150. Thousand had been printed. Special questions in the fruit tree pruning in the edition 56. – 60. Thousands were the new edition of beginner questions in fruit tree pruning and the other treatment of all fruit trees, especially d. sucked "Dwarf forms" ad form fruit trees grown on trellises .

Historical products: vehicles

The Pekrun , which was only made in one model, had a four-cylinder engine with 2594 cm³ displacement and a three-speed planetary gear .

The company today

Products and services

The Auma Drives GmbH develops and produces different products from the fields of transmission, drive systems and motors. Auma Drives uses a QM system in accordance with ISO 9001 and an UM system in accordance with ISO 14001 for quality assurance in all company areas. In addition to standard products, Auma Drives has also specialized in individual product solutions in recent years. In the field of engineering, Auma Drives offers support for the entire process chain, from concept development to customer-specific test series and industrialization.

Gear manufacturing

In gear engineering, Auma Drives develops and produces products such as worm gear sets, worm gears, spur worm gears, worm and spur gears and double worm gears.

Drive systems

Complete drive systems are supplied for the following system solutions: elevator drives, escalator drives and slewing gear units.

Engines

Motors are produced for the following applications: geared motors, servo drives and direct drives.

References worldwide

Auma Drives products can be found in major projects around the world. Auma gearboxes were installed in the world's largest seawater desalination plant . They should also serve their purpose in the planned, world's largest solar thermal power plant in California. In addition, concert halls like the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow or the Dresden Semperoper use Auma gears in their stage technology.

Fonts

  • Maschinenfabrik Pekrun (Ed.): Pekrungetriebe. Main list issue 6. Between engine and driven machine. Worm gear, toothed gear, step gear. Catalog. Coswig around 1925.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 11696 - VEB gear factory Coswig. Entry in the finding aid of the Main State Archives Dresden.
  2. ^ Nacke Automobile Coswig ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ).
  3. ↑ He built the first cars in Saxony. Dresden Official Gazette 09/2005.
  4. ^ A b Historical Coswig: Gear factory Coswig, Grenzstraße
  5. ↑ pekrun Getriebebau GmbH: History ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pekrun.de
  6. ↑ GFC becomes AUMA Drives. Auma Drives GmbH, accessed on January 9, 2018 .
  7. ^ Dietrich Buschbeck: Emil Hermann Nacke - Saxony's first automobile manufacturer , in: Elbhang-Kurier , August 2007.
  8. ↑ Pekrun, Arthur

Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 14.7 "  N , 13 ° 34 ′ 55.9"  E