Hagenuk

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Hagenuk ( H anseatische A pparatebau g SOCIETY e hemals N eufeldt u nd K uhnke ) in Kiel is a German manufacturer of telecommunications and radio equipment, marine equipment, and diving equipment. Parts of the company still exist, other parts have been closed.

history

Neufeldt & Kuhnke was founded in 1899, and in 1936 it was renamed Hanseatische Apparatebau-Gesellschaft, formerly Neufeldt & Kuhnke GmbH .

In diving technology, Hagenuk emerged at the beginning of the 20th century as the successor to Ludwig von Bremen, Hamburg , the first German diving equipment manufacturer, founded in 1870 . In addition to conventional helmet diving equipment , the company built armored diving suits and caused a stir with the 1,917 featured tanks divers . He reached depths that were 170 m far beyond what could be achieved with conventional diving equipment. Despite its difficult handling, the concept of the armored diver was granted some success for several decades due to the lack of technical alternatives in the field of diving work at great depths.

In 1939, Hagenuk established a subsidiary in Barth for the manufacture of smoke weapons and incendiary bombs. The company name was Pommersche Industriewerke Barth . In 1945 the facilities were blown up.

The vehicle air conditioning division was transferred in 1991 to Hagenuk Fahrzeugklima GmbH, based in Schkeuditz (Saxony), which was spun off from a part of MAB , and was taken over by the Faiveley Group in 1995 to establish Faiveley Transport Leipzig .

Company headquarters on Westring in Kiel (1981)

The company headquarters was in Kiel at the address Westring 431-451 on an area of ​​around 20 hectares. A science park will be built there from 2005.

Products

Radio Neufeldt and Kuhnke "NUK30" from around 1929/30

As early as 1922, Hagenuk was the first company to build a radio receiver with a built-in loudspeaker. Then one concentrated on the loudspeaker production. From 1928 the building of radios took place again, among other things under the name Nordmark. From 1937 the inner workings of Blaupunkt radios were installed, and from 1940 Philips devices were manufactured at war. The production of radios ceased in 1950. From 1949, however, marine radios from in-house production or "labeled" were sold. The devices are still sold today by HDW-Hagenuk Schiffstechnik GmbH.

Hagenuk Telecom

The W 49 (dial telephone 49), also called TiWa49 (table / wall telephone 49), was a Hagenuk development from 1949 and was built in large numbers for the German Federal Post Office . This phone could be converted from a desk phone to a wall phone in just a few simple steps. At that time, Hagenuk was one of the manufacturers of the standard FeTAp 611 telephone, along with a few other companies .

In the 1970s, in a joint venture with Siemens AG and Krone GmbH , Berlin, coordinated by the Central Telecommunications Office (FTZ) , the company developed the FeTAp 71 touch-tone telephone for multi-frequency dialing (MFV) and, since the introduction of the switching centers for MFV was delayed, the FeTAp 75 push-button telephone for pulse dialing (IWV). The three companies then supplied the Bundespost with these pushbutton telephones and their variants.

In the early 1980s, the Federal Post Office launched a tender for the development of a cordless telephone called "Sinus". Hagenuk was the only company to take part in the tender with a completely in-house development and was able to prevail; the devices were manufactured in Kiel from the end of 1983 .

In 1993 the satellite phone Satphone SP 1600 B was manufactured and sold as a case device.

In 1995 Manfred Schmitt acquired all of the shares in Hagenuk-Telecom GmbH from Preussag AG. At the time, he was the founder and CEO of the international computer retail chain Escom AG, which went bankrupt in 1996. After this bankruptcy, Schmitt took over the position of general manager at Hagenuk that same year, which for a long time was an internationally renowned company in the field of the development and production of fixed line and mobile phones and the associated technology.

At the end of 1997, Hagenuk GmbH had to file for bankruptcy.

There were also some difficulties in the cell phone sector. Although Hagenuk brought one of the first mobile phones with an answering machine to the market with the MT 900, this device remained a slow seller due to its size. The successor MT 2000 was initially well received, but it was shattered in a legendary drop test and the reputation of the device was ruined. The successor, the Global Handy, was technically a pioneer in the field of radiation reduction, but was not well received by buyers due to its shape and the reputation of the previous model. The production facilities for mobile phone production were split off from Hagenuk Telekom and sold individually. Telital cell phones were later manufactured here.

After some tug-of-war, Tiptel AG took over Hagenuk Telecom GmbH in March 1998. The state of Schleswig-Holstein also made some concessions and paid subsidies. In 1999 the production facilities of Hagenuk Telecom were transferred to a joint venture between Hagenuk GmbH and the Italian-based FINMEK SpA, a contract manufacturer. On October 1, 1999, Finmek Hagenuk Manufacturing GmbH was founded, which was to continue Hagenuk's production in Kiel and take over around 200 employees. Hagenuk was to retain a 25.1% stake.

At the end of 1999 Tiptel had to file for bankruptcy again for Hagenuk Telekom.

At the beginning of 2000 there was another dispute over Hagenuk. CPS Europe BV (a subsidiary of the pijnenburg Group) took over the development department and sales (including the trademark rights), while the Nedworks Electronics Group took over the shares in Finmek HagenukManufacturing GmbH. There were also rumors of industrial espionage by the Swiss company Ascom .

Until 2001, Hagenuk tried to gain a foothold in the German market. Due to the two bankruptcies and delays in the introduction of new products, the position of the traditional company could not stabilize again. In November 2001, the remaining know-how was withdrawn from CPS Europe from Kiel and Hagenuk Telekom GmbH was closed.

The Pijnenburg Group presents itself as a pure investment group. So it is possible that this company was interested in acquiring the naming rights and the values ​​of the Hagenuk company, but not in maintaining the business and the jobs itself.

  • 2000 CPS Europe BV acquires Hagenuk Germany
  • 2001 CPS Europe BV is renamed BV Hagenuk CPS
  • 2002 Hagenuk Smart Card Solutions and BV Hagenuk CPS become independent sub-companies
  • 2002 Partial capital withdrawal from Hagenuk Smart Card Solutions
  • 2004 Renaming of Hagenuk Smart Card Solutions to AOS Hagenuk

After bankruptcy and the re-establishment of Hagenuk, only a small development and sales team remained. In April 2003 he founded Hagenuk Communication GmbH. In May 2005 the name was changed to disty communications GmbH in order to differentiate itself from ITM Technology AG , which brings new devices onto the market under the brand name Hagenuk. In May 2015, insolvency proceedings were opened against disty communications GmbH.

Known employees

Individual evidence

  1. New perspectives for Kiel: the science park opens up
  2. http://reimer-rae.de/disty-communication-gmbh/

Web links

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