Hermann Lanz Aulendorf

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HELA Hermann Lanz Aulendorf was a manufacturer of agricultural machinery from Aulendorf in Upper Swabia .

history

Hermann Lanz Senior founded the Lanz Aulendorf company in 1888 , a mechanical workshop for repairs to agricultural equipment. His son Hermann Lanz Junior, born on February 17, 1890, began an apprenticeship as a fitter in his father's company in 1905. He passed his master craftsman examination in 1913. In 1914 he took over the company, which was named Hermann Lanz jun. was continued.

From 1915 the production of self-developed agricultural equipment began. Manufactured v. a. Field cultivation equipment such as harrows, plows and rollers. For further processing of the agricultural products, however, must and potato presses, grain and forage cutters and other equipment for household and agriculture were also produced. The first motor mower was presented in 1929 and the first normal tractor in 1936. In 1938, Anton Lanz, the third generation, joined the family company. In the following year, the production of agricultural machinery was given up, and from then on Lanz concentrated fully on the production of tractors.

After the end of the Second World War , the Aulendorf plant was dismantled by the French occupying forces . Series production could only be resumed in 1949/1950. From 1955 own diesel engines were produced. In 1958, the first narrow-track tractors were added to the product range with the S18 and S24 models .

In 1979 the Lanz family sold the company to IBH-Holding . The production of tractors was stopped and the production concentrated on the compact loader ZETCAT. After the bankruptcy of IBH in 1983, the takeover by the French Pel-Job group and then by the Eder group of companies, production was transferred to Zeppelin Baumaschinen GmbH until 1991. The buildings in Aulendorf were demolished in 1995.

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literature

  • Kurt Häfner, Franz Schoch: The Hela Chronicle , Landwirtschaftsverlag (2002), ISBN 3-7843-3097-5 .
  • Kurt Häfner, HELA-Schlepper type book , 1929–1979, 50 years of diesel tractors from Aulendorf, Kosmos (2004), ISBN 3-440-09782-X .
  • Thomas Schoch, Franz Schoch: HELA tractors - all types and brochures , Ulmer Verlag , Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-8001-5790-7 .

Web links

Wikibooks: Tractor Lexicon: HELA  - learning and teaching materials
Commons : Hermann Lanz Aulendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 1 & 1 homepage construction kit: HELA-Home - HELA - Diesel. Retrieved October 19, 2018 .