Heylandt Society for Apparatus Construction
| Heylandt Society for Apparatus Construction (Heylandt Works) | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1919 |
| resolution | unknown |
| Seat | Berlin-Mariendorf , later Berlin-Britz |
| Branch | Manufacture of oxygen generation systems and automobile manufacturers |
The Heylandt Society for Apparatus mbH was a German manufacturer of oxygen generation systems and vessels for liquid gases. After the First World War , the company temporarily manufactured electrically powered trucks.
Company history
Company founder and namesake was Paul Heylandt, who was born on February 6, 1884 in Bad Sulza. As a young man, he was already engaged in the liquefaction of oxygen in Erfurt , inspired by the experiments of Carl Linde , during his work as a fitter .
After two short-lived company foundings in Hanover and Hamburg , Paul Heylandt took over the Gesellschaft für Apparatebau AR Ahrendt & Co mbH in 1919, in which he was previously a partner and which has its headquarters at Burggrafenstraße 1 (today's Seelbuschring 9-17 ) in Berlin- Mariendorf had. Heylandt Gesellschaft für Apparatebau supplied liquid oxygen and produced systems for the production of nitrogen and oxygen .
Heylandt built electrically powered five-ton trucks around 1921.
In the 1920s, Heylandt became a leader in container construction for liquid gases and manufactured systems for liquefying oxygen under high pressure. In 1929 the expanding company relocated its operations to Berlin-Britz , Gradestrasse 91-107, where previously the optical-mechanical institute CF Voth & Co. had its headquarters. With Heylandt's participation, the corporation for industrial gas utilization was founded here as a group company around 1931 .
Missile test vehicle Hellhound
At the beginning of 1930, the rocket researcher Max Valier at Heylandt in Britz was given the opportunity to develop a liquid rocket engine. He was supported by the Heylandt development engineers Alfons Pietsch , Walter Riedel and Arthur Rudolph , who after Valier's accidental death installed the rocket motor in a test vehicle called the "Hell Dog" and successfully carried out test drives on the Tempelhofer Feld at the beginning of May 1931 .
In October 1931, Heylandt began a collaboration with the Army Test Center, which resulted in a liquid rocket motor at the beginning of 1932, which was used there for test purposes until around 1937.
Participation in A4 rocket production
In the course of the large-scale production of the A4 rocket under the direction of Wernher von Braun from 1939/40 Heylandt received major orders for the planning and manufacture of oxygen systems for the A4 rocket. Forced laborers were also used for this. The production management and coordination of the manufacturing plants in the German Reich ( Raderach near Friedrichshafen , Zipf near Salzburg and in Wittring in Lothringen (CdZ connection area) ), in occupied France (near Rouen ) took over the engineer Walter Ruckdeschel from Linde AG in 1944 . Linde had already acquired a stake in Heylandt in 1922 and took over as a subsidiary in 1941.
The Gradestrasse plant was destroyed in an Allied air raid in 1943 .
Paul Heylandt came to the Soviet Union in July 1945 under unexplained circumstances , where he was involved in rocket development. He died in Moscow on June 24, 1947 .
Post war history
Around 1947, Linde AG began producing and selling technical gases again on the company premises on Gradestrasse.
The Linde Group's Linde Gas division currently (2017) has a branch on the property for the sale of its technical gases.
literature
- Frank H. Winter / Michael J. Neufeld: Heylandt's Rocket Cars and the V-2: A Little Known Chapter in the History of Rocket Technology , in: American Astronautical Society, History Series, Volume 21, San Diego / California 1997.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erik Jaeger: Heylandt, Paul in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 9 (1972), pp. 84–85 [online version]; URL: https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd139899200.html#ndbcontent
- ^ The motor car from May 20, 1919
- ↑ Motor No. 9 from 1921, p. 273
- ^ Hans-Liudger Dienel : Die Linde AG. History of a technology company, 1879–2004. Munich: CH Beck 2004, p. 181 f.
- ^ Hans-Liudger Dienel: Die Linde AG. History of a technology company, 1879–2004. Munich: CH Beck 2004, p. 175
- ↑ Erik Jaeger: Heylandt, Paul in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 9 (1972), pp. 84–85 [online version]; URL: https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd139899200.html#ndbcontent
- ^ Hans-Liudger Dienel: Die Linde AG. History of a technology company, 1879–2004. Munich: CH Beck 2004, p. 200