Heyligenstaedt
| Heyligenstaedt Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1876 |
| Seat | Giessen , Germany |
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| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.heyligenstaedt.de |
The Heyligenstaedt machine tools GmbH is a German machine tool manufacturer with headquarters in central Hesse Giessen . The product range includes CNC - turning - and milling machines . The company belongs to the DVS group.
history
founding
The Heyligenstaedt & Comp. Machine tool factory was founded in 1876 by Louis Heyligenstaedt and Alexander Sartorius in Gießen. At first simple drilling machines were built in series production , soon afterwards bending machines , shears , punches and lathes were added to the range. After seven years it was 10,000. Machine finished. In 1891 the number of employees had grown to 300. In 1894, Dietrich Fahlenkamp joined as a senior engineer . He headed the company for almost forty years, initially alongside Louis Heyligenstaedt until his death in 1910; thereafter as the determining personality. After participating in the Paris World Exhibition in 1900, the 100,000 in 1901. Machine delivered, the workforce grew to 500.
From founding the stock corporation to bankruptcy 1911–1933
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After the death of Louis Heyligenstaedt in 1910, Heyligenstaedt was converted into a stock corporation in 1911 and was henceforth called Heyligenstaedt & Comp. Machine tools and iron foundry, joint stock company . Heyligenstaedt passed into the ownership or control of banks. The workforce comprised 385 employees. The production program included, among other things, high-speed post drills, quadruple boiler drills for simultaneous drilling of rivet holes long to 10 meters boilers , lead screw - lathes , wheel set -Drehbänke for the turning of wheel sets for railways .
The beginning of the First World War initially impaired further upward development, many employees were drafted, foreign markets were closed and the procurement of materials made difficult, the export business collapsed. When the war lasted longer than expected, there was a switch to war production, especially the mass production of grenades , with the result that profits skyrocketed by 1918 .
In the years up to the end of inflation in 1924, the company was successful, mainly thanks to exports , as inflation made products cheaper on the European and overseas markets. For workers, however, inflation meant a loss of purchasing power . The introduction of the Reichsmark in 1924 ended inflation. With the loss of the export advantage, the foreign market collapsed. State savings and high interest rates led to high losses in the years that followed. Heyligenstaedt entangled due to his efforts, the labor costs without regard to collective agreements and company agreements to reduce, in many labor court cases , the working environment was getting worse. In 1930 Heyligenstaedt was insolvent, the number of employees fell to 40 in 1932. The tobacco manufacturer Ludwig Rinn bought the bankruptcy estate and initially planned to store tobacco in the factory. The Rinn & Cloos AG was then the largest tobacco producer in Germany with 5,000 employees.
In 1933, the Heyligenstaedt company initially went out under commercial law.
From the re-establishment to the post-war period 1934–1948
In 1934 the general economic situation had improved so much that Ludwig Rinn founded a new Heyligenstaedt & Comp. With Fahlenkamp as the driving force . Werkzeug Maschinenfabrik GmbH was able to establish. In order to be able to continue using the old traditional name Heyligenstaedt, a partner with the same name was looked for, who was found in Frankfurt and turned out to be a distant relative of the company's founder Louis Heyligenstaedt. Due to the technical qualifications of many former employees, because of the end of the global economic crisis and especially because of the incipient armament efforts of the National Socialists , the company grew to over 400 employees by the beginning of the Second World War .
In 1936 Johann Maas joined the company. He later became Fahlenkamp's successor and headed the company for the next several decades. Half a year later, a new lathe with continuously variable speed control (by means of a PIV gearbox ) was presented. In 1937 a sensor-controlled copy milling machine followed , based on the construction principle of which copy milling machines are still manufactured at Heyligenstaedt today, and a hydraulic copying unit for lathes. The Second World War brought growth and a war economy. The Justushütte in Gladenbach, 30 km away, was bought to meet the growing demand for cast parts. Due to the increasing risk of bombing attacks (Giessen was the preferred destination as a railway junction anyway), parts of the production were relocated to surrounding towns and villages. In 1944 the number of employees was over 1,150, including - as is common in the German war economy - many foreign workers such as French prisoners of war (as in the First World War) and Soviet forced laborers . The first bombs fell on Gießen in 1944, and further attacks followed until March 1945. On March 28, American troops occupied the heavily damaged, but not destroyed, factory premises. The machine park was hardly damaged by outsourcing production and moving machines underground to disused mines in the area. Production could be resumed immediately after the end of the war.
The time up to the currency reform was then determined by the production ban for machine tools, the fight against the threat of dismantling and denazification , which primarily affected the second management level in Heyligenstaedt. The main focus was therefore on the manufacture of spare parts, the repair of machines of all kinds and the manufacture of wooden lathes (developed as replacements). After many protests, Heyligenstaedt was finally deleted from the list of companies to be dismantled in 1947.
From the currency reform to 1994
The time after the currency reform was characterized by high growth rates. The export increased to up to 58 percent. The production program included master and tension spindle lathes, copy lathes and NC lathes , large lathes and milling machines, lathes in which the tool rotates around a fixed workpiece and double face lathes for processing e.g. As large, thin-walled turbine discs for aircraft engines . In 1957 1,000 people were working again at Heyligenstaedt.
In 1973 Johann Maas retired from the management and was succeeded by his son Hans Maas and Jürgen Rinn, a grandson of Ludwig Rinn. Seven years later, Hans Maas and the von Hans Maas brothers left the Heyligenstaedt company due to tensions between Jürgen Rinn and Hans Maas, the losses piled up until 1985, whereupon Rinn & Cloos AG held 75 percent of the business shares in 1985 and the remainder in 1986 The Unification Church- ruled Korean concern Tong Il sold. After the unsuccessful attempt to produce series machines economically and the continuing reluctance to buy due to the Unification Church, especially in the automotive industry, a settlement had to be filed in 1994, and bankruptcy followed a year later . With only 150 employees at times, the company was continued by a bankruptcy administrator.
1990 until today
In 1998, under the bankruptcy administration, the heavy-duty lathes area was supplemented by the integration of the delivery program of the Ravensburg machine factory. Two years later, the horizontal and vertical machining centers (portal machines) as well as the horizontal machining centers (table and plate boring mills ) with the high-speed centers ( gantry machines) from Hermann KOLB machine tools were taken over. After seven years of bankruptcy administration, new shareholders were found in 2001 who wanted to continue the traditional Giessen company.
Products
- CNC lathes and milling machines, turning Ø 200–850 mm, turning length: 800 - 6500
- Heavy-duty lathes, turning Ø up to 4000 mm, turning length up to 33000 mm, workpiece weight up to 180,000 kg
- Double facing lathes for engine disks up to 1250 mm Ø
- Portal milling machines for mold and tool construction and general machine and plant construction
- High-speed milling machines in gantry design
- Longitudinal lathes, turning Ø up to 4000 mm, turning lengths up to 35000 mm
- Facing lathes , turning Ø up to 6000 mm, turning lengths up to 3000 mm
- Crankshaft machining centers, swing diameters up to 1500 mm, machining lengths up to 12000 mm
- Vertical machining centers
- Horizontal machining centers
- Flexible manufacturing systems
See also
literature
- Heyligenstaedt - portrait of a machine tool company. Looking back over 100 years of company history. , Giessen 1976.
- Volker Schulz: Heyligenstaedt - history of a machine tool factory 1876–1990. Giessen 1997, ISBN 3-930489-08-2 .
Web links
- Website Heyligenstaedt Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH
- fast and precise - Volkswagen “Autograph Wolfsburg” issue 5/2012
Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 12 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 48 ″ E