Hille works

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Hille-Werke AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1884
resolution 1962
Seat Dresden , Germany
management Moritz Hille
Branch Mechanical engineering , automobile manufacturer

Hille-Werke AG was a German manufacturer of engines , automobiles and commercial vehicles . Machine tools were manufactured from the 1930s to 1945.

Company history

Share over 100 RM in Hille-Werke AG from February 1935
The operating parts of the Dresden gas engine factory (1913)
Standing Hille gas engine, presented at the II. Power and Work Machine Exhibition in Munich in 1898
Horizontal Hille gas engine
Hille motor tricycle from 1898 in the Heiner Beckmann motorcycle museum

1884 in Dresden , the company Moritz Hille gas engine and machine factory and Dresdner Gasmotorenfabrik Moritz Hille founded. In 1892 the name was changed to Dresdner Gasmotoren-Fabrik vorm. Moritz Hille and the transformation into a stock corporation . In 1898 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Hille . Passenger car production ended in 1900, but commercial vehicles were later built . Another name change took place on April 24, 1918 in Hille-Werke AG . Commercial vehicle production ended in 1926.

In 1929 the company moved to the Dresden-Reick industrial estate at Otto-Mohr-Straße 15

After the end of the Second World War , the company became public property and was called VEB Hille-Werke Dresden in the VVB Machine Tools and Tools (WMW). The company closed in 1962. At the same place (Otto-Mohr-Straße 15 - postal address: Reicker Straße 103a), in Dresden-Reick there was still a production of "precision engineering", later the company VEB SME (special machines electrical engineering) was located here. This was transferred to a part of VEB Elektromat and "special technological equipment" was manufactured for the production of microelectronic components. (see also VEB ZFTM and VEB ZMD)

vehicles

Automobiles

The vehicles produced from 1898 to 1900 were three-wheelers . They were similar to the De Dion Bouton motor tricycles . A single-cylinder engine with 1.25 hp provided the drive .

Hille presented such a motor tricycle at the motor vehicle exhibition, which took place in Düsseldorf from September 17 to 24, 1898 . The engine developed approximately 2 hp. The vehicle weighed 80 kg. The maximum speed was given as 40 km / h.

One vehicle successfully took part in the long-distance journey from Berlin to Leipzig and back in 1898 .

commercial vehicles

The commercial vehicles produced from 1911 onwards were based on plans by Joseph Vollmer . The payload was 2.5 to 3.5 tons . The monoblock engine with OHC valve control developed 45 hp.

After the First World War , trucks were again manufactured between 1924 and 1926 . The K 3 model was designed for a payload of 3 tons. Its four-cylinder engine developed 45 hp. The L 5 with a payload of 4.5 tons had a two-block engine. The vehicles were bodied as delivery vans , tankers , explosives , dump trucks , furniture transporters and for transporting logs.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hille-Werke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Hille.
  2. ↑ a b www.Albert-Gieseler.de (accessed on October 18, 2012)
  3. ↑ a b c Main State Archive Dresden  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 18, 2012)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.archiv.sachsen.de  
  4. ↑ a b c Ulrich Kubisch: German car brands from A – Z. VF Verlagsgesellschaft, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-926917-09-1 , p. 69.
  5. ^ Peter Kirchberg: Automobile exhibitions and vehicle tests around the world. The best from "Der Motorwagen", the magazine for the automotive industry and engine construction. Part 1: 1898-1914. Transpress, Berlin 1985, pp. 19-20.
  6. ↑ Michael Wolff Metternich : 100 years on 3 wheels. German three-lane vehicles through the ages. Neue Kunst Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-929956-00-4 , p. 188.