Hofherr-Schrantz
Hofherr-Schrantz AG was an Austro-Hungarian manufacturer of agricultural machinery. In 1911 there was a merger with the Vienna branch of Clayton & Shuttleworth to form Hofherr-Schrantz-Clayton-Shuttleworth AG .
history
The origins of Hofherr-Schrantz go back to 1869 when Matthias Hofherr founded a factory in Vienna for the production of locomobiles for agriculture. In 1881 he merged with the Hungarian-born Johann Schrantz (1830–1902) and founder of the Hutter & Schrantz company and founded the Hofherr-Schrantz company. In 1911 the merger with the Vienna branch of the English agricultural machinery manufacturer Clayton-Shuttleworth took place . This company was founded in 1842 and began to set up a branch in Vienna in 1857. The company, which initially only comprised a small workshop of an agent, moved three years later to the 3rd district of Vienna, Landstrasse . The number of employees at Clayton & Shuttleworth grew to 150 by 1869 and to 1,000 by the turn of the century. In the East and Central European market, which was supplied from Vienna, branches and repair workshops were established in Budapest , Bucharest , Krakow , Lviv , Prague and several other cities.
With the merger in 1911, the Hofherr-Schrantz plant in Favoriten, Erlachgasse 92, was closed and all production was concentrated in Floridsdorf, Shuttleworthstraße 8. The number of employees rose to 2,400 as a result of the association. The English parent company withdrew from the company. In 1917 the company employed over 5,000 workers and civil servants. By the end of 1916 alone, 125,420 locomotives and threshing machines had been built and sold.
First World War
During the First World War it was possible to work on the basis of army orders. At the end of the war, however, only around 1,200 to 1,400 employees could be retained. The production program was expanded to include other industrial products in addition to agricultural machines.
Interwar period
The locations in the former monarchy were greatly reduced. A production site could only be maintained in Prague from 1929 onwards.
Despite being market leader in the agricultural machinery sector in Austria, the company was only able to employ 365 people after the global economic crisis in 1929 . The company was financially restructured four years later by Länderbank and Österreichische Industriekredit AG , so that in 1937 the company had 2,500 employees again.
time of the nationalsocialism
After the Anschluss in 1938, Hofherr-Schrantz became part of Heinrich Lanz AG and armaments company for the manufacture of control elements for the V2 rocket . The company ran a subsidiary camp of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Floridsdorf with a total of 2,737 prisoners. With the start of the bombing war, H & S outsourced production parts to quarry tunnels near Mödling . One company was also located in the Kispest district of Budapest .
post war period
After the end of the war, Hofherr-Schrantz was initially confiscated as German property by the Soviets and nationalized with other companies in 1946 according to the Nationalization Act .
However, the economic position that Hofherr-Schrantz held before the war could no longer be restored. The number of employees fell steadily from 1950 and at the time of the State Treaty was around 800 employees. In 1969 the company with around 500 employees was merged with the Trauzl works , also located in Floridsdorf . In 1970 the company finally became part of the Böhler works .
In Floridsdorf , the two streets with the names Shuttleworthstrasse and Hofherr-Schrantz-Gasse are reminiscent of the industrial enterprise.
Products (selection)
- Traction engines
- Threshing machines
- Stationary engines
- Austro Junior System Porsche tractor
- Various machines and packet machines for cigarette manufacturing
- Cast-iron, porcelain-enamelled: shower cup VIENNA with grooved bottom, kitchen spout Tyrolean model
Individual evidence
- ^ Nemzeti Kulturális Alap: A Mathias Hofherr IN Vienna lovas járgány bemutatása ; accessed on March 14, 2017
- ↑ Hofherr-Schrantz-Clayton-Shuttleworth AG Vienna: Illustrated Catalog No. 1 , 1917
- ↑ On the history of the Vienna - Floridsdorf subcamp ( memento from September 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ geheimprojekte.at ( Memento of 26 February 2008 at the Internet Archive ) MS: Floridsdorf - Hofherr & Schrantz , undated.
- ^ Raimund Hinkel , Kurt Landsmann : Floridsdorf from A – Z: The 21st district in 1000 keywords , photo of a locomobile with a trailer from the Hofherr-Schrantz company, page 89, Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85447-724-4 .
- ↑ motorbooks.at ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Pen threshing machine operating instructions spare parts list
- ↑ Swiss bankruptcy auction
- ↑ motorbooks.at ( 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. Operating instructions and component directory for two-stroke diesel engines, DIN-A5, 36 pages.
- ↑ motorbooks.at ( 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. Tractor: Hofherr-Schrantz Austro Junior System Porsche: Operating Instructions
