ISGUS

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ISGUS GmbH

logo
legal form GmbH
founding 1888
Seat Villingen-Schwenningen , Germany
management Stefan Beetz
Number of employees 139
Branch Time tracking
Website www.isgus.de
As of December 31, 2018

ISGUS - west view
ISGUS - south view

The ISGUS GmbH is a German manufacturer of system solutions for time and attendance , access control , staff planning and production and machine data acquisition . The company used to be one of the two most important German companies for technical clocks (alongside the Württemberg watch factory Bürk Söhne, which no longer exists ). Today ISGUS develops software solutions, terminals for time and production data acquisition, access readers and components. The company is based in Villingen-Schwenningen .

ISGUS today

ISGUS is a system house that offers customers and interested parties the ISGUS software both as a purchase license and as Software as a Service (SaaS) in its own data center. The group of companies in Germany includes the following companies in addition to ISGUS GmbH as the parent company:

Company history

ISGUS - east view with historical chimney

The company is part of the historic Schwenningen watch industry of the 19th and 20th centuries, which made the city the “largest watch city in the world” for decades. It is one of the few of these companies that have survived the structural change from mechanical watches to electronic time recording systems.

The company was founded in 1888 by Jakob Schlenker (1855–1913), who was nicknamed "Grusen" (due to his frizzy hair and the widespread use of the name Schlenker in Schwenningen). Accordingly, it initially traded as J. Schlenker-Grusen , which first became JSGUS and later ISGUS . These abbreviations were already used as trademarks when the company was still called J. Schlenker-Grusen.
As a foreman, Schlenker was involved in the production of night watchman control watches at the Württemberg clock factory in Bürk . These were portable watches; Keys were deposited at certain points in the area to be checked, which the night watchman had to operate in the clock during his tours. The watch then documented whether the night watchman was in the right place at the specified time, i.e. whether he was doing his duty properly. After Johannes Bürk's patent expired , Schlenker built the clocks in-house. A wide variety of own models and patents were added later.

In 1896, Schlenker-Grusen developed the first “ carrier pigeon recording apparatus ”. From 1908, working time control devices (the forerunners of the time clock ) were added. ISGUS also manufactured other instruments, such as speedometers based on Otto Schulze's patents. The "ISGUS tachograph" was presented in 1927 in the automobile technical journal as the "new control device for motor vehicles".

It is seen as a social improvement that training contracts at ISGUS from 1907 provided for "free board and lodging", and from the 2nd year of apprenticeship additional "pocket money", which was granted from the 3rd year of training onwards.

After the Second World War , machines and other valuables were also dismantled as reparations at J. Schlenker-Grusen . A "pre-extraction" left the company with "hardly any machines in the French zone that were less than nine years old". This was very little because the equipment was very modern. Later, 20 percent of the remaining capacity was dismantled.

In 1963 ISGUS employed between 600 and 800 people.

The factory complex consists of several successively constructed and extended buildings. A detailed description can be found in Gerhard Jehles' dissertation . In the immediate vicinity is the listed former residential building Schlenkers, the Villa Schlenker .

BKK J. Schlenker-Grusen

The company developed its own statutory health insurance . The company health insurance company BKK J. Schlenker-Grusen was founded in 1904. She went in 1997 by fusion in the Schwenninger BKK on.

literature

  • Hans-Heinrich Schmid : "Lexicon of the German watch industry 1850 - 1980: company addresses, production program, company logos, brand names, company histories." (3rd expanded edition 2017); Editor: German Society for Chronometry eV; ISBN 978-3-941539-92-1

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2018 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ Der große Brockhaus, Volume: 11, (Sol - Unj), 16th ed. 1957, Wiesbaden, Brockhaus, p. 726.
  3. ^ Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Historical Commission (Ed.): Maly-Melanchthon Volume 16 New German Biography, ISBN 3428001818 , ISBN 9783428001811 , p. 450 [1]
  4. ↑ Annemarie Conradt-Mach: Work and Bread: The History of Industrial Workers in Villingen and Schwenningen from 1918 to 1933, ISBN 3788308699 , ISBN 9783788308698 , p. 8 ( [2] )
  5. ↑ www.schwarzwaelder-bote.de  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schwarzwaelder-bote.de  
  6. ↑ Stadtarchiv Esslingen , Working Group for Imperial City History Research, Monument Preservation and Citizenship Education: Yearbook for the History of the Upper German Imperial Cities, Volume 14–16, City Archives, 1968, p. 183 ( [3] )
  7. ↑ www.schwarzwaelder-bote.de  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schwarzwaelder-bote.de  
  8. ↑ http://www.kontrolluhren.de/download/nachtwaechter2low.pdf
  9. ^ Huhndorf: Roots of Prosperity: Images and Documents of Southwest German Economic History, Stuttgart, Theiss, 1984, p. 35.
  10. ↑ www.kontrolluhren.de
  11. ^ Harry Niemann, Armin Hermann: The development of motorization in the German Reich and the successor states: Stuttgart days on automobile and company history: an event by Mercedes-Benz Classic - the archive volume 2 of Society for Company History , ISBN 3515067264 , ISBN 9783515067263 , P. 257 ( [4] )
  12. ↑ Hanns Lampe: A new control device for motor vehicles - The ISGUS tachograph, in: Automobiltechnische Zeitschrift, Volume 30 (1927), p. 173 ( [5] )
  13. ^ Annemarie Conradt-Mach: Feinwerktechnik, Arbeitswelt, Arbeiterkultur: a contribution to the social and economic history of Villingen and Schwenningen before 1914 , Neckar-Verlag, 1985, ISBN 3-7883-0845-1 , p. 46.
  14. ^ On the evening of the dismantling: six years of reparations policy; with document attachment, ed. from the Bremen Committee for Economic Research, Bremen, Trüjen, 1951, p. 51.
  15. ^ Georg Heller: The Structure of the Precision Instrument, Optical Equipment and Watch and Clock Industry, in: The German Economic Review, Vol. 1 1963, pp. 280, 285.
  16. ↑ Gerhard Jehle: Places of work, places of administration, dwellings: The industrial architecture in Villingen and Schwenningen until 1945 (high-rise buildings), Diss. Univ. Freiburg i.Br. 2001 ( [6] (PDF; 4.0 MB), p. 99ff)
  17. ↑ Sylvelyn Hähner-Rombach: The company health insurance in Baden and Wuerttemberg from industrialization to the time of National Socialism: a chronicle, ISBN 3-87407-376-9 , S. 229th
  18. ↑ Sylvelyn Hähner-Rombach: The Betriebskrankenkassen in Baden-Württemberg 1945: a chronicle, ISBN 3-87407-323-8 , pages 73, 113, 178th

Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 47.5 "  N , 8 ° 31 ′ 45.7"  E