JD Neuhaus

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J. D. Neuhaus GmbH & Co. KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1745
Seat Witten , Germany
management Wilfried Neuhaus-Galladé
Number of employees 190, of which 150 at the headquarters (2014)
Website www.jdngroup.com

JD Neuhaus administration building

J. D. Neuhaus is a company based in Witten that manufactures hoists , winches and crane systems driven by compressed air . With an export share of over 80%, J. D. Neuhaus is the global technology leader in the pneumatic and hydraulic lifting equipment segment. J. D. Neuhaus exports to 90 countries worldwide. The company is represented by subsidiaries in the USA, Great Britain, France, Singapore and China. The products are used in around 70 industries, including mining, oil and gas exploration and processing, the chemical industry and heavy equipment construction.

history

The company was founded in 1745 by Johann Diederich Neuhaus and is still a family business in the 7th generation. It initially manufactured wooden shaft winches for locks on the Ruhr . Later they were also used to load goods, transport coal and lift railroad cars . As early as 1880, loads of up to 7,500 kg could be moved in this way. Since 1952, J. D. Neuhaus has been manufacturing hoists driven by compressed air, which were initially mainly used in mining because they were both particularly powerful and particularly safe. J. D. Neuhaus has been a member of the Association les Hénokiens since the mid-1990s .

Johann Diederich Conrad Neuhaus

In 1745 Johann Diederich Conrad Neuhaus (1726–1809) was registered in the Sprockhövelschen Fabrickenbuch as a fabricant . As a fabric square is called a master craftsman with private operation of its products to the fabrick delivered. It was an association of independent master blacksmiths who sold the forged products made by the members at home and abroad and took orders. Johann Diederich Conrad Neuhaus specialized in the construction of winches, which apparently found good sales.

Heinrich Wilhelm Neuhaus

In 1807 the Peace of Tilsit was signed and Westphalia became a kingdom by the grace of Napoleon. This was also the end of the "Sprockhövelschen Fabrick". Heinrich Wilhelm Neuhaus (1765–1831) survived the hard times with his forge by selling his products on his own. In 1831 he handed over a flourishing business to his son Johann Diederich II.

Johann Diederich Neuhaus II.

Industry flourished in the middle of the 19th century. The sales of steel goods grew, the railway network was created as well as worldwide shipping lines. J. Diederich Neuhaus (1813–1883) built winches for the locks on the Ruhr, for horse-drawn vehicles, for lifting railway wagons, for aligning rails, for loading goods and increasingly also for work in the coal mines.

Louis Neuhaus

Under Louis Neuhaus (1848–1905) the company was able to specialize more and more. The Neuhaus winds were more and more of the necessary tools in the rapidly growing mining industry. Although the Neuhaus company still did not go beyond the operation of an artisanal blacksmith's shop with the production of winches, Louis expanded the business with great success. He had the old forge torn down and a spacious new one built next to the house, in which the first machines powered by muscle power were used.

Emma Neuhaus

Louis Neuhaus died at the age of 57 and his wife Emma Neuhaus (1859–1932) assumed sole responsibility. She had to work with assistants and for particularly difficult work she got master Wilhelm Müller, who did in the evening hours what the others couldn't do during the day. The two married in 1907. In 1922 Emma Neuhaus handed over the family property to her youngest son Max Neuhaus .

Max Neuhaus

Max Neuhaus (1900–1984) joined the company at the age of 19, was granted power of attorney and was fully responsible. He specialized in the trade in winches and hoists and resumed production and repairs after the First World War . In 1923 the first transmission-operated machine tools were purchased. In 1925, Max Neuhaus received an order from the Reichsbahn Central Office in Berlin for 300 pieces of track lifting winches. After the Second World War it was again the mines that first asked for Neuhaus equipment. In order to meet the increasing demands, a long-planned factory hall was built in 1952.

J. Diederich Neuhaus

In 1952 J. Diederich Neuhaus (1925–2010) joined the company as a young engineer. He had the idea of ​​replacing the previously common manual drive for JDN hoists with a compressed air motor. This was a very welcome innovation for underground mining, because the new compressed air hoists from J. Diederich Neuhaus made it possible to work much more effectively, economically and safely. In February 2000 J. Diederich Neuhaus was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by the Federal President . At the same time he received the silver badge of honor from the city of Witten.

Wilfried Neuhaus-Galladé

Wilfried Neuhaus-Galladé (* 1957) joined the company in 1986. He had to adapt the family business to the changed conditions of global markets. Due to the rapidly declining development of German mining, major restructuring took place. Wilfried Neuhaus-Galladé installed a worldwide sales system and founded subsidiaries in the USA, France, England, Singapore and China. This enabled him to increase the export share, which was below 5% in 1980, to over 80% today.

Certifications

J. D. Neuhaus is certified according to DIN EN ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 .

Hoist Museum

museum

Since 1977 the company J. D. Neuhaus has been running a hoist museum in the immediate vicinity of the company headquarters in Witten. There the development from the Stone Age lever to the modern compressed air hoist is presented.

literature

  • Bruno J. Sobotka : Progress by Tradition. 250 years of J.-D.-Neuhaus hoists in Witten-Heven . Krüger, Witten 1995, ISBN 3-9800852-1-X .
  • Heinrich Schoppmeyer : On the history of the J. D. Neuhaus company in Heven . In: VOHM (Hrsg.): Year book of the association for local and local history in the county of Mark . tape 93/94 . Witten 1995.
  • Heinrich Schoppmeyer: The early history of the J. D. Neuhaus company in Heven . In: VOHM (Hrsg.): Small studies on the history of Witten (=  contributions to the history of Witten . Volume 7 ). Witten 2018, p. 73-78 .
  • Erwin Rupp: Mechanisms of the 18th Century . In: VOHM (Hrsg.): Year book of the association for local and local history in the county of Mark . tape 68 . Witten 1970.
  • Wilhelm Wüstenfeld: memorial of the winch factory J. D. Neuhaus. 1745-1955 . J. D. Neuhaus, Witten 1955.
  • August Kikuth: From the beginnings and the development of the industry in Heven . In: Ernst Stepperfenne (Ed.): Heven through 11 centuries. A contribution to the history of Witten . Meinerzhagener Druck- und Verlagshaus Walther Kämper, Witten 1990, ISBN 3-88913-134-4 , p. 213–224 ( Table of Contents [accessed June 22, 2014]).
  • 210 years of winch construction. 1745/1955 . J. D. Neuhaus, Witten 1955.

Web links

Commons : JD Neuhaus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Britta Bingmann: From winch forge to world market leader . In: WAZ . August 13, 2014.
  2. Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . German Standards Editions, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 17.1 ″  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 38.5 ″  E