Körting Hanover

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Körting Hannover GmbH

logo
legal form Company with limited liability
founding November 1, 1871
Seat Hanover , Germany
management
  • York Fusch, chairman, engineering and sales
  • Frank Hensel, administration and commercial department
Number of employees > 310 (2017)
sales > EUR 50 million (2016)
Branch Apparatus and plant construction
Website www.koerting.de

Company building
former logo

The Körting Hannover GmbH (formerly: Gebr Körting AG. , 2019 Körting Hannover AG ) is an apparatus -Unternehmen based in Hannover .

At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the company played a leading role in Germany and Europe in the development of jet pumps , especially steam jet pumps .

Körting still produces jet pump systems and vacuum systems based on them, but also burners and apparatus for thermal and chemical process engineering.

history

The Gebrüder Körting company was founded on November 1st, 1871 by the brothers Berthold and Ernst Körting in Hanover. For this purpose, the brothers rented a small office and a small room in the backyard of today's Joachimstrasse 13 near Hanover Central Station . Berthold mainly took on the commercial, Ernst the technical management. The brothers successfully started developing and patenting one of the first working injectors . Initially only two workers were employed.

Because of the steadily growing number of orders, the company rented a factory in 1872 on Celler Strasse in what is now Oststadt . It consisted of two small company buildings with a 12 HP steam engine. 41 workers were employed. The young company manufactured steam and water jet pumps as well as the associated condensers . In 1874 the small factory was already delivering 2,000 blasting machines.

The company grew rapidly and within a few years established agencies in Germany and neighboring European countries (London, Paris, Milan, Genoa, Barcelona, ​​Breslau, Paris, Saint Petersburg, Vienna) and overseas (Philadelphia). The first foreign branch was established as "Körthing Brothers" in Manchester . In 1874 the American business was opened. In 1880 the company had 20 employees and 170 workers. The product range was expanded to include central heating systems , gas washers , gas , petrol and diesel engines , steam jet fire engines and cellar pumps . In its redesigned advertisement, the company referred to previous awards. Suction air brakes from the Körting company were found in many railways of the time. Körting also built the first Holzwarth gas turbine in 1910 .

In 1889 a new, larger factory with a large foundry and its own power station was built in Linden , where the company is based. In the immediate vicinity, a workers' settlement with its own school, the so-called " Körtingsdorf " , was built for the employees from 1890 . At the peak times before the global economic crisis , Körting employed around 1,700 workers and 400 employees. The company was one of the largest employers in the Hanover region . During the First World War, Körting manufactured, among other things, grenade detonators and employed numerous women for them.

In 1898, when Irma Körting married Gustav Fusch, the Fusch family joined the company. Today the Körting company is in the fifth generation of the family owned Körting / Fusch.

The development of large gas engines at the beginning of the 20th century did not bring the hoped-for success for Körting, so this branch was given up again after a short time.

The product range was continuously adapted in the course of the 20th century, with the core competence, the flow devices (jet pumps, nozzles and burners), being refined more and more. In return, the engine and turbine technology was scaled back and ultimately abandoned.

Other personalities

literature

  • Wolfgang Leonhardt : List and Vahrenwald, two formative districts of Hanover , Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-8334-3333-7
  • 125 years of Körting Hannover . Chronicle of Körting AG for the 125th anniversary in 1996
  • Eberhard Landes, Horst Moch u. a .: Railways in Hanover. A chronicle . Authors' publishing house, Hannover 1991, ISBN 3-9802794-05 , p. 146
  • Walter Buschmann : Linden trees. History of an industrial city in the 19th century. Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 2012, ISBN 978-3-7752-5927-9 , pp. 210-213

Web links

Commons : Körting Hannover  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Information on the history on the company's website ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2007 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. , accessed March 27, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.koerting.de
  2. ^ Advertisement Gebr. Körting , Annex to the Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung, January 7, 1882, p. 5, accessed on December 7, 2012.
  3. ^ Annonce Anzeiger zum Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , July 15, 1882, p. 1, accessed on December 13, 2012.
  4. ↑ Information on the history of the company and the "Körtingsdorf" ( Memento from November 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Manufacture of grenade detonators , accessed on February 6, 2014.
  6. ^ Walter Buschmann: Linden: History of an industrial city in the 19th century. Lax, Hildesheim 1981. ISBN 3-7848-3492-2 . P. 337, fig. 190.
  7. ^ Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoß: Meyer, Sigmund (called Hans Sigismund) , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie , vol. 17, p. 373f .; online about German biography .

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 42.1 "  N , 9 ° 41 ′ 43.4"  E