KGW Schweriner mechanical and plant engineering

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KGW Schweriner Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1948/1990/2006
Seat Schwerin , MV , Germany
management Johann Erich Wilms, managing director
Number of employees 188 (annual average 2013)
sales 74.5 million euros
Branch mechanical engineering
Website www.kgw-schwerin.de

The KGW Schweriner Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH is an in Schwerin produces-based engineering company, the steel towers for the wind power industry and as a contract manufacturer working in the field of Marine Equipment.

About 188 employees currently work in the company.

history

View of the factory premises from the southwest side
In the entrance area, the cross-section of a wind turbine tower shaft can be seen

The company emerged from the "Eisengießerei Gebrüder Klingebiel" founded in 1888. A multipurpose hall was built on the outskirts of Schwerin in 1935, which was primarily intended for political mass rallies. The building consists of a cantilevered construction with a circumferential gallery on three sides, an entrance opposite the stage on the narrow side and doors on the long sides, through which the room could be extended laterally by means of closed tents. Without seating, there was room for up to 12,000 people (Schwerin's population at that time was 60,000). The first propaganda event held in the Festhalle was the funeral service for Wilhelm Gustloff in 1936 . Exhibitions, cultural days and trade fairs were also held here. From 1939 armaments orders were taken. The industrial site was leased to Dornier Flugzeugwerke in 1944, which among other things was dismantled after the war as a reparation payment with the exception of the foundry and the model carpentry, and the remainder of the industrial site as such was then on May 16, 1945 by the Schwerin founded " Peat Industry Heinrich Sander ”has been taken over. The latter had a good order book recently, but its owner Heinrich Sander was forced to flee to western Germany due to arbitrary decisions by the political leadership of the Soviet occupation zone . Among other things, the factory produced conveyor belts and net winch gearboxes that Sander had developed for sea ​​fishing . The main client was the Soviet administration. At the end of 1948, Sander was informed that the machine factory had been expropriated without compensation and transferred to the administration of state- owned companies . He turned down the offer of a managerial position in the company and fled to West Berlin .

The VEB Schweriner Industriewerke emerged from the company on December 24, 1948 . Since Klingebiel was also in the western occupation zones at the time, he was accused of fleeing from the West and his company also became public property against his will and was henceforth called "Schwerin Iron Foundry and Repair Workshop". In 1951 the two companies merged while maintaining the name “VEB Schweriner Industriewerke”. Since the visit of the Czech President Klement Gottwald to Berlin , the company has been called “VEB Klement-Gottwald-Werke Schwerin” in his honor.

The operation was in 1952 one of the main suppliers for the ship of the GDR in the development, design, manufacture and installation of cranes , rowing machines and winches operate. Since 1979 he has been part of the Rostock- based VEB Kombinat Schiffbau Rostock . Before the fall of the Wall, the company employed up to 1,300 people and was one of the most important Schwerin companies.

In 1990 the company was restructured and renamed "KGW Schweriner Maschinenbau GmbH". On April 1, 1993 the company was privatized.

In the course of the insolvency and takeover of the company by the Wilms Group in 2006, the current “KGW Schweriner Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH” was created. Johann Erich Wilms is now the managing director. The marine sector (manufacturing of winches and rowing machines) was the HATLAPA previously on 1 April 2006 Uetersener Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG sold the first further led him as "KGW Marine GmbH" and then the products as a branch of Schwerin completely in the Company integrated.

Today the company manufactures, among other things, steel towers for wind turbines from Nordex and General Electric and works as a contract manufacturer for companies such as HATLAPA. In 2014 the company processed almost 50,000 tons of steel. 800 tower sections were made, with a tower consisting of three to seven sections.

On October 1st, 2010 the company took over the Lübecker Maschinenbau Gesellschaft (LMG).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Search in the electronic Federal Gazette KGW Schweriner Maschinen- und Anlagenbau: Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b B. Kasten and J.-U. Rost: Schwerin. History of the city . Schwerin 2005, p. 279 f. (This source does not contain any founding year of the Klingebiel iron foundry and no statement that Gottwald visited Berlin).
  3. ^ Descriptions of the son Sanders .
  4. ↑ a b Giant Towers for the Wide World , newspaper for the state capital, October 13, 2014, accessed on July 8, 2016
  5. ↑ Torsten Teichmann: Traditional company saved from bankruptcy at the last minute . In: Lübecker Nachrichten of October 1, 2010, p. 1.

Coordinates: 53 ° 39 ′ 5 ″  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 15 ″  E