Kelle & Hildebrandt

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Kelle & Hildebrandt GmbH
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1874
Seat Dresden , Germany
Branch Mechanical engineering , defense industry

The Kelle & Hildebrandt GmbH is a former company in Dresden , whose successor operation today to the SBS group belongs.

history

Manhole cover made in the iron foundry Kelle & Hildebrandt on Hohenthalplatz in Dresden's Friedrichstadt district on a street in Hellerau
Sewer grille by Kelle & Hildebrandt (approx. 1910) in Bad Liebenwerda

The Kelle & Hildebrandt company was founded in 1874 by the royal Saxon master blacksmith Dietrich Conrad Kelle and Adolf Hermann Hildebrandt in the Friedrichstadt district of Dresden . The iron foundry was at Hohenthalplatz 5–6. After Hildebrandt's death in 1883, his sons Emil, as technical director, and Clemens, who was in charge of the commercial management, took over his company shares. After Kelle left the company two years later, they became sole proprietors.

Initially it was a forge and foundry . The business area expanded over the years to include bridge and steel construction as well as mechanical engineering . The company became particularly well known for the manufacture of stage machinery .

The company was represented with its products at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1889 . One of the exhibits at that time, a wrought-iron arbor , is now in Radebeuler Borstrasse at Emil Hildebrandt's former private villa , which is a listed building.

The in-house measures for social security for employees proved to be relatively modern for the time. Since 1891 there was a support fund for the workers, who from 1896 were also entitled to paid leave. In 1899 a company health insurance fund was set up for the then 850 employees.

In the last years of the 19th century , production began in the new plant on Bosewitzer Strasse in Großluga next to the Dresden – Bodenbach railway line . After being incorporated in 1922 , the Luga company premises belonged to Niedersedlitz , which is therefore often given as the location of the company headquarters. The company remained in the possession of the Hildebrandt family until the end of World War II .

After 1945, parts of the factory facilities were dismantled as reparations and brought to the Soviet Union . After a referendum in Saxony on June 30, 1946 , the company was finally expropriated without compensation and made public property. Walter Hildebrandt, one of the last co-owners of Kelle & Hildebrandt, died in December 1952 at the age of 70 in Bad Kissingen .

Products

The steel lattice tower for the elevator to the Ostrauer Scheibe in Bad Schandau , manufactured by Kelle & Hildebrandt

The product range of the company Kelle & Hildebrandt was diversified. Manufactured mainly from iron and steel . These included steel frame structures , bridges, conveyor systems , television towers , railroad tracks , gas lanterns , street poles and lock and manhole covers . For a while, Kelle & Hildebrandt also produced rail vehicles . Above all, trolleys were created for the Royal Saxon State Railways , which were used on the narrow-gauge railways in Saxony .

Around 1900 Kelle & Hildebrandt carried out their first stage technology orders. Since then, the company has supplied many German and international opera houses and theaters with the technical equipment for their stages .

During both world wars, Kelle & Hildebrandt manufactured various armaments for the German Army and the Wehrmacht . During the Second World War , the company was one of the most important armaments companies in Dresden and, from 1943 on, mainly produced sections for the new Type XXI submarines . The Luga plant, however, was 10 km away from the city center and thus far outside the area of ​​the area bombed by the air raids on Dresden in February 1945, but a single bomb drop in Niedersedlitz hit precisely this plant.

Kelle & Hildebrandt and their successor company carried out steel structures for various Dresden buildings, for example the roof structure of the Kreuzkirche , the steel structure for the props building of the Semperoper and the main market hall in Friedrichstadt . The Greifenbach Viaduct and the steel lattice tower for the Bad Schandau passenger elevator also go back to the company.

Successor operation

During the time of the GDR , the plant continued to exist as VEB Sächsischer Brücken- und Stahlhochbau Dresden , or SBS for short . Already in the immediate post-war period the company was involved in the reconstruction of infrastructure destroyed by the war, for example in the makeshift restoration of the Pirna city bridge . After that it developed more and more into an important export company. He was part of the TAKRAF combine .

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , VEB SBS became the responsibility of the Treuhandanstalt and was taken over by GEA AG from Frankfurt am Main in 1993 . Since an MBO manager in 1998, the company has been independent again and is now again described as a mechanical engineering company that defines the location. The stage technology sector still exists today; During a restructuring in 2002, the SBS group also created its own divisions for metal and control technology and a. Offices in Berlin, Shanghai and Hong Kong. The company with around 170 employees in Dresden is one of the world market leaders in the field of theater technology with reference objects in the Lucerne Concert Hall , the Royal Opera House in London and in the Frankfurt Schauspielhaus .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SONAPRO customer reference: SBS Dresden GmbH & CO. KG. (PDF; 662 kB) SONAPRO Informationssysteme GmbH, archived from the original on May 26, 2012 ; accessed on June 28, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Gerd Otto Günther Winkelhausen: Further highlights: The company Kelle & Hildebrandt in Dresden. In: familie-winkelhausen.de. Retrieved June 27, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: zeit.de@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.zeit.de
  4. ^ ÖKOPROFIT Dresden 2007: Information on the project, activities and results, excellent companies. (PDF (page 36); 4.4 MB) Dresden Chamber of Commerce and Industry, State Capital Dresden, p. 34 , accessed on June 28, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Niedersedlitz. (No longer available online.) In: dresden.de. State capital Dresden, archived from the original on January 14, 2014 ; accessed on June 28, 2014 .
  6. ↑ 11619 - Kelle & Hildebrandt GmbH Niedersedlitz-Dresden. (No longer available online.) Main State Archive Dresden , archived from the original on January 6, 2014 ; Retrieved on June 28, 2014 (history and reference to the catalog of finding aids. Contents of the 1982 submission list: buildings - land - productions - inventory - general ledgers - balance sheets - workforce list - wages - site plans - worker support funds - appraisal reports on machine values ​​- advertising brochures - armaments production - photos.).
  7. ↑ The reconstruction of the Elbe bridge in Pirna. Retrieved June 28, 2014 .
  8. ^ Districts of Großluga and Kleinluga. In: Landeskunde-Dresden.de. Retrieved January 10, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Business location : Mechanical and plant engineering: Good by tradition. (No longer available online.) In: dresden.de. State capital Dresden, archived from the original on June 28, 2014 ; accessed on June 28, 2014 .
  10. ↑ SBS stage technology - only your imagination sets limits to our technology. (PDF; 311 KB) proDresden eV - Association for the promotion of medium-sized businesses in and around Dresden, accessed on June 28, 2014 .

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