Klüssendorf (company)

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Building Zitadellenweg 20E in Berlin-Haselhorst

Klüssendorf was a German manufacturer of vending machines based in Berlin . Stamp machines , postage stamp machines and ticket validators were mainly produced.

history

The company was founded in 1913 by Heinrich H. Klüssendorf, who was previously operations manager at Deutsche Post- und Eisenbahn- Verkehrwesen -AG (Dapag). On the basis of the Universal type stamping machine produced by Dapag , Klüssendorf developed its own stamping machine called Standard, which has been improved in many details . This replaced the universal machines at the Reichspost from 1925 and was in use until the 1960s. The first stamp and postcard machines were produced in the late 1920s.

From the mid-1930s, Klüssendorf was also active as an armaments company and supplied parts for the manufacture of automatic weapons. During the Second World War, the Junkers aircraft and engine plants were also supplied. The company also used forced labor .

After the war, Klüssendorf remained the contact and developer of numerous electronic and mechanical devices for the Deutsche Bundespost for decades. B. the first German coin printer Klüssendorf 631 , which was introduced in 1980.

In February 1995 the company, which then had 158 employees, filed for bankruptcy, but was able to continue after a restructuring. At the beginning of 2001, Klüssendorf was taken over by competitor Nagler and production relocated to Luhe-Wildenau in Upper Palatinate . Shortly thereafter, Nagler was insolvent and sold in parts. The ticket validator division was transferred to the newly founded company Automatentechnik Baumann (ATB) in October 2001 , which continues to produce these devices based on the Klüssendorf models in Luhe-Wildenau.

Numerous original Klüssendorf validators can still be found today in the area of ​​public transport. Some objects from Klüssendorf are part of the collection of the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications .

Company headquarters

The company was based in the Haselhorst district of Berlin in the building of the former rifle factory, Zitadellenweg 20E, from the early 1940s until the company closed in 2001 .

photos

  • Klüssendorf 455 ticket validator

  • Klüssendorf 800 series ticket validator

  • Postage stamp machines from Klüssendorf (1st to 3rd from left) and Nagler (right)

  • Klüssendorf postage stamp machine that has been converted into a mailbox

  • Postage stamp machine Klüssendorf 631 in Macau

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The company has been renamed several times, from Heinrich H. Klüssendorf (sole proprietorship) to Heinrich H. Klüssendorf GmbH & Co. KG and Klüssendorf AG (late 1980s to mid 1990s) and most recently to Klüssendorf Produkt und Vertriebs GmbH and Klüssendorf Vertriebs and Service GmbH .
  2. ↑ a b Walter Kohlhaas, Inge Giant: Half-stamping machines Universal and standard. Poststempelgilde eV, Soest 2010, pp. 123–124.
  3. ↑ Concise dictionary of the postal system . ed. v. Wilhelm Küsgen, Paul Gerbeth, Heinrich Herzog, Laurenz Schneider and Gerhard Raabe, Berlin 1927, pp. 161–162.
  4. ↑ The Great Brockhaus, 15th edition . Vol. 3, Leipzig 1929, p. 329.
  5. ↑ Robert Kain: Otto Weidt. Anarchist and "Righteous Among the Nations". Lukas, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86732-271-3 , p. 333.
  6. ↑ The downward slide of the industrial site Spandau continues. Berliner Zeitung , March 9, 1995.
  7. ↑ Klüssendorf has to file for bankruptcy. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 15, 1995, p. 25.
  8. ↑ Nagler in the intensive care unit. onetz.de, August 25, 2001, accessed on July 27, 2020.
  9. ↑ About us on the Automatentechnik Baumann website, accessed on July 27, 2020.
  10. ^ Manufacturer Heinrich H. Klüssendorf Fein-Maschinen- und Apparatebau in the digital object database of the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication
  11. ↑ Production building of the rifle factory with gatehouse. Monument database of the Landesdenkmalamt Berlin , accessed on July 27, 2020.