Knoevenagel (company)
The Knoevenagel GmbH & Co. KG was a machinery factory in Hanover . It went back to the company founded by Albert Knoevenagel in 1856 and was family-owned under various company names for four generations before it was closed in 1991.
history
Colored postcard No. 17 of the North German paper industry
On April 6, 1856, Albert Knoevenagel founded his own company in Falkenstrasse in Linden . With the help of eight journeymen who were immediately employed , he began producing machine tools, band saws and agricultural equipment, and four years later he also built steam engines : “The company banner with which the workers at the A. Knoevenagel machine factory in Linden in Linden in 1861 at the inauguration of Ernst -August monument marched, adorned a horizontal steam engine . ”In addition, the Ernst August album occupies further banners of the“ tastefully costumed workers of this factory ”, which the album depicts in a drawing under the banners of other important companies of its time.
The company probably already started manufacturing freight car underframes in Linden. Due to a lack of space, however, the company was relocated "to the property acquired after the bankruptcy of the Lücke car factory in 1862/65 at the bypass behind the train station (today Augustenstraße area )". On the site there, which previously belonged to the manor owner Friedrich Willmer for the most part, the “construction of open and covered freight railways for the Hanover State Railroad and other railway companies” was intensified and switches and other railway supplies were produced. With 220 workers, the company had its highest number of employees in 1872, but stopped manufacturing freight wagons in 1873 and concentrated on the manufacture of railway supplies. Above all, however, the construction of steam engines was based on the patent granted to Albert Knoevenagel for the "Precision valve control for steam engines with expansion influenced by the regulator ".
In addition to other patents, Knoevenagel also held one for " transmissions in a new design for Germany."
1887 was a foundry in the Hüttenstraße in Vahrenwald set and eventually the entire company moved there in 1900's. The company site was between the cottage road , the 1911 scale Emil-Meyer-Straße (in the time of National Socialism in Bessemer Street was renamed), the glassworks, Pettenkofer and Halkettstraße .
After the death of Albert Knoevenagel, the company remained in the family for three generations.
In the year of the company's 75th anniversary in 1931, in addition to railway requirements, the main production areas were machine, steam boiler and apparatus construction as well as special machines for woodworking and deep drilling rigs. In the 1980s the company designed and built special machines for the furniture industry and also supplied other branches of the "non-ferrous metal industry". After the company was sold, the company went bankrupt in 1991 and was subsequently closed.
Re-uses
- In 1992, the mechanical engineering company Böttcher and Renardy in Bennigsen acquired the rights to the constructions of the woodworking machines (which at that time were partly designed for the CNC control ) as well as part of the workforce formerly responsible for these machines from the insolvency administrator . The company also acquired the right to use the name Knoevenagel in its company logo. The rights to milling machines for machining aluminum blocks would have been sold by the insolvency administrator to Düsseldorf , those for steel and boiler construction to the area around Eschwege .
- In 1993 the non-profit music center in Hanover rented the former model hall and converted it for their purposes with practice rooms and a recording studio. The former product garage was converted into a music theater.
Users of the halls from the post-war period today include:
- The shares held by the insolvency administrator (systems for the non-ferrous industry, milling machines for aluminum block processing) were taken over by Mannesmann Demag Technica and Mannesmann Demag Sack and successfully continued on the world market.
- In 1998 the Mannesmann Demag company merged with the SMS Schloemann AG company to form SMS Siemag.
- These products have been located at SMS Meer GmbH in Mönchengladbach since 1998 and are represented on all world markets.
literature
- The machine industry in the German Reich (mechanical engineering manual), various years
- Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.): Knoevenagel. In: History of the City of Hanover. From the beginning of the 19th century to the present : [4]
- Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Knoevenagel, Albert. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 202 [5]
- Klaus Mlynek: Knoevenagel. In: Hanover Chronicle. From the beginning to the present. Numbers, data, facts : [6]
- Albert Lefèvre: The contribution of the Hanoverian industry to technical progress. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 24 (1970), p. 204ff.
- O. Sander: 100 years of the Technical Monitoring Association Hanover eV Hanover 1973, p. 45 u. ö.
- Franz B. Döppner: Hanover and his old companies , Hamburg 1984, p. 116f.
- Ludwig Hoerner : agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC , ed. from Volksbank Hannover , Hannover 1995, p. 116 and other
- Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Knoevenagel, Albert. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 357.
- German Reich address book for industry, trade and commerce , various years.
- Address book of the city of Hanover , various years.
- Friedrich Lüddecke: Im Volgersweg (with a photo before 1900), in: Hanover as it was then / Images and encounters around 1900 , Verlag A. Madsack , Hanover 1964, p. 82ff.
Web links
Sources and Notes
- ↑ Note: The Hanover Chronicle (see literature) shows the year 1853 as the date of foundation
- ^ Ludwig Hoerner : Schmied Putensen with his hammer, A. Knoevenagel Company, Hanover, around 1880. In: Hanover in early photographs 1848–1910 , Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-921375-44-4 , p. 226f. , with two photos from the 19th century. owned by the Knoevenagel company
- ↑ Ernst August album ; Digitized by The Getty Research Institute via Internet Archive , p. 69 and images; on-line:
- ↑ up there
- ↑ Note: In the history of the city of Hanover ... p. 322 it says "moved to Hanover in 1866". In the book Hannovers Biographisches Lexikon , p. 203, however, it says that the company was "moved to Hainholz in 1865".
- ↑ a b c d Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Knoevenagel GmbH & Co. KG. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 357.
- ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: " Vorstadt " houses on Volgersweg. In: Hanover - today and a hundred years ago. City history photographed . Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-88814-105-2 , pp. 144f.
- ↑ a b Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Knoevenagel, Albert. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 202: [1]
- ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Emil-Meyer-Strasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung Hanover , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 71.
- ↑ Note: The book Hannoversches Biographisches Geschichtslexikon mentions a sale of the company after the fourth generation, but the Stadtlexikon Hannover suggests bankruptcy during the management in the fourth generation.
- ↑ confirmation by telephone from the managing director Günther Renardy; Company website: [2]
- ↑ PDF file of the Linderner Baukontor with photos of the renovation and a floor plan of the studio floor: [3] (PDF; 789 kB)