Crane construction Eberswalde
| Kirow Ardelt GmbH Eberswalde branch
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| legal form | Branch of Kirow Ardelt GmbH in Leipzig |
| founding | April 19, 1902 |
| Seat | Eberswalde , Germany |
| management | Ludwig Koehne, Markus Radmacher, Uwe Grünhagen, René Dietze (managing directors) |
| Number of employees | 180 (2008) |
| sales | 74 million euros (2008) |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.ardelt.de |
The Kirow Ardelt GmbH, Branch Eberswalde , shortly Ardelt is a mechanical engineering company in Eberswalde , Brandenburg . The company is the world market leader for double jib cranes (also known as portal luffing cranes). These cranes do not change the hook height when the delivery is changed. The Eberswalde branch is part of Kirow Ardelt in Leipzig and, together with Kocks Krane GmbH in Bremen, part of Kranunion GmbH in Leipzig (formerly Kirow Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. Holding KG, or Kirow Group for short).
overview
Ardelt Eberswalde has the status of a branch in the Kirow Ardelt GmbH. As of December 31, 2008, the workforce comprised 180 employees (including one member of the Management Board), who in 2008 generated sales of EUR 74 million.
Ardelt is the world market leader for double jib cranes and produces, among other things, balancing cranes, container cranes, slewing cranes, portal cranes and loading bridges. The company specializes in moving heavy loads under extreme operating conditions for railways, ports, shipyards and steel works.
Since it was founded in 1902, a total of more than 4,600 cranes have been sold in countries on four continents. Hermann Simon mentions the company in his book of the same name as an example of a " hidden champion ", a relatively unknown small or medium-sized company that is the market leader in its market .
history
Established in 1902 and further development
The company's history goes back to 1902, when the engineer Robert Ardelt (1847–1925) opened a technical industrial office on Alsenplatz (today Karl-Marx-Platz). The company was run together with his sons Max and Paul (from 1902), Robert (from 1911) and Rudolf (from 1919). In 1904 the Robert Ardelt & Sons machine factory was founded, in 1912 the name was changed to Ardelt-Werke GmbH .
On October 7, 1904, the first machine factory opened on Eisenbahnstrasse and in 1911 expansion began on the property at the corner of Heegermühler Strasse and Boldtstrasse. The company was known worldwide for the construction of foundry machines, the planning and the construction of entire tube foundries. In addition, mainly cranes (railway slewing cranes, luffing cranes, casting bed processing cranes), induced draft and dust extraction systems, diesel locomotives and road pavers for motorway construction were manufactured.
In 1932, Ardelt-Werke invented the double-link system for slewing cranes, which is documented in a patent. These cranes, also known as “gantry luffing cranes”, still determine the company's production range to this day. The specialty is a constant hook height when changing the display. Ardelt was also involved in the construction of the Niederfinow ship lift between 1927 and 1934.
Company apartments were built in Nordende, Ostend and Westend for the employees, and private homes for the more affluent employees. Residential houses for the Ardelt families were built on the site on Heegermühler Strasse opposite the main building. There was also a nursery and a small park that no longer exists today. A community house and a sports facility on the Finow Canal , home of the Ardelt factory sports team, were completed in 1935.
Armaments factory in the German Reich 1933 to 1945
As during the First World War, the Ardeltwerke were also an important armaments company during the National Socialist era . During the Second World War , the company employed numerous forced laborers . They were placed in several labor camps. In April 1942 450 Hungarian Jewish citizens, 223 Russian and French and 100 Polish prisoners of war were brought to the “Waldlager Britz”. There were also 106 French, 66 Dutch and 126 female Eastern workers from the civil sector.
For April 1943 only 205 Hungarian Jewish citizens are deported, the number of which fell to 171 in June 1943. A month later, no Hungarian Jew is expelled. For the month of February 1945 the camp strength is given as 1495. On August 27, 1943, 205 Jews were transported from a labor camp near the Märkische Stahlformwerk GmbH, a subsidiary of Ardelt-Werke (located at today's inland port), to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and murdered in the gas chambers.
On September 5, 1944 , a satellite camp of the Ravensbrück concentration camp for around 1,000 female prisoners of various nationalities was set up in Eisenspalterei, Finow . The prisoners were exclusively political prisoners and had to work in the Ardelt works. In 1944, 3,000 forced laborers were employed among the 7,000 employees of the largest company in Eberswalde. Branch offices existed in Breslau-Masselwitz (today Wrocław -Maślice, Poland), in Rothau (today Rotava , Czech Republic) and Kragau (today Craiova , Romania).
The production comprised anti-tank cannons (including the widely used 7.5 cm PaK 40 ), self-propelled guns, caterpillars, armored domes for coastal artillery, gears and chain links for armored vehicles, light metal parts for aircraft construction, torpedo discharge tubes, grenade bodies, plate mines, sea mines, housings for Air bombs and pontoons for the construction of pioneer bridges. Engineers from the Ardelt works were also involved in the shooting down of retaliatory weapons in Peenemünde . Engineers from the Ardelt works in Eberswalde and Breslau played a key role in the development, production and testing of the “retribution weapon” .
The subcamp in Eisenspalterei was closed due to the approach of the Soviet army on 20./21. Disbanded April 1945 and the prisoners were transported back to Ravensbrück, where they were later released. After the war, the Soviet Army used the camp as an internment camp for a short time and then as a supply depot. Two of the barracks that still exist are now a listed building.
State-owned company from 1945 to 1990
After 1945 the Ardelt family had to give up the factories in Eberswalde, Breslau, Rothau and Kragau. The family fled to Lower Saxony and founded factories there in Wilhelmshaven and Osnabrück . These came to Friedrich Krupp AG in 1953 and now operated under the name Krupp-Ardelt GmbH . The company changed its name to Krupp-Kranbau when, in 1964, after the death of Rudolf Ardelt, the family's shares in Krupp were also transferred.
The Ardelt works in Eberswalde were expropriated after 1945 and made public property. The systems were dismantled as a reparation payment and transported to the Soviet Union . With the renaming to VEB Kranbau Eberswalde on March 20, 1948, the rebuilding of the company began.
On August 1, 1950, crane construction became the carrier company for BSG Stahl Eberswalde (formerly the Preußen 09 football club). On April 1, 1952, the name was changed to BSG Motor Eberswalde . When Kranbau stopped supporting the club in 1990, the company sports association (BSG) became a sports club again, called SV Motor Eberswalde. The home stadium has been the Westendstadion since 1951, as the old club grounds (Preußen-Platz) had been destroyed in the war.
In 1945, the Red Army moved into the former gardens opposite the main building and monitored the dismantling of the company's facilities from there. After the withdrawal of the Soviet Army, the crane construction of the BSG handed over the site in 1950. In 1951 the stadium with running track and stands was completed. At the beginning of the 1960s, a social building, a bowling alley, a side court for the soccer players and for other sports volleyball fields and throwing facilities were built on the site.
During the GDR era , the company was organized as a state-owned enterprise (VEB) in the TAKRAF combine . The 3,000 employees are mainly engaged in the development, design and manufacture of port equipment. Harbor cranes from Eberswalde were of high quality and also relatively inexpensive, which is why they can be found in many ports around the world, such as Heraklion on Crete, Brazilian Rio de Janeiro , Saint Petersburg or the port of Hamburg .
For the GDR, crane construction in Eberswalde was a successful source of foreign currency. However, crane construction could hardly benefit from its own profits and reinvest it. As a result, the machines and systems were outdated towards the end of the GDR and no longer economical enough to enable the company to get off to a successful start in the post- reunification period .
Privatization from 1990
The GDR's “Ordinance on the Conversion of State-Owned Combines, Enterprises and Facilities into Corporations” of March 1, 1990 began the privatization of the company. 1994 sold Treuhandanstalt the Kranbau Eberswalde GmbH to the Vulkan Kocks GmbH, a company that for Bremer Vulkan belonged AG. The company was renamed Vulkan Kranbau Eberswalde GmbH . In 1996, Bremer Vulkan AG had to file for bankruptcy and Vulkan Kocks GmbH was taken over by Kirow Leipzig AG in 1997 . The company was named Kirow Leipzig KE Kranbau Eberswalde GmbH .
Kranbau Eberswalde and Kirow Leipzig both belonged to the TAKRAF combine until 1990 and are now again united under one roof together with Kocks Krane in Bremen in the Kranunion (formerly Kirow Group). 1989 Kocks took Wilhelmshaven Fördertechnik (formerly Krupp Ardelt), whose origins date back to the Ardelt-Werke Eberswalde 1,902th This means that two companies founded by the Ardelt family also belong to the association.
The company was awarded the "Berlin-Brandenburg Innovation Prize" in 2000 for developing the Feeder Server, the world's first mobile container bridge.
Controversy over renaming in 2008
At the Annual General Meeting on June 16, 2008, it was decided to change the name to Kirow Ardelt GmbH . The entry in the commercial register took place on July 2, 2008. Due to the National Socialist past of the company with the name Ardelt, the 49th Eberswalde city council voted unanimously on May 30, 2008 in a resolution against the renaming. Mayor Friedhelm Boginski ( FDP ) regretted the company's decision.
In 2008 Ardelt Russia GmbH started its business operations in Saint Petersburg . In 2007, the limited liability company was founded under Russian law, in which Kirow Ardelt AG held all shares.
Locomotives from the Ardelt works
The Ardelt-Werke built around 40 shunting locomotives with combustion engines between 1936 and 1939 . For the construction of these Ardelt locomotives , several engines of the type F6M317 (80 HP) and A6M220 (150 HP) were obtained from Deutz-KHD . MAN supplied other engines , type W6V175 / 22 with 180 hp. The following machine types are known: NB 70, NB 85, NB 120, NB 150 and NB 180, where the N stands for standard gauge and the B for the axle sequence . The number indicates the performance of the vehicle in hp. FNo. stands for serial number. The following table shows all vehicles known so far.
Only a few of the locomotives have survived, including the Ardelt locomotive with the serial number 13. This was delivered to Eisen & Metall AG in Gelsenkirchen in 1938 . Since March 1980 it has stood on a playground in Gelsenkirchen-Erle before it was exhibited in the Westphalian Industrial Museum (WIM) in 1991 . In September 1993 she was transported from the museum to a playground in Leverkusen- Schlebusch. In December 2005, Kranbau Eberswalde took over the locomotive and erected it on the factory premises as a memorial. This returned the diesel locomotive to its place of manufacture.
| FNo. | Construction year | Type | design type | Gauge | receiver |
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| 3 | 1936 | NB 70 | B-dm | 1435 mm | Army High Command , Wroclaw Army Equipment Office |
| 6th | 1936 | NB 85 | B-dm | 1435 mm | ? |
| 7th | 1937 | A6M220-NB 150 | B-dm | 1435 mm | Niederbarnimer Railway , Basdorf depot |
| 9 | 1937 | A6M220-NB 150 | B-dm | 1435 mm | Niederbarnimer Railway, Basdorf depot |
| 10 | 1937 | A6M220-NB 150 | B-dm | 1435 mm | Niederbarnimer Railway, Basdorf depot |
| 13 | 1938 | F6M317 | B-dm | 1435 mm | Eisen und Metall AG , Gelsenkirchen |
| 14th | 1938 | F6M317 | B-dm | 1435 mm | Lonal-Werk GmbH, Leese |
| 19th | 1938 | F6M317-NB 85 | B-dm | 1435 mm | Rostock construction union |
| 26th | 1939 | A6M220 | B-dm | 1435 mm | Works railway of Hans Hatschek AG , Gmunden |
| 28 | 1938 | W6V175 / 22-NB 180 | B-dm | 1435 mm | Kalkwerk Saal on the Danube |
| 29 | 1939 | ? | B-dm | 1435 mm | Schwarzheide synthesis plant , Schwarzheide |
| 34 | 1939 | NB 85 | B-dm | 1435 mm | Army High Command, Swinoujscie Naval Blocked Equipment Office |
| 35 | 1939 | F6M317-NB 85 | B-dm | 1435 mm | Howaldtswerke AG, Kiel-Dietrichsdorf |
| 36 | 1939 | NB 70 | B-dm | 1435 mm | Carl FW Borgward GmbH , Bremen-Sebaldsbrück |
| 38 | 1939 | F6M317-NB 65/70 | B-dm | 1435 mm | Philipp Holzmann AG, St. Georgen an der Gusen plant |
| ? | 1939 | NB 120 | B-dm | 1435 mm | Wintershall AG, Lützkendorf hydrogenation plant |
| ? | 1939 | F6M317-80 | B-dm | 750 mm | ? |
Footnotes
- ↑ a b Ardelt factory defies the crisis . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , June 26, 2009
- ↑ CCS Automation: Products ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hermann Simon: Hidden Champions of the 21st Century: The Success Strategies of Unknown World Market Leaders. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38380-4 , p. 17
- ↑ a b Ministry of Economics Brandenburg: Kranbau Eberswalde makes the ports of the world faster ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ History Institute Eberswalde; BR.MSW.42 and EW.MSW.25
- ^ Danuta Czech: Calendar of the events in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp 1939-1945 . Pp. 584-585, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1989, ISBN 3-498-00884-6
- ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 4: Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, Ravensbrück. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52964-X , pp. 540-543.
- ↑ Holger Kliche, Kurt Berus and Ewa Stendel: Ardelt-Werke - Armory of the Führer (Part 1) ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) Ed .: History Institute Eberswalde. Barnimer Bürgerpost.
- ↑ Holger Kliche: Ardelts rocket men; Historical Institute Eberswalde, 1st edition 2009
- ↑ Holger Kliche, Kurt Berus and Ewa Stendel: Ardelt-Werke - Armory of the Führer (Part 2) ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) Ed .: History Institute Eberswalde. Barnimer Bürgerpost.
- ↑ a b Commercial Register: Official website
- ↑ Crane construction changes with the name . In: Neues Deutschland , June 21, 2008
- ^ Shunting diesel: locomotives of the Ardelt works
- ↑ Shunting diesel: Ardelt locomotive No. 13
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Coordinates: 52 ° 50 ′ 23 " N , 13 ° 46 ′ 36" E