Agricultural machinery manufacturer Barth
Agricultural machinery Barth was a manufacturer of agricultural machinery.
history
The origin of the company was the machine factory Barth founded in 1872 , which was taken over by the Pomeranian iron foundry Stralsund in 1890 and from 1925 was only a branch of this Stralsund main plant. In addition to the foundry, agricultural machinery was a focus of the Barther company as early as the 1880s. This included the invention of Schlör's artificial fertilizer spreader from 1884. Fertilizer spreaders and seed drills were also the main products in the field of agricultural engineering up to the Second World War.
In 1945, the company was initially shut down and dismantling began under trust management. The foundry resumed operations as early as 1946, and the repair of agricultural machinery and tractors began under the company name (company) “Agricultural Machinery Factory Barth”. Until 1948 the company belonged again to the Pomeranian iron foundry Stralsund. In 1948 the publicly owned company was assigned to VVB Maschinenbau und Metallwaren Mecklenburg. The company changed to VEB Landmaschinenwerke Barth. In 1949, with around 200 employees, the production of new machines began, including beet cutters, chopping machines and later seed drills and tillage equipment. At the beginning of the 1950s, the company was subordinated to the centrally managed agricultural machinery industry ( VVB Agricultural, Construction and Woodworking Machinery ). From then on the company was called "VEB Landmaschinenbau Barth".
In the following period, the focus was on the development and manufacture of mineral fertilizer spreaders. With this task, the company had grown to around 850 employees by the end of the 1960s. In connection with the expansion of shipbuilding capacities, a decision was made as early as 1967 to assign the agricultural machinery manufacturer Barth to this branch of industry from January 1, 1970. Agricultural machinery production was gradually discontinued or relocated to other companies at the end of the 1960s, and the company's program, which was now called "VEB Schiffsanlagenbau Barth", was geared towards shipbuilding.
Products
At the beginning of the 1950s, the production program included beet cutters and grinders, stationary choppers, field and meadow rollers, chain fertilizer spreaders and stone grist mills.
The focus of the program expansion in the 1950s was on the tractor-mounted disc fertilizer spreaders D010 and D 383 as well as the D 344 add-on spreader for the implement carrier and the F 146 beet processing machine.
In the 1960s the transition to the wheel spreader took place. These include the D 025 and D 027 trailer spreader and the D 028 attachment spreader. The D 032 and D 035 truck-mounted spreaders, with which the transition to self-propelled fertilization technology was initiated, were a decisive development step. These products were produced in the agricultural machinery manufacturer Güstrow from the 1970s .
literature
- Krombholz, K .: Agricultural machinery in the GDR - light and shadow . DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-7690-0717-6 .
- NN :: VEB Landmaschinenbau Barth - a significant company in our hometown . Chronicle of "700 Years of the City of Barth", Barth 1955.