Agricultural machinery construction Bernburg
Agricultural machinery construction Bernburg was a state- owned enterprise (VEB) of the GDR , which originally produced seeders, later beet harvesters and other agricultural machines.
history
The company originated from the Wilhelm Siedersleben company , which was founded in Bernburg in 1867 for the series production of seed drills . The production program was subsequently expanded to include beet toppers and beet lifters , mineral fertilizer spreaders and chopping machines, with the focus on seed drills, which became known under the name Saxonia . During the Second World War, the company was largely spared from destruction and then from dismantling by the occupying powers. Therefore, under the direction of the owner, the production of traditional products could already be started again in 1945. This also included seed drills as reparations for the USSR .
In 1952 the expropriation took place. The company came to VVB Agricultural, Construction and Woodworking Machinery as VEB Landmaschinenbau Bernburg . At that time it had around 350 employees. As part of the head office for agricultural machinery construction (from 1953) and VVB agricultural machinery and tractor construction (from 1956), agricultural machinery construction in Bernburg, which continued to carry the brand name Saxonia , grew to around 600 employees by the end of the 1960s. In 1970 he became part of the Weimar Combine and in 1978 a company of the Combine Progress Agricultural Machinery . In the period from 1979 to 1984, the agricultural machinery company in Bernburg was assigned to the Weimar factory as a legally independent company . In 1985 it lost the status of an independent combine operation and was subordinated to the Leipzig soil cultivation equipment plant as a part of the operation . At that time, the Bernburg plant had around 650 employees.
As part of the trust management from 1990, a sustainable privatization with the company Rabewerk Bad Essen could be realized in 1992. The company existed under the name Rabewerk Bernburg GmbH until the insolvency of the main factory in Bad Essen in 2000. In 2001, Pöttinger Maschinenfabrik GmbH in Grieskirchen (AU) took over the company and continued the sowing technology program.
Products
The company benefited for a long time from the innovations of the Siedersleben company, including the standard seed wheel developed in the mid-1920s, which made it possible to dose all common types of seeds. So far into the 1950s, the series of machine drill machines based on it were produced. The new developments that came into effect from the end of the 1950s were primarily designed for tractor trains. These included:
- Series A 541 to A 561 for tractor trains, as A 411 to A 461 also for trailer trains
- Series A 621 to A 661 for three-point attachment
- A 188 or A 761 mid-mounted seed drill for the RS 09 implement carrier
- Tractor mounted seed drill A 591
From the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, the A 200 seed drill series dominated this product range with its further developments. It was replaced by the A 215 series, which primarily took into account the requirements of the Western European markets. The seed drills were sold in these markets under the name Saxonia .
The products of precision sowing technology for sugar beet were:
- Rear attachment variant A 695 (from 1961)
- Inter-axle mounting variant A 765 for the RS09 device carrier (from 1963)
- A 697 with new sowing system (from 1973)
literature
- Krombholz, K .: Agricultural machinery in the GDR - light and shadow . DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-7690-0717-6 .
- Collective of authors: The nationally owned combine progress agricultural machinery Neustadt in Saxony and its companies 1945 - 1990 . Publication of the traditional association KOFO Neustadt / Sa. eV, Neustadt in Saxony 2005.