Agricultural machinery manufacturer Güstrow
The agricultural machinery Güstrow had in the 1980s, one of the largest engineering companies in the north of the German Democratic Republic developed.
history
The origin of the company is Lythall AG, which has been active in Güstrow since 1899 and which can be regarded as a successor to Heinrich Voß GmbH, which was founded in 1845. Main products were to be assigned to the tillage and feed processing technology. Lythall AG resumed production in 1945 after an interruption due to the war with around 60 employees. In 1951 it came under trust management and in 1952 it was converted into the state-owned company Maschinenbau Güstrow.
The company developed by the end of the 1960s as a cooperative and component manufacturer for agricultural machinery with around 300 employees. In 1970 it was assigned to the Weimar Kombinat under the name of Agricultural Machinery Construction Güstrow and, in connection with this, had to take over the production of the D 032 fertilizer spreader attachment from Barth Agricultural Machinery , which at that time had to give up agricultural machinery production and was assigned to the shipbuilding division.
From 1976 a new facility was built at the Güstrow-Rövertannen site. This resulted in one of the largest mechanical engineering companies in the north of the GDR by 1986, which by 1983 already had around 2500 employees. In addition to fertilization technology, this company was profiled in the context of agricultural machinery construction for component and supplier production. In 1978 he became part of the combine progress agricultural machinery . At the same time, companies or parts of companies were assigned in Dargun and Bützow .
In this formation, at the end of the 1980s, the company had a turnover of around 300 million GDR marks and more than 2,600 employees, of which almost 2,000 worked in the main factory in Güstrow and around 500 in the Dargun section.
In 1990 the company was initially converted into two limited liability companies (Güstrow and Dargun) and placed under trust management. In 1992, a part of the Güstrow company became the Maschinen- und Antriebstechnik GmbH, which in the following years increasingly distinguished itself in the field of fertilization technology on the basis of the earlier product range.
Products
The production program initially consisted of ridging plows, chippers, cultivators, beet crumblers, fertilizer mills, fertilizer spreaders, cardan shafts and PTO protection devices. The most important cooperation products were the B 231 fine cultivator and the front loader for tractors.
From 1970 the D 032 truck mounted fertilizer spreader was manufactured and later the D 035. In the 1980s, the company had its own development department. The most important final products created during this period are the B 610 seedbed preparation device and the D 036, D 037 and D 038 semi-mounted fertilizer spreaders. In addition, there were agricultural machinery gearboxes and assemblies as well as roller chains . A special focus was the differential gears for the Wartburg and Trabant cars , of which around 100,000 were manufactured annually at the end of the 1980s as part of the production of consumer goods in the GDR .
literature
- Klaus Krombholz: 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.
Footnotes
- ^ Front loader T 150. In: German Agricultural Museum Hohenheim. Retrieved December 7, 2016 .