Leo Gottwald

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50 RM share in Maschinen- und Kranbau AG from December 22, 1924

The Leo Gottwald KG , formerly machinery industry Ernst Halbach and MUKAG was a company that hoist produced.

Company history

Gottwald AMK 35-A truck-mounted crane on a Mercedes-Benz chassis (heavy cubic cabin). Characteristic of Gottwald cranes are the holes visible in the boom, which were used to brace the boom parts during welding .
MUKAG harbor crane in Hanover-Misburg
Rail crane installing points

The company was founded in 1906 as Maschinenindustrie Ernst Halbach and has specialized in crane construction from the start . In 1917 it was renamed Maschinen- und Kranbau AG - MUKAG and in 1928 it became the property of the banker Leo Gottwald. In 1936 the name was changed to Leo Gottwald KG at the same time as the incorporation of the two plants of the Vereinigte Flanschenfabriken and Stanzwerke AG in Hattingen and Regis-Breitingen , whose main shareholder had previously been M. Stern AG from Essen . In 1976, the increased bank Schliep & Co. as a limited partner , and in May 1981, the factory was Hattingen to the Bochum oil company belonging Mönninghoff GmbH sold.

In 1988 the Leo Gottwald company in Düsseldorf lost its independence when it was sold to Mannesmann DEMAG AG and, in 2000, to Siemens AG . In 2002 the company was incorporated into Demag Holding and in the same year today's Gottwald Port Technology GmbH emerged from it.

Business areas

Today, the successor company, Gottwald Port Technology GmbH , is still building port cranes or port gantry cranes and automatic transporters (AGV = automatic guided vehicles). The best-known division in Germany, truck crane production , was completely absorbed by Krupp industrial technology.

The company became best known with the Gottwald AMK 1000 built in 1985 for Riga Mainz , the first nominally 1000 tonne telescopic truck crane.

literature

  • Wolfgang Weinbach: GOTTWALD 100 years of excavator-crane-ramming Volume 1 : History, steam winches and ramming, non-stationary excavators and cranes, stationary cranes, railway cranes, lattice boom cranes. Podszun-Motorbücher Verlag, Brilon 2006, ISBN 3-86133-421-6
  • Wolfgang Weinbach: GOTTWALD 100 years of excavator-crane-ramming Volume 2 : Hydro devices, telescopic cranes , special devices and special vehicles for opencast mining, Gottwald cranes for fire brigades and THW, mobile harbor cranes. Podszun-Motorbücher Verlag, Brilon 2006, ISBN 3-86133-422-4
  • Wolfgang Weinbach: Gottwald Autokrane: Image archive . Podszun-Motorbücher Verlag, Brilon 2008, ISBN 3-86133-474-7

Web links

Commons : Gottwald cranes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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