Locomotive construction Electrotechnical works "Hans Beimler" Hennigsdorf

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VEB Lokomotivbau Elektrotechnische Werke "Hans Beimler" Hennigsdorf (LEW)
legal form publicly-owned business
resolution 1990
Reason for dissolution Division by the Treuhandanstalt
Seat Hennigsdorf , German Democratic Republic
Branch Rail vehicle manufacturer

Name plate on a train of the Budapest Local Railway ( Budapesti Helyiérdekű Vasút )

The state-owned company VEB Lokomotivbau Elektrotechnische Werke "Hans Beimler" Hennigsdorf ( LEW ), named after the politician Hans Beimler and the location of the plant in Hennigsdorf , was a rail vehicle manufacturer in the GDR and the sole manufacturer of electric locomotives there .

Products

Train of the BVG series G of the manufacturer LEW in the underground station Kurfürstendamm on the underground line U1 of the Berlin underground : This series is the only vehicle series designed in the GDR for the small profile line.

In addition to the electric locomotives of the DR series 211 , 242 , 251 , 250 , 212/243/114/112 and 252 were from 1964 also from the VEB locomotive "Karl Marx" (LKM) in Potsdam-Babelsberg developed diesel locomotives of the V series 60.12 and Series 110 manufactured there in series. Furthermore, various types of wagons for mine railways and various types of railcars for export and the Berlin S-Bahn and U-Bahn were manufactured.

250 164 in series version at the Leipzig spring fair in 1982

LEW emerged from the Hennigsdorf operation of AEG . The plant, 80 percent of which was destroyed in the war , was confiscated by the Soviet military administration in Germany (SMAD) in 1946 and returned to German administration two years later. In the same year, the production of locomotives was resumed. 1954, the prototypes were the steam engine - Series 65.10 manufactured in Hennigsdorf, 1961, the new developments DR series E 11 and E 42 , 1973-1974, the prototypes of the series 280 . From 1952 the mine locomotives of the EL 2 series for standard gauge and already from 1951 the mine locomotives of the EL 3 series for the 900 mm narrow gauge were manufactured. Another type of the EL series is the EL 4 series , which was produced for industrial railways in the GDR. In addition, between 1954 and 1958, LEW manufactured direct current locomotives of the E 04 (EU 04) and E 05 (EU 20) series for the Polish state railways PKP .

The widespread battery towing vehicles (ASF) of the EL 16 series also came from Hennigsdorf.

The electron beam multi-chamber furnaces developed by the Ardenne Institute for the production of ultra-pure steels were also manufactured in Hennigsdorf. Large quantities of copper foil for the manufacture of printed circuit boards in the GDR were also produced in Hennigsdorf .

In the course of the consumer goods offensive in the 1980s , electrical household appliances, garden furniture and sauna stoves were also produced.

Combine LEW

The combine LEW included u. a. the companies:

criticism

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As part of the "cooperative aid between the socialist states ", LEW has taken over plans for an SLM bogie from the Czechoslovak manufacturer Škoda without payment and installed it in the DR E 11 , DR E 42 and PKP EU04 series . Such an approach would be called industrial espionage today . For its part, Škoda had acquired the license to build bogie locomotives without running axles from the Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik (SLM) shortly after the Second World War.

After reunification

After the reunification in 1990, the Treuhandanstalt divided the plant. The rail vehicle part was continued as AEG rail vehicles Hennigsdorf GmbH from 1992 , from 1996 to 2001 it was then a factory of Adtranz and since then has been part of the Bombardier Transportation group - with a significantly reduced workforce . The insulating materials division of LEW was taken over by the Swiss company Von Roll Isola in 1992 , but was later dissolved in Hennigsdorf. The electrical household appliances division of the old LEW was continued as Treuhandbetrieb LEW GmbH , but could not survive on the market with hot water devices and was liquidated. The industrial part of electric heating still exists today as Marx Elektrowärme GmbH and has specialized in the manufacture of industrial furnaces and pouring ladles .

literature

  • Rüdiger Block: 100 years of Hennigsdorf. Locomotive forge with tradition . In: railway magazine . No. 11/2010 . Alba publication, November 2010, ISSN  0342-1902 , p. 28-29 .

Web links

Commons : Lokomotivbau Elektrotechnische Werke Hans Beimler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christophe Keseljevic: The Swiss Influence on the Development of Electric Traction in France . In: Swiss Railway Review . No. 5/2016 . Minirex, ISSN  1022-7113 , p. 254-258 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 37 ′ 41 ″  N , 13 ° 12 ′ 24 ″  E