MWB Motorenwerke Bremerhaven
| MWB Motorenwerke Bremerhaven
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1957 |
| Seat | Bremerhaven , Germany |
| Number of employees | over 190 (1994) |
| Website | www.mwb.ag/de |
The MWB Motorenwerke Bremerhaven AG was a Bremerhaven shipbuilding and marine engines -Instandsetzungsbetrieb that under the umbrella of AG German Dry Docks opened.
tasks
In addition to engine repairs , the focus of activity is on ship lengthening - here MWB is one of the few shipyards in the world that specializes in lengthening ships, along with Bremerhaven's Lloyd shipyard . The main focus here was on lengthening passenger ships . MWB also focuses on the manufacture of special tools for the installation and maintenance of wind power plants. In addition, MWB AG is successfully involved in the production of combined heat and power plants (CHP).
history
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The destroyer quay was of central importance in the Bremerhaven naval base (1935–1945) until the Weser Exercise Company . Even after the war it was the berth of the floating crane Langer Heinrich . In 1957 the industrial management company (IVG) founded a ship repair company under the name IVG ship and engine repair plant . Four years later, the repair of ship engines was added. In 1962 the company was converted into MWB Motorenwerk Bremerhaven GmbH . In the following years, the plant expanded to more than 600 employees and acquired various floating docks up to 8500 t in line with the increasing range of tasks . In the 1970s, the oil deposits in the North Sea gave the company new tasks in the offshore sector; American oil rig suppliers and anchor tugs were repaired.
Without its own slipway , MWB could only build small ships that could be put into the water by the floating crane. Therefore, a shipbuilding hall was built in 1982 in place of the turning bay for the Lloyd ships. Larger new buildings were mainly needed for seismic studies . In addition, oil catchers and fresh fish catchers were built. The Alexander von Humboldt was converted from a lightship to a barque here .
In 1982 the company divisions were divided into 40% shipbuilding, 26% engine repairs, 10% vehicle repairs, 12% electronics, 7% electrical engineering, 5% firing systems (for sawmills, gardeners); this area later built block-type thermal power stations and test stands .
In 1994, after the separation of various branches of the company, MWB AG with more than 190 employees and an annual turnover of 35 million euros was created and sold to the entrepreneur Dieter Petram .
The business Schiffstechnik the MET with the beginning of 2013, Rickmers Lloyd Dock operation GmbH for German Dry Docks GmbH & Co. KG merged. This new company, which is also part of the Petram Group, has its headquarters at Barkhausenstrasse 60 in Bremerhaven and at that time around 100 employees. It has four of its own docks in Bremerhaven, and there is also a cooperation with the Lloyd shipyard on two further large docks.
In August 2016 it was announced that the previously cooperating companies German Dry Docks GmbH & Co. KG (GDD) and MWB Motorenwerke Bremerhaven AG will merge to form the new German Dry Docks AG . The Engines and Machine Technology division now appears as the MWB Power brand , while the Docking, Repair and Retrofit division continues to operate under German Dry Docks . Nadine Petram takes over the chairmanship of the supervisory board of the new AG. German Dry Docks, in turn, merged in 2017 with Bredo, also based in Bremerhaven, and Mützelfeldtwerft, based in Cuxhaven, to form a group of companies whose legally independent companies operate jointly on the market under the name Bredo Dry Docks in order to be able to use synergy effects.
In July 2019 Petram sold all of its shipbuilding activities in Bremerhaven (Bredo and German Dry Docks ) to the Rönner Group.
building
Building 21 was laid out in 1936 as a supply warehouse. After the Second World War , the Americans used the cold store and the hall there as a warehouse. From 1957, part of the cellar housed the federal warehouse (BEL), which moved to the north in 1971. The equipment department (repair of overloaded workshops on Bundeswehr vehicles) moved into the BEL basement. Part of it was used as a warehouse by the engine workshop. After the cold store was burned out, the building was handed over to MWB and the burned-out area was demolished. The engine repairs department, which until then had been housed in building 16, came into the building. The connecting bridge from building 21 to building 20 was also demolished after the fire. The three-story building 20 - the "Great Staff Building" - housed MWB's administration. The upper floors were added after 1995. Before that it had a hipped roof facing the harbor. The higher part had an anti-aircraft gun during the war . There is a ramp between buildings 21 and 22, which drops down from the quay level to street level. The flat building was called the "garage". The following building housed the canteen (below) and the design office (above) during MWB times . The following hall is said to have been damaged during the war. It served first as a warehouse, later tank engines, diesel engines for the Federal Railways and ship engines for the German Navy were dismantled, diagnosed and repaired there. Behind the hall there are test stands on which the engines are run in. The large hall was built in 1982 on the turning basin as a shipbuilding hall.
literature
- Peter Raap : It started with mine clearance. MWB Motorenwerk Bremerhaven GmbH, an unusual shipyard in Bremerhaven . Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt , No. 656 (August 2004). PDF file
Web links
- Website MWB
- 50 years of MWB ( Schiff & Hafen Spezial, 2007)
Individual evidence
- ^ [1] Company history of MWB AG, based on an article by Ralf Witthohn, published in Schiff & Hafen , issue 12/07
- ↑ a b c Peter Raap: It began with mine clearing (2004)
- ↑ Frank Binder: Shipyard association concentrates repairs · Dock business in Bremerhaven merged - Rickmers Lloyd and MWB-Schiffstechnik become German Dry Docks . In: Daily port report from January 15, 2013, p. 1
- ↑ German Dry Docks and MWB Motorenwerke Bremerhaven merge. ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. German Dry Docks Magazine, August 5, 2016, accessed October 21, 2016
- ↑ German Dry Docks and MWB Motorenwerke Bremerhaven merge. In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 9/2016, p. 47
- ↑ "Neue Werften-Allianz" , Weser Kurier, January 11, 2017, accessed on July 6, 2019
- ↑ "Petram sells shipyard business to Rönner Group" , Die Welt from July 24, 2019, accessed on July 30, 2019
