Mahr group

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Carl Mahr Holding GmbH

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founding 1861
Seat Goettingen , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Management :
  • Stephan Gais (managing partner, chairman)
  • Udo Erath
  • Manuel Hüsken
  • Ulrich Kaspar
Number of employees 1900
sales 236.18 million euros (2015)
Branch Production metrology, mixing and dosing machine technology, ball guides
Website www.mahr.de

The Mahr Group ( proper spelling : Mahr Group ) is a German group of manufacturing metrology companies . The group, with subsidiaries in Europe, North and South America and Asia, is family-run in the fifth generation .

Mahr is the world market leader in the field of precise length measuring technology (PLM) and a major manufacturer of form and surface measuring devices .

history

At the age of 31, master locksmith Carl Mahr (1830–1899) founded his own workshop in Esslingen in 1861 , the headquarters of today's corporate group. In 1882 his son Oskar Mahr (1866–1937) joined the company and continued to run it after the founder's death. Oskar Mahr's successor was his son Carl Mahr (1894–1967). This enlarged the company and founded u. a. 1936 a subsidiary in Göttingen, Feinprüf, Feinmess- und Prüfgeräte GmbH .

The younger brother of Carl Mahr, the engineer Oscar Mahr (1907–1968), took over the management of the Göttinger Feinprüf GmbH . The subsidiary was founded in order to fulfill the order of the high command of the Wehrmacht to “set up a factory for the construction of gauges and fixtures ready for operation” in Göttingen according to the so-called coal and steel scheme . During the Second World War , the company was under a military operation the military command . At the end of 1944 Feinprüf GmbH had 690 employees in Göttingen, including a fifth of foreign forced laborers .

In 1966 Carl Mahr handed over shares in the company to his son Carl Fritz Mahr (1925–1992), who had been with the company since 1952. Under his leadership, the Dr. Ing.Perthen GmbH in Hanover. Subsidiaries were also established in France and the USA. In 1984 Carl Fritz Mahr's nephew Thomas Keidel (* 1947) returned to the company, took on increasing management responsibility and finally succeeded his uncle.

Mahr expanded worldwide under the management of Keidel. The head office was relocated to Göttingen in 1994 when Carl Mahr Holding GmbH was founded . In 2010 Keidel handed over the chairmanship of the management to his cousin Stephan Gais (* 1956). The bank and business graduate came to Göttingen in 1994 as managing director of Feinprüf-Perthen GmbH.

In 2011 the company celebrated its 150th anniversary. In 2012 , Mahr OKM and Mahr Göttingen merged. A year later, Mahr Esslingen and Mahr Göttingen merged. In 2015 MWF Roland Friedrich GmbH and the US company ESDI were taken over.

Products

The group's products include measuring devices for checking the workpiece geometry , gear pumps (spinning pumps) and high-precision ball guides as universal components in mechanical constructions.

Other products: Electronic and pneumatic length measuring and control devices, multi-point measuring devices and measuring machines, measuring computers for statistical quality control, surface measuring registers and logging devices, profile measuring recorders as well as form measuring and evaluation devices for roundness and straightness.

literature

  • Thomas Keidel u. a .: Measure with Mahr. History of a family business since 1861 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-647-30089-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ facts . Mahr GmbH website, accessed on March 23, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Consolidated financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015. In: Federal Gazette , November 24, 2016, accessed in the company register on March 23, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Hanne-Dore Schumacher: In 150 years from millimeter to nanometer . In: Göttinger Tageblatt , September 16, 2011, accessed on March 23, 2017.
  4. ^ Frank Baranowski: War Production in Göttingen - The integration of traditional companies in the armaments industry . In: ders .: Armaments production in central Germany 1929–1945 . Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2013, ISBN 978-3-86777-530-4 ( full text without images and sources; Google books ).
  5. ↑ See: Nazi forced labor: Feinprüf - Feinmess- und Prüfgeräte GmbH (Brauweg 36) . Website of the Göttingen City Archives, accessed on March 23, 2017.
  6. ↑ Hanne-Dore Schumacher: "Meyer: Mahr is a stroke of luck for the region" . In: Göttinger Tageblatt , September 23, 2011, accessed on March 23, 2017.
  7. ↑ Bernd Schlegel: Acquisition: MWF Roland Friedrich GmbH is now part of the Mahr Group . In: HNA.de , February 17, 2015, accessed on March 23, 2017.
  8. ↑ Thomas Kopietz: Growth: Mahr buys US company ESDI . In: HNA.de, June 25, 2015, accessed on March 23, 2017.
  9. ↑ Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . Gabal, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .

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