Mechanical engineering institute Humboldt

Nameplate of one of the Mallet locomotives that Humboldt built for the Brohltalbahn in 1906

Mallet locomotive from Humboldt

Share of 100 RM in the Humboldt mechanical engineering institute from February 1928

The Maschinenbauanstalt Humboldt was a German mechanical engineering - companies in the legal form of a limited company based in Cologne-Kalk . It was one of the predecessor companies of what would later become Deutz AG .

The origin of the company is considered to be a company owned by Wimmar Breuer, who had been producing perforated sheets in Kalk since 1853 . It was built in 1856 by Breuer and the partners Neuerburg and Sievers as a machine factory for mining by Sievers & Co. in Kalk near Deutz am Rhein .

The Maschinenbau-AG Humboldt , which was created in 1871, was liquidated in 1884 due to indebtedness , and the Maschinenbau-Anstalt Humboldt AG was founded as a new company in July 1884 . Locomotive construction began under this company in 1896. For this purpose, the systems of a liquidated machine factory in Güstrow were acquired and the first steam locomotive was delivered on September 24, 1898 . Among other things, 81 pieces of the Prussian S 6 and a total of 77 copies of the various variants of the Prussian G 5 were built from 1911 to 1913 .

On December 22nd, 1924, an interest group agreement was signed with the Deutz AG engine factory ; both companies were already part of Peter Klöckner's business empire . "The organs of the interest group have the task of distributing the building programs of both companies, organizing the joint purchase of materials for all plants and the joint distribution and propaganda for all products of both companies."

In 1925 the Öllokomotivenbau GmbH was established , in which Humboldt, Deutz and Henschel & Sohn in Kassel were involved. After only one locomotive was built, this company dissolved again in 1928. In the same year, after a total of more than 1,700 locomotives, Humboldt stopped building locomotives due to a lack of orders. On October 17, 1930, Deutz and the Oberursel engine factory were merged into Humboldt , and the combined company was renamed Humboldt-Deutzmotoren AG . In 1938 the Isselburger Hütte was taken over, and the well-known Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG (KHD) was created through a tax group agreement with Klöckner-Werke . Today, part of the name can still be found in KHD Humboldt Wedag International , a plant engineering division originally outsourced from Deutz AG .

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  Factory no. 210
  Walsum 5

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  Briquette press in Wackersdorf

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  Locomotive "Speyerbach" from the Kuckucksbähnel in Elmstein

Web links

Commons : Locomotives  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Company history on werkbahn.de
• Early documents and newspaper articles on the Humboldt mechanical engineering institute in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Handbook of German Stock Companies , 30th edition 1925, Volume 1, p. 914.
2. ↑ Handbook of German Stock Companies , 37th edition 1932, Volume 3, p. 4966 ff.