Hiltmann & Lorenz machine factory

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Hiltmann & Lorenz
legal form from 1911 to 1945 stock corporation
founding 1879: HiLo - sheet metal and woodworking machines
resolution 1946
Reason for dissolution expropriation
Seat Aue-Bad Schlema , Germany
Branch Mechanical engineering , plant engineering

Hilo Administration Building, a 21st century vocational school center. The building in today's Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße was initially a factory, the corner tower has been preserved in a slightly simplified form.

The company Maschinenfabrik Hiltmann & Lorenz was a mechanical engineering company in Aue in Saxony. It was founded in 1879 and expropriated in 1946. The buildings were subsequently used by SDAG Wismut as AG Wismut Werk Metallist .

history

From the company's founding in 1879 to the end of the Second World War

Gustav Hiltmann , a locksmith from Brandenburg (later a councilor for commerce and industry), found a job in the Erdmann Kircheis company on his wanderings in Aue . With Bernhard Lorenz, who was also employed here, he founded the sheet metal and metal processing machine factory Hiltmann & Lorenz ( HiLo ) in the cell district in 1879 . They began with the manufacture of machines for sheet metal, metal and wood processing. After the rapid economic success, expansion was necessary, Hiltmann and Lorenz bought a larger piece of land from the city of Aue on what was then Reichsstraße and gradually had new buildings erected there. In 1893 a four-story factory building with a decorative corner tower was completed. At the rear of the factory there were heating plants, two of which were tall chimneys that helped shape the city skyline. The company owners kept tinkering with new products, most of which they also had patented , as the example of a thread cutting device with apprentice nut from 1899 shows (No. 114890, class 49c registered in the Imperial Patent Office). A detailed description of a bending machine for metal and wood developed by HiLo can be found on the Internet ( Lexicon of All Technology , 1904) .

On April 11, 1911, the company was converted into a stock corporation with retroactive effect from July 1, 1910.

On July 1, 1928, the management bought the branch of the Zwickauer Maschinenfabrik AG (formerly Gustav Toelle sheet metal processing machines ) in Niederschlema for more than 615,000  RM . Eccentric presses, crank presses, drawing presses, friction screw presses, automatic step presses , punches and guillotine shears were mainly manufactured here. The presses became the best known and most successful product.

Share of 1000 RM in the Hiltmann & Lorenz AG machine factory dated January 7, 1942

On January 20, 1932, the company had to stop making payments due to economic difficulties and applied for a court settlement procedure. This procedure was confirmed on March 17, 1932 and the company was considered to be restructured. New shares could be issued and thus fresh capital could be acquired.

Seizure and dismantling

In 1945 HiLo was confiscated by the Soviet military administration . On August 5, 1945, the dismantling began for reparation payments to the Soviet Union , which lasted until March 1946. 98 percent of all production facilities in the HiLo operating areas Aue and Niederschlema have been dismantled.

The 360 ​​railway wagons required for removal were repaired in-house. In some cases, newly hired workers had to dismantle the machines and equipment. dismantled. A production permit from SMAD was required for operations to resume.

Mining supplier

In 1947, SAG Wismut began producing small items for uranium mining. At that time, 350 workers were already working in the company again.

As a result, machine tools were procured from the destroyed Chemnitz and the production of metalworking equipment was resumed. At the same time, the workers carried out further orders for Wismut AG. The Bismuth orders were given absolute priority by the Soviet authorities, so that the machine production that had already started had to be handed over to Pressen- und Scherenbau Henry Pels in Erfurt .

On January 1, 1949, the Hiltmann & Lorenz company was finally liquidated and given to the state of Saxony in trust management. The Aue branch was incorporated into Wismut AG on June 1, 1949 as SAG Wismut Werk Metallist and the Niederschlema branch as SAG Wismut Werk Strehla .

Products

  • Presses of all kinds
  • Punching
  • Bending machines for metal and wood.
  • Rail spikes and baying brackets, conveyor belts, Hunte

literature

  • Siegfried Sieber : Festschrift for the 750th anniversary of the city of Aue in the Erzgebirge. on May 7, 1923 . Auer Druck- u. Verlagsgesellschaft, Aue 1923, DNB  579384268 , p. 66 ff .
  • Maschinenfabrik Hiltmann & Lorenz Aktiengesellschaft Aue i. Sa, 1879–1929 , Eckstein 1929.
  • Siegfried Sieber: Studies on the industrial history of the Erzgebirge . Böhlau, Cologne / Graz, DNB  458945250 , p. 122 ff .
  • Lothar Walther: Industrial and urban development in the 19th century . Aue in the mirror of historical images. Ed .: Information and press office of the city of Aue. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1991, ISBN 3-89264-540-X .
  • Till, Schuster, Wehland, Schnädelbach: Industrial history in the Auer Valley 1945–1990 . Ed .: Stadtverwaltung Aue. City administration Aue, Aue 1999, DNB  1017792712 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the 125th birthday of Erdmann Kircheis on leonhardt-group.eu
  2. ↑ Industrial and urban development in the 19th century. Aue in the mirror of historical images. Information and press office of the city of Aue (ed.). Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar, ISBN 3-89264-540-X , p. 26.
  3. ^ Patent from Hiltmann and Lorenz for a thread cutting device; December 1899; on www.images-01.delcampe-static.net; accessed on March 5, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b bending machine on zeno.org; accessed on March 5, 2015.
  5. ↑ Information on the establishment and confirmation as a stock corporation HiLo on schoene-aktien.de; accessed on March 5, 2015.
  6. ^ Chronicle of the Zwickauer Maschinenfabrik AG on albert-gieseler.de
  7. ↑ Older table eccentric press ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ a b Hiltmann & Lorenz share, 1934 on sammleraktion-online.de; accessed on March 5, 2015.
  9. ^ A punch manufactured by HiLo in the Technical Museum Briquette Factory Louise Brandenburg ; accessed on March 5, 2015.
  10. ↑ a b c d Werner Runge: Chronicle of bismuth . Ed .: WISMUT GmbH. Eigenverlag, Chemnitz 1999, 2.4.1 Aue mining equipment company, p. 1 (CD).
  11. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Till, Schuster, Wehland, Schnädelbach: Industrial history in the Auer Valley 1945–1990 . Ed .: Stadtverwaltung Aue. City administration Aue, Aue 1999, DNB  1017792712 , p. 31 .
  12. ^ Klaus Neitmann, Jochen Laufer (eds.): Dismantling in the Soviet zone of occupation and in Berlin from 1945 to 1948 on books.google.de; accessed on March 5, 2015.
  13. ^ Monthly reports of the Aue employment office 1945–1946 ; StA-D, Rep 11391, No. 733
  14. ^ Lothar Walther, Stadtverwaltung Aue (ed.): Aue. The mosaic of history . City administration of Aue, Aue 1997, p. 175 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 11.1 ″  N , 12 ° 42 ′ 22 ″  E