Mengele Agricultural Technology
| Mengele Agrartechnik AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1871 |
| resolution | 2010 |
| Reason for dissolution | Takeover by Lely |
| Seat | Günzburg , later Waldstetten |
| Branch | Steel construction , mechanical engineering |
The Mengele agricultural technology was a 1871 in Gunzburg based firm of Agricultural Engineering based in Waldstetten . Today the company is part of AGCO .
history
In 1871, Andreas Eisenlauer founded a repair workshop for agricultural machinery with an associated machine trade. This was taken over in 1907 by Karl Mengele , the father of the later concentration camp doctor and war criminal Josef Mengele . A specialization in the manufacture and repair of agricultural machinery followed. During the 1930s the company rose to become one of the largest threshing machine manufacturers in Germany, and sales exceeded one million Reichsmarks . On October 11, 1932, the Mengele company made its factory building available to Adolf Hitler for an election campaign appearance.
Even after the Second World War , the company remained successful; In 1950 sales were over 5 million Deutschmarks . Since 1949, the two younger sons Karl Mengele jun. and Alois Mengele involved in the operation. The workforce increased to almost 2000 employees. In 1958 the manure spreader Doppel-Trumpf was presented, which became Mengele's most successful product and led to a doubling of sales in the year it was introduced. By 1963 50,000 double trumps had been delivered. The product range was expanded and loading wagons were produced; Here too, the company was soon one of the world's leading manufacturers. After his father's death in 1959, Alois Mengele managed the company alone until his death. After his death in 1974, his son Dieter Mengele and nephew Karl-Heinz Mengele took over the family business.
Mengele began manufacturing manure excavators in the 1950s and, a little later, also developed rope excavators that were suitable for construction sites . In the 1960s Mengele switched to the production of hydraulic excavators and sold them to customers in southern Germany in particular. The range included wheeled excavators of the type HM and crawler excavators of the type HR . In 1978 the newly founded Faun-Frisch-Baumaschinen GmbH finally bought the building rights and continued production until it was taken over by O&K in 1986.
In the 1980s, falling prices and a lack of demand meant that Mengele had to be taken over by the Bidell group in 1991. The Bidell Group continued to develop Mengele products until October 1998 and doubled sales worldwide. However, management errors led to difficulties in the agreements with the banks and forced the Bidell group to file for bankruptcy. In 2003, Bohnacker AG took over the shares from the insolvency and continued the company under the name Mengele Agrartechnik.
In May 2009 Mengele agreed to enter into a partnership with the Dutch agricultural machinery manufacturer Lely . As part of this partnership, Lely received a stake in Mengele and the exclusive distribution rights for all Mengele products. In May 2010 Lely finally took over all shares in Mengele.
On November 11, 2011, after almost 140 years, the end of the agricultural machinery manufacturer Mengele was sealed under the old name. The production site and the product portfolio have since been continued and marketed under the name Lely Agrartechnik GmbH . At the end of 2016, Lely stopped producing tippers; Lely's German headquarters and the production of loader wagons remained in Waldstetten. With the end of tipper production, the use of the name Mengele, which was still used for tippers, also ended. In 2017, Lely forage harvesting technology with the Waldstetten and Wolfenbüttel plants was taken over by AGCO .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Sven Keller: Günzburg and the case of Josef Mengele: The hometown and the hunt for the Nazi criminal , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2003, ISBN 3-486-64587-0
- ↑ Ulf Böge: Jahrbuch Baumaschinen 2020. Podszun-Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-86133-934-2 , page 104 ff.
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Lely ceases tipper production , at www.topagrar.de , accessed on September 30, 2016
- ↑ Sale of forage harvesting technology to AGCO