Rosenbauer Karlsruhe
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1842 |
| Seat | Karlsruhe , Baden-Wuerttemberg |
| management | Michael Kristeller (Managing Director) |
| Number of employees | 420 (2014) |
| sales | EUR 73.58 million (2014) |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.rosenbauer.com |
The Rosenbauer Karlsruhe GmbH & Co. KG (2015 Metz Aerials GmbH & Co. KG ) manufactures turntable ladders and aerial rescue platforms for fire departments . Until 1998, the company , which was founded as the Carl Metz machine factory , was a fire fighting equipment manufacturer based in Heidelberg and later in Karlsruhe ; since 1998 it has been a subsidiary of Rosenbauer International AG .
Origin and products
In 1842 the mechanic Carl Metz founded the "Maschinenfabrik Carl Metz" in Heidelberg for the manufacture of fire extinguishing and rescue equipment. Just one year later, the construction and series production of hand-operated, portable city and country sprayers, suction and pressure pumps, air devices and life bags began. When the great fire of the Grand Ducal Court Theater in Karlsruhe was fought by the Pompier Corps in 1848 , the pumps from Metz and the men trained in effective fire fighting were the main topic in the national press for days. The "Pompiers Corps" came from the neighboring town of Durlach, not from Karlsruhe. The theater burned down completely with numerous fatalities, the nearby residential palace remained unscathed. This was the breakthrough to success for the company. In 1872 the thousandth extinguishing machine was delivered.
The founder Carl Metz died on October 31, 1877. His wife Babette, supported by their sons Carl and Adolf and his long-time friend Ditteney, continued to run the company. Later, the heirs continued the company as a general partnership with Gustav Wilkens and Wilhelm Rücker, who had joined them over time, as well as Curt and Henry Maquet and Heinrich Meyer. In 1880 the volunteer fire brigades in Germany erect a monument for Carl Metz in Heidelberg with the inscription "Carl Metz, 1818–1877, founder of the volunteer fire brigades".
On November 25, 1905, the company was taken over by Karl and Alfred Bachert . In the same year they acquire a wooded property at Bannwaldallee 44 in Karlsruhe and set up a factory for the foundry and fire fighting equipment production on it. Production will be relocated from Heidelberg to Karlsruhe in several steps . In 1907 the company name was "Carl Metz, Heidelberg", a special factory for fire extinguishers, Karlsruhe branch, Heidelberg office and warehouse, Karlsruhe factory. From 1909 the head office is relocated to Karlsruhe and Heidelberg is run as a branch. The first fire truck on a chassis with an engine was presented as early as 1908. In 1912, the Metz company supplied the Karlsruhe fire brigade with the first turntable ladder with a rescue height of 25 meters on a 36 HP chassis with a built-in centrifugal pump. In 1920 the factory premises at Bannwaldallee 44 were sold and the company moved into the new company premises at Liststrasse 5. 1932 the factory in Karlsruhe was expanded and the branch in Heidelberg was closed. The first all-steel ladder set for a turntable ladder was completed in 1924. The construction of a hydraulic turntable ladder with several oil pumps was patented in 1935. In 1938, due to the great demand for Metz products near the existing plant, the site of the former Karlsruhe Lokomotiven- und Maschinenbaugesellschaft at Wattstrasse 3 (today's location) was acquired, and within a short time production lines for the series production of fire engines and pumps were built in the halls and turntable ladders. During the Second World War, 85% of the company premises were destroyed. After the war, the company was rebuilt by Karl and Alfred Bachert.
In 1955 the third partner, Alfred Kachel, left the company. The Bachert brothers were then 75 and 81 years old and childless. They chose Carl Kaelble to continue their life's work. Carl Metz OHG, the Bachert brothers metal foundry and the Karlsruhe bell foundry were converted into Carl Metz GmbH on April 11, 1956 and taken over by Carl Kaelble GmbH. The company remained independent, however, and the Bachert brothers stayed with the company as managing directors. In 1957 the highest turntable ladder in the world with a height of 60 meters was delivered to the People's Republic of China. The DL 60 + 2 was mounted on a Kaelble three-axle vehicle (KD680LF). The first fully hydraulic Metz turntable ladder came onto the market in 1959; the first two ladders went to the professional fire brigade in Hamburg . Although the economic situation was bad, in 1967 Metz developed the first turntable ladder with a self-steering cage; a standing and positively controlled rescue and work basket. The second turntable ladder DL 60 + 2 was delivered to Moscow on a Kaelble KDV400z. In 1961 Alfred and Karl Bachert retired from the management at the age of 87 and 81.
In 1969, Metz received the development contract from Frankfurt Airport for a large airport fire engine. Frankfurt Airport received two of the largest fire engines in the world at the time. The vehicles were built on a four-axle four-wheel drive chassis from Faun . The vehicles were in service at Frankfurt Airport for 20 years.
The Schad family, partial shareholders of Kaelble GmbH, took over Carl Metz GmbH on September 1, 1976 in exchange for their Kaelble and Gmeinder shares. In 1979 a force-controlled rescue cage was attached to a hydraulic 53-meter ladder for the first time . In connection with the positively controlled rescue cage, a storage system was offered in 1980 that allowed the rescue of injured people: the “swiveling stretcher storage”.
On September 1, 1984, the fire fighting equipment division of Carl Metz GmbH became TOTAL WALTHER Feuerschutz GmbH (known among other things for fire extinguishers) and thus belonged to the KRUPP Group. From this point on, the fire fighting equipment division was continued as Metz Feuerwehrgeräte GmbH. On January 1, 1990, the Tyco-Wormald Group took over the Total Walther Group and spun off Metz as an independent company from the Total Walther Group.
At the 26th German Fire Brigade Day (1990) , the DLK 23-12 PLC, the first electronically controlled and monitored turntable ladder with proportional hydraulics, was presented.
The company celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1992. This year the first DLK 18 FA, a combination of turntable ladder and fire truck, was delivered. In 1992, Metz changed hands again. This time, on January 1, 1992, Langbein-Pfannhauser-Werke AG in Neuss took over the traditional company. In 1996, the Luckenwalde (FGL) fire extinguishing equipment factory near Berlin was taken over as a subsidiary and has been operating as FGL-Metz GmbH ever since. Fire trucks, rescue vehicles and turntable ladders were built at the Karlsruhe location and fire trucks and rescue vehicles at the Luckenwalde location. The remote diagnosis system "MOS" (Metz Online Support) developed in 1997 now allowed a quick and comprehensive overview of the status data of the Metz turntable ladders.
In 1998, Metz became the property of Rosenbauer International AG in Leonding, Austria. FGL-Metz was renamed the Metz-FGL shortly afterwards. In 2001, the fire truck and rescue vehicle production was completely relocated to Luckenwalde. From then on, Karlsruhe concentrated only on aerial rescue vehicles and was renamed "Metz Aerials GmbH & Co. KG". In 2002, Metz-FGL was renamed Rosenbauer Feuerwehrtechnik GmbH, which has a sales office in the Metz plant in Karlsruhe.
In 2005 an aerial rescue platform with a height of 32 m was presented. This was the first time that cooperation with the German market leader in access platforms , WUMAG elevant , came about . The two manufacturers subsequently developed further devices up to 52 m in height together.
Since then, there has been a division of the product lines within the Rosenbauer Group. While Metz is responsible for aerial rescue vehicles, other fire fighting vehicles are sold under the Rosenbauer name. After Magirus, Metz Aerials is the world's second largest manufacturer of turntable ladders.
Metz Aerials GmbH & Co. KG has been operating under the name Rosenbauer Karlsruhe GmbH & Co. KG since June 2015.
Rosenbauer Karlsruhe GmbH & Co. KG and Metz Aerials GmbH & Co. KG were part of the fire fighting vehicle cartel that was excavated in 2011 .
literature
- Joachim Wahl, Alexander Luig: Kaelble. Podszun-Verlag, Brilon 1999, ISBN 3-86133-207-8 .
- Werner Oswald, Manfred Gihl: Motor vehicles of the fire brigade and the rescue service since 1900. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-613-01479-3 .
- Rolf Metzger: 150 years of Metz fire fighting equipment. Konkordia Verlag, Bühl / Baden 1992, ISBN 3-7826-7012-4 .
