Miesen (body manufacturer)
The company Christian Miesen , operating as C. Miesen GmbH & Co. KG since the beginning of 2004 , is a German manufacturer of car bodies - today especially for special and special medical vehicles ( ambulances ) - based in Bonn .
Company history
The original company was founded on June 1, 1870 by the then wagon smith Christian Miesen as a cartwright in Bonn. Initially, horse-drawn carriages and flatbed trucks were custom-made. Thanks to high product quality, Miesen soon gained a good reputation with customers. As a result of the increasing volume of orders, Miesen's workshop became increasingly tight at the turn of the century. In 1901 the company moved to the long-standing location at Dottendorfer Strasse 165. In the same year, the first horse-drawn Miesen ambulance was built there.
The increasing motorization led Miesen to build the first automobile ambulance as early as 1905 and after the end of the First World War to specialize in this product area. In addition to medical vehicles of various basic vehicle types, Europe's first motorized dental clinic left the factory in 1926.
In the 1930s - in addition to a bus - semitrailer ( articulated bus ) - the product range was primarily characterized by the development of standardized types of medical vehicles for the Red Cross . Supported by a whole series of trend-setting patents , the company developed into a specialist in this sector. The high demand for new ambulances gave Christian Miesen vehicle and bodyworks an important market position after 1945: Including export orders that have since been added, up to 1000 vehicles were built in some years, including many special vehicles.
At the beginning of the 1960s, there was a rethinking of preclinical patient care in emergency medicine , which Miesen subsequently led to the development of the "high-long" ambulance and the first emergency ambulance. At the end of the 1960s, the product group trademark “Medimobil” was defined.
In 2004, the family-run company fell into an economic crisis and filed for bankruptcy in March 2004 .
Today's business
The successor company C. Miesen GmbH & Co. KG was founded at the beginning of 2005 under the management of Jürgen Krupp and then restructured. The production company relocated to Wachtberg - Villip, southwest of Bonn, and maintained an additional production facility in Andernach am Rhein in the wake of capacity peaks . A new production location was later developed in the former Bundesdruckerei in Bonn's Südstrasse. With that, the company returned to Bonn.
Product range
The product range includes not only standard bodies on the common base vehicles of the vehicle manufacturers, but also individual solutions that are closely coordinated with the respective client. These include in particular the following structural categories:
- Ambulance
- Ambulance
- Ambulance vehicles
- Intensive care vehicle
- Disabled transport trolleys
- Stretcher trolleys
- Baby ambulance
- Mobile clinics
- Special vehicles for the various medical and emergency medicine areas (e.g. blood donation vehicles )
- Hearses
- Coaches
In addition to the traditional range of emergency vehicle products, some projects related to disaster situations are carried out, such as mobile operating rooms as roll containers for the German armed forces .
customers
Today the company is present worldwide and has agencies in the Benelux countries, Austria, France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein , China as well as in the Eastern European, Arab, African and Asian countries. Customers include all well-known vehicle manufacturers and their car dealerships as well as rescue services, fire departments, the German armed forces, as well as private ambulance companies and health ministries.
swell
- Werner Oswald : German Cars 1920–1945 . 10th edition. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-87943-519-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang H. Gebhardt: German travel buses . Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-613-03037-4 , p. 168
- ^ Company history , accessed May 31, 2011
