Narva (bulbs)
The VEB Kombinat Berlin Narva lamp work was the main manufacturer of lamps, especially incandescent , in the Democratic German Republic . The trade name Narva is made up of the abbreviations "N" for nitrogen , "Ar" for argon and "Va" for vacuum . Today it is the common brand name of the products of the five successor companies of the former combine that are part of the Mitteldeutscher Warenzeichenverband Narva e. V. are grouped together.
history
Development after 1945
The company's history is closely linked to the Osram light bulb factory in Berlin . After the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the division of Germany , the Osram Group was also split up. From 1949 onwards, the former Osram factory D (wire factory) located in the East Berlin district of Friedrichshain produced " Rosa Luxemburg " as VEB Berliner incandescent lamp factory .
Struggle for working conditions
Unrest broke out in August 1952, months before June 17, 1953 , the workers' uprising in the GDR. Mostly women stopped work in the main Berlin company because they protested against the collective bargaining agreements with which a night shift should be introduced. After negotiations with the management, the workers were able to assert their concerns.
Narva
The product name Narva was used from 1963, and the name was registered as a trademark in 1966 . In 1969 the company merged with the incandescent lamp companies in Plauen , Oberweißbach and Brand-Erbisdorf to form a combine . In the late 1970s, the company had up to 6,000 employees in Berlin. At the turn of 1990, the headquarters in Berlin were converted into the Gesellschaft für Lichttechnische Produkte mbH . Despite the dissolution of the VEB, some of the remaining, now independent, former parts of the company continue to produce goods under the brand name Narva . They are part of the trademark association Narva e. V. merged.
In 1991 Narva (Berliner Glühlampenfabrik GmbH) received the Berlin Environment Prize for the development of a mercury-free high-pressure sodium vapor lamp .
In 1992, the production of lamps in the previous building was discontinued, the company moved to Berlin-Lichtenberg , Herzbergstrasse on March 30, 1996 and operates here under the name Narva GLE Roads and industrial plants, needs-based lights for growing plants or highly specialized solutions for the medical and analytical sectors.
The Narva building
In the middle of the 19th century, Berlin's first waterworks was built on the site of the later Narva building , which ceased operations in 1893. In 1894, trials of waste incineration processes were carried out in this building. In the years 1906 to 1912, Deutsche Gasglühlicht AG , the Auer-Gesellschaft , built the incandescent lamp factory with a striking eleven-story building, which, depending on the definition, is Berlin's first high-rise . In 1963 a small rotating glass tower was added to the tower. At the end of the 1990s, the characteristic glass cube was built, which was completed in 2000. The building, designated as a technical monument , has served as an office building for BASF since 2005 . The entire complex around the incandescent high-rise building was named Oberbaum City at the beginning of the 21st century , after the nearby Oberbaum Bridge or Oberbaum on the Spree.
The nearby underground station Warschauer Brücke , which had been out of service since the Wall was built on August 13, 1961, served as a warehouse for the Berlin light bulb factory until the end of 1994. Almost six years after the fall of the Berlin Wall , the Berlin U-Bahn was able to resume train operations on October 14, 1995 at what is now Warschauer Strasse .
In some rooms formerly used by Narva there are discos such as the Narva Lounge .
Operating parts
Arnstadt
In 1936, DAIMON Elektro-Technische Fabrik Schmidt & Co. GmbH set up a flashlight factory in Arnstadt, Thuringia . It was not until 1959, probably due to trademark conflicts with the part of the DAIMON plant in the west, that the name was changed to ARTAS - Arnstädter Taschenlampenwerk. Because of the participation of foreign investors, the conversion into a state-owned company did not take place until 1970. On October 1, 1978 the company was incorporated into the Narva combine. In the GDR he was the sole manufacturer of flashlights. The privatization took place in 1993, the company operates again today under the name ARTAS . Flashlights, purpose lights and infrared emitters are manufactured for animal husbandry.
There was also a VEB Leuchtenbau (seat: Rehestädter Weg), which manufactured damp-proof fluorescent lamp lights, purpose lights and glow starters for fluorescent and metal halide lamps.
Berlin
Normal light bulbs were manufactured here and some of them were packed for export.
Brand-Erbisdorf
In 1966, the production of fluorescent lamps began in Brand-Erbisdorf, Saxony , and in 1971 the company's own glass factory was put into operation. In 1991 an international group of investors bought essential buildings and equipment from the Treuhandanstalt ; the factory was thus privatized. The initiative came from NARVA employees who participated in the investment and who now run the company. Most of the remaining buildings and equipment were also sold to former NARVA employees, so that a flourishing industrial area with over 50 companies has emerged from the very large real estate portfolio. The former fluorescent lamp manufacturer now operates as NARVA Lichtquellen GmbH + Co. KG and produces fluorescent lamps in a wide variety of lengths, color spectrums and diameters, solarium spotlights, glass tubes and energy-saving lamps. A smaller part of the company has split off and produces crystal lights. At the end of 2016, it was announced that production at the Brand-Erbisdorf location will in future be focused on the manufacture of tanning lamps and customer-specific LED solutions. The production of fluorescent lamps in general lighting, on the other hand, is becoming increasingly difficult to compete with products v. a. set from China. In the course of the restructuring, the workforce of 370 employees is to be reduced by around 2/3.
Great Glienicke
On the estate grounds of Groß Glienicke was built in the 1920s by the physicist Ladislaus of Kramolin a laboratory for the development of radio tubes built (since the end of the 20th century as an old factory called). The laboratory was taken over by Holzapfel und Co. KG after 1945 . In the 1960s, the tube manufacture was converted into a state-owned company and operated as a branch of VEB Narva Berlin. However, only industrial lamps were installed here, production did not take place. Production was discontinued with the fall of the Wall in the GDR and the building was then converted into a residential building.
Naumburg
as VEB Glühlampenwerk (seat: Wenzelsring 5–7) manufacturer of small light bulbs ( base E10 )
Oberweißbach
Since 1902 luminescent materials have been produced in Oberweißbach . Until the nationalization in 1946 there were multiple changes in ownership, in 1948 the VEB Glühlampenwerk Oberweißbach was founded. In 1969 the company was incorporated into the NARVA association. After the fall of the Wall, the company was converted into NARVA Glühlampenwerk Oberweißbach GmbH in 1990 and primarily produced Thuringian glass light jewelry . In 2009 the plant was finally closed. In 2012, the city of Oberweißbach decided to purchase the site and convert it into a mixed area (commercial and residential).
Oschatz
In 1946 the private Elektrobau Oschatz GmbH was founded , in 1954 it was converted into an open trading company (OHG). Soon afterwards the company became a limited partnership , and state banks were also added as shareholders. This was the first step towards nationalization. In 1972 it was completely transferred to public ownership , and the company now traded as VEB Elektrobau Oschatz . In 1979 this company became part of the NARVA combine. Since 1991 the company has been in the possession of the previous owners again .
Plauen
In 1948, a light bulb factory for the production of general lighting was founded in Plauen. With the increasing production of passenger cars, specialization in vehicle lighting followed. The Plauen vehicle lamp factory also became a member of the Narva family in the 1960s . In 1974, the designers first created H4 lamps in hard glass , then quartz glass was used. From 1978 to 1982 tempered glass technology was refined and has served as the basis for car lamp production ever since. In 1987 the manufacture of miniature halogen lamps followed. After the fall of the Wall, the company was incorporated and the company was now called NARVA Glühlampenwerk Plauen GmbH . In 1991 the Philips group took over the company and it was renamed Narva Speziallampen GmbH . The plant produced under the name Philips, but also brought certain products (some of them significantly cheaper) on the market under its own name. In 1994 the US market was conquered with HB3 / HB4 halogen lamps. The HB5 halogen lamp followed in 1999. The very positive development of sales led to production expansions in 2005. Another milestone was the development and market launch of the H7 lamp in tempered glass in 2006. The H4 lamps have been manufactured in Poland since 2011. For this purpose, the production line in Plauen, which contributed to a third of the total production there, was dismantled and rebuilt in Poland.
With the takeover by Bavaria Industriekapital AG, the Plauen plant was renamed Vosla GmbH in September 2012 . The name goes back to an in-house competition and, loosely named after its creator, Kerstin Lorenz Vo gtländische S pezial la mpen. The new company remained an automotive lamp supplier to Philips for the next five years. At the same time, the areas for special lamps - for example for microscopes and railway signals - are being expanded. A license granted to Lichtfuchs GmbH meant that the production of fairy lights for Christmas trees and candle arch chains could be resumed.
Tambach-Dietharz
The VEB NARVA "Rosa Luxemburg" Glüso-Werk Tambach-Dietharz had, among other things, an operating part in Wölfis . Here party lights with colored attachments were made.
Weida
as VEB Elektrobetrieb Weida (seat: Graefenbrücker Str. 30) sole manufacturer of ballasts and ignitors for gas discharge lamps from the late 1970s
Other facilities
overview
In the GDR it was widespread for large companies to maintain other facilities in addition to the actual operating facilities or to act as sponsors. These were primarily institutions in the areas of education , social affairs and leisure / sport . So belonged to the combine NARVA holiday camps, and the following schools and sports clubs .
Vocational school VEB NARVA "Olga Benario-Prestes"
In this school, named after Olga Benario-Prestes , people were trained in various professions and at different educational levels, such as partial skilled workers, skilled workers and skilled workers with a high school diploma. The training facility was located in the immediate vicinity of the main Berlin plant, not far from the Warschauer Strasse S-Bahn station, in today's commercial building at Warschauer Strasse 58a / 59a.
SG NARVA Berlin
The sports club was founded in 1946 as the company sports association Berliner Glühlampenwerk . In January 1951, the club was named Betriebsportgemeinschaft Mechanik Friedrichshain , and a few months later it was finally named BSG Motor Friedrichshain-Ost . In 1958 the name was changed to BSG Berliner Glühlampenwerk , in 1969, after the formation of the combine NARVA, then to BSG NARVA Berlin . As a company sports club, the club had almost 2500 members (January 1, 2005 - approx. 450). The categories handball , chess , volleyball , gymnastics , rowing , boxing and gymnastics + judo and football (stadium in Berlin-Oberspree "Käthe-Tucholla-Stadion") were looked after.
BSG NARVA Brand-Erbisdorf
The company sports association was founded in 1969, after being merged with Motor Brand-Langenau in 1991 as SSV 91 Brand-Erbisdorf eV . The sports club looks after the areas of badminton , billiards , soccer , bowling , running , chess , table tennis and volleyball .
literature
- Renate Schwärzel: VEB Kombinat NARVA. Some thoughts on the formation of a combine in the late 1960s . in: Yearbook for Economic History 1985/3, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1985, pp. 27–41 ( digitized version of the entire yearbook )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kombinat from January 1, 1969.
- ^ Website of the Berlin Senate Administration : Competition Winner, accessed on July 12, 2010.
- ^ Homepage of Narva ; Retrieved July 12, 2010.
- ^ Company information Narva in Berlin-Lichtenberg , accessed on August 2, 2017.
- ↑ Company homepage Taschenlampenwerk ARTAS GmbH .
- ↑ NARVA Lichtquellen GmbH + Co. KG, Brand-Erbisdorf .
- ↑ NARVA-NEUCO crystal lights GmbH, Brand-Erbisdorf .
- ↑ It will be zappenduster for 250 Narva employees , Sächsische Zeitung of November 12, 2016.
- ↑ Membership directory of the DPG ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 13, 2017.
- ↑ City buys property on www.saalfeld.otz.de.
- ↑ Ex-Narva site will be cleared out on www.saalfeld.otz.de.
- ↑ NARVA-Speziallampen GmbH Plauen ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Homepage with a description of the history of the Plauen plant; Retrieved on July 12, 2010 ( memento of October 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Manuela Müller: Plauener Narva is now called Vosla , Freie Presse, September 2, 2012.
- ↑ Homepage SG NARVA Berlin .
