North German Dornier works
| North German Dornier-Werke GmbH (NDW)
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1933 (as Dornier-Werk Wismar-GmbH) |
| resolution | April 1945 |
| Reason for dissolution | Two bombing raids and dismantling by the Soviet occupying forces |
| Seat | Wismar , Germany |
| management | Claude Dornier |
| Branch | Aircraft manufacturer |
The North German Dornier-Werke GmbH (NDW) was a subsidiary Dornier works -GmbH in the period from 1933 to 1945. 1933 Dornier plant Wismar founded -GmbH, the operation in 1938 with the locations was Lübeck and Berlin-Reinickendorf to North German Dornier works summarized. In 1945 the factories were bombed and the remains were later dismantled by decision of the Potsdam Conference .
history
The successes with the prototypes Do 11 , Do 13 and Do 23 brought the Dornier works in southern Germany to the limit of capacity. The Do 23 had to be built to order at Henschel Flugzeug-Werke AG (HFW) in Berlin-Johannisthal and Hamburger Flugzeugbau (HFB) in Hamburg . Dornier had long wanted to open a branch at the sea for seaplanes in northern Germany. Now involved in the advance planning of since the seizure of power of Hitler ruling NSDAP for industrial and employment policy, which later turned out to be strategic shift planning and preparations for war, Dornier was the in the bankruptcy gone and in receivership located factory of the company. Podeus in Wismar, the manufacturer of the original crawler tractor .
Dornier seized it because he met well-trained skilled workers who only had to be retrained for activities in aircraft construction and founded the Dornier-Werke Wismar on December 1, 1933. Runways, administration buildings and workshops, warehouses and hangars are being built on the Podeus site. In 1938, the smaller Dornier production and supply companies that had arisen in Lübeck and Reinickendorf are merged with Wismar to form Norddeutsche Dornier-Werke GmbH (NDW).
Initially, only components delivered from the Dornier works in the south were assembled in Wismar. Then parts were made there too. The new construction and renovation of the building made it possible to set up efficient assembly lines and package production. The cladding sheets were z. B. no longer adapted to the aircraft, but cut, bent, drilled and even painted in a package in devices. Up to 40 aircraft a month left the Wismar plant.
Initially, the Do 11, Do 13 and Do 23 types were produced. After the introduction of the central allocation of types by the Reich Aviation Ministry , the Junkers W 34 , Heinkel He 111 and Junkers Ju 88 types followed , until finally the Do 217 in 1941 another Dornier aircraft went into production at the NDW. In 1942 another Dornier factory was set up in Neustadt-Glewe . From 1943 onwards, only Focke-Wulf Fw 190s were built by the NDW as part of the “ Jägerprogramm ” . The assembly of the Do 335 combat aircraft, which was also planned in Wismar from 1944 , did not take place. More than 7000 employees were employed in the NDW companies - including the external companies - as in all German armaments factories of the Second World War, including forced laborers and concentration camp prisoners.
The factory was destroyed by two bombing raids in April 1945 and the remains were dismantled by the Soviet occupying forces. There are no structural remains.
literature
- Joachim Wachtel: Claude Dornier: a life for aviation . Aviatic Verlag, ISBN 3-925505-10-5
- Béatrice Busjan, Corinna Schubert: Aircraft construction in Wismar. Memories of the North German Dornier Works . (= Wismar studies; Volume 9). Stadtgeschichtliches Museum, Wismar 2005, ISBN 3-00-017272-6
- Alexander Steenbeck: The dark years. Lübeck-Blankensee Airport in the 1930s and 40s. Self-published, Lübeck 2009 (5th edition), ISBN 978-3-00-025748-3 .