Petermann works

Petermann steam locomobile No. 1111

Founded in 1922, Petermann A.-G. Warendorf i. W. emerged from the open trading company Joh. Petermann & Comp. Founded by Johann, Laurenz and Heinrich Petermann in Warendorf in 1883 . whose business, the manufacture of threshing machines and locomobiles , she continued.

The production range will on mobile steam boiler , steam-powered threshers , Dreschkästen have been expanded with 1932, due to a patent from and other agricultural machinery Joseph Schulze , grain depositors were also produced and distributed.

The company had in 1895 a. a. Branches opened in Freckenhorst and later in Cologne . At the beginning of the 20th century, the company referred to itself as a locomobile factory. In the Great Depression around 1925, Petermann ran into economic problems and was taken over by Carl Geringhoff GmbH from Ahlen in 1928 , but the brand name still existed. Most recently (especially after the Second World War), the Petermann-Werke specialized largely in the manufacture of threshing machines. Production ceased in the early 1970s.

The occasional management by the engineer and later agricultural scientist and inventor Georg Segler (1906–1978), as well as a renewed employment from 1945–1947, should have been useful .

Only a few products of the company have survived to this day. For example a steam engine in the "Active Museum for Historical Agricultural Engineering" in the Warendorfer farmers' association Vohren (built in 1901), a locomobile built around 1910 in the museum village of Cloppenburg - Lower Saxony open-air museum , a threshing machine in the Folklore Museum Mölln Hof in Tornesch-Esingen (Pinneberg district / Schleswig -Holstein) or at the Dreschclub Adorf (Hessen).

In Warendorf, Petermannweg is named after the company. As part of a “Museumspfad” project, a notice board with old pictures and accompanying text was set up in 2008 for the Petermann works.

In 1971/72, the Petermann company was indirectly given artistic honors: the former agricultural machinery engineer and works representative for Petermann Combi-Drescher, Karl Fastabend , was politically active. Together with the artists Joseph Beuys and Johannes Stüttgen he was co-founder and since autumn 1971 head of the office of the organization for direct democracy through referendum in Düsseldorf. In 1971, Beuys wrote in cursive: “Free Democratic Socialism” on old letterheads from the Bad Harzburg works agency Fastabends with a Petermann thresher in the letterhead , symbolically contrasting the capitalist company with a system that was supposed to replace it. Beuys signed the sheets so that they resulted in a so-called multiple . In 1972 he wrote the slogan on the same letterhead: "Take what you can get!" (also signed as a multiple).

literature

• Klaus Dreyer: Unvergierter Landtechnik , DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-7690-0648-8 , p. 53

Web links

Commons : Petermann-Werke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website with brief information about the company Joh. Petermann & Comp. , by Albert Gieseler
• Photo of a preserved mobile traction engine from Petermann , privately owned
• Threshing machine with locomobile (double image) , accessed on June 3, 2013
• Photo of a threshing machine , fabrication no. 4668, Kulturgemeinschaft Tornesch
• Locomobile from Petermann from Warendorf , accessed on June 3, 2013
• Petermann Steam Locomobile No. 1111 ready for use again since 2011 (PDF; 840 kB), accessed on June 3, 2013
• Historical view of the Petermann works

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History of the Karl Schulze company in Bellersen ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 31, 2013 
2. ↑ PDF at www.heimatverein-freckenhorst.de  ( 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.  
3. ↑ See Albert Gieseler's website about the company (web links)
4. ↑ Museum path, station 3
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11. ↑ p. 33 (PDF; 4.2 MB), Kunstmuseum Celle
12. ↑ ibid, Figure 33 on p. 37