Piller (company)

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Piller

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legal form GmbH
founding 1909
Seat Osterode am Harz
management Anthony J. Langley ( CEO )
Number of employees approx. 1,000
sales 217.9 million euros (2019)
Branch Secure power supply for business-critical applications
Website www.piller.com

The Piller Group GmbH is a company based in Osterode am Harz and is active worldwide in the field of uninterruptible power supply . The turnover is around 210 million euros. The company has over 800 employees worldwide, 550 of them in Germany.

History before 1945

In 1909 the company was founded by Anton Piller (born January 1, 1878 in Vienna , † April 1, 1954 in Osterode am Harz) in Hamburg (Germany). In the beginning Piller produced organ and forge fans. In August 1919 the company moved to Osterode am Harz and started with 18 employees; in 1927 there were 65 employees. Another plant was opened in Moringen in 1939 . The production included fans , electric motors and generators and the company exported them worldwide. During the Second World War, under the Nazi regime, around 905 foreign workers were housed in the company's own warehouse at the Piller plant in Osterode - from 1942 up to 513 forced laborers, mainly from the Soviet Union , France , the Netherlands and Poland . The city of Osterode and the Piller company were also responsible for a civil labor camp (ZiAL) for up to 223 " Eastern workers " and Poles as well as prisoners of war from 1941 . Electric motors and ventilation devices for submarines and tanks were produced as an armaments factory. In September 1944, around 1900 people, mostly foreign workers, were employed.

History after 1945

In 1954 the son of the company founder, Hans Piller (military manager in the region until the end of the war), took over the management of the company. In 1962 around 1000 people were employed at Anton Piller KG . In the same year, a plant was rented in Duderstadt to manufacture NBC protective air systems . In 1972 Piller was also an armaments supplier for submarines and installed the first systems of frequency converters and direct current drives, from 2003 for example also generators for the submarine class 212 A and from 1975 also three-phase synchronous machines for submarines. In 1976, Piller UK Ltd. opened a subsidiary in Great Britain. In 1983 Hans-Anton Piller, the son of Hans Piller, became a member of the management. In 1986 a further subsidiary was opened in France. Piller also supplies the ground power systems for the AWACS system. From 1988 to 1990, further subsidiaries were founded in Australia and the USA.

In 1993 the name was changed to Piller GmbH and the cooperation with Lahmeyer AG for energy industry based in Bad Homburg. In 1997 Lahmeyer AG merged with the RWE subsidiary Rheinelektra and operated again as Lahmeyer AG, based in Frankfurt am Main. As a result of the merger, the RWE Group took over the majority in the Piller company. From 1996 the production of industrial fans was given up.

In 2001 the location was expanded to include Bilshausen . In addition, the company founded further subsidiaries in Europe and Asia. Piller has been wholly owned by British Langley Holdings since 2005 . In 2016 Piller took over Active Power Inc.

The Moringen site with Piller Blowers & Compressors GmbH , which operated as Piller Industrieventilatoren GmbH until 2013 , has been an independent company since 1996 and is no longer part of the Piller Group GmbH portfolio .

Web links

Commons : Piller Group  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Piller Power Systems GmbH In: european business network ( Memento from July 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ a b c d Piller through the ages. (PDF; 766 kB) In: piller.com. June 16, 2016. Retrieved July 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Wolfgang Kohrt: How do companies deal with the fact that their name is on a list of companies that employ forced labor? An example from the Harz region: experiment at the gate. In: berliner-zeitung.de. December 14, 1999, accessed July 4, 2017 .
  4. ^ Claus Heinrich Gattermann: The deployment of foreigners in the district of Osterode 1939-1945 . Lukas Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-936872-13-2 , p. 43, 59 ( preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Remembering in Southern Lower Saxony: Osterode. In: Remembersuedniedersachsen.de. Retrieved July 4, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Takeover of Active Power by Piller completed. In: piller.com. November 21, 2016. Retrieved July 4, 2017 .
  7. ↑ History In: piller.de , Piller Blowers & Compressors, accessed on October 18, 2017.

Coordinates: 51 ° 43 '33.4 "  N , 10 ° 15' 55.2"  E