Pittler Tornos
The Pittler-Tornos Aktiengesellschaft , was founded in 1889 in Leipzig founded as a machine factory "Invention". The company specialized in the manufacture of turret lathes. However, after some restructuring, the company had to file for bankruptcy in 1997 . The Leipzig location was taken over by the EMAG Group in 1999 .
history
Julius Wilhelm von Pittler founded the company in 1889 to manufacture and sell machines and other products for the metal industry. On September 21, 1895 it was converted into a stock corporation , the "Leipziger Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik vorm. W. von Pittler AG ”. From 1899 to 1945 its seat was in Leipzig- Wahren . The company had its own power plant and a foundry in Leipzig- Plagwitz . On March 2, 1922, the name was changed to Pittler Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik AG . In 1928, Pittler AG acquired the majority of shares in Magdeburger Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik AG.
At the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, Pittler was the largest continental European manufacturer of turret lathes , which is why the company was sequestered after the Second World War in 1945 and the main factory was dismantled. In order to create job opportunities for some of the former workforce, the company AH Paul, formerly Pittler AG, was founded in February 1946, but was dissolved again on September 1, 1946, with which the company Werkzeugbau und Reparaturbetrieb GmbH Leipzig was founded.
This company was expropriated on the basis of the referendum in Saxony in 1946 and deleted from the commercial register in August 1948 .
The former owners dared a new start with the establishment of Pittler Maschinenfabrik AG (main shareholder Deutsche and Dresdner Bank; 1982 Gildemeister AG; 1985 Rothenberger brothers) and relocated their company headquarters to Langen (Hesse) .
On December 31, 1949, the company Werkzeugbau und Reparaturbetrieb GmbH Leipzig went out.
The assets of the expropriated company were then used after 1948 to build up the new VEB lathe factory in Leipzig . On June 1, 1959, the VEB Centex Leipzig was incorporated and since 1969 the VEB lathe works Leipzig has belonged to the “Machine Tool Combine 7 October” Berlin . From 1982 there was a cooperation with Gildemeister AG in Bielefeld .
The renovation of the Werner & Kolb machine factory in Berlin and the Leipziger lathe GmbH in 1990 and 1991 represented excessive financial demands. As a result, the company was privatized in 1991 and renamed Pittler-Tornos Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH Leipzig (majority shareholder Rothenberger). In 1997, however, the bankruptcy followed.
Archives of the Pittler machine tool factory from the period 1899 to 1945 are located as 20792 Pittler-Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik AG, Leipzig, in the Saxon State Archives, Leipzig State Archives (circumference: 7 running meters).
Successor company
The insolvent Pittler-Tornos Aktiengesellschaft was taken over by the EMAG Group in 1999 after its bankruptcy . The EMAG Group was then divided into EMAG Leipzig.
The insolvent Pittler Maschinenfabrik GmbH in Langen / Hessen (majority shareholder Gebrüder Rothenberger) was founded in 1997 by the Portland / Oregon-based Precision Castparts Corporation (PCC) - trading under PCC Pittler Maschinenfabrik GmbH (newly founded) and then in 2001 by the investor Udo Oppermann and Mirko Kovats - renamed Pittler Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH . After another bankruptcy in the same year, DISKUS WERKE AG (majority shareholder Rothenberger 4xS Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH ) took over the company - trading under the name Pittler T&S GmbH (newly founded) and in 2005 moved the company from Langen to Dietzenbach.
The Pittler vocational training GmbH was founded in 1997 taken over by the city Langen / Hessen and continued. An insolvency could thus be averted. The Fraport Pro Region Foundation participated in the company in 2006. Today it bears the name Pittler Pro Region Berufsausbildung GmbH .
The insolvent Pittler Maschinenfabrik AG (main shareholder Gebrüder Rothenberger) was revitalized again. The factory halls in Langen were dismantled and demolished in 2005 and the high-rise in 2013. The bankruptcy was completed in 2008 and ended in the same year by compulsory settlement. At the Annual General Meeting in 2012, it was decided to continue the listed holding company, which had high tax loss carryforwards . In 2014 the company participated in various toolmaking companies, including a newly established joint venture with Diskus Werke AG. The main shareholders of Pittler Maschinenfabrik AG are Günter Rothenberger Beteiligungen GmbH and Rothenberger 4xS Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH and GbR .
Patents
Over the years Wilhelm von Pittler's number of patents rose to 200, which he was able to exploit well , especially in England and Belgium . For, among other:
- Steam engine with injection tube boiler (year 1880)
- Sewing, embroidery and darning machine (1887)
- Planetary gear differential (year 1899)
- Drum turret for 10 tools (year 1892)
- Oscillating double support for bicycle hubs (year 1893)
- Steel ball rolling mill (year 1896)
- Cigar press (year 1897)
- Automobile with friction wheel drive (year 1904)
- Automobile with hydraulic power transmission (year 1905)
Products
Machine tools such as Pittler turret lathes, single and multi-spindle machines, self-releasing thread cutting heads and continuously variable fluid gears.
See also
literature
- F. Huth: Technical on d. Berlin exhib. In: Der Motorwagen 9, 1906, pp. 921–23.
- FW Shell: The machine tools . 21908, p. 140 f.
- Braunbeck's Sportlex . 1910-12, p. 593.
- C. Matschoß: Gr. Engineers . 1925, 21985;
- W. v. P. ud Pittler-Bank , in: Die Werkzeugmaschine 36, 1932, pp. 287-300.
- JF van Himbergen: The Pittler-Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik AG Leipzig , in: Schrr.reihe d. Working group f. Tech. d. VDI, H. 9, 1937 (P);
- H. Häneke: 50 years of replacement . FS 50 J. Pittler AG Leipzig-Wahren, 1939 (P);
- F. Häßler: Milestones d. Progress in d. Iron u. Metal processing , in: Ind.-Anz. 76, 1954, pp. 227-42 (P);
- W. Fehse: 75, Pittler, collapse u. Reconstruction . 1964
- Fritz R. Glunk: 100 Years of Pittler, A Piece of Machine Tool History . 1989