Podeus
Automobilfabrik Paul Heinrich Podeus Motorpflugfabrik Paul Heinrich Podeus Maschinenfabrik Podeus Aktiengesellschaft |
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legal form | Corporation |
founding | 1870 |
resolution | 1924 |
Seat | Wismar , Germany |
management |
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Branch | Motor vehicle manufacturers , engine manufacturers |
Podeus was a traditional company in the Hanseatic city of Wismar , which was family-owned for three generations from 1870 to 1932.
history
The company was founded by Paul Heinrich Podeus (1832–1905), captain and wholesaler. Later, his sons Heinrich Podeus (1863-1924), captain and ship owner, and Paul (Heinrich) Podeus (1869-1926), engineer and machine manufacturer, succeeded their father.
As early as 1870, Paul Heinrich Podeus the Elder . Ä. As a former captain founded a coal and timber business and an iron foundry in Wismar. Mechanical engineering followed in 1879 and a steamship company in 1883. A sawmill and planing mill was set up in 1884 and a wagon factory followed in 1894. All companies were run as sole proprietorships.
In 1902 Paul (Heinrich) Podeus set up a commercial vehicle construction in the machine factory. The engineer Josef Vollmer had developed the plans for a truck, which at the time could be described as a fully developed construction, in 1905 the series production with trucks began. To complete the truck chassis, a separate body shop was set up to equip the chassis with truck and bus superstructures. Passenger car construction was also started. In addition, boat engines and motor plows were built.
In 1910, two types of trucks were manufactured, three and five ton subsidy vehicles. In 1912 a truck and passenger car factory was set up in order to meet the increased demand. The main sales areas were Northern and Eastern European countries. The car production was stopped before the First World War .
In 1911 the manufacture of passenger cars started. The first model had 9/24 hp with a 2.3 liter four-cylinder engine and triple-bearing crankshaft and side control . In 1912 the larger 10/30 PS followed with a displacement of 2.6 liters and in 1913 the 7/20 PS with a displacement of 2.0 liters. All engines had the same technology, only the type 9/24 had all four cylinders cast together, the other two machines had cylinder blocks cast in pairs.
In 1912 the factory was extensively expanded and renamed the Paul Heinrich Podeus Automobile Factory . This had representatives in Germany and abroad and due to the location on the Baltic Sea, many vehicles were sold to Russia and Scandinavia. In Germany, the Podeus brand was only known in the north. After the First World War, truck construction was stopped and the company concentrated on tracked vehicles, which became known under the registered brand name “Raupenschlepper”, and wagon construction. In 1919 the name was changed to Motorpflugfabrik Paul Heinrich Podeus . In 1922 the company was transformed into the machine factory Podeus Aktiengesellschaft . The company went out two years later. The wagon factory was taken over by Eisenbahn-Verkehr AG , Berlin (EVA), which manufactured tipper and bus bodies in Wismar until 1939.
After the Second World War , the wagon factory was attached to the Mathias Thesen shipyard in Wismar.
The last factory halls on Wismar Canal Street were dismantled in 2010.
See also
History of the German commercial vehicle industry from 1895 to 1945
Literature and source
- Gerhard Maerz: The automobiles of the captain Paul Heinrich Podeus , in: Automobil und Motorrad Chronik, issue 1/1977, pages 24-25.
- The history of German truck construction, Volume 1, pages 145–147. Weltbild Verlag 1994 ISBN 3-89350-811-2
- Traktor Classic , issue 06/2009 p. 68ff
- Traktor Classic, issue 05/2009 p. 56ff
- "Der Krupp Mecklenburgs", article in the Ostsee-Zeitung http://www.ostsee-zeitung.de/ozdigital/archiv.phtml?param=news&id=1755984