Propellerwerk Heine
The Propellerwerk Heine in Berlin-Friedrichshain was the oldest German manufacturer of aircraft propellers . The buildings on Warschauer Strasse are used today by various service companies and associations.
history
The cabinet maker Hugo Heine began manufacturing wooden propellers for aircraft on October 1, 1910 at Düsterhauptstrasse 37 in Waidmannslust , after accidentally receiving the order to repair a broken propeller during a sightseeing flight at Johannisthal Airport . In his carpentry shop he expanded the idea and was able to employ five people until 1914, the year he passed his master craftsman examination . Due to the demand in the First World War , Heine expanded his carpentry shop into a factory that employed three hundred workers by 1918. Since aircraft construction in Germany was banned by the Allies after the end of the war , he had to lay off a large part of the workers and switched production back to furniture. In 1921 he was able to set up a joinery for bedroom furniture at Warschauer Straße 58 in Berlin-Friedrichshain in the second backyard.
Propeller production was resumed there after the lifting of the aircraft construction ban in the second half of the 1920s. In 1930 Heine delivered its 50,000th propeller. He found customers all over Europe, including Bücker Flugzeugbau , and he worked with various scientific institutes to optimize his propellers. In 1933 he received the patent for his propeller with metal edge protection. At the end of 1935, the workforce consisted of 300 craftsmen, four aeronautical engineers and 60 commercial employees. The company mainly delivered to the new German Air Force , but also to the Air Force. The airship LZ 129 "Hindenburg" was also powered by Heine propellers. Due to the massive air raids on Berlin , Heine relocated its production to Silesia in 1943 . Because of the delivery of military material, Hugo Heine's furniture factory & Propellerwerk was expropriated without compensation after the end of the war in 1945. In 1949 the company in Warschauer Strasse worked as VEB Möbelwerk Heine , and from 1950 as VEB Berliner Möbelwerk .
literature
- Hugo Heine: The propeller. A simple illustration of the terms and the way they work . Berlin, 1935
- Detlef Krenz: In the air. The Heine propeller factory . In: Friedrichshainer Zeitzeiger . Volume 5, No. 51, September 2019, pp. 18–20.
Web links
- Oliver Ohmann: Hugo Heine and the consequences , June 11, 2017