R. Dolberg

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R. Dolberg - advert from 1919

The corporation R. Dolberg operated a factory for field and industrial railways as well as wagon and switch construction in Berlin.

history

R. Dolberg AG share dated July 17, 1926 for RM 1000

The R. Dolberg, Maschinen- und Feldbahn-Fabrik was founded in 1878 as a family business for the manufacture and sale as well as acquisition and utilization of machines, vehicles and objects of all kinds for the field, small and normal railways as well as for the machine, vehicle and construction industries founded. The founder was Rudolph Dolberg (* 1834, † 1893), who had previously sold agricultural machines in Bützow since July 23, 1867 . The seat of the company was Hamburg until April 1924, then Berlin. On December 14, 1899 it was renamed with effect from July 1, 1899 to the corporation R. Dolberg , factory for field and industrial railways, wagon and switch construction, with headquarters in Berlin.

The company was a manufacturer of all kinds of turnouts. In the factories in Dortmund and Berlin, track connections, double turnouts, crossover points and heavy pit turntables were built in any special design. It produced and sold normal railway material for Germany and abroad. Their excavators as well as the narrow-gauge tracks, switches and construction trains were used in particular on construction sites for the execution of heavy shaft work, dam construction and excavations for the Reichsbahn. There were self-unloaders as well as dump trucks and box tippers of light and heavy construction. The Dolberg tipping wagons such as the Robust dump trucks and Dolag one-man box tippers with fast one-man unloading were among the most powerful makes around 1935.

In addition, the company was responsible for the sole distribution of diesel construction locomotives in Germany from Henschel & Sohn AG, Kassel. It operated factories in Dortmund and Berlin and had sales outlets in Berlin, Breslau, Dortmund, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt a. M., Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Cologne, Königsberg (Pr.), Leipzig, Magdeburg, Munich, Rostock, and Stuttgart.

In 1950 the merger with Glaser & Pflaum at the Berlin securities validation the Dolberg Glaser & Pflaum , Dortmund. After the takeover by Krupp, the company was called Krupp-Dolberg from 1960 . In 1969 it was closed due to the changing market.

Leipziger & Co., Feld- und Industriebahnwerke GmbH, Berlin

Leipziger & Co., Cologne on the Rhine, field and industrial railways, switch and wagon construction institute. German imperial patent on ball, roller and axle bearings

The shareholders' meeting of the subsidiary Leipziger & Co., Feld- und Industriebahnwerke GmbH, Berlin decided on December 29, 1936 to dissolve the company in a simplified form by transferring it as a whole to R. Dolberg AG. Major shareholders until 1945 were Henschel & Sohn GmbH, Kassel and Otto Wolff, Cologne.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Schmidt: Restless Creation: Innovative entrepreneurship made the name Rudolph Dolberg a household name.
  2. ↑ https://www.aktiensammler.de/br/archiv_branchen_detail.asp?AREA=246&ID=339245&NS=1
  3. ↑ http://www.albert-gieseler.de/dampf_de/firmen6/firmadet65655.shtml
  4. ^ Albert Gieseler: R. Dolberg.
  5. ↑ a b c https://forum.kleinbahn-museum.de/viewtopic.php?t=97
  6. ↑ a b R. Dolberg Aktiengesellschaft, factory for field and industrial railways, wagons and points construction, head office Berlin W 35.