Reinecker (company)
The Reinecker AG was a major manufacturer of machine tools in Chemnitz and was before the Second World War, with around 4,000 employees of the largest tool and machine tool factories in Europe. The name goes back to the company's founder Julius Eduard Reinecker (1832–1895). After the expropriation and dismantling in the Soviet occupation zone, the company was re-established in West Germany. Today, Reinecker is part of the EMAG Group and within it represents the competence center for precision machining (turning and grinding).
history
The JE Reinecker company emerged in 1859 from JS Apffel's tool shop and forge. In 1859 Julius Eduard Reinecker took over the unprofitable tool shop, which was converted into a factory in 1867, and turned to the construction of milling and grinding machines and back-turning lathes based on the American model. As early as 1880, the JE Reinecker plant covered an area of 800 m 2 with 101 employees. Production began in 1891 with 226 workers and 211 machine tools on what is now Reineckerstraße in Chemnitz. In 1893 the company was the only German machine tool manufacturer to exhibit at the world exhibition in Chicago. After the founder's death in 1895, his son Johannes Georg Reinecker took over the management. By 1910 the plant had grown to an area of 38,900 m 2 and had 1,950 employees. In 1911, the JE Reinecker company was converted into a stock corporation. On the basis of the Treaty of Rapallo , deliveries were also made to the Soviet Union during the Weimar Republic ; During the global economic crisis from 1929 onwards 90% of the capacity was used for export. In 1939, the company, with around 4,000 employees, was one of the largest tool and machine tool factories in Europe, which was primarily known for its machines for milling gears. The plant was almost completely destroyed in the USAAF air raid on Chemnitz on March 2, 1945 during World War II. In the referendum of 1946 , the company was expropriated and nationalized. By order of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD), the Reinecker plant was dismantled from 1946 to 1949 and many skilled workers were deported. The company no longer existed.
Successor company
In 1949 "JE Reinecker Maschinenbau GmbH" was re-established in Munich; the production originated in Ulm-Einsingen . The company has been part of the EMAG Group since 1999 and is the competence center for precision machining (turning and grinding) of chuck parts within this group .
Products
- from 1885: milling machines , grinding machines
- from 1900: drilling tools, milling cutters, thread cutting tools, backing lathes, machines for gear manufacturing, measuring tools, reaming tools, clamping tools
- from 1911: cylindrical grinding machines,
- from 1912: Spur gear milling machines based on the hobbing process
- from 1951: Universal wheel milling machines, vertical milling machines
See also
literature
- Rainer Menzer: The Reinecker works in the time of National Socialism . In: Chemnitz Roland. Vol. 17 (2010), 2, pp. 7-11
- Wolfgang Uhlmann: rise - fall - new beginning and continuation of the company JE Reinecker. For the 175th birthday of Julius Eduard Reinecker . In: Chemnitz Roland. Vol. 14 (2007), 3, pp. 20-23
- Wolfgang Uhlmann: The Chemnitz Industry in the Last Third of the 19th Century (PDF; 6.1 MB)
Web links
- Website of the EMAG Group, Reinecker brand
- Data collection by Albert Gieseler
- Saxon Archive
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Reinecker in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 44.9 ″ N , 12 ° 56 ′ 44 ″ E