SONA BLW precision forge
SONA BLW Präzisionsschmiede , formerly Bayerisches Leichtmetallwerk (BLW), is an automotive supplier for precision forged gear and axle components, whose administration is located in a monument next to the production site on Frankfurter Ring 227 in Munich's Schwabing district. The northern part of the property is, however, in the Freimann district . The entire area was bought by Hammer AG, which would like to redevelop the area together with the state capital Munich after the planned move-out of the company. The Sona Group is currently in insolvency proceedings.
Administration building
The historicizing administration building - with a hipped roof building with bay windows , dwarf house , plaster structure and roof turrets - was built by Hermann Rimmele in 1922–1924 and serves as the administration building of the Bavarian light metal works.
History of the company
The Bavarian light metal works was founded in Munich in 1925.
During the Nazi era , 832 forced laborers worked for the Bavarian light metal works Erich Heymann and Hans Raiser oHG . The ThyssenKrupp Group, to which the company later belonged, made a contribution to the “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” foundation for BLW as for all subsidiaries . In 1941, the Bavarian light metal works acquired the foundry Friedrich Oberhänsli & Cie in Lochau , founded in 1908 , in order to outsource its production of valves for aircraft engines there. Of the more than 500 people who worked there in the following years, more than half were forced laborers, prisoners of war and concentration camp inmates.
In 1968 TRW took over the Bavarian light metal works. The company later traded under the name Bayerisches Leichtmetallwerk Graf Blücher von Wahlstatt GmbH & Co. KG , and in 1989 the BLW was taken over by Thyssen AG. In 2002 Thyssen Umformtechnik + Guss and BLW Präzisionsschmiede then became ThyssenKrupp Präzisionsschmiede.
In 2008, the Indian Sona Okegawa , a joint venture of the Sona Group and Mitsubishi Materials , took over ThyssenKrupp precision forge with around 630 employees. Since then, the company has operated as Sona BLW Präzisionsschmiede GmbH . Today precision forged bevel gears , precision forged ratchet gears and precision forged synchronizing elements are produced here. Sona BLW Präzisionsschmiede has other plants in Duisburg and Remscheid .
Web links
- http://www.sona-blw.com Website of the SONA BLW precision forge
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Hammer AG acquires 56,000 square meters of land in Munich Schwabing-Freimann" in rohmertmedien
- ↑ Automotive supplier Sona in Remscheid reports bankruptcy to WDR on February 3, 2020
- ^ List of monuments for Munich by BLfD , as of April 8, 2017
- ↑ Monica Lochner-Fischer : Compensation for Forced Laborers May 8, 2000
- ^ Meinrad Pichler : National Socialism in Vorarlberg: Victims. Perpetrator. Opponent . Studienverlag , 2014, ISBN 978-3-7065-5719-1 , p. 401 ( limited preview ).
- ↑ Harald Walser : Bomb deals . Johann-August-Malin-Gesellschaft , 2014, ISBN 3-900754-06-3 , p. 302 ( restricted preview [PDF]).
- ↑ Always with you In: Der Spiegel January 26, 1976
- ^ Davis Dyer: TRW: Pioneering Technology and Innovation Since 1900 . Harvard Business Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-87584-606-4 , pp. 283 ( limited preview ).
- ↑ Well prepared for the next few years Press release of January 16, 2006
- ↑ Josef-Martin Kraus: Thyssen-Krupp Präzisionsschmiede GmbH becomes Sona BLW Präzisionsschmiede GmbH In: MM MaschinenMarkt January 31, 2008
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 13.6 " N , 11 ° 36 ′ 11.3" E