Nordhausen tractor works
| VEB tractor factory Nordhausen | |
|---|---|
| legal form | publicly-owned business |
| founding | 1948 |
| Seat | Nordhausen , German Democratic Republic |
| Number of employees | about 4300 (late 1980s) |
| Branch | Tractor manufacturers , engine manufacturers |
The state-owned company VEB Schlepperwerk Nordhausen was a tractor manufacturer in the GDR . After the end of tractor production, the company traded as VEB Motorenwerk Nordhausen and was East Germany's largest engine manufacturer.
location
The factory site, of which some buildings still exist, was located between the western outskirts of Nordhausen and the Salza district . The Salza River touches the western border of the plant.
history
The company was founded in 1948 and in the same year became part of the IFA Association of Volkseigener Fahrzeugbau . It was created from the remains of the dismantled and destroyed Maschinenbau & Bahnbedarfs AG . The second tractor manufacturer in Nordhausen was Nordhäuser Maschinenbau AG ( Normag ). Both were traditional companies in the field of internal combustion engine and tractor construction. Production of the first newly developed tractor began in 1949.
In 1956 the company was assigned to the industrial administration of agricultural machinery together with the other tractor factories in the GDR . In the early 1960s, these tractor factories were profiled to include final production ( Schönebeck tractor factory), engine production (Nordhausen tractor factory) and gearbox production ( Brandenburger tractor works ). However, this profiling was not effective for tractor construction, but for vehicle construction , to which the tractor factories were reassigned from 1964. In the years that followed, tractor construction in the GDR was limited to the Schönebeck tractor factory. From that point on , the company in Nordhausen traded as VEB Motorenwerk Nordhausen , which had around 4,300 employees at the end of the 1980s and produced around 1,000,000 diesel engines for trucks, tractors and self-propelled machines between 1965 and 1990. It was liquidated after 1990.
The film trouble churning of Karlheinz Mund 1989 was filmed at the factory.
Products
- Tractor RS02 ( Brockenhexe ) with 22 HP, consisting of replicas of pre-war developments for engine and transmission (1949 to 1952)
- Production of the RS01 / 40 ( Pioneer ) tractor with 40 HP, a development by Famo-Werke Breslau (1950 to 1956). A further development of this tractor with the type designation RS 01/40-II (type Harz) was produced in 1957 and 1958.
- Production of the RS04 / 30 tractor with 30 HP developed in the Schönebeck tractor factory (1953 to 1956)
- Further development of the RS04 / 30 to the RS14 / 30 ( Famulus ) with 30 HP and water and air-cooled engine variants (1956 to 1961)
- Further development of the RS14 / 30 to the RS14 / 36 ( Famulus ) with 36 HP and water and air-cooled engine variants (1960 to 1964)
- RS14 / 46 with a heavily modified engine of 46 hp (1960 to 1963)
- RT315 and RT325 as a further development of the RS14 series (1964 and 1965)
- In the context of consumer goods production , various consumer goods such as tumble dryers, handcarts, bicycles ( IFA Touring brand ) and more were manufactured.
today
49 companies are located in today's IFA industrial park , employing around 1160 people. The IFA-Museum Nordhausen shows many exhibits from the almost 90-year history of the plant.
literature
- Kirchberg, P .: Plastic, sheet metal and planned economy - the history of automobile construction in the GDR . Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-87584-027-5 .
- Krombholz, K .: Agricultural machinery in the GDR - light and shadow . DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-7690-0717-6 .
Web links
- http://www.famulus-schlepper.de/
- http://www.ddr-landmaschinen.de/
- http://www.radschlepper.de/ - information page about GDR tractors
- http://www.ifa-museum-nordhausen.de/
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.ddr-fahrradwiki.de/IFA-Motorenwerke_Nordhausen DDRFahrradWiki
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 45.3 " N , 10 ° 46 ′ 31.5" E