Schoppe & Faeser
| Schoppe & Faeser GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | June 17, 1948 |
| Seat | Minden |
| Branch | Automation technology |
Schoppe & Faeser GmbH was a measurement and information technology company in the East Westphalian city of Minden in North Rhine-Westphalia .
In addition to Nixdorf Computer and Zuse KG , it was one of the first commercially successful medium-sized IT companies in Germany.
The company and the production site in Minden have been taken over by ABB .
history
In 1948 Hermann Schoppe and Hugo Faeser founded a special factory for precision mechanical devices and electromechanical large computer systems with 105 employees. They belonged to a group of engineers who had been brought together in Minden by the then British occupying forces after the end of the Second World War to solve these development tasks.
By 1952, under the direction of Hans Bückner, the most powerful integration system in Europe at the time was developed. The Integromat based on the principle of the Bush analyzer was delivered to the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington . A second system was installed at the University of Bonn two years later on behalf of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1953, the company received the Grand Prize at the Rationalization Exhibition in Düsseldorf for this development. A third system went to the Siemens & Halske company in Erlangen , which was dismantled in 1972 and made available to the German Museum in Munich.
In 1955 Schoppe & Faeser developed the first fully electric process control system .
In the mid-1950s, 50% of the company's capital was taken over by Hartmann & Braun . Schoppe & Faeser manufactured control devices, gear testing devices, induction hardening machines and analog computing systems; In 1958, over 600 people were employed in a modern new factory building in Minden.
Since 1958 the tube - equipped small computer LGP-30 has been produced under license by Royal McBee Librascope; from 1963 about 100 copies of the successor model Eurocomp LGP-21 .
In the following decades, the focus was primarily on industrial valves and sensor and automation technology .
With the sale of Hartmann & Braun in 1999, the production site was integrated into the ABB group ; transmitters , process control systems and variable speed drives will continue to be produced.