Schuckert & Co.

This article covers the company, which existed from 1885 to 1903. For the time before, see Sigmund Schuckert , for the time after that, Siemens-Schuckertwerke and, since 1966, Siemens .

Schuckert & Co. Elektrizitäts-AG formerly Schuckert & Co. (E.-AG)
legal form	Corporation
founding	December 31, 1885
resolution	1903
Reason for dissolution	Takeover by Siemens & Halske
Seat	Nuremberg , Germany
management	Sigmund Schuckert Alexander Wacker
Branch	Electrical industry , tram manufacturers , automobile manufacturers

Schuckert & Co. was a German electricity company based in Nuremberg .

history

Share of the Elektrizitäts-AG, formerly Schuckert & Co., dated April 1, 1896, exceeded 1,000 marks

The Schuckert & Co. company was founded on December 31, 1885, when Alexander Wacker joined Sigmund Schuckert's company as a partner . Schuckert founded a workshop in Schwabenmühle ⊙ in 1873 and opened the first factory building in Schloßäckerstraße ⊙ in 1879 . In 1890 the location still used by the Siemens company was opened on Landgrabenstrasse ⊙ .

With the conversion to a stock corporation in 1893 the name was changed to Elektrizitäts-AG, formerly Schuckert & Co. (E.-AG). In 1903, the Elektrizitäts-Aktiengesellschaft was taken over by Siemens & Halske , which merged its heavy current departments with E.-AG and continued to run it as Siemens-Schuckertwerke (SSW) based in Nuremberg.

Products

Power supply networks

Schuckert generators in the Tullnau power plant in 1899

Schuckert engine in the fountain house of Königstein Fortress

In 1887 Schuckert built his first power station in Lübeck , and in 1888 another in Barmen . By 1900 Schuckert had built 120 power plant centers. Schuckert was usually the general contractor who built the entire system with the power plant, distribution network and transformer stations on a turnkey basis. In 1896, the Tullnau power plant in Nuremberg supplied the first alternating current network in Bavaria.

Schuckert took on numerous projects abroad. The Kykkelsrudsbane in Norway as well as the Kykkelsrud hydropower plant were essentially built under the planning of Schuckert. A street named Schuckertlinna in the town of Askim , which was built on part of the former railway line, reminds of this to this day .

Trams

Kaiserwagen of the Wuppertal suspension railway, delivered by Schuckert & Co. in 1900

At the historically significant International Electrotechnical Exhibition in Frankfurt in 1891 , Schuckert & Co. presented an electric tram that commuted between the exhibition grounds and the banks of the Main. In 1894 the towns of Barmen and Elberfeld signed a contract with E.-AG for the electrical equipment of the new Wuppertal suspension railway . As a result, Schuckert & Co. also developed into one of the leading companies in this area.

In Nuremberg, Schuckert revised the power supply for the electric tram that was inadequately manufactured by AEG. To this day, Schuckert & Co. and its successor companies SSW and Siemens have supplied the electrical equipment for the Nuremberg trams and underground trains .

Headlights

In 1885 Schuckert had a grinding device for parabolic mirrors patented. At the World's Fair in Chicago in 1883, the light of a spotlight equipped with such a mirror was seen in Milwaukee, 135 kilometers away. In the 1890s, more than a hundred pieces were made annually.

Automobiles

Between 1899 and 1900, E.-AG manufactured automobiles powered by electric motors. Passenger cars and delivery vans were available.

literature

• Daniela Stadler: J. Sigmund Schuckert . Hofmann Verlag Nürnberg 2000. ISBN 3-87191-289-1 . Page 40 ff.
• Manfred Hahn: 100 years of electricity in Franconia . wek-Verlag Treuchtlingen, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-934145-94-8 . Page 17 ff.
• Siegfried Kett: Enlightenment and Acceleration. Nuremberg's role in electrical history. Schrenk Verlag Röttenbach 2016. ISBN 978-3-924270-83-4 . Page 123 ff.
• Helmut Beer: Südstadtgeschichte. From the past of the southern part of Nuremberg. Hofmann Druck Nürnberg 2004, ISBN 3-87191-320-0 . Pages 116 to 132
• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader: The great automobile encyclopedia. BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5
• Nick Georgano : The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 3 P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English)
• Electric railways. Elektrizitäts-Aktiengesellschaft formerly Schuckert & Co., Nuremberg . Elsner, Berlin 1899 (extensive and elaborately designed company font).

Web links

• Early documents and newspaper articles on Schuckert & Co. in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Daniela Stadler: J. Sigmund Schuckert . Hofmann Verlag Nürnberg 2000. ISBN 3-87191-289-1 . Page 40 ff.
2. ^ ^{A b} Daniela Stadler: J. Sigmund Schuckert . Hofmann Verlag Nürnberg 2000. ISBN 3-87191-289-1 . Page 41 f.
3. ^ Robert Binder: City traffic in Nuremberg and Fürth from 1881 to 1981 , VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg 1986, page 34 ff.
4. ^ Helmut Beer: Südstadtgeschichte. From the past of the southern part of Nuremberg. Hofmann Druck Nürnberg 2004, ISBN 3-87191-320-0 . Page 117 f.

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '20 "  N , 11 ° 4' 31.9"  E