Siegen railway needs
| Siegener Eisenbahnbedarf AG (SEAG), Siegen i. Westf. | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1908 |
| resolution | 1926 |
| Seat | Dreis-Tiefenbach , Siegen |
The Siegen railway requirements AG was a German machine and wagon construction companies, which at a total of three manufacturing locations in both hardware and railroad cars produced.
history
founding
In Siegerland , which has been known for centuries for its iron and mining industry , the Swabian machinist Carl-Eberhard Weiß founded the company "Carl Weiß" in Siegen. The company initially manufactured equipment for mining, including mining trucks . Fittings and semi-finished products for the wagon construction industry, such as draw hooks and rod buffers, followed later .
expansion
In 1905 he took over the wagon construction company in Dreis-Tiefenbach, which was already under construction, and expanded it. From 1908 this factory was run as an independent company under the name "Siegener Eisenbahnbedarf AG SEAG". In 1910, the wagon factory manufactured various hardware and wagons with around 1,300 employees at three locations in Siegen, Dreis-Tiefenbach and Nassau / Lahn .
Time after the First World War
In order to be able to survive in the economically difficult times after the First World War , the companies Dessauer Waggonfabrik AG , Düsseldorfer Eisenbahnbedarf AG , H. Fuchs Waggonfabrik AG , Siegener Eisenbahnbedarf AG, Waggonfabrik Uerdingen and Wegmann & Co. were co- founded on April 21, 1921 in Düsseldorf The Eisenbahnwagen-Liefergemeinschaft GmbH , called EISLIEG for short, has a share capital of 200 million marks .
Subsequently, the companies Waggon und Maschinenbau AG , Görlitz (WUMAG), and Gottfried Lindner AG , Ammendorf , joined the association. This association employed a total of around 10,000 people and had an annual output of 18,000 to 20,000 vehicles of all types and systems.
With the Reichsbahn contract of 1926 with around 30 large wagon construction companies, EISLIEG was deprived of its business basis, and it was dissolved.
The End
The Weiß family sold SEAG to Charlottenhütte in Niederschelden , which was one of the founders of the United Steelworks in 1926 . This means that the Dreis-Tiefenbach plant went to the Rheinische Stahlwerke after the Second World War .
Business areas
The production spectrum of the entire company included the following departments:
- The plant in Siegen mainly produced fittings and drop forgings for wagon and locomotive construction such as buffers , buffer sleeves, draw hooks, couplings , etc.
- The Dreis-Tiefenbach plant consisted of the areas of wagon construction, boiler forge and pressing and stamping works . In addition to goods and luggage wagons , special wagons were manufactured for the coal and steel and chemical industries .
- The three departments of the Elisenhütte in Nassau / Lahn deal with the construction of wagons, the production of all kinds of screws and gas pipes .
Product gallery
Some samples are shown here as examples of the company's products. They come from the book The German Railway System of the Present in the 1911 edition, Volume II.
Coal wagons, self-unloaders
iron coal wagon made of pressed and stamped parts
Platform trolleys / rail trolleys
Standard track of self-unloading wagons
open freight car , narrow gauge
boxcar, narrow gauge
open freight car with free seat brake, narrow gauge
literature
- Hoff / Kumbier / Anger: The German railway system of the present . Reimar Hobbing , Berlin 1911.
- Hoff: The German railway system of the present . Reimar Hobbing, Berlin 1923.
- Reich Ministry of Transport : 100 years of German railways . Transport Science Teaching Aid Society, Leipzig 1938.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The German Railway System of the Present / Hobbing Verlag, Berlin / Edition 1923, Volume II