Siemens-Reiniger-Werke

The Siemens-Reiniger-Werke AG (SRW), based in Berlin created in 1932 by the merger of the cleaner, Gebbert & Sound AG in Erlangen with the Phoenix X-ray tube mills AG , headquartered Rudolstadt (Thuringia) and the distribution company Siemens cleaner Veifa society for medical technology mbH in Berlin (Veifa: "United Electrotechnical Institute Frankfurt - Aschaffenburg "). In the course of this reorganization, almost the entire production of electromedical products of Siemens & Halske AG was relocated from Berlin to Erlangen.

The building erected in 1893 by Reiniger, Gebbert & Schall AG on the corner of Luitpoldstrasse and Gebbertstrasse in Erlangen. The Siemens-Reiniger-Werke and finally the medical technology division of the Siemens company also manufactured on the site. In 2000, Siemens donated the building to the city of Erlangen.

Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 47.1 ″  N , 11 ° 1 ′ 7 ″  E

The central administration of the Siemens-Reiniger-Werke was relocated to Erlangen in 1943, because orderly work was no longer possible there due to the Allied air raids on Berlin . Erlangen enjoyed the status of a hospital town and was spared major damage in the aerial warfare of World War II . In 1947, the SRW headquarters were relocated to Erlangen and the construction of a new factory for X-ray tubes began, as the Thuringian factory ( Siemens-Reiniger-Werke AG Röntgenröhrenwerk Rudolstadt ) was expropriated by the Soviet military administration in Germany (SMAD) and became the VEB Phönix Röntgenröhrenwerk Rudolstadt was.

The domestic sales organization, which had suffered badly from the war, was quickly rebuilt. An extensive sales network was also created abroad, particularly in South America, after the foreign branches were lost due to the war.

On October 1, 1966, the three joint stock companies Siemens & Halske, Siemens-Schuckertwerke and Siemens-Reiniger-Werke were merged into Siemens AG . The medical technology area now traded under the name "Siemens AG, Wernerwerk for medical technology". In the course of a general restructuring, the Wernerwerk was renamed "Siemens Medical Technology Division" (UB Med) in 1969 , " Siemens Medical Solutions " in 2001 and finally in 2008 as " Siemens Sector Healthcare ". In 2015 this became the independent "Siemens Healthcare GmbH".

Web links

• Medical technology archive of Siemens AG in Erlangen (MedArchive)
• national and international history of Siemens AG from the corporate archives in Munich
• History of Siemens AG in Erlangen from SiemensForum Erlangen
• A lexicon of Siemensstadt in Berlin
• Early documents and newspaper articles about the Siemens-Reiniger-Werke in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Competitors become partners - the creation of the Siemens-Reiniger Werke. Siemens Historical Institute, accessed June 6, 2019 .