Steyr works
Steyr-Werke is the name of the Austrian Arms Factory in Steyr , Upper Austria, used from 1926 .
On October 12, 1934, the Steyr-Werke merged with Austro-Daimler - Puchwerke AG to form Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG .
history
The origin of the Steyr-Werke goes back to the year 1821. In that year Leopold Werndl (1797–1855) took up the production of weapon parts. After Leopold Werndl's death in 1855, his son Josef Werndl (1831–1889) took over the family business and in 1864 founded Josef and Franz Werndl & Comp., An arms factory and sawmill in Oberletten, Austria . In 1869 the company was converted into a stock corporation and operated as the Oesterreichische Waffenfabriks-Gesellschaft (OEWG).
In 1894 the first Steyr bicycles were built, also known as “ Waffenrad ”, and the construction of aircraft engines began.
In 1912–14, the new main plant was built on the Kammermayr and Schacherlehner grounds (Plattner grounds ) near Steyr-Ennsdorf on the Rudolfsbahn's Ennstal route , in particular because of the importance of the Steyr weapons production during the war , and the entire production was gradually shifted there. For this purpose, the area from Jägerberg (later St. Ulrich ) was incorporated into Steyr .
The automotive department is established in 1916. One year later, Hans Ledwinka becomes chief designer in the automotive department. The first vehicle designed by Ledwinka in 1920 is the "Waffenauto" Steyr II with a 12/40 hp six-cylinder engine. At the end of 1921 Ledwinka resigned and returned to his old company Tatra because the OEWG was not prepared to pay his work appropriately.
In 1926 the OEWG was renamed Steyr-Werke AG.
At the beginning of 1929 Ferdinand Porsche took up the position of technical director (chief designer) at Steyr and designed a. a. the type Austria , a representative vehicle with an 8-cylinder engine and 100 hp. The car, built in just three copies, was not put into series production in favor of the Austro-Daimler ADR 8 , as both cars would have been in direct competition on the market. The Steyr-Hausbank Österreichische Credit-Anstalt , the main shareholder of Austro-Daimler, favored the ADR 8, which was still under development and came onto the market in 1931. Porsche had already worked for Austro-Daimler until 1923 and left the company at the time because of the cuts in funds for racing by the management board on the instructions of the Credit Institute. Since he was again dealing with the same people who caused the termination at Austro-Daimler, he ended his work at the Steyr works at the end of 1929.
As part of the uprising of February 12, 1934 , there were also riots and acts of violence in Steyr, including the shooting of the director of the Steyr works, Dr. Autumn in the moving car.
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| Cycles | " Weapon wheel " | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tractors | " Steyr " | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| vehicles | " Steyr " | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Puch | Cycles | Puch | Austro-Daimler-Puch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| motorcycles | Puch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Automobiles | Puch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Austro-Daimler | vehicles |
Austrian Daimler-Motoren KG / AG "Austro-Daimler" |
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| Open | Bodies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planes | " Albatross " | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
literature
- Alois Brusatti, Helmut Krackowizer , Hans Seper: Austrian motor vehicles. From the beginning until today. Verlag Welsermühl, Wels 1982, ISBN 3-85339-177-X .
- Ferdinand Hediger, Hans-Heinrich von Fersen, Michael Sedgwick: Classic cars 1919-1939. Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-8228-8944-X .
- Martin Pfundner: Austro-Daimler and Steyr. Rivals until the merger. The early years of Ferdinand Porsche . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77639-0 .
Web links
- private website about Puch and the Steyr works
- Information on some Steyr weapon wheels with photos (archive version )
- schlot.at Waffenrad catalog, Steyrwerke 1930
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steyr 1913: Secret Armaments for the Great War, Raimund Locicnik, Martin Dunst in Oberösterreichische Nachrichten online (nachrichten.at), October 5, 2013.
- ↑ The museum building - a place with history. Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr: museum-steyr.at (accessed July 31, 2018).
- ^ Roman Sandgruber: In the shadow of the civil war of 1934. In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , February 7, 2009, website 1663 in the forum OoeGeschichte.at