Titgemeyer
Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 33 ″ N , 8 ° 5 ′ 16.9 ″ E
| Titgemeyer Holding GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1901 |
| Seat | Osnabrück , Germany |
| management | Joachim Sommer |
| Number of employees | 472 (2011) |
| sales | EUR 87.3 million (2011) |
| Branch | Automotive supplier |
| Website | www.titgemeyer.de |
Titgemeyer ( Gebr. Titgemeyer Osnabrück , GTO ) is an internationally active group of companies in production and wholesale for the entire field of commercial vehicle manufacture.
Companies
The Titgemeyer company was founded in 1901 and develops, produces and sells tested fastening technology products as well as kits and system solutions for the field of commercial vehicle construction. Around 500 employees work in the twelve branches and around 20 subsidiaries including partners, whereby, in addition to international wholesaling, prefabricated vehicle components and fastening technology are built and sold. There are currently four production sites: Lotte , Gevelsberg , Albrechtice nad Vltavou ( Czech Republic ) and Tipton ( England ) as well as seven subsidiaries. There are twelve sales locations which are managed by Osnabrück as branches and which are located in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Great Britain , the Czech Republic, Austria, Italy and Japan . There are partner companies in the Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Slovakia , Switzerland, Slovenia , Spain, Australia and the USA .
Wholesale
Titgemeyer's wholesale division is the company's largest division. Field staff and application consultants take care of all commercial vehicle manufacturers as a comprehensive network close to the customer. Internationally, the body and commercial vehicle builders, shipyards and aircraft manufacturers as well as other industrial and handicraft businesses are supported in every way by branches, subsidiaries, agencies and cooperation partners in many countries . The entire storage , logistics and transport are handled by trained employees in our own truck .
Fastening technology
Different material requirements make different fastenings and their systems necessary in the entire commercial vehicle construction. Titgemeyer supplies industry and trade with all the materials for their tasks in order to be able to achieve new solutions. The diversity of the range includes processing tools, blind riveting and rapid assembly systems.
Vehicle components
The Titgemeyer division for vehicle components includes the production of kit, case and platform systems as well as the prefabricated body components including load securing. The chassis technology product area also includes the manufacture of sealant and adhesive technology. In addition, individual problem solutions can be developed on request.
history
On April 1, 1901, Adolf and Fritz Titgemeyer founded a wholesale business in the town of Melle near Osnabrück , Am Markt 8, to sell supplies and tools for car making and forging . Commercial vehicle construction at that time was still carried out by wagon builders, blacksmiths and wheelwrighters , who were among the first customers to be supplied. Melle supplied the areas of Oldenburg , Emsland , Bremen, Hanover and the Lipperland .
On October 1, 1908, the company moved to Osnabrück at Kamp 70 and called itself “Gebr. Titgemeyer Osnabrück ". Soon the premises became too small and they moved to Seminarstrasse 33, where previously there was a former noble court of Baron von Hammerstein zu Lobsten . A large commercial and residential building as well as a multi-storey warehouse were built, to which the move took place on October 1, 1911. In order to visit the customers, the representatives had to undertake arduous journeys at that time, which was accomplished by carriage, train and also by bicycle. In the period before the First World War , it became more convenient to visit customers by car and vehicle construction took off. During the war, both owners were drafted and an authorized officer who was unfit for military service was hired. The two owners came back unscathed from the war; Fritz Titgemeyer left the company. The name Gebr. Titgemeyer was retained.
In the 1920s and 1930s, more and more vehicle and body builders emerged who were acquired as customers. The product range of articles in body and trailer construction has now been increasingly distributed. After a small upswing, there was another difficult time as a result of the global economic crisis.
With the continuously advancing motorization, the changed and expanded range expanded the customer base despite inflation. Heavy trailer axles, couplings, steel and aluminum profiles, fenders and other vehicle parts supplemented the range for commercial vehicle construction. The area of southern Germany has now been included for the support of commercial vehicle manufacturers and our own catalogs have been distributed. From 1935 the company also specialized in tool manufacture. The company AGIL, Berlin, which manufactured welding transformers, was taken over. Coated electrodes for electric welding were also manufactured there, and these were now distributed throughout the German Reich. Titgemeyer also conducted or organized welding courses for commercial vehicle manufacturers. In 1938 an annual turnover of 1 million marks was exceeded for the first time. Plots on Seminarstrasse and Rosenstrasse were purchased so that new buildings could be built. A difficult time followed during the war and both sons who had just started working for the company were drafted.
During a bomb attack on Osnabrück on September 26, 1944, the business and office building was completely destroyed. The Titgemeyer couple and many of their employees were killed. The car manufacturer Wilhelm Karmann provided support to keep Titgemeyer's unrestricted wholesaler up. The wholesale business was outsourced to Bad Rothenfelde when the brothers Ernst-Adolf and Walter Titgemeyer were on leave from the front .
After 1945, the sister of the Titgemeyer brothers relocated the company back to Osnabrück and operations were temporarily resumed in rented barracks . The reconstruction took place very slowly and in summer the Titgemeyer brothers returned home damaged by the war. In 1948 the first construction phase of the warehouse and the office building was completed, so that 31 people were employed again. New product catalogs for commercial vehicle construction were completed in 1949 and the Lemmerz wheels were sold in Emsland and later in Germany via Titgemeyer.
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Until the 1950s, the company's focus was on the manufacture of vehicle components. In 1951, Titgemeyer exhibited its large product and supplier parts for commercial vehicle construction at the first IAA after the war. Then the successful POP blind rivet was introduced and created a good basis for a separate business area in fastening technology, where in 1954 sole sales throughout Germany were achieved. Initially, this rivet was used exclusively for fastening body panels and was a great relief in commercial vehicle construction. The bus construction could also be given support, with everything up to and including the upholstery and seat frames being supplied. In terms of export, deliveries were currently made to Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Greece, Turkey and Brazil. The cooperation with the steel rolling mills was new, where all the steel for commercial vehicle construction has now been delivered to the individual manufacturers. In 1953 a branch was opened in Kassel. The buildings were currently being expanded considerably so that a great deal of long material and aluminum profiles could also be stored.
Its own plastics and processing company ( MKG ) was founded in Münster in 1960 and then relocated to Lotte near Osnabrück. A new factory was built there to prefabricate components for commercial vehicle manufacturers and the GETAL ( GETOVAN ) program was developed in 1961. In total, sales of 15 million marks and in 1976 a total of 50 million marks were made. In 1962, other buildings in Osnabrück had to be leased as storage facilities. The first IBM office machines were currently being purchased to make work easier, and a relief fund was also set up. In the following years, some new external storage facilities were set up, from which the supply of commercial vehicle manufacturers was better managed in close proximity with their own vehicles. The entire external warehouse as well as most of the collection of the material and products was and is still done by our own trucks. In Austria, a subsidiary was founded in Vienna in 1964. A separate company was founded in 1972 for fastening technology. In 1979 a subsidiary of Titgemeyer was founded in Copenhagen in Denmark. In the same year, the company moved into the new large warehouse in Osnabrück - Fledder on Hannoversche Strasse, where there was also a siding.
1980 Ernst-Adolf Titgemeyer died and the son Gerd-Christian Titgemeyer took over the management.
In January 1986, the remainder of the old warehouse was moved from Seminarstrasse to the Osnabrück-Fledder warehouse. In 1987 Walter Titgemeyer handed the management over to his son Manfred Titgemeyer. In 1990 they moved into the large, newly built administration building in Fledder, and on October 3, 1990 the first sales representative for the new federal states was hired. The Helmstedt branch was able to move into a new building and one in Neuruppin in 1994 .
Ernst-Adolf Titgemeyer was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 1973 and his brother Walter Titgemeyer in 1987 .
Web links and sources
- The entrepreneur story of Titgemeyer Osnabrück
- From a written older company history of the Titgemeyer brothers.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Consolidated financial statements of Titgemeyer Holding GmbH & Co. KG for the business year from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011 in the Federal Gazette