Union Electricity Society
The Union Electricitäts-Gesellschaft ( UEG ), based in Berlin , built and operated numerous trams in Germany and many other countries until it was completely incorporated into the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) in 1904 . In Austria , AEG operated as the AEG-Union until 1959 , before it was merged with ELIN .
history
The origin of the UEG is in the United States of America . The Thomson-Houston Electric Company , established there in 1882, founded the UEG as a subsidiary on January 5, 1892 , which was to represent its interests in Germany, Austria-Hungary , Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Russia and Turkey. In addition to the Thomson-Houston International Electric Company , Ludwig Loewe & Co. KGaA and Thyssen & Co in Mülheim an der Ruhr also had a share in the share capital of 1.5 million marks .
The parent company Thomson-Houston Electric Company , which had acquired the patent for the pantograph through takeovers , merged on June 1, 1892 with the Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Company to form the General Electric Company .
A 1.6-kilometer route in Bremen , which led from the town hall via the train station to the industrial and commercial exhibition in 1890 , was the first electric tram in Europe to use the Thomson-Houston system. On April 7, 1903, an interest group between the AEG and the UEG was agreed. Soon after, on February 27, 1904, it was decided to completely merge the UEG with the AEG; The independence of the UEG was thus ended.
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The UEG was one of the most important companies in Germany that had the technical knowledge to build electric trams. According to the Thomson-Houston system, 176 electric railways had been built around the world by 1892, with a total length of 3,246 kilometers and 2,640 railcars .
In the following twelve years, UEG built a further 2,400 kilometers of electric railways - especially in Europe - and delivered 5,285 railcars to over seventy tram companies. These were:
- 1892 Bremen
- 1893 Essen , Remscheid
- 1894 Erfurt , Gotha , Hamburg (Ringbahn)
- 1895 Elbing , Munich
- 1896 Barmen – Elberfeld , Berlin ( large Berlin tram ), Elberfeld (north-south), Leipzig , Wiesbaden
- 1897 Aachen , Ruhrort (Kreisbahn), Solingen city
- 1898 Herne – Recklinghausen , Karlsruhe Albtalbahn , Posen , Solingen (circular route)
- 1899 Berlin ( western and southern Berlin suburban railway ), Halle , Koblenz , Magdeburg , Meißen
- 1900 Elberfeld – Cronenberg and -Sudberg , circular railway , Krefeld , Mülheim / Ruhr
- 1901 Breslau (Straßen-Eisenbahn-Ges.), Dessau , Wiesloch (local railway)
- 1902 Metz
- 1903 Stubaitalbahn (Innsbruck – Fulpmes)
In addition to trams, the production also included electric locomotives for railways , especially for mine railways , such as in Esch an der Alzette in Luxembourg . In 1901 the Gruhlwerk near Kierberg in the Rhineland received the first electric overburden locomotives in the German lignite mine from the UEG.
literature
- Wolfgang R. Reimann : From the UEG to the AEG. Electric railways 1897–1898 . Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-87943-555-3 (reprint of the Berlin 1898 edition).