Universelle-Werke Dresden

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Universal cigarette machine factory JC Müller & Co.
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founding 1898
Seat Dresden GermanyGermanyGermany 
Branch mechanical engineering
As of December 31, 2015

The Universal-Werke Dresden are a 1898 by Otto Bergsträßer in Saxony Dresden founded Maschinenfabrik for the production of machines for the production of cigarettes . After severe destruction in the Second World War, various companies were located in the buildings. After the renovation of the first building, technology and start-up companies have been using it since 2018.

history

Factory building on Zwickauer Strasse in 2019
During the air raids in 1945 , the buildings and facilities of the packaging and cigarette machine factory “Universelle” were destroyed

In 1898 the engineer Otto Bergsträßer founded the Compagnie Universelle in Dresden for the manufacture of machines for the production of cigarettes. Mouthpiece sleeve machines for the production of cardboard mouthpieces and the first cigarette rod machines were manufactured there. From 1915 the company traded as the Universal Cigarette Machine Factory JC Müller & Co. and took over various machine factories in Dresden. The production range was expanded to include various products such as tobacco roasting and cooling machines, tobacco loosening, mixing and screening machines, automatic boxing machines, packaging and banding machines, chocolate cigarette machines, motorcycles and letterpress machines. Between 1925 and 1929 motorized three-wheelers were developed for transport purposes.

From 1936, the war economy was partially converted. For this purpose, aircraft parts, machine guns, searchlights, torpedoes and control systems for weapons were manufactured. During the Second World War , forced laborers were also used in the factories . The warehouse was located in Dresden at Florastraße 14.

In 1935 Kurt Adolf Körber became an employee of Universelle. As the inventor, Körber applied for his first patent in 1924. He was appointed technical director in 1940. After the war, Körber fled to Hamburg with documents from the Universelle (including technical drawings) and began repairing cigarette machines and manufacturing hand tobacco cutters in July 1946. He then moved to Hamburg-Bergedorf and founded the company Hauni ( Ha nseatische Uni verselle) Maschinenfabrik Körber & Co KG .

On June 30, 1946, the company became public property and was initially called VEB Universelle-Werke Dresden . She again received orders to build printing and stamping machines, beverage filling machines and cigarette making machines. In 1948 the company was renamed VEB Tabak- und Industriemaschinen (VEB Tabakuni). Later in VEB TABAKUNI Dresden .

From 1962 the production of processing machines for the tobacco industry decreased. The changeover to packaging machines took place through the takeover of products from VEB packaging and chocolate machines Dresden (SCHOKOPACK) . As a result, the standards were standardized in both companies from 1967 and in 1972 they merged to form VEB Verpackungsmaschinenbau (VMB) Dresden.

The company that was created in this way specialized in the production of packaging machines for the food and beverage industry and, as the parent company of the VEB Kombinat NAGEMA, was the world's largest packaging machine manufacturer . Among other things, collective packaging and wrapping machines for hard caramels were developed and produced. In 1982 a research and testing center was set up together with the Technical University of Dresden .

After the turn was VEB Verpackungsmaschinenbau (VMB) Dresden in 1990 as part of the privatization by the THA in the packaging Maschinenbau GmbH Dresden converted and changed its name as Pactec . In 1994 the Cologne company Rose-Theegarten took over the Dresden-Reick-based company Pactec. In 1997 the two company headquarters were concentrated in Dresden. After this had stopped production at the Zwickauer Strasse location, various changes of ownership took place.

In the 2010s, the IMMOPACT company bought the site and began to renovate it. The ground-breaking ceremony for the building at Zwickauer Strasse 46 took place in autumn 2017, and the opening took place on May 8, 2019. The building is the fourth location of TechnologieZentrumDresden GmbH. 5100 square meters of rentable space are available on five floors. The main tenants include the German Aerospace Center , the Technical University of Dresden and the start-up anvajo GmbH that emerged from the TU Dresden. More startups should settle here. The renovation is to be completed by 2022.

View 2019

  • Refurbished house 46 E (north side)

  • Interiors 1st floor

  • Event hall

  • Western staircase

  • Neighboring building

Factory building

The manufacturing and administration building erected in 1940 or 1942 on Zwickauer Strasse in the western southern suburb of Dresden is a striking example of the architecture of the Nazi era with a representative and massive head building and a rectangular wing with window axes lined up, which underline the monumental effect of the complex. It is significant in terms of building and industrial history and is therefore one of the technical monuments in Dresden .

Web links

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Universelle-Werke JC Müller & Co., Dresden (inventory). Saxon State Archives, accessed on July 8, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Pascal Cziborra: The camp of Flossenburg - KZ Dresden Striesen: The family camp Bernsdorf & Co. in Schandauer 68 ; Page 73 ISBN 978-3-938969-24-3
  4. ↑ a b c Monika Kaßmann, Reinhardt Balzk: Beginnings of packaging machine construction in the Dresden region. In: Dresden companies and their leap into the market economy p. 12ff. Free State of Saxony, accessed on July 8, 2016 .
  5. ^ VEB Tobacco and Industrial Machinery (TABAKUNI) Dresden (inventory). Saxon State Archives, accessed on July 8, 2016 .
  6. ↑ VEB packaging machine construction (VMB) Dresden (inventory). Saxon State Archives, accessed on July 8, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Sebastian Burkhardt: Innovation center for lightweight construction planned . In: Dresdner Latest News . March 27, 2017 ( online [accessed June 26, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Aaron Wörz: “Universelle Werke” opened - first tenants moved in . In: Dresdner Latest News . May 9, 2019 ( online [accessed June 26, 2019]).
  9. ↑ About anvajo. anvajo GmbH, accessed on January 14, 2020 .
  10. ^ Heiko Weckbrodt: Lack of space for investors in Dresden. oiger.de, April 18, 2019, accessed June 26, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 '24.9 "  N , 13 ° 42' 55.8"  E