VEB Ölheizgerätewerk Neubrandenburg
The VEB Ölheizgerätewerk Neubrandenburg , also known under the name VEB Sirokko-Gerätewerk, was a state-owned company in Neubrandenburg that had specialized in the manufacture of vehicle parking heaters . It was located directly on the Stettin-Hamburg railway, approx. 700 m east of the Neubrandenburg train station, on what is now the Webasto site .
history
VEB Ölheizgerätewerk emerged in 1953 from Lythall, which had existed on the same site since 1885.
Lythall was nationalized in 1953 and was given the name VEB Maschinenbau Neubrandenburg. Production was geared towards the needs of agriculture and included the manufacture and repair of agricultural machinery. In 1957, by decision of the GDR government, the development and production of heaters for water, road and rail vehicles began. For this purpose, the heating device production of VEB Vehicle Equipment Berlin was gradually taken over. In 1961 the company was renamed VEB Sirokko, which after an international legal dispute was changed to VEB Ölheizgerätewerk Neubrandenburg in 1964 and in 1980 to VEB Sirokko-Gerätewerk Neubrandenburg. In 1978 he was subordinated to the VEB Kombinat Progress Agricultural Machinery .
With the start of the production of heating devices, the number of employees rose from around 360 in 1958 to around 2250 between 1975 and 1990, around 50% of them at the headquarters in Neubrandenburg. The increase also resulted from the allocation of other establishments from the former district of Neubrandenburg . Ulrich Stark played a major role in the development of VEB Ölheizgerätewerk as operations manager from 1968 to 1987.
Immediately after the political change in 1989, the management contacted Webasto Stockdorf to sound out possibilities for cooperation. In September 1990 the contracts were signed with the Berlin Treuhandanstalt for a 100 percent takeover by Webasto AG.
Products
Overview of the most important heater types:
| designation | fuel | application | Main customers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air heater type 211 |
petrol | Heating the interior of a car | VEB Sachsenring Zwickau Jelcz (PL) |
| Air heater type 221 |
petrol | Heating the interior of cars, truck cabins, navigating bridges, etc. Watercraft | |
| Air heater type 231 |
petrol | Heating of small vans, box bodies and truck cabins | VEB Barkas-Werke |
| Air heater type 232 |
diesel | Heating of small vans, box bodies and truck cabins | VEB Heavy Machinery Nobas Nordhausen |
| Air heater type 241 type 251 type 255 type 265 |
diesel | Heating the passenger compartment of buses |
Ikarus (H) VEB Robur-Werke Zittau |
| Air heater type 266 (220V) |
mobile heating of workshops, construction sites garages etc. | ||
| Water heater type 277 |
Petrol / diesel |
Preheating truck engines | Star Starachowice (PL) |
| Water heater type 268 |
diesel | Heating the passenger compartment of buses |
Ikarus (H) Karosa (CZ) Jelcz (PL) Autosan (PL) |
| Mixed air device type 291 |
diesel | Site heating |
A bicycle rope lock with an annual number of approx. 600,000 was manufactured for consumer goods production.
From 1984 there was a separate "Special Production" area in which components for the RPG-18 anti-tank weapon were produced.
Business units and locations
Due to the shortage economy in the GDR, many parts and assemblies for the heating devices had to be developed and manufactured in-house. Specialized areas for toolmaking, gray and aluminum casting, sheet metal forming, electroplating, mechanical processing, welding work and electrical / electronic assemblies such as electric motors, coils, cables and control devices were created.
| Operating part | task |
| Neubrandenburg | Central plant management,
Prefabrication, sheet metal cutting, electroplating and coloring, welding shop, mechanical workshop, tool and rationalization equipment construction, final assembly of heating devices |
| Woldegk | Assembly production of water heaters (sheet metal processing) |
| Friedland 1 | Container construction, sheet metal processing |
| Friedland 2 | Foundry for gray and aluminum castings |
| Lychen | E-motor production, electrical and electronic assemblies |
| Loitz | Oil pump production, final assembly of the heaters type 231 and 232 |
| Blankensee | Electrical assemblies |
| Ückermünde | Final assembly of the heaters type 211, 221 and 291, construction of ship and Reichsbahn lanterns |
| Torgelow | Customer service center,
Fan, impeller production, manufacture of bicycle rope locks |
| Locations in Neubrandenburg | |
| Weitin | development |
| Ravensburgstrasse | Spare parts warehouse |
| Warliner Street | Data center |
| Reitbahnweg | Company school |
| Woldegker Strasse | Work preparation |
Health and social care of the workforce, training and further education
The workforce received social and health care, and there were various company facilities:
- Medical center with temporarily employed doctors and permanently employed nurses
- Factory kitchen for breakfast, lunch, late and night shift supplies
- free transport of shift workers
- Company kindergarten and crèche
- Children's camp
- Apprenticeship training with over 100 apprentices annually
- Company academy for basic and advanced training of skilled workers and masters as well as technical and university staff
- Polytechnic lessons for 7th to 10th grade students for an average of 600 students per year
- Scientific and practical work (WPA) for students in the 11th and 12th grades of the extended secondary schools
- Company sports community (BSG) with approx. 400 members;
literature
- Michael Kempter: Webasto Neubrandenburg 1885-1995 - Neubrandenburg plant. Chronicle of a work through the ages. Neubrandenburg 1995.
- Author collective: Chronicle VEB Ölheizgerätewerk Neubrandenburg. Publisher: VEB Ölheizgerätewerk. Neubrandenburg 1974.
Web links
- Literature from and about VEB Ölheizgerätewerk Neubrandenburg in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Literature on the Lythall company and its successors in the state bibliography MV
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 32.4 ″ N , 13 ° 16 ′ 16 ″ E