VEB Kühlautomat Berlin
| VEB Kühlautomat Berlin Kühlautomat Berlin GmbH |
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| legal form |
VEB GmbH |
| founding | April 5, 1950 |
| resolution | 1994/96 |
| Reason for dissolution | Change of ownership as a result of German reunification (1991) with subsequent sale |
| Seat | Berlin - Johannisthal , Germany |
| Number of employees | approx. 1000 (1957) |
| Branch | Refrigerators , industrial equipment with cooling, diesel engines |
The VEB Kühlautomat Berlin was a publicly owned company founded on April 5, 1950, based on Segelfliegerdamm in Berlin-Johannisthal , which manufactured refrigerators and initially compressors , direct current compressors and later screw compressors . VEB Kühlautomat had around 1000 employees at the end of 1957, at peak times 2500 people worked here. In addition to cooling machines for the household were Materialprüfkammern , compressors and heat exchangers, cooling systems for ships, vehicles and trade and, after merging with the VEB engine plant Johannisthal (MWJ), the twelve-cylinder - Diesel engines Series 12 KVD 18/21 SVW for many diesel locomotives of the Manufactured by the German Reichsbahn and ship applications.
Operating history
The company was set up in 1950 on former factory premises at Segelfliegerdamm 1-45 in Berlin-Johannisthal and was initially purely a repair shop. At the same time, the development of compressors for the first household refrigerators of the GDR citizens began. Existing buildings were converted and over the years additional industrial halls and a social building with a company canteen were added. For a few years the company successfully exhibited its products at the Leipzig trade fairs .
In Berlin-Friedrichshain , Warschauer Strasse 34-38, the company had a branch that had specialized in the production of refrigerators for households and businesses.
After the turnaround in 1989/1990, the company management converted the company into the limited liability company Kühlautomat Berlin GmbH . In 1994, Grasso, a subsidiary of the GEA Group , bought the company. In 1996, the last employees left the factory site, which covers around 18 hectares. The property returned to the descendants of the previous Jewish owners.
The site has been fallow since then , leading to vandalism and, in 2012, a major fire in the former administration building.
Art related to the operation of the refrigerator
The 2.5 meter high bronze sculpture Workers' Talk by Berlin sculptor Senta Baldamus shows two discussing workers, on the left a Soviet deep sea fisherman and on the right a worker from the VEB Kühlautomat Berlin . The sculpture stood on the company premises on Segelfliegerdamm until it was abandoned, after which it was moved to a new location in Berlin-Reinickendorf , at 165 Holzhauser Strasse.
Web links
- Some photos of the abandoned halls and production facilities; Year 2004 on sperrzone.net
- "The last inventor" from the GDR: Dieter Mosemann, head of the development department at VEB Kühlautomat . zeit.de; accessed on May 10, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Segelfliegerdamm 1–43 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, Part III, p. 2080 (Ambi Waggon- und Apparatebau and other factories).
- ↑ VEB Kühautomatomat display . In: Business telephone directory for the capital of the German Democratic Republic Berlin , 1988, p. 178.
- ↑ History of the GEA company (PDF)
- ↑ Brief information on VEB Kühlautomat with many pictures from the time after the evacuation ; accessed on May 10, 2014
- ↑ Brief information with a picture of the fire on bz-berlin; accessed on May 10, 2014
- ↑ Grasso GmbH RT history 1970–1989 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. GEA Grasso, accessed on May 10, 2014.
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 36 " N , 13 ° 30 ′ 43.9" E