VEB Mikromat
The VEB Mikromat was a state-owned enterprise in the GDR in Dresden .
Companies
Prehistory to 1945
- In 1863 Hermann Großmann founded a machine factory in Dresden to manufacture devices and gauges for industrial hat sewing machines. He quickly expanded his company's production range to include the manufacture of column lathes, polishing machines, and drilling and milling machines.
- In 1869, the mechanic Moritz Hille began manufacturing mathematical and physical instruments and apparatus in Dresden.
- In 1914, Elbe-Werke Hermann Haelbig began producing key-groove machines and lathes.
1945 to 1990
After the Second World War, the mechanical engineering companies such as Großmann, Hille, Müller, Schubert & Fiedler, Haelbig and Fischer were expropriated and made public property. The VEB Mikromat in turn emerged from the merger of VEB Feinstmaschinenbau and VEB Schleifmaschinenwerk, which emerged from the mechanical engineering companies. Single- and double-column jig drilling machines, thread grinding machines, surface grinding machines, optical profile grinding machines and impact drills were produced. Other companies were incorporated into VEB Mikromat Dresden until the 1970s.
The VEB Mikromat itself belonged to the machine tool combine "Fritz Heckert" in the VVB machine tools and tools , under whose brand name WMW the machines were exported. In 1989 the company reached its maximum size with almost 3,000 employees and had operations in Dresden, Freital, Schlottwitz, Berggießhübel and Radebeul.
After 1990
With the turnaround, the state-owned company became Mikromat Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH . On January 1, 1992 the company was privatized and split up into Reicker Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH and Mikromat Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik GmbH , the latter managed the trust until June 1993, when the Haaf group of companies took over the company. In 1997 the first bankruptcy was completed and from May 1, 1997 Julius Thyssen Beteiligungsgesellschaft became the company's new partner and with the Mikromat 20V the first generation of precision portals is built. However, the Thyssen family withdrew in 2002, and Ulrich Franzki was the buyer. In 2005 the second bankruptcy was settled and in October 2005 the new company was founded by the partners Thomas Warnatsch and Horst Hermsdorf with a share capital of 500,000 euros. In the following year, the second generation of precision portals (12V, 16V, 20V) started and in 2009 the number of employees exceeded the 100 person limit.
Construction building
The so-called "construction building" of the VEB Mikromat, Mügelner Straße 36 , as a landmark of the company at the time , is an example of the architecture of the industrial building of the 1970s in the GDR. The representative, four-storey building is a 40 meter long and 66 meter wide cube and was built as the “new main focal point of an existing industrial plant”. The building contained open-plan offices for the design departments (at that time mainly designers and draftsmen ) and the management of the company.
The building was constructed from 1970 to 1973 by the architects Willi Fieting, Hans-Jürgen Katzig and Karl-Heinz Perschel as a four-storey, cubic structure. The house contains a “reinforced concrete frame assembly 2 Mp” (Megapond) with an “aluminum curtain facade with thermal glazing and enamelled safety glass”. The basement has been set back compared to the upper floors.
The building was the education center of the International Federation in Dresden until 2009 and has been empty since then.
literature
- Walter May, Werner Pampel and Hans Konrad: Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979, p. 67 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b History of Mikromat GmbH, accessed on April 24, 2018.
- ↑ a b Mikromat in Dresden: History from the GDR era to today . In: Saxon newspaper . July 24, 2009 ( online for a fee [accessed April 24, 2018]).
- ↑ a b May et al., No. 111 (construction building of VEB Mikromat, Mügelner Straße 36), p. 67.
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 38 ″ N , 13 ° 48 ′ 30 ″ E