VEM Sachsenwerk
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1903 |
| Seat | Dresden |
| management | Torsten Kuntze, Falk Lehmann |
| Number of employees | 612 (2013) |
| sales | over 117.14 million EUR (2012) |
| Website | www.vem-group.com |
The VEM Sachsen GmbH is a German manufacturer of medium and high voltage machines and drives. In addition to large machines for the industrial sector, ship and traction motors as well as wind power generators make up part of the production. The for VEM Holding belonging Dresden factory mainly produces unique pieces. It currently employs around 600 people.
history
Dresden
In 1886, the entrepreneur Oskar Ludwig Kummer founded a factory for electrical devices and machines, which produced the first large power plant equipment, trams and street lighting equipment in large cities on what would later become Hennigsdorfer Straße in Niedersedlitz . This company went bankrupt in 1903.
Since the creditors considered the plant itself to be profitable, the Sachsenwerk, Licht- und Kraft-AG was founded as a rescue company . It mainly produced transformers and switching devices for electrical lighting as well as large motors and generators . The plant has been a major manufacturer of tram and locomotive engines since the 1920s . In the meantime, the plant also made smaller devices such as B. radios and sirens .
In 1930 the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) took over the majority of the shares.
Since the factory was engaged in arms production, it was dismantled in 1946 . In addition to motors, consumer goods such as cooking pots , electric saws and refrigerators were built after the subsequent reconstruction . In 1952 the production volume reached the pre-war level again.
The people's uprising in Dresden on June 17, 1953 started from the Sachsenwerk . It was more by chance that the workforce at the plant found out about the protests against the increase in standards in Berlin. In the afternoon there was a growing demonstration at the plant, which moved in the direction of the Theater and Postplatz and was disbanded there until 9 p.m. In 2003, in memory of the day, the Hennigsdorfer Strasse, which passed the Sachsenwerk, was renamed Strasse des 17. Juni .
After the Second World War , the Sachsenwerk was assigned to the VEB Kombinat Elektromaschinenbau (VEM) and became the main plant of the VEM and was given the task of primarily building medium and large machines for industry. The operation developed in this way the largest electric machinery plant the East and remained until 1990, sole manufacturer of medium and large electrical machines in the GDR.
After the reunification of Germany, the number of employees fell in the course of several restructuring measures from 2,800 to around 400. In 1997, the company was privatized by the Blaubeuren family of entrepreneurs, Adolf Merckle . Sachsenwerk has been part of VEM Holding since then . It is the only electrical engineering company in Germany that still produces large machines.
Radeberg
In 1920 Sachsenwerk AG took over the former Royal Fireworks Laboratory in Radeberg and started the production of switchboards, low and high voltage switches and other electrical engineering products with around 800 employees. The range has been expanded to include various household appliances such as vacuum cleaners, refrigerators and radio receivers. In the course of the global economic crisis , the Radeberg plant was closed in 1932.
As the armament of the Wehrmacht progressed , the part of the factory south of Planstrasse A was delimited territorially and economically and reopened as a company for the armaments industry in 1935. In addition to fuses and grenades, up to 5,000 employees also produced parts for the rocket unit 4 in Radeberg.
In 1935, a " barracks area " was set up in the plant section north of Planstrasse A (including the street) . Two supplementary battalions moved into the buildings that had been converted into barracks . When the company became part of an armaments technology center in Dresden in 1940, the barracks were dissolved and the area was reorganized into the actual premises.
From 1944 to 1945 the Secret State Police operated the Radeberg labor education camp on the factory premises , in which hundreds of prisoners, most of them foreign, were killed. After the end of the war, the Radeberg plant was completely dismantled as a reparation payment to the Soviet Union .
From 1946 onwards, the plant produced as a Soviet joint-stock company "Device" in Germany, the Sachsenwerk plant in Radeberg initially produced simple radio devices, from 1947 directional radio and measurement technology devices , from 1949 electric motors and switching devices and from 1950 television sets . In 1952, the plant was nationalized and from then on operated as VEB Sachsenwerk Radeberg .
In 1948, 24 electrical engineering companies with around 7,000 employees came together to form an association in the Soviet occupation zone . The German Economic Commission (DWK) made this binding decision, this legal entity was given the name VEM and the name became part of the company name of the Sachsenwerk Radeberg. As a SAG company , the Sachsenwerk Radeberg was initially unable to become a member of the UEM, and after it became public property in 1952, the production profile no longer met the requirements for membership.
The development and manufacture of televisions and radio relay technology became the core business, so that finally in November 1956 the entire plant was renamed VEB RAFENA-Werke Radeberg . The production of electric motors and switchgear was stopped in 1959, so there was no longer any causal relationship to the profile of VEM.
VEM group
The name VEM , introduced in 1948, has been retained as a trademark association with three other plants in Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony . Since then, the plant has established itself in this group as a supplier of large electrical machines on the world market. The VEM Group is one with more than 200 million euros of the 100 largest companies in the new federal states. After having been with the Merckle Group for many years , she was acquired by SEC Holding CO Ltd. in 2017. of the Chinese entrepreneur Jianyu Wang from Wuxi City.
Products
The traffic engineering, plant engineering, industrial engineering, shipbuilding, energy engineering as well as power plant and environmental engineering sectors determine the business of Sachsenwerk today. Three-phase synchronous and asynchronous motors in medium and high voltage versions cover a power range of up to 42 MW. In the field of renewable energies , synchronous and asynchronous generators with up to 8 MW , azimuth and pitch drives are produced. The core business continues to include traction machines for mainline and industrial locomotives, multiple units, commuter trains, underground trains and trams, monorails, trolley and hybrid buses and mining trucks.
literature
- Handbuch der Deutschen Aktiengesellschaft , 48th edition 1943, Volume 4, pp. 4087-4090.
- VEM Group (Ed.): People, Motors and Metal. A tour through 125 years of industrial history . Amalia Verlag, Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-9808680-4-4 .
- VEM Sachsenwerk GmbH (Ed.): 100 Years of Sachsenwerk. A manufacture moves time . Dresden 2003.
Web links
- http://vem-group.com
- http://www.vem-group.com/ueber-vem/standorte/fertigungsstaetten/dresden/unternehmenshistorie.html
- http://dresdner-stadtteile.de/Ost/Niedersedlitz/Sachsenwerk/sachsenwerk.html
- On June 17th in Dresden
- History of the Radeberg site
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the VEM Sachsenwerk in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b VEM Sachsenwerk for DNN business award "So geht's aufwärts 2013" nominated on dnn-online.de July 23, 2013, accessed on April 20, 2017
- ↑ a b c Sachsenwerk, Licht- und Kraft-Aktiengesellschaft Niedersedlitz / Regensburg , accessed on June 20, 2020
- ↑ operating history ROBOTRON Radeberg 1920-1946 on fesararob.de, accessed on November 18, 2018
- ↑ Operation history of Robotron Radeberg 1948 - 1959: Production of electric motors and switching devices in Radeberg on fesararob.de, accessed on November 18, 2018
- ↑ Sachsenwerk and RAFENA at fesararob.de, accessed on November 18, 2018
- ↑ The Chinese take over Sachsenwerk , saechsische.de, April 13, 2017, accessed on April 13, 2020
- ↑ Michael Rothe: Tension at the engine manufacturer VEM , saechsische.de, October 5, 2018, accessed on June 20, 2020.
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 5 ″ N , 13 ° 49 ′ 37 ″ E