Volkswagen Saxony
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1990 |
| Seat | Zwickau |
| management | Thomas Ulbrich (speaker) Reinhard de Vries |
| Number of employees | 10,300 (2019) |
| Branch | Automobile manufacturing |
| Website | www.volkswagen-sachsen.de |
The Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH is an automobile manufacturer of the brand Volkswagen , based in West Saxon Zwickau . The company includes the Zwickau vehicle plant , the Transparent Factory in Dresden and the Chemnitz engine plant . The automobile manufacturer is a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG from Wolfsburg , which continues the tradition and history of the Saxon automobile manufacturing that goes back over a century, which began in Zwickau in 1904 with August Horch .
history
Volkswagen's involvement in Saxony goes back to a joint venture with VEB Barkas-Werke , according to which the production of four-stroke engines and accessories such as B. Headlights under VW license for West German production sites was agreed.
On December 22nd, 1989, the VEB IFA-Kombinat PKW and Volkswagen founded the project company Volkswagen IFA-PKW GmbH , based in Wolfsburg, as equal partners . As early as March 1990, she presented specific plans for setting up a modern GDR automobile production facility in Zwickau. Assuming an initial assembly of 50 VW Polos a day, the daily capacity was initially to be increased to 400 vehicles by the end of 1992 in order to later achieve a planned target of 1,200 units per day.
On May 21, 1990, the first VW Polo assembled in the GDR rolled off the assembly line in the assembly hall of the IFA Combine Car in the then still independent Mosel near Zwickau. In July 1990, VW-GEDAS Consult was founded in Zwickau. This Volkswagen subsidiary supports the IT tasks of Volkswagen activities in the region. At the same time, the AVZ automobile sales center in Chemnitz (today Volkswagen sales support) was founded. On September 26, 1990, Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen, Carl H. Hahn , laid the foundation stone for a new automobile factory in Mosel.
Volkswagen Sachsen was founded on December 12, 1990. In the same month, the Volkswagen Bildungsinstitut Zwickau was founded. This company trains Volkswagen employees and also acts as a provider of qualification courses on the independent education market.
In February 1991 the production of the Golf started in Mosel parallel to the Polo. Volkswagen-Sachsen-Immobilienverwaltung is founded in September 1991. This company provides the land and structures required for automobile production.
In March 1994, in the presence of Saxony's Prime Minister Kurt Biedenkopf and the member of the Volkswagen brand management, Folker Weißgerber , a new press shop was opened in vehicle production. Series production of the Passat in Mosel begins in October 1996. The communities bordering vehicle production Mosel and the factory premises are incorporated into the city of Zwickau on January 1st, 1999.
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On January 9, 1998, Carl H. Hahn was made an honorary citizen of the city of Zwickau and in November 2002 he was made honorary professor for "Industrial Corporate Strategies " at the University of Zwickau in West Saxony . On January 11, 1999, during the New Year's reception in the city of Zwickau, the Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen, Ferdinand Piëch , was granted honorary citizenship.
The one millionth Volkswagen from Zwickau rolled off the production line on July 9, 1999. In October 2000, the production of a new generation of engines began at the Chemnitz engine plant. It was the first manufacturer of gasoline direct injection engines across the Group . The five millionth Volkswagen engine rolled off the assembly line there in September 2001.
On May 11, 2004, the celebratory event for the hundredth anniversary of the Horch-Werke took place in Zwickau-Mosel. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder gave the keynote address .
Towards the end of 2007, the three millionth Volkswagen and in 2010 the two millionth Passat rolled off the assembly line at the VW vehicle plant in Zwickau. The Chemnitz engine factory delivered the ten millionth Volkswagen engine in March 2011.
From October 27th to 29th, 2009 the VW group works council meeting and the international HR conference took place in Zwickau .
The Transparent Factory Dresden was opened in 2001. In 2014 Automobilmanufaktur Dresden GmbH merged with Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH.
Since November 4, 2019, the Volkswagen ID.3, the first electric vehicle from the ID. Family based on the modular electric drive kit (MEB), produced in Zwickau.
Products
The Golf Variant, Golf Alltrack Variant, Golf R Variant and Golf Variant GTD are currently produced as combustion vehicles in Zwickau. The vehicles are manufactured in left and right-hand drive versions as well as front and 4-motion drive. The production of combustion vehicles will end in summer 2020. 170,324 vehicles were produced in 2019. Since the site was founded in 1990, more than 6 million vehicles have left the factory.
The Zwickau vehicle plant also has centers for the production of special vehicles, natural gas racks and aluminum add-on parts. The bodies for the Bentley Bentayga and the Lamborghini Urus are manufactured in Zwickau. Around 15 million pressed parts are produced annually for the group in the Zwickau press shop.
The Chemnitz engine plant is a supplier for the vehicle plants of the Volkswagen Group. The production portfolio includes modern and economical turbocharged gasoline direct injection engines (TSI engines) as well as engine assemblies such as balance shafts and integrated valve train modules. More than 16 million Volkswagen engines have been produced at the Chemnitz site since 1988, including around 800,000 engines in 2018. In addition, around 860,000 engine components were produced in 2018.
The Volkswagen location in Dresden is developing into the Center of Future Mobility, an innovative showcase for electromobility and digitization of the Volkswagen brand. Since May 2018, 74 e-Golfs have been manufactured every day, the electric-Golfs are manufactured in two shifts. In 2019, 16,155 units were produced - the best annual figure in the history of the manufacture. In addition, visitors will get exciting insights into and outlooks into the future of mobility. On a 75-minute tour, you can experience first hand how the Volkswagen electric Golf is made. Production will be converted at the beginning of 2021, when the fully electric ID.3 will be built in Dresden as well as in Zwickau.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b VW-Sachsen GmbH: facts and figures
- ↑ Chronicle of Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH ( Memento from July 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 105 kB).
- ↑ August-Horch-Museum Zwickau: see museum expansion 2016
- ^ Carl H. Hahn: Mandates at colleges and management schools
- ↑ Volkswagen Saxony manufactures two millionth Passat . Volkswagen Media Services. November 12, 2010. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
- ↑ Production anniversary : 10 million Volkswagen engines from Chemnitz . Volkswagen Media Services. March 30, 2011. Archived from the original on December 17, 2012. Retrieved on April 29, 2011.
- ^ The vehicle factory in Zwickau. volkswagen-sachsen.de, accessed on October 18, 2019
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