Volkswagen factory in Hanover

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Administration building of the Volkswagen plant in Hanover-Stöcken

The Volkswagen plant in Hanover is located in the Hanover-Stöcken district and is the headquarters of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (VWN), a division of Volkswagen AG . In December 2014, around 13,920 people were employed there.

description

The plant has been producing the VW Transporter since 1956 and the VW LT from 1975 to 2006 as well as the Multivan. The VW Amarok has been produced in Hanover since 2012 , in addition to the VW Pacheco plant. The foundry , in which mainly cylinder heads and intake manifolds are manufactured, as well as the production of heat exchangers are also of particular importance .

The factory site is around 1.1 km².

history

Image from a photo documentation from 1973 for the " van assembly "
Volker Seitz , press spokesman for corporate communications commercial vehicles at Volkswagen AG , next to an Amarok in the customer center at the Hanover plant

In March 1950, VW began series production of the VW Transporter at the Wolfsburg plant. When the capacity of the Wolfsburg plant was no longer sufficient for the increased demand, the decision was made to outsource production to a new plant in Hanover.

The foundation stone for the Hanover plant was laid on March 1, 1955; on March 8, 1956, the first vehicle rolled off the assembly line. In addition to the production of the Transporter, VW Beetles , VW 181 , VW LT , VW-MAN trucks and water-cooled engines for other plants were also manufactured in Hanover . From 1989 to 1995 the VW Taro was also assembled in cooperation with Toyota in Hanover .

In 1970 Volkswagen sold 287,000 vans, almost a quarter of them in the USA; the workforce at the Hanover plant reached its peak at the end of the year with 27,744 employees.

The model changes of the VW Transporter, such as the change from the T3 to the T4 in 1990 and from the T4 to the T5 in 2003, were particularly influential for the operational processes in the plant. From March 2009 to August 2016, in addition to the VW commercial vehicles in Hanover, the Body of the Porsche Panamera built, which was completed to the finished car in the Porsche factory in Leipzig . The T6 has also been produced in the plant since 2015 .

From 2020, the plant is to be converted for the production of ID series e-cars .

literature

  • Bernd Wiersch: The VW Bulli. The transporter legend for people and loads. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-768-82579-5 .
  • Volkswagen Chronicle , 2005/2006 edition
  • On the way. Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles - 50 Years of the Hanover Plant , ed. from Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Hanover 2006

Web links

Commons : Volkswagenwerk Hanover  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Factory tour | Company | Volkswagen Germany. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ NDR: VW is investing 60 billion euros in future topics. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 6 ″  N , 9 ° 39 ′ 51 ″  E