WUMAG Hamburg
| Waggon & Maschinenbau GmbH, Hamburg | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1946 |
| resolution | 1953 |
| Seat | Hamburg , Germany |
| Number of employees | 2000 |
| Branch |
Mechanical engineering, rail vehicle construction, steel industry |
The Waggon & Maschinenbau GmbH, Hamburg (WUMAG Hamburg) was a German industrial company, whose roots on the wagon and Maschinenbau AG Görlitz (WUMAG) decline. The subsidiary WUMAG Niederrhein has been split up as WUMAG texroll to this day. The second company that emerged from the split ( WUMAG elevant ) only exists as a brand of the Palfinger group.
history
prehistory
On January 6, 1921, Waggon- und Maschinenbau AG Görlitz (WUMAG) was created from the merger of Görlitzer Maschinenbau-Anstalt and Eisengießerei , AG for the manufacture of railway material and Cottbuser Maschinenbau-Anstalt und Eisengießerei AG . In addition to railway vehicles, u. a. also produces steam boilers and turbines for submarines. The company continued to operate in the GDR after the Second World War .
From 1945
The general director of WUMAG, Conrad Geerling , founded a new Wumag in Hamburg after the war, initially as a repair shop for WUMAG marine diesel engines. The focus of the company was later on mechanical engineering. WUMAG Hamburg grew steadily with activities in mechanical engineering and the production of railway wagons and vehicles. 2000 people soon worked in several factories.
In the early 1950s, WUMAG Hamburg ran into economic difficulties. Equity turned out to be too low, prices too low and the company took on jobs that it couldn't cope with. In 1951, the city of Hamburg intervened financially to keep the jobs. At the end of 1952, Hamburg had to help again with 17 million DM to avert insolvency. In 1953 bankruptcy was filed. In the course of the bankruptcy, Oskar R. Henschel took over the company and renamed it Henschel Maschinenbau . The production areas of high-performance diesel engines (e.g. ship diesel), steam turbines and plantation machines were continued by Henschel, with ship engines being of particular interest to Henschel. Due to losses of millions, the company had to be sold to Thyssen a few years later , where it was renamed Thyssen Henschel . With the spin-off of the Kassel location (the Hamburg location no longer exists), Henschel Antriebstechnik GmbH was founded in 2004 , which was separated from ThyssenKrupp in 2006 through a management buy-out .
subsidiary
In 1946 Conrad Geerling and Ernst Schroeder, General Director of DUEWAG met , whereupon a branch in Krefeld under the leadership of Dipl.-Ing. Günther Schroeder was born. This was spun off as a subsidiary in 1948 and survived the bankruptcy of the parent company.
literature
- Annette Ulbricht (Ed.): From Henschelei to University . kassel university press, 2004
- Henschel has to seek connection . In: Die Zeit , No. 38/1957
- Example of “state aid” . In: Die Zeit , No. 49/1952
- Waggon- und Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft mbH (publisher): 25 years of WUMAG Niederrhein . Düsseldorf-Buchdruck, Krefeld September 1973, p. 44 , col. 1 .