Machine tool factory Arno Krebs

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Machine tool factory Arno Krebs
legal form Owner-managed
founding 1901
Seat Mockauer Str. 8, Leipzig GermanyGermanyGermany 
Branch Machine tool manufacturing

Schaudt Mikrosa GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 2009
Seat Saarländer Str. 25, Leipzig GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Daniel Erni
Mathieu Jouan
sales Balanced by the holding company Körber AG
Branch Machine tool manufacturing
Website Schaudt Mikrosa

The machine tool factory Arno Krebs is a company founded in 1901 by Johannes Krebs in Leipzig - Mockau for the manufacture of machines and systems for metalworking . After a checkered history, it is now part of the United Grinding Group AG Bern as Schaudt Mikrosa GmbH , Leipzig, and is owned by the non-profit Körber Foundation via the Hamburger Körber AG as its holding company .

history

Machine tool factory Arno Krebs (1901–1945)

In 1901 Johannes Krebs founded a factory in the Leipzig district of Mockau for the manufacture of milling machines , apparatus and other devices for metalworking . In 1917 his son Arno Krebs took over the company. The company was probably already called the machine tool factory Arno Krebs when it was founded .

The company was also internationally active during the Weimar Republic and the Nazi era . A number of posters, brochures and advertising cards from the period between 1933 and 1939 that are still in existence today testify to this. In 1935 and 1937, the Arno Krebs machine tool factory exhibited its machines as part of the machine tool exhibition at the Leipzig technical fair . The so-called UF 3 and UFE 3P crustaceans were particularly well known . The latter was also offered on the Russian market. During the Second World War , the machines from Krebs were important for the armaments industry. The Arno Krebs machine tool factory was mentioned in the work The Four Year Plan by Hermann Göring , published in 1942, as well as in a 1945 study by the United States Foreign Economic Administration on German arms production.

VEB Mikrosa Leipzig (1945–1990)

On February 27, 1945, the factory was badly damaged by Allied bombing raids . Production could only be resumed at the end of 1945. The company was on the basis of the referendum of 30 June 1946 in the Soviet occupation zone expropriated and as per July 1, 1948 state-owned enterprise Machine Tool Factory Leipzig-Mockau (Later: VEB milling Leipzig) legally nationalized. Together with the original companies Kirchner & Co. (woodworking machines), Müller & Montag (milling machines and lathes) and Gehring (honing machines), the machine tool factory Leipzig-Mockau formed the association of state- owned mechanical engineering companies in Saxony and with this became part of the VVB machine tools and tools .

In 1949 the production of the first centerless external cylindrical grinding machine of the SRS type began. As a now pure grinding machine factory with exclusive production of the SASL series, the name was changed to VEB Mikrosa Leipzig in 1964 . The annual production at that time was around 400 machines. The first CNC machines were manufactured in 1976.

After the turn of which was VEB Mikrosa Leipzig as part of the privatization by the THA in the Mikrosa Machine Tools GmbH converted and 1990 by the Hamburg Körber AG acquired a holding. At that time, Mikrosa was the world's largest manufacturer of centerless external cylindrical grinding machines. After the death of the company founder and sole owner Kurt A. Körber in 1992, Körber AG became the property of the non-profit Körber Foundation he founded in 1959 .

Mikrosa Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH (1990-2005)

In 1993, as part of a restructuring under the umbrella of Körber Schleifring GmbH , Berlin, the international Schleifring Group was formed. In addition to the Berliner Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik GmbH (BWF), the Chemnitz grinding machine factory , Schaudt Maschinenbau GmbH and the two Swiss companies Mägerle AG Maschinenfabrik and Fritz Studer AG , Mikrosa Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH was also part of the group. In this context, on February 1, 1994, Mikrosa took over the business of Herminghausen-Werke GmbH , Mühlheim am Main , which specialized in the manufacture of centerless cylindrical grinding machines, from MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG, as well as the licenses for external cylindrical grinding machines (Multimat) belonging to the group Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA). From 1995 the development of the Kronos series took place, a centerless cylindrical grinding machine, which is designed not only for the use of conventional grinding tools, but also for CBN grinding wheels ( cubic crystalline boron nitride ) and is received as an example in some specialist books.

KRONOS S 250 centerless grinding machine

As part of a renewed restructuring, Schaudt, BWF and Mikrosa merged on January 1, 2000 to form Schaudt Mikrosa BWF GmbH , with headquarters in Stuttgart and other plants in Berlin , Leipzig and Hartmannsdorf . Ulrich Frenzle became the sole managing director (HRB 20 732 - May 2, 2000). With a total of 520 employees, the companies recently generated sales of approx. 78 million euros. In 2003, Mikrosa closed the two former BMF production sites in Berlin. In 2004, Studer Schaudt GmbH was founded in Stuttgart as a center of excellence for cylindrical grinding for the automotive industry, and the manufacture of cylindrical grinding machines by Studer and Schaudt Mikrosa BWF was brought together under the management of Studer AG , Switzerland.

Schaudt Mikrosa GmbH (2005 - today)

Studer Mikrosa GmbH , founded in 2005 for expansion purposes, opened a new plant in Leipzig in 2007 and merged with Studer Schaudt GmbH and Schaudt Mikrosa BWF GmbH to form Schaudt Mikrosa GmbH with headquarters in Stuttgart. Parts of the company were converted into Schleifring Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH , Leipzig. Only one year later, Schaudt Mikrosa completely relocated its company headquarters and all production facilities to Leipzig, which was not only criticized in the local media.

After further international expansion of Körber Schleifring GmbH , the group renamed in 2012 and became United Grinding Group AG Bern , Switzerland . Today, Schaudt Mikrosa GmbH forms one of the German parts of the international group of companies.

Trivia

Share in the Arno Krebs machine factory around 1910

Although the Arno Krebs machine tool factory was not a stock corporation , shares were issued around 1910 for advertising purposes . On the paper, in the style of a share, there was four times the company's logo, a Krebs operating a milling machine, and the slogan : A share worth 1,000 marks is not as certain as the success you will get from using a Krebs milling machine achieve. The papers are still traded among stock collectors today.

literature

  • Hubert Schnabel: MIKROSA: Machine tool manufacturing in Leipzig . Vokal-Verlag Opitz-Karig, 2008, ISBN 978-3-9810418-6-6 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Hubert Schnabel: VEB Fräsmaschinenwerk, Leipzig: Centerless external cylindrical grinding machine SASI 315: Mikrosa, Volume 3 . VEB Fräsmaschinenwerk, 1961 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ Individual documents on the Arno Krebs machine tool factory, Leipzig-Mockau. In: Bavarian Economic Archives Munich. Retrieved April 8, 2016 .
  4. ^ Hermann Göring: The four-year plan . 1942, p. 397 u. 574 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ United States Foreign Economic Administration: German Industry Involwed in the Production of Arney, Munitions and Implements of War (=  TIDC Project . No. 1-19 ). 1945, p. 41 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ↑ Inventory 20779 Arno Krebs, machine tool factory, Leipzig. In: Archive inventory search Sächsisches Staatsarchiv. Retrieved March 28, 2016 .
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  12. ↑ Ulrich Frenzle, Managing Schaudt Mikrosa BWF. (No longer available online.) In: MAV. Archived from the original on April 7, 2016 ; Retrieved April 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mav-online.de
  13. ↑ Körber AG is leaving. In: Berliner Morgenpost. September 13, 2003, accessed April 7, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Dr. In an interview with Ing. H. Jürgen Prokop. In: MAV. March 9, 2004, accessed April 8, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Schaudt Mikrosa closes its Stuttgart location. In: image. December 11, 2009, accessed April 7, 2016 .
  16. ^ Schleifring moves from Hamburg to Bern. In: Berner Zeitung. March 28, 2012, accessed April 7, 2016 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '52.81 "  N , 12 ° 24' 10.99"  O