Ziegler (fire service equipment)

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Albert Ziegler GmbH

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founding 1891
Seat Giengen an der Brenz , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Youjun Luan
Number of employees 1,301
sales EUR 232.88 million
Branch Fire protection technology
Website www.ziegler.de
As of December 31, 2017

Albert Ziegler GmbH Giengen plant

The Albert Ziegler GmbH, based in Giengen an der Brenz ( Baden-Württemberg ) is a German manufacturer of fire engines and firefighters technical accessories and belongs to the China International Marine Containers Group (CIMC). Of more than 1000 employees worldwide, around 600 are employed at the headquarters in Giengen an der Brenz.

history

Hose and hydrant trolleys (early 20th century)
KLF 6

Albert Ziegler (1862–1910) founded the company in 1891 for the production of fire hoses and hose care devices with five flat looms and ten employees in the former blade mill in Giengen an der Brenz. Ziegler fire hoses were already recognized at the world exhibition in Antwerp in 1894 .

In 1918 Kurt Ziegler took over the management. He significantly expanded the company and relocated the premises to the eastern edge of the city of Giengen. The headquarters of the Ziegler Group is still located on Memminger Strasse in Giengen an der Brenz. The company's new developments included the portable pump (1925), the first electric hose washing machine (1930) and a fully automatic hose suspension device (1958), as well as the " Trokomat " in 1967.

Under the new managing director Günther Ziegler, the company began building fire fighting vehicles in 1953. The first vehicle produced was a "KLF 6" on an Opel Blitz chassis. This vehicle is still in the historical exhibition in Giengen today. Ziegler has been manufacturing airfield fire engines since 1969, and the first vehicle of this type was delivered to Copenhagen . The Z1 followed in 1990, the Z8 model series in 1992 , and the first Z6 introduced in 1997 .

At the beginning of 2011, the German Federal Cartel Office imposed fines totaling 20.5 million on the Rosenbauer Group , Schlingmann GmbH & Co. KG and Albert Ziegler GmbH & Co. KG for illegal price and quota agreements in the fire-fighting vehicle cartel that had existed since 2001 , And a further 17.5 million euros against the competitor Iveco Magirus , of which eight million euros went to Ziegler. According to Ziegler, none of the employees involved in the cartel have been with the company since the beginning of May 2011. Beginning with the appointment of Marc-René Faerber as managing director on April 4, 2011, compliance was made binding for all employees in May and June 2011, there is a written code of conduct that must be signed by all managers.

On August 16, 2011, Albert Ziegler GmbH & Co. KG filed for bankruptcy at the Aalen District Court , as the company had run into liquidity problems due to the cartel fine. Bruno Kübler from Giengen became the insolvency administrator. Production continued, the foreign subsidiaries were not affected by the insolvency, according to the insolvency administrator. In October 2011 Ziegler brought the “two-headed” tunnel rescue vehicle “Merkur” onto the market. It has two identical cabs and can therefore enter and exit a tunnel without turning. Thanks to its electric drive, the vehicle can be used without restrictions even when there is a lack of oxygen in tunnel fires. On November 8, 2013, Ziegler and its twelve subsidiaries were sold to the China International Marine Containers Group (CIMC) based in Shenzhen for 55 million euros . In the same year Yinhui Li became the new managing director of Albert Ziegler GmbH. Youjun Luan took over this post in October 2014.

executive Director

  • 1891–1918: Albert Ziegler
  • 1918–1953: Kurt Ziegler
  • 1953–1998: Günther Ziegler
  • 1998-2001: Uwe Henn
  • 2001–2002: Rolf Schildknecht
  • 2002–2008: Rolf Schildknecht and Roland Müller
  • 2008–2011: Rolf Schildknecht, Roland Müller, Achim Ziegler
  • 2011: Achim Ziegler, Marc-René Faerber
  • 2011–2013: Bruno M. Kübler (insolvency administrator); Albert Jugel (Managing Director)
  • 2013: Yinhui Li
  • 2014: Youjun Luan

Locations

Around 600 of the approximately 1,000 employees work at the headquarters in Giengen, which covers an area of ​​80,000 square meters. Further of the seven plants are located in Mühlau , Rendsburg , Winschoten (Netherlands), Zagreb (Croatia) and Jakarta (Indonesia).

Products

ZIEGLER Z8 at Brussels Airport

Fire engines

Standard vehicles

Crew cabin

The Ziegler company offers the following emergency vehicles, standardized according to DIN , which are used by a wide variety of fire departments :

Command vehicle
  • Command vehicle ELW 1 (DIN 14507-1)
  • Command vehicle ELW 2 (DIN 14507-2)
Portable fire pumps
  • Portable pump vehicle TSF-W (DIN 14530-16)
  • Portable pump vehicle TSF-L
Fire trucks
Equipment and equipment trolleys

Others

Special vehicles

For industrial companies, refineries or airports, Ziegler builds special-purpose vehicles that are specially tailored to their respective field of application and offers the following vehicles that deviate from the standard or that are not standardized and individually adapted to customer requirements:

Fire trucks

  • Auxiliary tank fire engine HTLF
  • Fire truck LF with telescopic arm
  • Emergency fire fighting group vehicle HLF International

Industrial fire trucks

Equipment and equipment trolleys

  • RW rescue vehicle (alternatively as RW crane or RW boat )

Aerial rescue vehicles

Special vehicles

  • Mercury tunnel rescue vehicle
  • Ziegler TLF 30 / 20-5 CAFS 2-way tank tender for use on the rails
  • Small fire truck KLF Ziegler Fire Ant
  • PSV 9000 and PSV 12000 water cannons for police use
  • Mountain rescue vehicles

Airfield fire engines

  • FLF Ziegler Z4
  • FLF Ziegler Z6
  • FLF Ziegler Z8
  • Airfield fire-fighting vehicle Advancer FLF 2-axle

(for Z-series airfield fire engines, see main article: Ziegler Z )

Subsidiaries

  • 100% Albert Ziegler Feuerschutz GmbH, Rendsburg
  • 100% Ziegler Feuerwehrgerätetechnik GmbH & Co. KG, Mühlau
  • 100% Ziegler Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, Mühlau
  • 100% Ziegler foreign holding GmbH, Giengen / Brenz
  • 100% Ziegler GmbH, Giengen / Brenz
  • 100% Ziegler Safety GmbH & Co. KG, Giengen / Brenz
  • 100% Ziegler Brandweertechniek BV, Winschoten , Netherlands
  • 95.01% Visser BV, Leeuwarden , the Netherlands
  • 100% Signalis BV, Winschoten, The Netherlands
  • 100% Ziegler Dutch Holding BV, Winschoten, The Netherlands
  • 100% Ziegler doo, Zagreb , Croatia
  • 92.25% PT Ziegler Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
  • 100% Ziegler Italiana Srl, Merano, Italy
  • 100% Ziegler S Gasilska Technika doo, Vrhnika (Oberlaibach), Slovenia
  • 100% Ziegler Hasicska Technika sro, Brno , Czech Republic
  • 100% Albert Ziegler GmbH (Beijing) Sales Co., Ltd., Beijing , China

literature

  • Axel Johanßen: Ziegler - 50 years of vehicle construction for the fire service. Galunder, Nümbrecht 2003, ISBN 3-89909-025-X .

Web links

Commons : Ziegler vehicles  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2017 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ Press release ( Memento from May 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Bundeskartellamt, February 10, 2011
  3. ↑ Fine of 17.5 million euros due to agreements with fire brigade turntable ladders. Retrieved December 21, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Oliver Schmale (ols): Fire equipment supplier Ziegler applies for insolvency , in: FAZ of August 18, 2011
  5. ↑ Code of Conduct
  6. ^ A b Jan-Erik Hegemann: Body manufacturer Ziegler files for bankruptcy. (No longer available online.) Fire Brigade Magazine, August 17, 2011, archived from the original on November 28, 2011 ; Retrieved August 17, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Insolvency announcement , accessed on August 17, 2011
  8. ↑ Oliver Schmale (ols): Fire equipment supplier Ziegler applies for insolvency , in: FAZ of August 18, 2011
  9. ↑ Ziegler Group: Ziegler special vehicles. Ziegler Group, October 1, 2011, accessed on March 17, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Ziegler takeover by CIMC sealed. In: Heidenheimer Zeitung of December 13, 2013, accessed on January 17, 2016.
  11. ↑ TSF-W - ZIEGLER fire engines. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  12. ↑ LF 20 KatS - ZIEGLER fire fighting vehicles. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  13. ↑ TLF 3000 - ZIEGLER fire fighting vehicles. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Equipment and equipment trolleys - ZIEGLER fire engines. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  15. ↑ RW - ZIEGLER fire engines. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  16. ↑ RW - ZIEGLER fire engines. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Fire trucks - ZIEGLER fire engines. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  18. ↑ (H) TLF - ZIEGLER fire engines. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  19. ↑ LF with telescopic arm - ZIEGLER fire engines. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  20. ↑ HLF International - ZIEGLER fire engines. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  21. ↑ HLF International - ZIEGLER fire engines. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  22. ↑ HLF International - ZIEGLER fire engines. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Industrial fire fighting vehicles - ZIEGLER fire fighting vehicles. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  24. ↑ Industrial fire fighting vehicles - ZIEGLER fire fighting vehicles. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  25. ^ Thorns, Jochen, author .: Chronicle of fire engines 2017 . 2017, ISBN 978-3-17-033318-5 .
  26. ↑ Aerial rescue vehicle - ZIEGLER fire fighting vehicles. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Aerial rescue vehicle - ZIEGLER fire fighting vehicles. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  28. ↑ TLF - Land and Rail. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  29. ↑ Special vehicles. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .