History of Chemnitz in word and pictures
three themes: (research projects by of Steffen, DM6WAN)
- Wanderer-Werke
- Pöge Company
- The history of the Alte Aktienspinnerei
Die Chemnitzer Wanderer-Werke
The Chemnitz Wanderer-Werke was a major German manufacturer of bicycles, motorcycles, cars, delivery vans, machine tools and office machines… right down to an encryption machine.
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Fa. Pöge
150 years ago, on May 1, 1874, Hermann Pöge founded the Chemnitz Telegraph Construction Company as Saxony’s first electrical engineering company. Under his son Willy Pöge, the company continued to expand. At around the time of its economic peak in 1924 (the company’s 50th anniversary), there were branches in Berlin, Dortmund, Dresden, Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main. The company exported to France, Greece, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia and overseas.
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Aktienspinnerei
The Chemnitzer Aktienspinnerei was a major cotton spinning mill in Chemnitz, founded in 1857. It was the largest spinning mill in Saxony at the time and had over 60,000 spindles. The Aktienspinnerei played an important role in the development of the textile industry in Germany and contributed to the economic development of the region. (The eventful company history of Aktienspinnerei 1857 – 1904 / presentation by André Reichel, TU Chemnitz) — Since 2020, the central library and the university archive of Chemnitz University of Technology have been located here. — The early club station D4EUB was housed in the company building on Schillerplatz between 1935 and 1939…
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Chemnitz in the past | The city before and after World War II
As a Saxony industrial city, Chemnitz was a specific target of the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force. From February 6 to April 11, 1945, 10 air raids were carried out. 80% of the city center was destroyed. 27,000 apartments, 167 factories, 84 public buildings and numerous cultural buildings in the city area were completely destroyed. The Allies wrote off Chemnitz as “another dead city.” This video shows what the city looked like before the war. It shows the old, undestroyed Chemnitz. (Source: Introduction Youtube video Chemnitz in the past | The city before the war / A lost pearl)
