You are bidding on a typewritten one Employment contract of the “Allgemeine Eletricitäts-Gesellschaft” (AEG) from1902.
Dated Oberspree cable plant, Ober-Schöneweide near Berlin, 3. November 1902.
TheContract with Karl Berkenhoff (signed "Carl Berkenhoff") as "operations manager of our drawing shop" is extended by one year.
Carl Berkenhoff is probably not the founder of the Berkenhoffs Group of the same name, as he probably did not work in Berlin. However, this would be supported by the fact that he was also active in the wire drawing sector and his company worked for AEG at this time.
Signed "Carl Berkenhoff" and two signatures of AEG representatives (Hennemann? and Weber).
Scope:2 of 4 pages described (32.8 x 20.8 cm).
Condition: Paper browned and slightly creased, with slight edge damage; into the. good. BiPlease also note the pictures!
Internal note: EVRS 2102-01
About the history of AEG until 1929 and the Berkenhoff Group (source: wikipedia):
AEG Aktiengesellschaft was one of the world's largest electrical companies. The company, which was founded in Berlin in 1883 as the German Edison Society for Applied Electricity and was renamed Allgemeine Elektricität-Gesellschaft in 1888, not only produced products for electrical energy technology and household needs (white goods), but also devices for electric building heating, trams, electric and steam locomotives as well as... Subsidiary NAG also produces motor vehicles.
The AEG Group had to file for bankruptcy in 1982 and was taken over by Daimler-Benz AG in 1985. Finally, in 1996, Daimler-Benz merged with its subsidiary and subsequently restructured parts of what was then the second largest German electrical company after Siemens and divested itself of entire divisions.
With the end of the group after the merger in 1996, the AEG brand was licensed to Electrolux and other companies that had acquired parts of the company, and most recently sold to Electrolux, which licenses through its Electrolux Global Brand Licensing division.[5][6] Various manufacturers now offer electrical goods in almost every category under the AEG brand, including music systems, car radios, chargers, household appliances, landline and mobile phones and sewing machines.
Before and during the First World War, AEG was the second largest arms producer in the German Reich after Friedrich Krupp AG and, among other things, built aircraft for the air forces of the German Army. With its stake in Deutsche Werft AG, founded in 1918, the group was involved in shipbuilding. In the 1930s, AEG engineers developed the magnetophone for recording sound on magnetic tape.
After the Second World War, the headquarters were Berlin and Frankfurt am Main. In 1967, AEG merged with its Berlin subsidiary Telefunken to form Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft AEG-Telefunken. In 1979 the company was changed to AEG-Telefunken Aktiengesellschaft. After the takeover by Daimler-Benz in 1985 and the outsourcing of all remaining Telefunken business areas, the name changed to AEG Aktiengesellschaft.
The box-shaped logo with three letters in Antiqua font was designed by Peter Behrens in 1912.
Story
Edison company and a subsidiary: The company owes its existence to Emil Rathenau, who acquired the patents for Thomas Alva Edison's inventions for light bulbs for Germany in 1883 and founded a small study company in Berlin, Schlegelstrasse 26. This company became the German Edison Society for Applied Electricity in the same year.
The Edison Company founded the Municipal Electricity Works (AGStEW) in Berlin in 1884 (from 1887: Berliner Elektricitäts-Werke).
From 1883 to 1889, the Munich engineer and later founder of the German Museum Oskar von Miller was the director of the Edison Society.
First important products: Emil Rathenau brought Michail von Dolivo-Dobrowolsky into the company in 1887, who, as chief engineer, helped put three-phase technology into practical use by inventing the first functional three-phase motor. In 1891, on the occasion of the International Electrotechnical Exhibition in Frankfurt am Main, Miller and Dobrovolski demonstrably succeeded in transmitting three-phase current over a large distance: The electricity generated in a power plant in Lauffen am Neckar was transported over the 175-kilometer-long Lauffen-Frankfurt three-phase current transmission, where it was on the Exhibition grounds powered 1000 light bulbs and powered an artificial waterfall. This success marked the beginning of general electrification with alternating current in the German Empire and helped AEG achieve economic success.
The company's factory halls: The first production facility was located at Schlegelstrasse 26/27 near the Stettiner train station from 1886/1887. There, Emil Rathenau's German Edison Society began manufacturing incandescent lamps. In 1887, the company in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen acquired the area between Ackerstrasse, Feldstrasse, Hermsdorfer Strasse (today's Max-Urich-Strasse) and Hussitenstrasse, on which Wilhelm Wedding's Weddingsche Maschinenfabrik was previously located. In 1887/1888 the master craftsmen H. Theleman and H. Büttner, C. Heidecke and the master builder A. Soeder carried out all the extensions.
AEG and other buildings in the north of Berlin: In 1888, in addition to restructuring and expanding the production range, the name was changed to Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft, abbreviated as AEG. Paul Tropp began his work for AEG from 1889/1890 to 1893, and Franz Schwechten designed the facades facing Ackerstrasse and Hussitenstrasse around 1894/95. The five-story brick building encloses the area. In 1894 the site of the former Berlin cattle market between Hussitenstrasse and Brunnenstrasse was acquired. This also created a rail connection to the Berlin rail network, but a rail connection between the apparatus factory and the site of the former cattle market did not yet exist. In 1897, an underground railway was built to connect the two properties in a specially designed tunnel 270 meters long.[9] With its two above-ground terminus, the railway was only used for internal passenger and freight traffic. The tunnel construction was carried out under the direction of C. Schwebel and Wilhelm Lauter, who also planned the Stralau Spree Tunnel, here for public transport.
At the insistence of Kaiser Wilhelm II. AEG and Siemens & Halske, in equal shares, founded the Gesellschaft für wireless Telegraphie mbH, System Telefunken in Berlin with a share capital of 300,000 gold marks for the area of wireless communication in Berlin on December 27th. May 1903.
Spacious new buildings in the southeast of Berlin: In order to be able to realize the gradual expansion of the products, AEG settled primarily in the previously tranquil Oberschöneweide from the 1910s onwards. The proximity to the Spree and the laying of an industrial railway provided the best transport conditions. With the collaboration of all well-known architects who had already designed buildings for AEG, numerous administration buildings and factory halls were built there.
After the production facilities used by GDR companies from 1949 were abandoned after 1990, many buildings remained empty. Over the last twenty years (as of 2018), the Berlin University of Technology and Economics and some start-ups, among others, have set up shop here.
A large hall built in 1910 at Reinbeckstrasse 12-38, which was named Spreehalle by the marketers, was renovated and extensively expanded in 2017/2018. The architectural team Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios made installations made of steel and concrete and cut a courtyard into the hall, not always in accordance with the listed building. The converted building is intended to serve various “post-industrial uses”, such as studios, in the long term. With the renovation work, the studio took part in the competition for the 2018 Federation of German Architects Prize.
Product range (selection): In 1907, AEG appointed the architect Peter Behrens as “artistic consultant”. He was responsible for the design of all products, graphics, advertising material and architecture and is therefore considered the world's first corporate designer. Product groups such as wall and factory clocks or kettles became archetypes of modern industrial design. His designs tend to be reductive and contrast with the previously opulently decorative designs. However, when it came to consumer goods, such as lamps, historic products were still offered that date back to the time before Behrens' activity and were sold in large quantities until the 1930s.
The company's activities soon extended to all areas of high-voltage technology, in particular lighting, electric motors, electric trains, electrochemical systems, as well as the production of steam turbines, diesel engines, automobiles, cables and line materials. In the first decades the company owned factories in and around Berlin:
Machine factory (dynamo machines, electric motors, transformers)
Apparatus factory (arc lamps, off switches, fuses, resistors, controllers, starters, measuring instruments of all kinds)
Cable factory (copper and metal factory, rubber factory, micanite factory)
Incandescent lamp factories (carbon filament and metal wire incandescent lamps, Nernst lamps), transferred to Osram in 1920
American influence from 1929: In 1929/1930, the US electrical and media group General Electric (GEC) took over 200 percent of AEG common shares with a nominal value of 30 million Reichsmarks, which corresponded to a share of 27.5 percent of the share capital, and sent five members to the AEG supervisory board. At the AEG general meeting on 27. In August 1929, Hermann Bücher defended himself against the shareholders' accusation that AEG was degenerating "into the chief salesman of General Electric in Europe" with the argument that there were binding agreements that GEC could never acquire more than 49%. This was met with laughter, as the 27.5% was sufficient for control due to the fragmented share capital.[11] On 12. In October 1929, Carl Friedrich von Siemens alluded to GEC's involvement in a speech in the Reichstag in which he stated: “Some leaders of the once proud electrical engineering industry gave up the helm too early and called the foreign pilot on board because They didn’t believe they could weather the storm themselves.”
Operational growth:
1897: Acquisition of a large area in the then independent rural community of Oberschöneweide and start of construction of the two large companies, Kabelwerk Oberspree (KWO) and Transformerwerk Oberspree (TRO) according to plans by the architects Peter Behrens and Ernst Ziesel.
1899: Production of Nernst lamps begins
AEG will be on the 10th. October 1899 Founding member of the Study Society for Electric Rapid Railways in Berlin. The company's goal is to gain practical experience with high speeds using electric traction.
1900: Invention of the hairdryer. In 1909, AEG secured the term Fön as a word-image trademark. Today, the word and image trademark FOEN, registered in 1941, and from 1978 to 2001 also the word trademark TURBO FOEN applies to AEG hair dryers.[13]
In 1901, the AEG subsidiary Neue Automobil-Gesellschaft AG (NAG) began producing motor vehicles in the mechanical workshop of the Oberspree cable factory in Oberschöneweide. From 1914 to 1917, a new factory building (today's Peter Behrens Building) was built for NAG in Ostendstrasse, not far away.[14]
1903: The ongoing patent disputes with Siemens & Halske were settled by founding the jointly operated “Gesellschaft für wireless Telegraphie mbH, System Telefunken”.
1904: Merger of AEG and Union-Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (UEG)
1906: The AEG building at Friedrich-Karl-Ufer 2/4 (from 1951: Kapelle-Ufer) in Berlin-Mitte, designed by Alfred Messel, was moved into as the new corporate headquarters.
1910: Entry into aircraft construction with the aircraft construction department in Hennigsdorf near Berlin, establishment of the Nieder Neuendorf factory airfield in 1912.
Extension buildings on the site in Oberschöneweide, among others by AEG in-house architect Ernst Ziesel and the civil engineer Gerhard Mensch
1915: Emil Rathenau, the AEG founder, died at the age of 76 as a result of his diabetes mellitus (including leg amputation) on the 20th. June 1915 in Berlin and his son Walther Rathenau took over the presidency of the AEG until his murder on June 24th. June 1922. In 1915 the AEG donated a new building to the Berlin Secession. Felix Deutsch took over the chairmanship of the board of directors of AEG from 1915 and later the chairmanship of the company's board until 1928. From 1928 to 1947, Hermann Bücher led the AEG Group. His deputy from 1930 to 1945 was Waldemar Petersen.
1916. In the metal laboratory at AEG Berlin, Jan Czochralski discovered the possibility of producing single crystals. Today, 95% of the world's production of single crystal silicon is produced using the Czochralski process.
1926: The group bought the properties at Hoffmannstrasse 17-23 (since December 2010: Martin-Hoffmann-Strasse) in Berlin-Alt-Treptow and built the Apparate-Werke Treptow (AT) there according to plans by Ernst Ziesel, which in 1928 already had 4,000 people employed. Electrical switching devices, measuring instruments (electricity meters), radio receivers (tube radios) as well as relays and mercury vapor rectifiers were manufactured there. 80% destroyed just a few months before the end of the war, the Apparate-Werke Treptow became the Soviet Stock Corporation (SAG) in 1948 and was renamed Elektro-Apparate-Werke Berlin-Treptow (EAW). After being handed over to GDR ownership, the EAW became VEB Elektro-Apparate-Werke Berlin-Treptow “Friedrich Ebert” in 1954.
1927: The Berlin show and sales building at Luisenstrasse 35 was opened on January 15th. Destroyed in a fire in September.
1928: As a replacement, an area of 10,500 m² between Oranienburgerstrasse and Friedrichstrasse in the Friedrichstrasse passage complex, which was completed in 1908 and housed a Wertheim department store until 1914, was converted into a new show and sales house and called it the House of Technology.
Berkenhoff GmbH, known under the name of the umbrella brand bedra, based in Heuchelheim an der Lahn, is a German metal processing company in the area of non-ferrous metals. The company employs 450 people and achieved sales of 88 million in 2017. EUR.
History: Carl Berkenhoff founded the Berkenhoff company in 1889, a wire drawing shop for fine wire in the Rehmühle near Herborn-Merkenbach. In 1893, Berkenhoff invented and patented the first multiple wire drawing machine with four consecutive drawing processes. In 1923 the trading company was converted into a stock corporation and renamed Berkenhoff & Drebes AG. In 1981, the Merkenbach wire factories were merged with the metal foundry and wire factory in Heuchelheim-Kinzenbach and renamed today's Berkenhoff GmbH. In 1990, Berkenhoff expanded production capacity by building new wire drawing, annealing and electroplating halls. In 2008, a new wire drawing center for special wires was put into operation in Kinzenbach.
In 2015, Berkenhoff GmbH was taken over by the Chinese Powerway Group Co. Ltd.
Company: As a supplier of wires, under the brand name bedra, for the product areas of spark erosion, welding and soldering technology, electronic components and special applications, Berkenhoff develops and manufactures products made of copper and copper alloys at two locations in Heuchelheim and Herborn.
The spark erosion product range includes coated erosion wires, bright wires, brass wires and micro-erosion wires. For the welding and soldering technology product area, wire electrodes are manufactured for MIG/MAG soldering and welding, resistance spot welding, laser and plasma soldering. The production of electronic components serves applications in passive and electromechanical components within industries such as the automotive industry, aerospace, telecommunications, information technology, industrial technology and the entertainment industry. The special wires product range includes anchor wires, resistance wires and optical wires.
In addition to the German production sites, Berkenhoff has sales branches in the USA and China.