The South German one brake-gnaw (south brake) with seat in Munich came up 1922 from Bavarian engines the works AG (BMW) out and 1985 in the again created Knorr brake AG. In this time it was a subsidiary company Knorr brake of the company, which settled due to the disassembly and expropriation its citizen of Berlin of parent plant after the Second World War in Munich on the area of the south brake.

From BMW south brake becomes

From the 1913 created Rapp of engine works GmbH followed over BMW GmbH in August 1918 BMW AG. In at the edge of at that time Munich airfield upper meadow field, BMW up to the end of the First World War built established generous work for the today's olympia area as only product aircraft engines for military aircraft.

When after the peace treaty in Germany no could be built for aircraft engines, BMW needed a new task. At that time in Berlin the residents Knorr brake AG looked for a location in Bavaria at the same time, at which them could manufacture as agreed compressed air brakes for the cars of the Bavarian railway administration. In June 1919 it closed a license agreement with BMW AG for the building of the Kunze Knorr brake. In May 1920 the sole owner Camillo Castiglioni sold the enterprise to the shareholder syndicate of the Knorr brake AG. With contract of 20. May 1922 was again sold the engine department as well as the company name. BMW continued to draw some hundred meters, and the subsidiary company of the Knorr brake AG set the building of brakes as South German one brake-gnaws away.

Into the 1930er years with the south brake also diesel engines and armaments were produced. In the Second World War above all Hildebrand Knorr brakes for the National Railroad were manufactured.

Head office Knorr brake of the company

Due to the disassembly and expropriation in Berlin Knorr brake developed the location in Munich after the Second World War to the new head office. The South German brakes AG became the Hauptwerk of Knorr brake, in which beside brake assemblies until 1985 also Dieselmoteren were manufactured on behalf a further subsidiary company, the engine works Mannheim AG (MWM).

1985 the South German one brake-gnaw fused with the Knorr brake GmbH to the new Knorr brake AG. After the misalignment of production to other locations today the center Knorr brake of the company is settled on the area, for whose over 60 locations in 25 countries administrative, research and tasks of development are noticed.

Literature

Manfred Pohl, security on rail and road. The history of the Knorr brake AG. (English expenditure: Safety roofridge by Road and Rail. The History OF Knorr brake AG.) Munich 2005.

Related links

http://www.knorr-bremse.com Website Knorr brake of the company

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