Hannoversche Waggonfabrik
The Hanover car Fabrik AG ( Hawa ) in Hannover- Linden produced from 1898 to 1933 railroad cars, streetcars, automobiles, combat aircraft and farm equipment.
Prehistory
The artillery Rademacher Heinrich Christian Oelschläger operating since 1830 in the Linden Rademacherhandwerk. His enterprising son Frederick Oelschläger received in 1857 permission to make Surrey. In addition, he produced items, such as wheels, shafts, axles and carried out repair work.
The business went on Wilhelm Busch tree over that found with the wheelwright Fritz Holland a partner who cared for an extension of the construction program and enlargements of the factory facilities. As a great demand for railway vehicles occurred, provided you switch to using wagon. In 1891 she received the first order for 25 wagon horses carriages for the Hanover tram. After another tram orders for Brunswick and Hagen followed in 1895, the first contract for passenger and freight wagons for the railways Börßum - Hornburg (see Osterwieck water Haderslev railway).
After Max Menzel ( born July 25, 1858 in Gadebusch, † 1903) had secured the financial support of the Hanover Bank's Ephraim Meyer & Son, he stepped up to the Busch tree & Holland, and after long negotiations, the corporation was founded. The founding coincided with a period of stagnation, it was in the year founded six Waggonfabriken. Unfavourable terms of payment as well as greatly depressed prices delayed the upswing despite abundant orders. Once it was the company able to obtain significant orders from abroad, mostly for tramcars, which they produced in association with AEG, these difficulties were overcome.
History
The company was founded in Linden near Hanover Hanover woodworking and Waggonfabriken (formerly Max Menzel and bush tree & Holland ) Ltd. on 6 February 1898. The company focused on the operation of a wagon, wagon construction and woodworking factory, in particular for the production and utilization of all types of railway, tram and other cars, the production and sale of all necessary for the equipment of railway and other means of transport objects. 1904, the company name in Hannover AG and wagon factory in 1925 in Hanover Waggon Fabrik AG ( Hawa ) was changed.
Hawa was well known for its sports operation. 1921 and 1922 was Hawa Alexandria Hanover runner-up of Rugby Union in Germany.
Shortly after the German hyperinflation HAWA fell for the first time in insolvency and thus crack the banking house of Ephraim Meyer & Son in 1924 in serious financial difficulties: The bank had issued a voucher's guarantee for a loan of HAWA and had now supported by an initiated by the Reichsbank consortium of other private banks be. Subsequently, the founder Meyer family lost their stake in the bank; these were taken over by the bank ZH Gumpel.
On 14 December 1931, the Hawa had to file due to the global economic crisis, a judicial settlement proceedings. On February 17, 1932, the liquidation of the Company was approved.
Products
The HAWA had a large production range from iron gazebo on tractors, threshing machines, electric cars to road and railroad cars, planes and gliders. Chief designer was since September 1916 Ing Hermann Dorner.
The factory closed railway wagons, among others, for the initial provision of Nordhausen - Wernigerode Railway Company.
Trams she produced, inter alia, for the tram Hannover, Berlin tram (TF 21/29 and T 24 ), the tram Freiburg, the tram casting, Hofer tram, the tram The Hague and the tram Trondheim.
Overall, the enterprises established about 45,000 wagons for iron and trams in its 30 -year history. In World War I military railway wagons carrying ammunition and provisions were produced and this also hospital and field kitchen car.
First as a maintenance depot for aircraft took over the HAWA due to their experience in the construction of wooden structures the production of new machines and spare parts. In the spring of 1915, the licensed production of aviation CI, later the C.Ia Rumpler and Halberstadt began D.II. From 1917 produced HAWA own designs, including the very successful Hanover cl types. From 1919, the work of the airport Hanover wagon factory was Tönniesberg the first civilian airport in Hanover until he was replaced in 1928 by the Hanover - Vahrenwald airport.
The HAWA Vampyr was a glider that was designed by Hanover students and built by HAWA. He is considered the ancestor of the modern gliders.