Alstom Germany has a great tradition. Here you can find some key data of our history:
1839 Gottfried Linke in Breslau receives his first order: construction of 100 open railway freight cars (Transport Deutschland GmbH)
1873 Founding of the company Centralwerkstatt für Lokomotiven und Wagen (Central Maintenance Works for Locomotives and Coaches) by the railway company Magdeburger-Halberstädter Eisenbahngesellschaft (Lokomotiven Service)
1882 Founding of Deutsche Edison-Gesellschaft für angewandte Elektricität (DEG) which was renamed Allgemeine Elektricitäts Gesellschaft – General Electric Company (AEG) in 1887. (Grid)
1889 The company has grown fast: Linke’s company produces the 120,000th railcar in Breslau (Transport Deutschland GmbH)
1891 Foundation of Brown, Boveri & Cie., Baden/CH (BBC) (Power)
Founding of the company Sigmund Bergmann & Co (Service, Berlin)
1893 BBC Office in Frankfurt/M. (Power)
1898 Order for Mannheim Power Station
Contract of building a factory in Mannheim-Käfertal (Power)
1900 Start in Mannheim-Käfertal
Foundation of BBC Germany in Mannheim (Power)
1910 Founding in Kassel, Germany, of the company known as Schmidt’sche Heissdampf Gesellschaft mbH (Energy Recovery)
1912 Revolution in Generator Technique (Patent 1912)
Ludwig Roebel (1878-1934), Engineer in Mannheim, invents a new type of winding (Power)
The company Linke KG merges with the railway freight car builders Gebrüder Hofmann, of Breslau. The new company is named Linke-Hofmann-Werke AG (Transport Deutschland GmbH)
1914 New dimensions in steam turbine technology
BBC steam turbomachinery acchieved 40.000 PS efficiency (Power)
1920 The Stendal Central Maintenance Works are upgraded and become an official maintenance facility for German national railways (Reichsbahn) (Lokomotiven Service)
1921 Founding of the company in Nuremberg, as KSG Kohlenscheidungsgesellschaft GmbH (Power)
1924 The company KSG moves from Nuremberg to Berlin (Boiler)
1928 The company Linke-Hofmann-Werke AG merges with the company Waggon- und Maschinenfabrik AG (earlier known as Busch), of Bautzen, Germany.
The new company is known as Linke-Hofmann-Busch AG (Transport Deutschland GmbH)
1949 Founding of VEB Bergmann-Borsig (Service, Berlin)
Production begins of the first prototype locomotive fired with coal powder, as the fore-runner of the “Wendler” model (Lokomotiven Service)
1950 Reconstruction and a new start after the war, in Salzgitter-Watenstedt, Germany, with organization as a syndicate with the company Fahrzeug und Maschinen GmbH (FAMAS) (Transport Deutschland GmbH)
1956 Acquisition of the company by Didier AG, of Wiesbaden, Germany (Energy Recovery)
1958 The company Linke-Hofmann-Busch (LHB) does business once again as a producer of rolling stock (Transport Deutschland GmbH)
1970 Founding of the company EVT Energie- und Verfahrenstechnik GmbH in Stuttgart, with acquisition of the steam-generation activities of the following companies:
- Buckau R. Wolf AG, of Grevenbroich, Germany
- Walther & Cie AG, of Cologne
- KSG Kohlenscheidungsgesellschaft GmbH, of Stuttgart (Boiler)
1975 Expansion of the company EVT by addition of steam-generation capabilities of the company MAN, of Nuremberg (Boiler)
Servicing of the first hydraulic diesel locomotive in the BR 110 series (Lokomotiven Service)
1977 Up to 300 main inspections for locomotive series 110 are conducted annually, as well as numerous minor repairs (Lokomotiven Service)
1979 Acquisition of the company by EVT Energie- und Verfahrenstechnik GmbH, of Stuttgart (Energy Recovery)
The last steam locomotive (no. 51 8184-5) leaves the maintenance centre on 5 October. Until this date, the Stendal plant performed maintenance on 25,420 steam locomotives (Lokomotiven Service)
1988 ABB Asea Brown Boveri AG, Zürich Merger of ASEA AB,Västeras/Sweden
and BBC Brown Boveri AG, Baden/Switzerland (Power)
The world-wide largest gas turbine was build (Power)
Founding of the company ASEA Brown Boveri AG (Service, Mannheim)
1989 ABB Kraftwerke AG (KWE) founded (Power)
Record in long-term operation of a steam power plant (Power)
The Franco-English group GEC ALSTHOM acquires interest in the EVT Group (Energy Recovery)
Merger of General Electric Company (GEC), England and Compagnie Générale d’électricité (CGE), France. Founding of GEC Alsthom.
1991 The company becomes ASEA Brown Boveri (Service, Berlin)
1993 Founding of an independent limited-liability company (German GmbH) (Service, Berlin)
1994 Modernisation of the KWE production (Power)
The international group GEC ALSTHOM acquires 51% of the shares in the company LHB (Transport Deutschland GmbH)
1995 Acquisition of the company Rekuperator Schack GmbH, of Düsseldorf, founded in 1931, and change of the company’s name to SHG-Schack GmbH (Energy Recovery)
The Franco-English group GEC Alsthom acquires 100% of the company EVT (Boiler)
Founding of the power-plant service specialist ABB Kraftwerke Service GmbH (Service, Mannheim)
1996 Concentration of company activities on power-plant service (Service, Berlin)
LHB is one of the first manufacturers of rolling stock to be certified under the Ecological Audit Ordnance issued by the European Communities (EG) (Transport Deutschland GmbH)
The “Transmission & Distribution“ division of AEG becomes part of the Franco-British company GEC Alsthom. (Grid)
1997 ABB Technikdienste and Logistik GmbH founded Created out of KWE as a 100 % subsidiary of ABB Germany (Power)
Highest availability with coal-fired steam power plant units (Power)
GEC ALSTHOM acquires 100% interest in LHB (Transport Deutschland GmbH)
1998 GEC ALSTOM goes public in London, Paris, and New York; the company changes its name to ALSTOM Energy Systems SHG GmbH (Energy Recovery)
The corporate name of the group is changed from GEC Alsthom to ALSTOM. In conjunction herewith, the name of EVT is changed to ALSTOM Energy Systems GmbH (Boiler)
Deutsche Bahn AG subdivides its business sector Traction and Plants into several business areas. The main railway workshop in Stendal is assigned heavy maintenance jobs for the Regio rolling stock of Deutsche Bahn AG (Lokomotiven Service)
GEC ALSTHOM changes its company name to ALSTOM. The company Linke-Hofmann-Busch GmbH now does business under the name ALSTOM LHB GmbH (Transport Deutschland GmbH)
1999 ABB ALSTOM POWER
ABB and ALSTOM form a joint company in the field of power generation (Support, Generation)
Fusion of power-plant activities of ALSTOM and ABB to form ABB ALSTOM POWER, accompanied by change of the company name to ALSTOM POWER Combustion GmbH (Boiler)
Merger of the power activities of ALSTOM and ABB to form ABB ALSTOM Power. The company is now known as ABB ALSTOM Power SHG GmbH (Energy Recovery)
Merger of the power-supply divisions of ABB and ALSTOM (Service, Berlin u. Mannheim)
German national railways, Deutsche Bahn AG, authorizes the private sale of decommissioned power cars from the locomotive series 202 and 212. A number of locomotives from the V 100 class are fitted out in accordance with customers’ wishes, and locomotives from classes V 60 and V 180 are refurbished (Lokomotiven Service)
2000 ALSTOM acquires ABB’s 50 % share of ABB ALSTOM POWER
2001 Merger of ALSTOM Power Air Preheater GmbH with ALSTOM Power Energy Recovery GmbH (Energy Recovery)
2002 Founding of a joint venture by ALSTOM Lokomotiven Service GmbH and Deutsche Bahn AG. ALSTOM takes charge of business management (Lokomotiven Service)
2009 Alstom LHB GmbH becomes Alstom Transport Deutschland GmbH (Transport Deutschland GmbH)
2010 Alstom acquires the transmission activities of Areva T&D and forms the new sector Alstom Grid. (Grid)