History

1843Julius Pintsch founds a plumbing and gasfitting business in a basement in Berlin.
1847Manufacture of the first proprietary gas meter at the Breslau branch plant.
1869A sensation: Pintsch delivers beacon for the newly opened Suez canal.
1870Julius Pintsch introduces train lighting fed by high-pressure oil gas at the railways.
1872Founding of the filament lamp factory in Fürstenwalde. (Approx. 12,000 employees in 1936.)
1878Appointment of Julius Pinstch to the Royal Prussian Council of Commerce.
1907Conversion of the businesses in Berlin, Fürstenwalde and Frankfurt into Julius Pintsch AG.
1919Approx. 350,000 railway carriages are equipped with Pintsch lighting.
1924Merger of Julius Pintsch AG with Bamag Meguin.
1929Development and putting into service of the first electricity-based signalling systems.
1946After the war: founding of Julius Pintsch West-KG with headquarters in Frankfurt, Erkrath and Hamburg.
1947Founding of the Dinslaken plant on the former city stockyard.
 Product range: carbon pile voltage regulators, power conversion installations,
 rotary piston gas meters, railway vehicle equipment, signal construction, maritime aids to navigation, controlling and regulating systems in drive technology.
 At the first trade fair in Hannover the products exhibited are carbon pile voltage regulators and a power converter.
1953Merger of the limited partnerships in Konstanz, Dinslaken, Berlin, Köln and Butzbach to form the public limited company with approx. 5,500 employees and headquarters in Butzbach. Focal points: process engineering, metallurgical engineering, traffic technology, signalling technology etc.
1965Delivery to the German Federal Railways of the first electronic signalling system for the safeguarding of level crossings.
 1. First post-war sea mark conference in Rome with PINTSCH BAMAG.
1967Purchase of PINTSCH BAMAG AG by Baron Hans-Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza.
 Transfer of the drive technology from Berlin to Dinslaken.
1970Purchase of the Dinslaken plant by Maschinenfabrik Stromag GmbH, Unna.
1987Purchase of PINTSCH BAMAG AG by Schaltbau AG, München
1994Founding of the subsidiary PINTSCH ABEN with headquarters in Maarssen, the Netherlands. Focal point: point heating installations.
1997Takeover of the manufacturing of the affiliated company GEZ, Frankfurt.
 Takeover of the product group warning technology of the affiliated company Wander & Goltermann Kommunikationselektronik, Eningen.
2003Takeover of the product group current collectors of the affiliated company InfoSystems, Wuppertal.
2006Sale of the product segment current collectors to FERRAZ SHAWMUT, Frrance
2007Buy off BUBENZER BREMSEN Gerhard Bubenzer Ing. GmbH, Kirchen-Wehbach
 Foundation of PINTSCH ABEN geoterm GmbH
 
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