Maffei

Maffei was a constructor of railway locomotives in Munich, Germany. Perhaps the most famous product was the S3/6 4-6-2 locomotive [1] of 1908.

Founding

Joseph Anton of Maffei, industrieller; * (4 September 1790 Munich (Bavaria); † 1 September 1870 Munich (Bavaria). Beside Joseph of Baader (1763 - 1835) and baron Theodor baron von Cramer Cramer-Klett , Maffei is considered one of the three important founders of the railway in Bavaria. The Palazzo Maffei today still stands at the Piazza in Verona. His father came to Munich to operate a tobacco wholesale business which the Joseph Anton Maffei resumed. By1835 he belonged to the establishment shareholders of the "Bavarian Exchange bank". 1836 created Maffei in English garden the lokomotivfabrik "J.A.Maffei". Its request was it to make Bavaria competitive in the area of the machine industry. From small beginnings a lokomotivfabrik a world-wide reputation eventually developed.

Maffei used itself among other things also for the building of the line Munich to Augsburg and supported Johann Ulrich Himbsel with the building of the private railway company Munich Hidden Mountain. Maffei, at the Starnberger lake, built the first steamer "Maximilian". By 1926 they had built 44 steam ships.

Success in Railways

By the year1864 they delivered their 500th locomotive. Maffei, as a town councillor in Munich, earned praise by the building of the famous hotel "Bavarian yard". Well-known products of the lokomotivfabrik are the schnellzuglokomotiven S 2/6 (high-speed driving record 1907: 154 km/h) and S 3/6, which is to be admired today still in the Deutsche Museum in Munich and in the Train Museum in Nuernberg. Joseph Anton, von Maffei died on 1 September 1870; his was buried outside Munich.

J.A.Maffei went 1930 into bankruptcy and fused 1931 with the company Krauss to form Krauss Maffei. The mansion Maffei in Feldafing (at the Starnberger lake) accommodates a museum and exhibitions today.

Krauss Maffei

Krauss Krauss-Maffei developed 1931 from a union of the two Bavarian companies Maffei and Krauss & CO both for Munich. Both had built major German locomotives; Maffei built also different vehicles with steam engines. The principal firm lies today in Munich .

Tank Production

Maffei was a major supplier to the Nazi regime of Panzer Tanks. It built thousands of them from the 1930’s to the end of the war. While the name Maffei is relatively unknown in the English speaking world, the Panzer tanks needed no introduction. Maffei to this day remains a major tank producer, having outshopped some 10000 Leopard tanks from the 1950’s. Many Nato allies have used them. With the rearmament the product range military technology was re-activated, so by 1963 Krauss Maffei developed the leopard (replaced starting from 1972 by the leopard 2).; 1976 went the armored AAA vehicle . Maffei has a diverse military product list: gepard air defense • self-propelled howitzer 2000 • MARS artillery rocket launching system • Fennek reconnaissance car • boxer armored transport vehicle • Dingo all protection vehicle • Terrier crew car • and Mungo light air landing vehicle

Into the 1970s-Jahren Krauss Maffei was involved also in the development of the Transrapid suspension railway. The mechanical engineering section within the plastic range 1986 separated into the Krauss Maffei plastics engineering , which took over 2000 the trademark laws at the old trade mark. In the meantime the Krauss Maffei plastics engineering

Plastics

Since 1957 injection moulding machines were built. In the year 1964 the company Eckert & Ziegler GmbH, is transferred white castle. The Krauss Maffei plastics engineering demonstrates a greatest possible customer proximity in all relevant regions of the earth by a decentralized selling and service net. Maintenance, spare parts supply, installation and training courses locally are logical consequences of the service concept ' regional management '. By the structure of a further production location in Treuchtlingen was considered to the progressive modularity in building groups. The Krauss Maffei plastics engineering offers thus a very broad product range, from the standard machine up to the complete plant, to your customers for all important plastic procedures. The world-wide activities are 72 % of foreign portion, whereby over 30 % of the conversion in the European Union commercial area are obtained. The non-European emphasis lies in North and South America and Asia Asia-Pacific. The Krauss Maffei plastics engineering, without the foreign selling and service organizations, employs 2,022 workers, with a gross income of 367 millions EUR (financial year 2002). Krauss Maffei merged with Demag and Mannesmann. In turn the new conglomerate was sold to Siemens AG.

Co-operation with Mannessmann and Krauss Maffei already existed decades before the fusion of the military engineering firms in the year 1999. Way man had supplied the turrets among other things for many Krauss Maffei tanks. To the "tank family" of the company belong beside the battle tanks also combat engineering vehicle, air defense, artillery and the reconnaissance and transportation tank.