The Sachsenberg firm dates from 1844 when Gottfried, Friedrich and Wilhelm Sachsenberg inherited the ironworks and machine shop at Roßlau that their father had founded some years before. At that time the firm concentrated on the manufacture of steam engines and distillation equipment for Germany’s nascent industrialisation. In 1866 the brothers entered the shipbuilding field with the construction of paddle steamers for operating on the river Elbe; by 1876 the firm was constructing steel-hulled dredgers, fishing vessels and river cargo ships on an increasing scale.
The demand for the firm’s designs led to the acquisition of a shipyard in Köln-Deutz in 1900, and, in 1922, it acquired the shipbuilding and repair firm of Georg Koch at Stettin. By 1922 the firm was employing more than 1,700 workers in its three locations. In 1934 the firm was converted into a joint-stock concern, and a period of expansion was embarked upon.
In 1936 the concern established a subsidiary in Berlin for the development of lightweight composite materials capable of aviation and naval application. The following year it acquired the Köslin machinery works of Adolf Krauss to increase the concern’s output of small diesel engines and components. The assets of the firm Leonische Roth-Nürnberg, a maker of cable and wires, were purchased in 1938 and a subsidiary company organised to carry on its business. A ship repair facility was constructed at Hamburg-Harburg in 1940 to cater to the increasing needs of the Kriegsmarine as well as civilian ship operators.
The firm’s own works include:
Gebrüder Sachsenberg AG, Schiffswerft Deutz, Köln-Deutz (ship repair and construction)
Gebrüder Sachsenberg AG, Schiffswerft Hamburg, Hamburg-Harburg (ship repair and construction)
Gebrüder Sachsenberg AG, Schiffswerft Roßlau, Roßlau (ship repair and construction)
Gebrüder Sachsenberg AG, Schiffswerft Stettin, Stettin (ship repair and construction)
Subsidiaries of the firm include:
Land und See-Leichtbau GmbH, Berlin (materials development)
Leonische Drahtwerke AG, Nürnberg (cables and wires)
Pommersche Maschinenfabrik und Eisengiesserei AG, Köslin (engines and components)
(The Sachsenberg firm does not have infrastructure for the construction of warships per the rules of the simulation; its output is covered as an element of the civil economy)