!!!Felten & Guilleaume Austria AG

Felten & Guilleaume Austria AG: electronics company producing 
high-tech automatic circuit breakers and low-voltage distributor 
panels; headquarters at Schrems-Eugenia in Lower Austria; since 1998 
part of the German company Moeller-Holding. By 1899 the firm, which 
began in Cologne as  Felten & Guilleaume Carlswerk AG, already had 
subsidiary companies in Vienna and Budapest; in 1944 bombing over 
Cologne meant that the production of electric coils was partly 
re-located to Kleedorf  near Schrems, and it was from this that the 
present company developed. In 1947 it began producing Pupin coils for 
the re-construction of the Austrian telephone network, and in 1948 it 
re-located to Schrems-Eugenia.  In 1949 production of safety switches 
was started and in 1957 the company established its own centre for the 
development of Niederspannungsschaltgeraete at Doebling in Vienna. 
Exports rose considerably from the 1960s (exceeded 40% for the first 
time in 1983) and in the 1980s and 1990s production and distribution 
branches were established in Spain, France and the Czech Republic. In 
1998 the company employed a staff of 1,100 and had a turnover of ATS 
1.8 billion; exports accounted for  approx. 67%.

!Literature
E. Pachta-Reyhofen, Historischer Rueckblick, 
Betriebsanalyse und Ende der Firma Felten & Guilleaume, Fabrik elektr. 
Kabel, Stahl- und Kupferwerke AG., master's thesis, Vienna 1991.


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