Berliner Maschinenbau AG was a German manufacturer of locomotives. The factory was founded by Louis Victor Robert Schwartzkopff on 3 October 1852 as ''Eisengießerei und Maschinen-Fabrik von L. Schwartzkopff'' in

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History

The factory was founded on 3 October 1852 as ''Eisengießerei und Maschinen-Fabrik von L. Schwartzkopff'' in

by Louis Victor Robert Schwartzkopff. After a fire in 1860 and the expansion of the factory, they started to manufacture

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s, water systems and turnouts for several railway companies. The first locomotive built by the firm was delivered on 1 February 1867 to the Lower Silesian-Mark Railway (''Niederschlesisch-Märkische Eisenbahn'' or NME). On 1 July 1870 the firm was turned into a share company and renamed the ''Berliner Maschinenbau-Actien-Gesellschaft vormals L. Schwartzkopff, Berlin''. In 1897 a second factory was opened in

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. From 1899 the company also manufactured

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s for the Mergenthaler factory in Berlin. On 4 July 1907 they started a joint venture with the Munich firm of Maffei. For that purpose the ''Maffei-Schwartzkopff-Werke GmbH'' was opened next to the existing factory in Wildau. It was here that the construction of

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s and their equipment began in 1910. In 1924 diesel locomotives followed. In 1932 the Maffei-Schwartzkopff-Werke went bankrupt. In 1945, following the destruction of the factory halls during the

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and the dismantling of other parts of the factory in Berlin and

, the construction of locomotiven by the Berliner Maschinenbau finally ended. On 20 September 1945 the production of cast iron components,

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s and glass-blowing machines started up in the remaining parts of the factory. In 1961 the tractor firm of ''Moorburger Treckerwerke'' was bought and its production changed. In 1966 the Berliner Maschinenbau was merged into the ''DIAG'', the ''Deutsche(n) Industrieanlagen Gesellschaft mbH''.

Locomotive programme

The Berliner Maschinenbau was involved in the construction of the following locomotives: * Cepu Forest Railway "Bahagia" * Prussian P 4 * Prussian P 6 *

Prussian P 8 The Prussian Class P 8 of the Prussian state railways (DRG Class 38.10-40 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn) was a 4-6-0 steam locomotive built from 1906 to 1923 by the Berliner Maschinenbau (previously Schwartzkopff) and twelve other German factories. Th ...

Prussian S 3 The Prussian Class S 3s were saturated steam locomotives developed by Hanomag for the Prussian state railways and were built from 1893. Design They were a further development of the S 2 and used the same boiler. The "S" stood for ''Schnellzuglo ...

Prussian S 10 The Prussian Class S 10 included all express train locomotives in the Prussian state railways that had a 4-6-0 wheel arrangement. There were four sub-classes: the S 10, S 10.1 (with 1911 and 1914 variants) and S 10.2. Prussian S 10 As a result o ...

* Prussian T 16 *

DRG Class 01 The Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft's BR 01 steam locomotives were the first standardised (''Einheitsdampflokomotive'') steam express passenger locomotives built by the unified German railway system. They were of 4-6-2 "Pacific" wheel arrang ...

* DRG Class 01.10 (including its design) *

DRG Class 03 The Class 03 steam engines were standard express train locomotives ('' Einheitslokomotiven'') in service with the Deutsche Reichsbahn. History The Class 03 engines were built between 1930 and 1938 as express train locomotives for rou ...

DRG Class 41 The German Class 41 steam locomotives were standard goods train engines ('' Einheitslokomotiven'') operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DRB) and built from 1937 to 1941. History In the search for a new, fast, goods train locomotive, the Deu ...

(including its design) *

DRG Class 43 The German locomotives of DRG Class 43 were standard (see '' Einheitsdampflokomotive'') goods train engines with the Deutsche Reichsbahn. History This was the second class that was built on the '' Einheitslok'' principle. According to the firs ...

* DRG Class 52 * DRG Class 71 * DRG Class 84 (including its design) * DRG Class 89.0 * DRG Class 99.22 * DRG Class E 77 * DRG Class E 75 * Wehrmachtslokomotive WR 200 B 14 * Wehrmachtslokomotive WR 360 C 14 * Wehrmachtslokomotive WR 550 D 14 * JDŽ Class 398 (also known as JDŽ/JŽ Class 05)

References

{{Authority control Manufacturing companies based in Berlin Engineering companies of Germany Defunct locomotive manufacturers of Germany German companies established in 1852 1852 establishments in Prussia 1966 disestablishments in Germany