Hagenuk

Hagenuk (Hanseatische Apparatebau gesgesellschaft Neufeldt und Kuhnke) in Kiel is a German manufacturer of telecommunications and radio equipment, marine equipment and diving equipment. Parts of the company still exist, other parts have been closed. Neufeldt & Kuhnke was founded in 1899, and in 1936 it was renamed Hanseatische Apparatebau-Gesellschaft Neufeldt & Kuhnke GmbH. In diving technology, Hagenuk emerged at the beginning of the 20th century as the successor to Ludwig von Bremen, Hamburg , the first German diving equipment manufacturer, founded in 1870. In addition to conventional helmet diving equipment, the company built armored diving suits and caused a stir with the 1,917 featured tanks divers. He reached depths that were 170m far beyond what could be achieved with conventional diving equipment. Despite difficult handling, the concept of the armored diver was granted some success for several decades due to the lack of technical alternatives in the field of diving work at great depths. In 1939, Hagenuk set up a subsidiary in Barth to manufacture smoke weapons and incendiary bombs. The company name was Pommersche Industriewerke Barth. In 1945 the facilities were blown up. The vehicle air conditioning division was transferred in 1991 to Hagenuk Fahrzeugklima GmbH, based in Schkeuditz (Saxony), which was spun off from a part of MAB, and was taken over by the Faiveley Group in 1995 to establish Faiveley Transport Leipzig. The company headquarters was in Kiel at the address Westring 431-451 on an area of ​​around 20 hectares. A science park will be built there from 2005.