Atlas Werke was a German
shipbuilding company, located in
Bremen
Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...
. It was founded in 1911.
During
World War I Atlas Werke built one single
U 151 U-boat for the
Kaiserliche Marine, the .
After the war, Atlas Werke also started to make
echo sounders and other nautical instruments. In 1948,
Ludolf Jenckel set up a division to produce
mass spectrometers, the Mess- und Analysen Technik (MAT) division.
[History of High Resolution Mass Spectrometry in Bremen](_blank)
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The Krupp family (see pronunciation), a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, is notable for its production of steel, artillery, ammunition and other armaments. The family business, known as Friedrich Krupp AG (Friedrich Krup ...
) in 1967 to Varian Associates. The company in Bremen was then sold to Finnigan Finnigan is a surname, a variant of Finnegan (surname), Finnegan. Notable people with the surname include:
* Annette Finnigan (1873–1940), American suffragette and philanthropist
* Brian Finnigan, founder of the Finnigans, house of Finnigans
* Ch ...
in 1981 to form the ''Finnigan MAT'' brand which was acquired by Thermo Electron (becoming Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2006).Krupp
The Krupp family (see pronunciation), a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, is notable for its production of steel, artillery, ammunition and other armaments. The family business, known as Friedrich Krupp AG (Friedrich Krup ...
acquired a majority shareholding in Atlas Werke and the electronics division was spun off as the independent company Atlas Elektronik in Bremen- Sebaldsbrück. All shipbuilding was ceased in 1969.
See also
* Atlas GmbH
References
External links
rheinmetall.de webpage with details about ''Atlas Werke''
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Shipbuilding companies of Germany
Manufacturing companies established in 1911
Defunct companies of Germany
Manufacturing companies based in Bremen (state)
Companies based in Bremen
History of Bremen (city)
Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1969
1969 disestablishments in West Germany
German companies established in 1911
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