Atlas Werke was a German

shipbuilding Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels. It normally takes place in a specialized facility known as a shipyard. Shipbuilders, also called shipwrights, follow a specialized occupation that traces its roots to befor ...

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 World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

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
/ref> They developed the prototype (1950), the (1958) and were sold (by

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 ...

) in 1967 to Varian Associates. The company in Bremen was then sold to Finnigan in 1981 to form the ''Finnigan MAT'' brand which was acquired by Thermo Electron (becoming Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2006). In 1964

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.

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rheinmetall.de webpage with details about ''Atlas Werke''
* 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 {{Germany-company-stub

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