The MIAG Mühlenbau und Industrie Aktiengesellschaft was a mechanical engineering company from
Braunschweig
Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( , from Low German ''Brunswiek'' , Braunschweig dialect: ''Bronswiek'') is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the ...
,
Germany
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which was acquired by
Bühler
Bühler is a municipality in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland.
History
Bühler is first mentioned in 1479 as ''Ullrich Büllershoff''.
Geography
Bühler has an area, , of . Of this area, 62.7% is used for agricultural purpos ...
in
Uzwil
Uzwil is a municipality in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Wil in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
History
Uzwil was first mentioned in 819 as ''Uzzinwilare''. The village of Henau was first mentioned 754 as ''Villa Aninauva'' at the ...
,
Switzerland in 1972.
The company was founded in 1925 in Frankfurt am Main from the merger of the resident Hugo Greffenius AG with four other grain mill manufacturers:
* ''Mühlenbauanstalt und Maschinenfabrik vorm. Gebrüder Seck'' – Dresden-
Zschachwitz, founded 1873
* ''Maschinenfabrik für Mühlenbau, vorm. C.G.W. Kapler Akt.Ges.'' – Berlin, founded. 1875
* ''G. Luther, Maschinenfabrik und Mühlenbau'' (
Luther-Werke) – Braunschweig, founded 1875
* ''Braunschweigische Mühlenbauanstalt Amme, Giesecke & Konegen'' (AGK) – founded in 1895 by former Luther employees
Ernst Amme,
Carl Giesecke Julius Konegen
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Companies based in Braunschweig
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Germany
Machine manufacturers
Grinding mills
1925 establishments in Germany
is a former mechanical engineering company from Brunswick, Germany, which was acquired in 1972 by the company Gebrüder Bühler in Uzwil, Switzerland