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The Maschinenbauanstalt Humboldt was a German mechanical engineering firm in Cologne-Kalk and a precursor to the firm of

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. It was founded in 1871 as ''Maschinenbau A.G. Humboldt'', liquidated due to debts in 1884 and reformed as ''Maschinenbauanstalt Humboldt A.G.''. Its predecessor was a company run by Wimmar Breuer, who had manufactured perforated plate in Kalk since 1853. It was expanded in 1856 by Breuer and shareholders, Neuerburg and Sievers, into the ''Maschinenfabrik für den Bergbau von Sievers & Co.'' at Kalk near Deutz am Rhein. In 1896, under the name of ''Maschinenbauanstalt Humboldt'', locomotive construction was begun. To that end, the site of a bankrupt engineering works in

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was procured and, on 24 September 1898, the first steam locomotive was delivered. Amongst others, the company built 81 units of the

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locomotive from 1911 to 1913 as well as some 77 units of various Prussian G 5 locomotive variants. On 22 December 1924 a shareholding agreement was concluded with the ''Gasmotoren-Fabrik Deutz AG''. In 1925 the ''Öllokomotivenbau'' (Oil Locomotive Works) resulted, in which Humboldt, the ''Gasmotoren-Fabrik Deutz'' and the locomotive works of ''

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'' at Kassel had shares. After building just one locomotive, however, the company was dissolved again in 1928. That same year Humboldt ceased locomotive production, after having delivered over 1700 locomotives, due to a lack of orders. On 17 October 1930, Humboldt merged with the ''Gasmotoren-Fabrik Deutz'' to form ''Humboldt-Deutz-Motoren''. In 1938 the ''Isselburger Hütte'' was taken over, and a deal with the ''Klöckner Werke'' resulted in the famous name of ''Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz (KHD)''. Today part of that name still appears in the firm KHD Humboldt Wedag International, a cement plant and equipment supplier that was formerly part of

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Company history at werkbahn.de
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