technik type subsidiary of whirlpool corporation llc fate acquired by whirlpool corporation in 1989 founded neckartenzlingen germany 1919 1919 founder gottlob bauknecht headquarters stuttgart germany key people jens christoph bidlingmaier chairman of the board gerald bormann supervisory board chairman products domestic appliances revenue 290 mio . euro 2014 1 number of employees 400 2014 1 parent whirlpool corporation website www.bauknecht.eu bauknecht formally bauknecht hausger te gmbh was one of germany s leading manufacturers of household appliances and since 1989 has been a brand of whirlpool corporation . the headquarters of the company was formerly in schorndorf in baden w rttemberg until 2006 when it relocated to stuttgart . whirlpool has closed its three plants in calw refrigerators freezers neunkirchen dishwashers and schorndorf washers and dryers . since 2012 all bauknecht branded products have been manufactured outside germany . 2 contents 1 history 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit the company was founded in 1919 by gottlob bauknecht as an electrical workshop in neckartenzlingen . he received recognition for the first time for his self developed universal electric motor landfreund . but it was only in the postwar germany when the company made its big step in the production of electrical appliances starting in 1948 with the kitchen appliances allfix . in 1951 the first bauknecht refrigerator was produced in 1958 the first washing machine and in 1964 the first dishwasher . on 9 september 1976 the company founder died at the age of 84 years leaving his sons the management . because of some loss making foreign investments and the withdrawal of banks from other financing commitments on 13 may 1982 a settlement was requested . on 29 october 1982 the district court of stuttgart paved the way for bankruptcy over the assets of bauknecht . on 2 november 1982 volker grub the liquidator signed a takeover agreement with the german division of philips deutsche philips industrie ag . since 1989 bauknecht hausger te gmbh has been part of the american group whirlpool corporation . the neunkirchen facility in saarland developed and built dishwashers from 1971 . in 1996 the european technology centre for dishwashers was also settled in neunkirchen . the global development center for washing machines and dryers in which the large volume washers for the us market were produced was sited in schorndorf . at the beginning of 2012 the automotive supplier zf friedrichshafen took over the plant in neunkirchen with 240 out of the 280 local employees in order to expand its production capacity in transmission components . after retraining the employees who previously mounted dishwashers manufactured vehicle transmissions . 3 4 at the end of 2012 the production site in schorndorf also closed . see also edit bauknecht author references edit a b entwicklung von bauknecht in deutschland schlie t . m.faz.net . retrieved 2016 08 18 . bauknecht in schorndorf konzern gibt den standort auf in german . stuttgarter zeitung . 2012 01 16 . retrieved 2012 12 27 . zf kauft neunkircher bauknecht werk . saarbruecker zeitung.de . retrieved 2011 07 09 . frankfurter allgemeine zeitung vom 5 . juli 2011 zuletzt abgerufen am 27 . juli 2011 external links edit international website companies portal v t e whirlpool corporation brands divisions and subsidiaries acros admiral amana ariston bauknecht brastemp consul estate gladiator garageworks hotpoint europe indesit inglis jenn air kitchenaid maytag polar s.a. privileg roper scholt s hefei sanyo whirlpool whirlpool also manufactures appliances under store brands for other companies such as the kenmore label which is manufactured for sears holdings corporation sears and kmart inglis appliances for best buy stores ikea brand appliances for ikea crosley and admiral appliances for home depot . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bauknecht company & oldid 739571698 categories whirlpool corporation brandshome appliance manufacturershome appliance brandshidden categories cs1 german language sources de navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran aisitalianonederlands edit links this page was last modified on 15 september 2016 at 14 01 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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