Atlas Werke was a German shipbuilding company, located in Bremen. It was founded in 1911.
| Industry | Shipbuilding Electronics |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1911 |
| Defunct | 1969 |
| Fate | Spin-off |
| Successor | Atlas Elektronik |
| Headquarters | Bremen, Germany |
| Products | Merchant ships Warships U-boats |
| Parent | Krupp  |
During World War I Atlas Werke built one single U 151 U-boat for the Kaiserliche Marine, the U-156.
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.[1][2] They developed the CH3 prototype (1950), the CH4 (1958) and were sold (by Krupp) 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).[3][2]
In 1964, Krupp 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
editReferences
edit- ^ History of High Resolution Mass Spectrometry in Bremen
- ^ a b Brunnée, Curt (27 May 1997). "50 Years of MAT in Bremen". Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 11 (6): 694–707. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0231(199704)11:6<694::AID-RCM888>3.0.CO;2-K.
- ^ "Life Begins At 40 – A Brief History of LC-MS/MS - Analyte Guru - Post". Analyte Guru. 28 January 2019.
External links
edit- rheinmetall.de webpage with details about Atlas Werke
- Documents and clippings about Atlas Werke in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
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