Typewriter Rheinmetall with case. Working Condition.

Description

Description:
Start of production: 1920
First manufacturer: Rheinische Metallwaaren- und Maschinenfabrik AG, Germany, Sömmerda
The history of the Rheinmetall brand dates back to 1889, when the entrepreneur and inventor Heinrich Erhardt founded a small arms company in the German city of Sömmerd in Thuringia. Initially, the enterprise was aimed at producing ammunition, but soon its profile changed and expanded - artillery guns and small arms began to be produced here. By the beginning of World War I, the company included several enterprises and was one of the largest arms manufacturers.
The name of the Rheinmetall trademark arose immediately by reducing the first two words of the company name Rheinische Metallwaaren- und Maschinenfabrik AG (another name of the German typewriter brand Groma was formed on the same principle).
After the war, under the terms of the Versailles Peace Treaty, the losing country did not have the right to produce large-caliber weapons, because of which the company was forced to switch to the production of civilian products. In 1920, the first stationery typewriter launched at the concern's factory appeared on the market. It was designed by a German engineer Heinrich Schweizer.
In 1931, the first portable typewriter was launched under the Rheinmetall brand. It was developed by designer Leopold Pasher for Stoewer AG, but this company, being ready for the production of the model, went bankrupt, and the arms concern simply bought another company, thus expanding and enriching its business.
Like the Stoewer, all portable Rheinmetall models can easily be removed for ease of repair and maintenance.
In 1936, the company merged with August Borsig GmbH, the largest producer of railway locomotives, and received the new name Rheinmetall-Borsig AG. The main focus of the new company was the production of ammunition and weapons. In 1938, the concern was nationalized and was actually preparing for the impending war, and in 1941 the Wehrmacht officers headed the company’s leadership.
During the Second World War, the capacities of the concern's enterprises concentrated as much as possible on the production of military products, the production of typewriters was reduced, and soon completely stopped.
In 1945, a new model of the portable typewriter Rheinmetall KsT rolled off the assembly line of the Zemmerd plant - the meaning of the improvement is hidden in the abbreviation: Kleinschreibmaschine mit Tabulator - a tab mechanism has been added to the device, which simplifies the creation of tables and columns when printing.
The plant operated in the Soviet occupation zone, a significant part of the products was supplied as reparations to the USSR. In 1946, the company was transformed into the Rheinmetall-Borsig SAG (Sowjetische Aktiengesellschaften - Soviet joint-stock company).
In 1952, the Soviet authorities transferred the GDR typewriter factory, where it was transformed into the national enterprise VEB Mechanik Büromaschinenwerk Rheinmetall Sömmerda.
Rheinmetall KsT is the only portable model that the plant in Sömmerd produced after the war until 1962, and since 1960 the machine went under the Supermetall (KsT) brand.
In addition, since 1949 the company has been producing the Rheinmetall GS stationery (Groß Schreibmaschine: “the big typewriter”) and since 1953 the Rheinmetall GSE (Groß Schreibmaschine Elektrische: the “big electric typewriter”), which were also called Supermetall since the early 60's .
In 1969, all the capacities of the typewriter factories in the GDR were transferred to the Zentronik plant, and in 1978 to the Robotron plant. Machines produced at these plants are unified, often noticeably inferior in quality to previous manufacturers.
The company, founded more than a hundred years ago, remains today the largest producer of weapons. In addition, the Rheinmetall Group produces automotive parts.
About which military enterprises produced typewriters in peacetime and, on the contrary, which manufacturers of the typewriter made weapons and ammunition during the years of armed conflict, see the article “A shot from Underwood: what combines typewriters and rifles?”.
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