VE Kombinat Maschinenbauhandel Berlin

About the Combine

The VE Kombinat Maschinenbauhandel Berlin was founded in 1981 and replaced the previously existing Staatliches Maschinen-Kontor (SMK). As a wholesaler, the enterprises of the combine – with the exception of direct procurement relationships – served the material supply of the GDR economy with mechanical engineering products and electrotechnical products; reserve trading with unused or not fully utilised machine and material reserves was also among its tasks. The wholesale assortment comprised around 310,000 articles in 1988 from 58 domestic combines and 16 foreign trade enterprises; around 25,000 consumers were supplied with metal products. With an average stock value of around 2.1 billion marks, a supply output worth around 9 billion marks was achieved in 1988. The combine maintained 501 properties, including 383 warehouses and 78 specialised retail stores. In the course of reunification it was dissolved in 1990 and converted into MBH Maschinenbau- und Technikhandel AG, Berlin.

Site

Berlin

Processes

Wholesale/material supply with mechanical engineering products and electrotechnical products, Reserve trading, Lending of electronic measuring technology (lending service)

Materials

Mechanical Engineering Products, Electrotechnical Products, Metal Products, Electronic Measuring Technology

Founded

1981

Industries

Mechanical engineering, Electrotechnical engineering, GDR economy/national economy (material supply)

1. 01

   Procurement from 58 domestic combines and 16 foreign trade enterprises

2. 02

   Storage in 383 warehouse properties

3. 03

   Supply trading with mechanical engineering products and electrotechnical

4. 04

   Reserve trading with machine and material reserves

5. 05

   Lending service for electronic measuring technology

6. 06

   Specialised retail stores as distribution points

Assortment and Services

Locations

Berlin

DE

Combine headquarters

Associated Enterprises

Inside the production

History

1. 1947

   Industrial kontors and Deutsche Handelsgesellschaft mbH take over wholesale tasks for supply and reserve trading in the Soviet Occupation Zone/GDR

2. 1950

   Dissolution of the kontors; founding of German trading centres for mechanical and vehicle engineering, electrotechnical engineering/precision mechanics/optics and internal reserves

3. 1957

   Founding of the Staatliches Vermittlungskontor für Maschinen- und Materialreserven; consolidation of the trading centres

4. 1958

   Founding of the Staatliches Maschinen-Kontor (SMK)

5. 1959

   Supply kontors for mechanical engineering products take over the supply function

6. 1965

   Staatliches Kontor für Maschinen- und Materialreserven carried by several VEB Maschinen- und Materialreserven

7. 1975

   Integration of the Staatliches Kontor für Maschinen- und Materialreserven into the SMK; 8 VEB Maschinenbauhandel and 5 VEB Maschinen- und Materialreserven

8. 1981

   Founding of the VE Kombinat Maschinenbauhandel Berlin; replacement of the SMK; integration of the VEB Maschinen- und Materialreserven; founding of the VEB Rationalisierung Maschinenbauhandel Halle

9. 1987

   From 01.01.1987 the combine is subordinate to the Ministry of Tool and Processing Machine Engineering; affiliation of the Institut für Rationalisierung des Produktionsmittelhandels (irap)

10. 1988

    Assortment around 310,000 articles, 501 properties (383 warehouses, 78 specialised retail stores), supply output approx. 9 billion marks, stock value approx. 2.1 billion marks, imports approx. 2.2 billion marks

11. 1990

    Dissolution of the combine as a result of reunification; conversion into MBH Maschinenbau- und Technikhandel AG, Berlin; takeover in 1991 by a consortium involving Bank Paribas from the Treuhandanstalt; total revenue 1990 around 250 million ECU

12. 1990

    VEB Rationalisierung Maschinenbauhandel Halle renamed TULOG Halle GmbH

13. 1993

    TULOG Halle GmbH is taken over by the intralogistics plant manufacturer Klinkhammer (Nuremberg)