page_title: Bleichert
section_title: From 1945
hierarchical_section_title: Bleichert / History / From 1945
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Kabine. Français&#160;: Cabine.
context_page_description: Bleichert, short for Adolf Bleichert & Co., was a German engineering firm founded in 1874 by Adolf Bleichert. The company dominated the aerial wire ropeway industry during the first half of the 20th century, and its portfolio included cranes, electric cars, elevators, and mining and ship-loading equipment.
context_section_description: With the defeat of Nazi Germany, Leipzig—the Saxon city where much of the company's factories were centered—fell on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain and Bleichert-Transportanlagen GmbH was taken over by the Occupying Power, the Soviet Union, and renamed SAG Bleichert.  In 1954, SAG Bleichert was transferred to the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), and was renamed VEB Bleichert.  Soon thereafter, the firm was continued under the name VEB Transportanlagenfabrik Bleichert Leipzig. In 1955, the company name changed again to VEB Schwermaschinenbau Verlade- und Transportanlagen Leipzig vorm.Bleichert.  By 1959, the last reference to the original family business disappears, as ‘vorm.Bleichert’ is dropped from the firm’s name.  Between 1962 and 1985, this entity went through several iterations.  However, by 1991, the company had been privatized and entered liquidation, halting production of cranes, conveyance, and pit mining equipment — thus concluding the history of the oldest and largest wire ropeway manufacturer of the world.
caption: Cable car Predigtstuhlbahn at Bad Reichenhall (Germany) built in 1928
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