# Menck

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**Menck & Hambrock** (also known as Menck) was a German manufacturer of earth moving and ramming equipment and once one of the world's leading companies. They were based in central [Altona](/source/Altona,_Hamburg) [Ottensen](/source/Ottensen), a part of Hamburg. Today the company operates as [MENCK GmbH](/source/MENCK_GmbH).[2]

## Beginnings

The company was founded in 1868 by Johannes Menck and Diedrich Hambrock to build boilers.

## The 1930s and the Diesel Era

In 1933, following the [Caterpillar 60](/source/Caterpillar_60), Menck designed the first German [bulldozer](/source/Bulldozer). With co-operation from [Hanomag](/source/Hanomag) Universal Diesel, they designed the express excavator series of Mo, mA, MT, Mc and MD. Menck drove the design and development of earth-scraping devices which served a new market. Invented in 1939, the unique Schürfkübelraupe, which was produced by Menck into the 70's, is now built by a Japanese manufacturer under licence.

## After World War II

After the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War), pressure from the Occupation Powers and the [West German](/source/West_German) Federal Government urged the company to switch capacities from production of weapons to excavator and crane building, as this equipment was urgently needed. Reconstruction of a demolished [Central Europe](/source/Central_Europe) was paramount, and so Menck continued, first with the aforementioned series of excavators and then. starting in 1948, with a completely new line with designations such as M152, M75, M60 and M90.

## Present day

In 1966 Menck was bought by the US company [Koehring](/source/Koehring) and declared bankruptcy in 1978. Many Menck developments were taken over by other companies. Menck, now reconstituted, builds offshore drilling equipment and deep sea [pile driving](/source/Pile_driving) products. Today the company operates as [MENCK GmbH](/source/MENCK_GmbH).

## Monument

At the Place were the Factory was in Ottensen Altona, a 1954 M152 vandalised functional Excavator brings the Memory of what was there manufactured since 1998.[3]

## References

1. ["Menckmal / Menck-Bagger in Altona"](https://www.hamburg.de/altona/denkmaeler-und-skulpturen/2822236/menck-bagger/)

1. ["Besichtigung Bagger M152Kategorie: Ausstellung / Museen"](https://www.biunsinnorden.de/veranstaltungen/hamburg-besichtigung-bagger-m152-43521)

1. ["Menck & Hambrock | Stadtteilarchiv Ottensen"](https://stadtteilarchiv-ottensen.de/angebote-fuehrungen/menschen-hintergruende-qr-codes/noeltingstrasse-am-born/)

## External links

- [Menck and Hambrock archives, English translation, accessed May 22, 2007](http://www.menckundhambrockarchiv.de/Ubersicht/Rammen_Co/Menck_nach_1978/English_version_home/english_version_home.html)

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