The company FRITZ WERNER was founded in 1896 in Berlin by Dr. e.h. Friedrich Carl Werner who had previously worked as a mechanical engineer in the arsenal of the German emperor. Dr. Werner had named the company after his son Fritz Werner. Soon after its foundation FRITZ WERNER became specialised in the design and manufacture of high quality machines for ammunition and military weapons.
FRITZ WERNER was soon also supplying individual machines to export markets all over the world but in the early 1920s a new era was ushered in. At that time a client in Asia approached FRITZ WERNER with the idea of setting up a production plant to make machine tools for the local market. Recognising the enormous potential FRITZ WERNER sold a license and the know how to make one of their machines and with it supplied a full turnkey factory to manufacture these machine tools. This was the start of more world wide turn key projects to come and the successful introduction of Project Management within FRITZ WERNER.After World War II, FRITZ WERNER came under the control of the German federal government and became a 100% government owned company. The company also moved the branch for ammunition production machines from Berlin to scenic Geisenheim in the Rhine Valley as a consequence of the special 4 power status of Berlin.
In 1957 FRITZ WERNER established its own ammunition manufacturing factory, the company Metallwerk Elisenhütte GmbH in Nassau (MEN). In this factory production and quality control experts produced on FRITZ WERNER machines ammunition for the German forces and government departments as well as for other NATO defence forces.
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