Berlin / Koepenick / GDR / Industry 12 / 1989 KWO-Kabelwerke Oberspree. The cable works were privatised and sold to a British company. The plant was closed in 2002. // Labour / Trust / Privatisation In 1888 AEG built a large industrial complex in Wedding on Ackerstrasse, which soon became too small. They took over an even larger site on Voltastrasse. The huge factories produced almost everything that AEG sold them: small motors and giant turbines, incandescent lamps and large machines. When the site became too small, AEG built more large factories in Oberschoeneweide. In 1978, the
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GDR, cable works Oberspree 1989. Berlin / Koepenick / GDR / Industry 12 / 1989 KWO-Kabelwerke Oberspree. The cable works were privatised and sold to a British company. The plant was closed in 2002. // Labour / Trust / Privatisation In 1888 AEG built a large industrial complex in Wedding on Ackerstrasse, which soon became too small. They took over an even larger site on Voltastrasse. The huge factories produced almost everything that AEG sold them: small motors and giant turbines, incandescent lamps and large machines. When the site became too small, AEG built more large factories in Oberschoeneweide. In 1978, the Ackerstrasse complex was closed, and in 1983 the factories on Voltastrasse were also closed. In 1990 and thereafter all factories on Wilhelminenhofstrasse were closed. [automated translation]. Date created: 01/12/1989-31/12/1989