1837
- foundation by Johann Heinrich Schmidt
- registration in the trade roll of the municipal council Wurzen
- manufacture of bucket elevators for mills
1886
- take-over of the company by son Heinrich August Schmidt
- sale of buckets and bucket elevators Europe-wide
1889
- purchase of a larger site and construction of a new factory building
- additional manufacture of conveyor worms and belt conveyors
1900
- development of new hoisting/conveying devices such as chain conveyors, inclined lifts, aerial ropeways and storage basins
- beginning of the chain-and-bucket excavator production
1908
- construction of an assembly shop for the highly expanded excavator/dredger construction
1914
- the company was taken over by a relative, Mr. Paul Schulz, engineer
1920
- first equipment for municipal sewerage systems
- production of dredge devices
1939
- Paul Schulz died
- take-over of the company by his two sons Paul and Ernst Schulz
1972
- compulsory nationalisation
1990
- re-privatisation
- setting up of the H. Aug. Schmidt Transportanlagen GmbH
- management: Mr. Frank Schulz
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