Maschinenbauanstalt Übigau

A significant part was played by Johann Andreas Schubert, engineer and professor at the Royal Dresden Institute of Technology, who subsequently acted as technical director and chairman of the board.

[1] Since there was neither an official construction contract nor sufficient technical experience, production of the Saxonia posed a high risk for the company.

In 1892 it was joined by the shipbuilding research department of TU Dresden and by 1920 the Dresdner Maschinenfabrik und Schiffswerft Übigau had 1,500 employees.

By 1930, when it had to close for 5 years as a result of the worldwide economic crisis, it had delivered 1,400 ships from its slipways to places as far away as Africa and South America.

In 1945 the firm was totally destroyed; it later reformed as VEB Dampfkesselbau Übigau, building boiler systems for large ships until the 1990s, and vehicle cranes as well from its privatisation in 1990 until its insolvency in 2001 .