• Oerlikon-Bührle (full name Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon, Bührle & Co., initially Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon) was a Swiss armaments company based...
    16 KB (2,032 words) - 22:33, 20 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for OC Oerlikon
    Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon, which was established in 1876 and evolved into Oerlikon-Bührle Holding in 1973. Following an extensive restructuring process, the...
    23 KB (2,771 words) - 11:57, 13 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
    Emil G. Bührle und die Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon, Bührle & Co 1924–1945 [Between Entrepreneurship, Politics and Survival: Emil G. Bührle and the...
    27 KB (3,239 words) - 08:03, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Emil Georg Bührle
    collector. Bührle was long-term managing owner of Oerlikon-Bührle and the founding patron of Foundation E.G. Bührle. By the end of World War II, Bührle had become...
    19 KB (1,931 words) - 22:49, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oerlikon KBA
    quick and easy switch between different ammunition types. In parallel Oerlikon-Bührle assumed responsibility for developing the new 25x137mm ammunition and...
    27 KB (2,758 words) - 04:56, 28 August 2024
  • Solar Oerlikon Balzers Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum Oerlikon-Bührle, a company in Zürich, Switzerland that used to own Bally Shoe, Oerlikon Contraves, Pilatus...
    1,016 bytes (161 words) - 03:33, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oerlikon Balzers
    applications. In 1976, the company became a member of the Oerlikon Group, then Oerlikon-Bührle Holding AG. In 1983, the first coating center was opened...
    4 KB (384 words) - 21:27, 14 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dieter Bührle
    Emil Georg Bührle, majority owner of Oerlikon-Bührle and founder of Foundation E. G. Bührle. He was among the richest Swiss citizens. Bührle was born on...
    5 KB (553 words) - 12:27, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oerlikon FF
    Politik und Überleben. Emil G. Bührle und die Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon, Bührle & Co 1924–1945. Verlag Huber: Frauenfeld 2002. The Machine Gun, History...
    5 KB (554 words) - 01:48, 4 January 2024
  • 2005 and 2030. In December 2000, the owners Unaxis (previously called Oerlikon-Bührle) sold Pilatus to a consortium of Swiss investors. During July 2010...
    35 KB (3,522 words) - 17:19, 9 October 2024
  • of Emil Georg Bührle, who was the majority owner of Oerlikon-Bührle and long-term trustee and curator of Foundation E. G. Bührle. Bührle was born in Zürich...
    7 KB (641 words) - 23:01, 20 October 2024
  • The Oerlikon-Bührle 8 cm Flz.-Rakete Oerlikon (8 cm aircraft rocket) is an 80-mm rocket produced in Switzerland by Oerlikon-Buehrle. Developed from 1947...
    3 KB (249 words) - 03:38, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eugene Stoner
    25 mm Bushmaster auto cannon, which was later manufactured by Oerlikon-Bührle as the Oerlikon KBA 25mm. He co-founded ARES Incorporated of Port Clinton,...
    15 KB (1,761 words) - 00:25, 9 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rheinmetall Air Defence
    Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon-Bührle and Contraves merged to form the Oerlikon-Contraves Group, later renamed Oerlikon Contraves Defence. Oerlikon Contraves was...
    16 KB (1,457 words) - 16:00, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for SNORA and SURA-D rockets
    The Oerlikon-Bührle SNORA and SURA-D are 81-mm and 80-mm rockets developed in Switzerland in the late 1970s and fielded in the 1980s. The SNORA could...
    8 KB (592 words) - 01:32, 5 December 2023
  • to Oerlikon-Bührle (owner of Pilatus Aircraft of Switzerland in 1978, hence the Pilatus Britten-Norman designation of some of the aircraft). Oerlikon-Bührle...
    10 KB (838 words) - 13:36, 9 November 2024
  • under technical cooperation and technology transfer agreements with Oerlikon-Bührle of Switzerland. Established in Karachi in 1968, PMTF has faced many...
    5 KB (366 words) - 21:15, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for RSA (missile)
    RSA (missile) (category Oerlikon-Contraves)
    surface-to-air missiles systems, developed by the Swiss companies Oerlikon-Bührle and Contraves starting in 1947. The missile went through a rapid development...
    8 KB (1,123 words) - 05:56, 7 August 2023
  • pianist, and Hortense Anda-Bührle (née Bührle), who was the daughter of arms manufacturer and industrialist Emil Georg Bührle. His grandfather was controlling...
    6 KB (436 words) - 23:02, 20 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Business collaboration with Nazi Germany
    from Turkey and ball bearings from Sweden. Swiss companies including Oerlikon-Bührle, Tavaro, Hispano-Suiza and Dixi sold the Nazis antiaircraft guns, cannon...
    26 KB (3,127 words) - 02:40, 17 June 2024
  • The Oerlikon SSG36 is an anti-tank rifle of Swiss origin. The Oerlikon SSG36 anti-tank rifle demonstrated, that it was possible to build a successful straight...
    3 KB (210 words) - 15:50, 23 April 2024
  • Unternehmertum, Politik und Überleben : Emil G. Bührle und die Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon, Bührle & Co. 1924 bis 1945. Frauenfeld: Huber. ISBN 3-7193-1277-1...
    32 KB (3,460 words) - 00:54, 14 October 2024
  • 1976 to 1980. He was also a board member of Nestlé, Sulzer, BBC and Oerlikon-Bührle. De Weck was born 2 January 1919 in Fribourg, Switzerland to Pierre...
    6 KB (521 words) - 20:25, 25 August 2024
  • primarily to finance his own industrial investments and expansion plans of Oerlikon-Bührle and to preserve his assets for future generations. Later, the bank...
    3 KB (278 words) - 22:09, 20 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for INFICON
    point, Inficon Leybold-Heraeus became Leybold Inficon, Inc. In 1993, Oerlikon-Bührle Holding AG (OBH), which owned Balzers AG, reached a deal to buy Leybold...
    17 KB (1,496 words) - 12:32, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Werner Rey
    acquired the fashion house Bally, and subsequently sold it to the Oerlikon Bührle concern, which laid the foundation of his Omni Holding AG, which would...
    9 KB (842 words) - 02:39, 4 November 2024
  • board of directors including Lake Thun railway line, Südostbahn and Oerlikon-Bührle (1908–1922). In 1891, he married Marie Ulrich (1869–1917),[page needed]...
    5 KB (482 words) - 08:54, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lynx reconnaissance vehicle
    MAG and M2HB, with them being replaced by an Oerlikon-Bührle KUKA GBD-ADA turret armed with a Oerlikon KBA-B 25 mm autocannon and a coaxial FN MAG. Dutch...
    16 KB (1,580 words) - 11:12, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Leybold GmbH
    from Cologne to Hanau. In 1994, Degussa sold Leybold to the Swiss Oerlikon Bührle Group, which combined Leybold with the Balzers AG, which was already...
    6 KB (619 words) - 23:32, 5 June 2024
  • Ernst Schmidheiny (president of Holderbank), Dieter Bührle (general director and owner of Oerlikon-Bührle) and Georg Sulzer (president of Sulzer Gebrüder...
    3 KB (393 words) - 22:58, 20 October 2024