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| Wesseler, Feldmeister, Vewema | |
| Industry | Agricultural |
| Founded | 1879 |
| Founder | Bernhard Wesseler |
| Defunct | 4 February 1988 |
| Headquarters | Altenberge, Westfalia |
Area served | Westfalia, Netherlands, Belgium |
| Products | Farm Machinery, Household Appliances |
Number of employees | 120 (1960) |
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Wesseler (German pronunciation: [ˈvɛsl̩ɐ]) was a German company from Altenberge that manufactured, repaired and sold agricultural machines. It was founded in the 19th century as a smithy that specialised in agricultural products in the 1930s. During the agricultural industrialisation in Germany after the Second World War, the H. Wesseler oHG became a major tractor company in NRW. Between 1936 and 1966, Wesseler produced approximately 3600 tractors. In Germany, the brand name Wesseler was used, while Wesseler tractors sold in the Netherlands and Belgium were named Feldmeister and Vewema. In the second half of the 1960s, when the demand for tractors diminished, Wesseler, later known as the H. Wesseler KG, stopped the tractor production and specialised in selling and repairing Fiatagri tractors until they registered as insolvent in 1988.