General German Ship Carpenters Cooperative

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Allgemeine Deutsche Schiffszimmerer-Genossenschaft eG
legal form Registered cooperative
founding November 18, 1875
Seat Hamburg , Germany
management Thomas Speeth, Matthias Saß
Number of employees 102
sales € 61 million
Branch Housing industry
Website http://www.schiffszimmerer.de/
Status: 2019

The Allgemeine Deutsche Schiffszimmerer-Genossenschaft eG , or Schiffszimmerer-Genossenschaft for short, is the oldest and with 9,000 apartments one of the largest housing cooperatives in Hamburg . It emerged from an association of ship carpenters founded in 1875 who set up their own shipyard for wooden shipbuilding in order to avoid wage wars and poor working conditions .

history

Housing complex of the General German Ship Carpenters Cooperative in Hamburg

After wooden shipbuilding had largely given way to steel shipbuilding , they sold their shipyard at the turn of the 20th century and used the proceeds to buy a house for their members.

Bronze relief on the Memel House on Rademachergang. The adjoining bronze plaque bears the inscription: On November 18, 1875, Hamburg ship carpenters founded the General German Ship Carpenters Cooperative for the construction of wooden ships. The cooperative had its own shipyard. In 1890 she set herself the task of building apartments. The name of this house is intended to keep the memory of the original purpose of the cooperative alive. Built 1935-36. Architects Puls and Richter. Sculptor: art man.

While retaining their name, they acquired land with the assets they had accumulated in the meantime and had houses built on them for their members , but no longer only to ship carpenters , but to everyone connected with the acquisition of member shares .

Initially, it limited itself to housing construction in what was then Hamburg's urban area, before expanding beyond the city limits for the first time in the then Prussian Poppenbüttel with a settlement project in the early 1930s .

Important large-scale construction projects, exclusively brick buildings, were the Otto-Stolten-Hof and the Kranzhaus in the Jarrestadt , in Eimsbüttel am Moorkamp, ​​in Barmbek the Heinrich-Groß-Hof , in the Neustadt an der Wincklerstraße in the time after the First World War . The bombing raids of Operation Gomorrah caused great damage in these residential areas , mostly only the facades of the brick buildings remained.

present

At the turn of 2018/2019, the Schiffszimmerer cooperative had around 9,000 apartments and around 4,000 other properties (parking spaces, garages and around 100 commercial units) in around 90 residential complexes in Hamburg and the surrounding area.

The representative assembly has 200 members who perform the tasks of self-administration . These represent approximately 15,000 members.

District development

The Schiffszimmerer cooperative takes into account the demographic development of society in its new building projects. The main building blocks of their inclusive “Mehr Quartier” concept are barrier poverty, outpatient care services and voluntary work. In the first quarters, the ship carpenter's cooperative has created new forms of living for its members, for example a shared apartment for people with dementia.

Web links

Commons : Allgemeine Deutsche Schiffszimmerer-Genossenschaft  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks


Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Martens : History and Potential of Self-Help - The Housing Cooperatives . October 29, 2011. Retrieved July 28, 2016.
  2. ^ Website of the cooperative
  3. ↑ District development. In: schiffszimmerer.de. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .