August Prien

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August Prien (* 1857 ; † 1944 ) was a German builder and contractor .

Life

August Prien graduated from the Holzminden building trade school . In 1882 he was employed by the carpenter August Wilhelm Wiegels in his carpentry business in Harburg . Wiegels had started with a carpentry shop and quickly expanded it into a construction business. In 1892 this company built the Harburg town hall .

In 1898 Prien became a partner in the construction business; In 1901 Wiegels left and Prien became the sole owner. The company now traded under the name Aug. Prien & Co. Baugeschäft GmbH . In 1902 it moved from Kanalplatz to Harburger Dampfschiffsweg, where it is still located.

The buildings that the Aug. Prien & Co. construction business built include the railway bridge over the Süderelbe , the Harburg train station and the St. Paulus church in Heimfeld. For this new church building, August Prien was awarded the Prussian Order of the Crown, IV class. In 1913 he built a house for his own family on the Eißendorfer Pferdeweg 34 property. This wasn't his only property, however. “As a building contractor, he was a kind of organizational center for urban development. He built almost all of Harburg's factories at that time and was also available as the builder of the private houses of their owners and managers. He arranged for architects, also served as an architect himself (Haus Palm, Pferdeweg 40, Haus Prien, Billunger Weg 61), helped with the cutting of the plots and ensured the right neighborhood. "

Prien's eldest son, August Prien junior, joined the business in 1936.

After August Prien converted his construction business into a limited partnership , he remained a general partner , whereas various family members became limited partners . In his will, he stipulated that the shares of the individual shareholders and their legal relationships must not change.

Company development after August Prien's death

After August Prien's death in 1944, August Prien junior became the sole general partner. In 1950 a branch of the company was founded in Bremen , in 1959 August Prien Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH , which was accepted as general partner in Aug. Prien KG .

August Prien junior, who died in 1969, left a memorandum in which he laid down the guidelines for the further management of the company. It bears the title My Legacy to the Management of the Aug. Prien Company and dates from 1968. According to his specifications, the company was now run by three managing directors who were equally involved alongside representatives of the family lines. A three-person supervisory board assumed the function of a neutral control body. The share capital was still owned by the family.

In 1990 the company took over a 50 percent stake in Brünnich Bau GmbH in Kühlungsborn , in 1995 a branch was founded in Cologne and in 1997 the subsidiary Aug. Prien Immobilien, Gesellschaft für Projektentwicklung mbH was established . In 2002, a 100 percent stake in Taucher Knoth (Nachf.) GmbH & Co. KG in Hamburg was taken over. A branch in Dortmund was founded in 2012, followed in 2015 in Frankfurt am Main and on Sylt .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christian Gotthardt: On the Olympus of the rich and powerful. On the social topography of the Eißendorfer Pferdeweg and its surroundings in 1942. (2016) on www.harbuch.de
personal data
SURNAME Prien, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prien, August Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German builder and contractor
DATE OF BIRTH 1857
DATE OF DEATH 1944