Autania

Autania Aktiengesellschaft for industrial holdings
legal form	Corporation
founding	1906
Seat	Kelkheim , Germany
management	Board: Ingo Müller; Supervisory Board: Helmut Rothenberger (Chairman); Alexander Winkels (Deputy Chairman); Sabine Rothenberger;
Number of employees	969 (ø 2015)
sales	199 million € (2015)
Website	www.autania.de

The Autania stock company for industrial investments based in Kelkheim at Frankfurt is a formerly listed management holding company for medium-sized companies in the European machine tools and machinery .

history

Auto Union (1906–1948; 1948–1979)

The Autania history goes back to the company Rasmussen & Ernst founded in 1906 (from 1912 Zschopauer Maschinenfabrik J. S. Rasmussen ), from which Zschopauer Motorenwerke J. S. Rasmussen AG (brand DKW ) emerged in 1923 .

In 1932 the company changed to Auto Union AG , based in Chemnitz . This represented the four Saxon automobile brands DKW, Audi , Horch and Wanderer . After the Second World War, the company in the Soviet occupation zone , which had previously been 90% owned by the State of Saxony, was expropriated by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) and Auto Union AG was deleted from the commercial register in Chemnitz on August 17, 1948 .

Shortly afterwards, Auto Union AG was founded in Essen , which became the legal successor and took over the real estate owned by the old company in the western part as well as the patents and naming rights. As early as December 1945, former Auto Union employees had founded the central depot for AUTO UNION spare parts GmbH under their own direction in Ingolstadt , from which Auto Union GmbH emerged on September 3, 1949 , and began again with car production. The Auto Union AG , however, was limited to the management of real estate holdings and the name and patent rights, as the former production sites to the former DKW plant in Berlin-Spandau all on DDR were -Territorium. At the end of 1949, Auto Union sold all of its patent and name rights to Auto Union GmbH from Ingolstadt. In 1959, Auto Union GmbH in Ingolstadt was taken over by Daimler-Benz and finally passed on to the Volkswagen factory in 1964 . Volkswagen took over the Swabian manufacturer NSU in 1969 and at the same time merged it with the Ingolstadt subsidiary to form Audi NSU Auto Union AG (now Audi AG ) based in Neckarsulm. In 1979, Volkswagen finally acquired the remaining naming rights to Auto Union from Auto Union AG , which was now renamed Autania Verwaltungs- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft AG .

Autania administration and investment company (1979–1990)

The Autania management and investment company was involved in the 1980s in some smaller companies in the environmental technology sector, joined otherwise but hardly in evidence. In 1990 the Rothenberger Group , active in environmental and tool technology, of the Rothenberger family of industrialists from Hesse, joined the company and acquired a majority stake. For this purpose, a capital increase from 4 to 64 million DM in the form of a contribution in kind from WMB Beteiligungsgesellschaft für Werkzeugmaschinenbau mbH (in which the industrial activities of the Rothenberger family - including Hermann Kolb GmbH , Buderus Schleiftechnik GmbH and the Mauser Waldeck AG - are bundled). In the following years the Autania was rebuilt. In 1990 the company's headquarters were relocated to Frankfurt and the company name was changed to Autania Aktiengesellschaft für Industriebeteiligungen . The plan was to convert Autania into a holding company for minority stakes in the tool making industry.

Autania Aktiengesellschaft for industrial holdings (1990–2000)

As part of the restructuring of Autania as a holding company for minority stakes in the German machine tool industry, AUTANIA acquired a number of stakes in companies in this sector in East Germany. Due to the severe sales crisis in 1993 after the loss of the Eastern European markets, on which the holdings were largely dependent, Autania had to accept high losses despite an increased equity capital of 113 million DM. As a result, full enforcement proceedings and the loss of individual investments as well as a sharp reduction in equity could not be avoided. This led to a difficult situation for the holding company, which was only able to stabilize the course from 1996 under the leadership of Helmut Rothenberger.

Autania - Advanced Technologies (2000-present)

Due to the acquisition-related growth and the focus on the stock exchange, the share was included in the German stock exchange's SDAX index on December 23, 2002 . In 2003, Isosolar Nordic Holding AG , based in Arbon, Switzerland, initially took over the shares of the two Rothenberger family lines. This then led to a mandatory offer to the other shareholders, with which a total of 93.45% of the shares in the new purchaser could be combined. Behind Isosolar Nordic Holding , which has been operating under Autania International AG since April 21, 2004, were Mithril GmbH (owner Immo Ströher, who held or holds, for example, Q-Cells or SOLON shares) and Ralf E with a 50% stake Hess from Kronberg.

In 2006 there was another change of ownership, with the majority of 93.45% of the shares in Autania being owned by Fässler & Partner Treuhand AG , now operating as Autania Holding AG based in Arbon, Switzerland, as a 100% Subsidiary of Dr. Helmut Rothenberger Holding , based in Anif / Salzburg, Austria, was taken over. In 2007 the basis for a squeeze-out procedure was then laid by a change in the ownership structure among the aforementioned shareholders, which was then resolved by the general meeting on November 28, 2007. In October 2008, the squeeze-out decision was entered in the Königstein commercial register.

Group overview

Holdings

Autania Services, Chemnitz
WFL Millturn Technologies , Linz (Austria)
UNICUM Transmission de Puissance, St. Etienne (France)
Profiroll Technologies, Bad Düben
Zeulenroda Presstechnik, Zeulenroda

Shareholder structure

Autania is part of the Dr. Helmut Rothenberger Holding Group.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Consolidated financial statements of Autania AG for industrial holdings as of December 31, 2015, published in the Federal Gazette
↑ NSU - an expensive mistake? . The time. April 9, 1971. Retrieved February 21, 2014.
↑ Inga Janović: Kelkheimer family: The moving 70 years of Rothenberger AG . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed June 19, 2019]).

[Konzernabschluss_2015-1] Consolidated financial statements of Autania AG for industrial holdings as of December 31, 2015, published in the Federal Gazette

[2] NSU - an expensive mistake? . The time. April 9, 1971. Retrieved February 21, 2014.

[3] Inga Janović: Kelkheimer family: The moving 70 years of Rothenberger AG . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed June 19, 2019]).