BGH Edelstahl Freital

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BGH Edelstahl Freital

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1855
Seat Freital , Germany
management Alexander Grosse
Number of employees about 700
Branch Steel industry , coal and steel industry
Website www.bgh.de
Status: 2018

BGH Edelstahl Freital is a company active in the steel and mining industry with its headquarters in Freital ( district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains , Saxony ). It is a subsidiary of the BGH Holding (Boschgotthardshütte), which originally comes from the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Siegen and is now headquartered in Freital. In 2011 the company had 607 employees. The managing director is Alexander Große.

The factory premises cover an area of ​​3.6 kilometers by 600 meters between the districts of Deuben and Hainsberg . In addition to the Freital location, the holding also owns the BGH plants in Siegen, Lugau , Lippendorf , Kattowitz , Elbląg , Lublin (all three in Poland) as well as Isernhagen and Leuth .

history

Share over 1000 RM in Sächsische Gußstahl-Werke Döhlen AG from March 1931
Interior view, 1976
Expansion of the plant, 1976
Warehouses of the stainless steel plant in Döhlen, 2012

The Saxon cast steel factory in Döhlen , founded in 1855 , quickly developed into an economically important company in the region , benefiting from its location on the Dresden – Werdau (Albertbahn) railway line and the rich deposits of coal and ore in the Eastern Ore Mountains and the Döhlen Basin . In 1862 the transformation took place into a public limited company under the company Saxon cast steel-Werke AG Döhlen . The factories and warehouses quickly expanded over large parts of the area to the left of the Weißeritz .

After the Second World War - the town of Freital, which was founded in 1921 from Döhlen and two neighboring communities, was largely spared from bombing raids - the steel mill was completely dismantled by the Soviet military administration in Germany . The reconstruction and expansion of the plant began in 1947. The VEB Edelstahlwerk was established on May 8, 1945 , which became the largest stainless steel producer in the country during the GDR era. The company produced around 300,000 tons of rolled and forged products annually. The world's first 30-ton plasma furnace and the world's first electron beam multi-chamber furnace were used in the stainless steel factory in Freital.

For the approximately 5,000 employees, a large new building area was built in prefabricated construction in the Zauckerode district of Freital . Street names like “Straße der Stahlwerker” are still reminiscent of the former residents of the district. But also in the other parts of the city, for example in Niederhäslich , large new housing estates were built. The BSG Stahl Freital was founded as the company sports association of the plant . The company also acquired over 170 works of art such as oil paintings , watercolors and drawings. The artist Gottfried Bammes , an honorary citizen of Freetal, worked regularly in the stainless steel plant from 1950. An art prize was also awarded. In the stainless steel workers ' club , the company culture house, there were regular events and performances by well-known artists.

After the reunification , the state-owned company became Sächsische Edelstahlwerke GmbH Freital (SEW) in 1990 . Initially, the company was being privatized by Thyssen AG . When this failed, was in 1992 by the Treuhandanstalt , the processing of stainless steel mill provided. However, this could be prevented by protest actions by the steelworkers . In spite of this, many employees were laid off and the company significantly reduced in size. In 1992 2,600 people were still working in the stainless steel plant, in 1997 it was only 640.

The entrepreneur Rüdiger Winterhager from Siegen took over Sächsische Edelstahlwerke GmbH in 1993. As a result, SEW bought the main Boschgotthardshütte O. Breyer GmbH plant . Freital became the new company headquarters. Then the renovation of the production halls and machines began. Among other things, a modern steel bar and wire rolling mill and a second turntable furnace were put into operation. Many of the former production and storage halls of the stainless steel plant were demolished or a new concept for the use of the building was found. At the end of 1997 around 90 percent of the production facilities had been renewed for 300 million DM . The 1998 financial year closed with a profit for the first time since the fall of the Wall. After that, sales collapsed again, so that between 2002 and 2003 and between 2009 and 2010 short-time work had to be used.

At the end of 2010, the plant was producing around 100,000 tons of steel per year. It can produce around 700 types of steel.

Web links

Commons : BGH Edelstahl Freital  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Ernst W. Raymund: 800 special steels from Saxon stainless steel works in Freital . In: Dresdner Latest News . February 4, 1998.
  2. a b c Presentation of the BGH group  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 9.7 MB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bgh.de  
  3. Freital site on the BGH website
  4. a b Hannelore Schuster: Unrivaled in special steels for implants and turbines . In: Dresdner Latest News. June 19, 1997.
  5. Thomas Hoinka: Promotion of young talent and the development of skilled workers - experience report by BGH Edelstahl Freital GmbH ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 55 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tu-chemnitz.de
  6. Hannelore Schuster: Edelstahlwerk owns 171 works of art from bammes to hazel grouse. In: Dresdner Latest News . October 30, 1997.
  7. a b Hannelore Schuster: Stahlwerkertag in Freitaler Edelstahlwerk . In: Dresdner Latest News . October 16, 1997.
  8. Thomas Stölzel: Stahlwerk Freital for the first time with a profit . In: Dresdner Latest News . June 19, 1999.
  9. Thomas Stölzel: Short-time work in the Freital steelworks from May . In: Dresdner Latest News . April 5, 2002.
  10. Stahlwerk Freital sends hundreds of employees on short-time work . In: Dresdner Latest News . March 21, 2009.
  11. Tony Keil: 100,000 tons of red-hot steel . In: Dresdner Latest News . November 12, 2010.


Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 55.5 "  N , 13 ° 38 ′ 43"  E