BMK coal and energy

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Logo of the BMK Coal and Energy

The construction and assembly combine coal and energy was founded on July 1, 1959 and was the largest and most powerful construction company in the GDR . The annual turnover between 1970 and 1990 was over 2 billion marks in the GDR.

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Former building of the combine management in Hoyerswerda (Photo: 2011)

Foundation phase

When the combine was founded , the previously independent state- owned companies VEB Kraftwerks- und Industriebau Dresden , VEB Bau-Union coal Lauchhammer , VEB Zentrale Baueinrichtungen and Bauorganisation Schwarze Pumpe and VEB Industriebau Cottbus were assigned as operating parts . On January 1, 1960, the VEB Bagger- und Förderarbeiten Dresden as well as the operating part of the VEB Bau-Union Süd Dresden followed on the Black Pump construction site . The management of the combine took their seat in Hoyerswerda . The combine was directly subordinate to the Ministry of Construction and, like all BMKs, was centrally managed by it.

As preparatory companies, two companies were incorporated into the combine on May 1, 1968: VEB Industrieprojektierung Dresden I (IPRO Dresden, founded at the end of 1949) and VEB Industrieprojektierung Berlin I (IPRO Berlin, founded on January 1, 1950).

At the beginning of the 1970s, all parts of the company were given the status of a combine company (KB); from then on the preparation companies were called B. - with an extended scope of tasks - KB Research and Project Planning (FOPRO).

Branch offices and smaller companies

Since there were no extensive expansion options at the KB FOPRO Berlin location at the Köllnischer Park in Berlin, a branch office of the company was founded in Cottbus on July 1, 1971 , from which a branch on January 1, 1976 and KB FOPRO Cottbus on January 1, 1981 emerged as an independent combine operation.

In 1979, 16 other companies were taken over: VEB Bau Gröditz , VEB Bau Großröhrsdorf , VEB Bau Pulsnitz , VEB Bau Radeberg , VEB Bau Stolpen , VEB Expansion Bad Schmiedeberg , VEB Building and Expansion Neukirch , VEB Building and Civil Engineering Dürrröhrsdorf , VEB Building Seifhennersdorf , VEB Industriebau Kamenz , VEB Baukeramik Görlitz , VEB Floor Panels Freital , VEB Heating Systems Dresden-Süd, VEB Corrosion Protection Dresden, VEB Landtechnik Sacka and VEB Stahlbau Görlitz .

A year later, VEB Bau Coswig , VEB Bau Herzberg , VEB Hoch- und Tiefbau Hainewalde and VEB Stahl- und Rohrtechnik Pirna followed . The last expansion of the combine was made on January 1, 1981, when VEB Hochbau Cottbus, founded in early 1970, was incorporated as KB Hochbau Cottbus . In 1989 this combine operation was dissolved. Its capacities were assigned to KB Industriebau Cottbus , which from then on called itself KB Industrie- und Hochbau Cottbus .

Renovation 1989–1991 as a result of the fall of the Berlin Wall

In 1989 VEB BMK Coal and Energy had 17,000 employees in 15 combine companies. The combine was primarily responsible for the construction of investment projects in the coal and energy industries. From 1959 it played a major role in the structural preparation and implementation of 43  power plants as well as of all structural facilities for 17  open-cast lignite mining outcrops. The power plant projects included such as the Lübbenau , Vetschau , Boxberg and Jänschwalde power plants , but also the North nuclear power plant in Lubmin near Greifswald. Another focus was the structural preparation and construction of industrial building projects for companies in the so-called centrally managed industry in the GDR districts of Cottbus and Dresden , for example for the Guben man-made fiber plant , the Cottbus textile combine , the Friedrichshain / Tschernitz television piston plant , the Altenberg tin ore mine and the Bernstadt cotton mill or the Research Center for Microelectronics Dresden . In addition, the combine was involved in selected social building projects (including the Dresden Rundkino and the reconstruction of the Berlin Cathedral ).

Old logo from 1990
Union-Bau AG logo

On May 1, 1990, through the privatization of the combine (without the three preparatory companies that went their own way), Union-Bau AG was created with the central administration in Hoyerswerda and the main branches north-east in Cottbus and south-east in Dresden. Union-Bau was taken over on June 18, 1991 by Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG ( Dywidag ). In 2001 Walter Bau merged with Dywidag, the majority of which it owned from 1992. From then on, the construction group appeared on the market as Walter Bau AG, united with DYWIDAG , until Walter Bau AG had to apply for insolvency proceedings on February 1, 2005 . The proceedings were opened on April 1, 2005. At that time, the construction holding Strabag took over some selected company divisions from the bankruptcy estate.

The KB FOPRO Cottbus was the Treuhandanstalt by out management buy- with conversion Declaration of 31 May 1990 as ARCUS planning and consulting planning mbH Cottbus privatized. At the same time, the KB FOPRO Dresden became the IPRO Dresden Architekten und Ingenieuraktiengesellschaft . The KB FOPRO Berlin went to the CBF Engineering GmbH on, part of the Danish Carl Bro Group .

Combine operations

The structure of the combine was adapted several times to the respective building activity. Below is the structure in the 1980s:

  • KB 01 Industrial building BAK Krivoy Rog (USSR) Hoyerswerda / Krivoy Rog
  • KB 20 Boxberg industrial building (formerly Boxberg power plant )
  • KB 30 NPP North Lubmin
  • KB 50 industrial building Cottbus
  • KB 60 industrial building Dresden
  • KB 70 industrial building Riesa
  • KB 80 industrial building in Bautzen
  • KB 90 Building Construction Cottbus
  • KB 11 Civil Engineering Dresden
  • KB 12 Hoyerswerda assembly line
  • KB 13 Repair and prefabrication Dresden
  • KB 14 Research and project planning Dresden
  • KB 15 Research and project planning Berlin
  • KB 16 Research and project planning Cottbus
  • Institute for Nuclear Energy Buildings Hoyerswerda

Most of the construction companies had several construction management teams, to which construction management teams were subordinated. So-called "production areas" existed in the preparatory plants.

Combine-owned company vocational schools

The following company vocational schools (BBS) were operated:

Combine-owned company holiday homes

amongst other things

Combine’s own children's camp

The following children's holiday camps were operated:

  • KFL "Fiete Jansen" in Glowe , Rügen district
  • KFL "Irène Joliot-Curie" in Koserow , Wolgast district
  • KFL “Bergschlößchen” in Nossen (Saxony) for the little ones
Operations building Strehlener Strasse 22 today

Operations building

One of the former operating buildings of the BMK Coal and Energy is located on Strehlener Strasse in Dresden, near Dresden Central Station. It was built from 1970 to 1971 as an eight-story building according to the designs of the architects Harry Schulze and Achim Riebe. It is 108 meters long and 12 meters wide and formed the "continuation of the southern development of Strehlener Straße". The building was in the reinforced concrete - frame construction (VGB) and the two staircase towers in slipforms built. The facade front is characterized by a "[b] etont horizontal facade structure". This structure is done by parapets made of concrete with exposed aggregate concrete surfaces and wood-glass window bands. The building was taken over by the Free State of Saxony from the bankruptcy estate of Walter Bau AG in 2013 and is mainly used by the Technical University of Dresden in 2015 .

Office building at Thiemstrasse 130 in Cottbus, construction status 2011

The office building for the Combine Research and Project Planning Cottbus was built in three construction phases from 1974 to 1978 based on a design by Hellmut Gerth and Rüdiger Galley at Cottbuser Thiemstraße 130. It was designed as a two-volume system for 750 workplaces. During construction, the lift-slab process was used, in which the seven reinforced concrete floor slabs were produced monolithically at ground level in order to then be hydraulically lifted to the respective installation level on steel supports and supported on these supports. Staircase cores manufactured using a sliding construction method are used to stabilize the building. “Horizontal profiling through all-round steel windows; the parapets are made of white metal cladding ”.

Leisure time for employees

In 1971, music-interested employees of the BMK, who mainly belonged to the civil engineering combine, and other companies came together and founded the construction workers' wind orchestra. KB Tiefbau was responsible for the orchestra until 1990 and took care of the financial and material resources. Amateur musicians were trained by musicians from the Ministry of the Interior . In November 1972 the orchestra appeared in public for the first time and was able to record several successful performances in the following years. In 1990, after the end of the sponsoring company, the Dresden Blasorchester Association was founded and has been the Dresden Music Association 71 eV since 1991.

Others

The shooting of the 1986 DEFA film Driving School was supported by the vehicle fleet of KB Repair and Prefabrication. A tractor with a trailer was made available for one scene.

Web links

Commons : VEB BMK Coal and Energy  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

  • VEB BMK coal and energy. In: Architektur der DDR, 33rd year 1984, No. 6, p. 324 to p. 371, ISSN  0323-3413
  • 30 years of VEB BMK Coal and Energy. In: Architektur der DDR, 38th year 1989, No. 6, p. 9 to p. 45, ISSN  0323-3413
  • Combined enterprise research and project planning Berlin 1949 to 1979. Anniversary publication, published by VEB BMK Coal and Energy, KB research and project planning Berlin 1979
  • BAK book. Book about the creation of the mining and processing combine Krivoy Rog (USSR), 2009
  • List of establishments of the German Pension Insurance, 2009

Individual evidence

  1. BMK (ed.): Kombinats-Rundschau . Hoyerswerda 1988.
  2. ^ A b Walter May , Werner Pampel and Hans Konrad: Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979, p. 157 .
  3. Ingrid Halbach, Karl-Heinz Müller, Steffen Delang, Gerold Gatte, Peter Bienath: Architecture Guide Cottbus. Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin Munich 1993, p. 44, ISBN 3-345-00506-9 .