BHS-Bavarian mining, smelting and salt works

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The BHS Bavarian mountain, hut and salt works AG was a company engaged in mining, metallurgy and salt works. The Free State of Bavaria brought in 1927 by a state law owned companies , which previously as offices one were made against the issue of shares in this new company. The entrepreneurial activities brought in were all based in Bavaria; they came from mining, metallurgy / mechanical engineering and salt extraction and processing. This explains the somewhat awkward name. The Free State was the sole shareholder. The company's headquarters were in Munich at Ludwigstrasse 27. The administration building there was built by Friedrich von Gärtner between 1840 and 1843, and today it houses various seminars of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Manhole cover made from Weiherhammer

The business areas brought in have their origins predominantly in the very early mining and industrial history of Bavaria. At that time, this included the following works:

Mining
Coal mines in Peißenberg and Peiting , ore mine in Bodenmais
Metallurgy
Luitpoldhütte in Amberg and the ironworks Bergen , Bodenwöhr , Obereichstätt , Sonthofen , Weiherhammer .
Salt works
Berchtesgaden salt mine , salt works in Bad Reichenhall and various peat plants in Chiemgau

In the course of time, individual activities were given up or shut down. In 1971 the coal mine in Peißenberg / Peiting, which had been important for the entire company and had 1,800 employees at the time, was closed. The economic development of the conglomerate was characterized by losses, especially in the 70s and 80s. In 1991, the Free State of Bavaria therefore decided to sell the shares to the chemical company SKW Trostberg AG (later Degussa AG ). Under the new ownership, loss-making business areas were restructured, sold or shut down. From the mid-1990s, the other operational locations were also gradually sold. In the end, BHS AG was just a holding company without any operational business. It was merged with SKW Trostberg AG in 1997/98. This was the formal end of the BHS-Bayerische Berg-, Hütten- und Salzwerke AG.

The business areas that were sold in the 1990s all have different owners today. Since then, some of them have even developed very successfully. Some of these companies still carry the abbreviation “BHS” as a brand in their name. The successor companies include the following companies:

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