Concrete and Monier construction

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The concrete and Monierbau AG (complete: Concrete and Monierbau Aktien-Gesellschaft , abbreviated frequently as BEMO abroad more than BuM) was a German construction company with headquarters in Dusseldorf , which was founded in 1895 and in April 1979 as the sixth largest company in the industry in bankruptcy went.

history

Share of the Beton- und Monierbau AG in August 1936 for RM 1000

After Gustav Adolf Wayss by Joseph Monier in 1886 licenses for its iron and reinforced concrete had acquired, he founded on October 15, 1889, together with the Civil Mathias Koenen the Actien- Society for Monierbauten formerly GA Wayss & Co. , in which it its existing Limited partnership brought in. After Wayss withdrew from the company in 1893, Matthias Koenen took over the management for more than thirty years. The company was changed to Actien-Gesellschaft für Beton- und Monierbau on May 24, 1895 and was converted to Beton- und Monierbau Aktien-Gesellschaft in 1925 .

During the Second World War , only armaments were built. Prisoners of Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp had to do forced labor for the company. Forced laborers, prisoners of war and concentration camp inmates were also used for the Fink II submarine bunker from 1941 onwards .

After the Second World War and the loss of branches in eastern Germany, the company moved its headquarters from Berlin to Düsseldorf. The company developed into a major construction company with more than 8,000 employees and branches throughout western Germany as well as a significant proportion of sales abroad, particularly in Algeria , Nigeria and Saudi Arabia .

In 1977 the company with 19,677 employees generated sales of 1.602 billion DM from construction work and advanced to become the fifth largest construction group in Germany. Due to value adjustments from the company's expanded international business, the company ran into financial difficulties and was supported by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia at the beginning of 1977 with a state guarantee of 100 million DM and later by the federal government for another 50 million DM. The Dutch OGEM NV took over around 40 percent of the shares in the company in the summer of 1977 and replaced Rütgerswerke AG as a major shareholder (previously 44 percent). The finance broker Jürgen Amann from Cologne bought around 25 percent of the shares in Beton- und Monierbau AG via a loan from the Deutsche Genossenschaftsbank for 40 million DM.

From 1970 to March 1978, Heinz-Friedrich Hoppe was the company's CEO.

On April 3, 1979, the CEO Hans Walther Baumhoff, who had been in office since August 10, 1978, had to file for bankruptcy for the company after WestLB had rejected a reorganization concept. It was one of the largest bankruptcies in German post-war history. The bankruptcy administrator was Friedrich Wilhelm Metzeler.

Well-known construction projects up to 1979 (selection)

Successor company

The Austrian subsidiary Beton- und Monierbau Ges.mbH , which is mainly active in tunnel construction, emerged unscathed from the bankruptcy and the tunnel construction division was sold in 1979 to the company Wix & Liesenhoff based in Dortmund, and from September 1979 to Deilmann AG based in Bad Bentheim . In 1991 it was taken over by Preussag . Since 2013 it has been part of the Czech Metrostav group as BeMo Tunneling GmbH (BeMo) .

In 1997, the Beton- und Monierbau GmbH (yellow logo) based in Nordhorn was separated from Deilmann AG through a management buy-out . The Nordhorn company has branches in Leipzig (takeover of the Beton- und Monierbau Leipzig GmbH branch in 1997) and Meppen -Esterfeld (2002 takeover of the Brandewiede construction company ) and employs around 250 people.

Monier Construction Company (Nigeria) Limited , which has been operating in Nigeria since 1955 and registered in Port Harcourt since 1957 , was also continued and is now wholly owned and managed by Nigerian business people.

The special construction company BuM Beton- und Monierbau GmbH in Herne with 250 employees and an orange logo also continues the name. It belonged to Heitkamp BauHolding until 2011 and was taken over by the Feldhaus Group in Schmallenberg in February 2012 .

literature

  • Petra Krusell (ed.), Bernard Wittmann: Letters from Kurdistan 1954–1963. Between war and idyll. A life in road construction. Schiler, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89930-207-3 . (The engineer Wittmann worked for the company in Iraq in the 1950s and 1960s.)

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