Bochum mineral oil company

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Bochum mineral oil company

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legal form GmbH & Co.
founding May 18, 1962
resolution May 4th 1983
Seat Bochum , Germany
management Herbert Schnapka
Number of employees 1500
sales 2.3 billion  DM
Branch mineral oil

The Bochumer Mineralöl-Gesellschaft (BOMIN) was a Bochum group of companies that originally only dealt with the oil trade, but after the relaxation of the economic sanctions against the Soviet Union and the profits associated with the monopoly-like position in Eastern trade, it also took up more far-reaching activities. These activities ranged from the search for oil to oil trading, refining and our own filling station network with an extensive fleet of tanker trucks. Furthermore, advances were made to develop other business areas such as solar energy and steel processing.

prehistory

The Bochumer Chemie Imhausen Company , founded in 1951 by Karl-Heinz Imhausen , which had specialized in chemical and plastics compensation business with the Eastern Bloc at that time, was also offered crude oil as a compensation service for the goods delivered from West Germany. Since Bochumer Chemie wanted to concentrate on the chemicals trade, the BOMIN Bochumer Mineralölgesellschaft was founded in May 1962 to handle the petroleum business. One of the partners - Dr. Herbert Schnapka , who had already gained experience in the oil trade at Rhenania-Ossag before the war, took over completely in December 1964. Due to the tube embargo imposed in 1963 , the large corporations were robbed of their own compensation business "tubes against oil", so that Bomin was able to fill the gap and pay for Russian crude oil directly in foreign currency instead of goods.

Ascent

The rented offices in the Dresdner Bank building and later on Brückstrasse in downtown Bochum were  abandoned in 1975 with the construction of a new, representative administrative building on Königsallee - the Bomin House . The annual turnover of the group of companies consisting of 32 individual companies with a total of around 1500 employees was up to 2.3 billion  DM . The main buyer of the oil shipped from Russia via Latvia to Emden and Wilhelmshaven was the then state-owned VEBA group, which guaranteed purchase quantities of three to four million tons a year. From 1965, the transport was partly organized with its own fleet consisting of relatively small 20,000 t tankers. However, BOMIN also supplied end consumers through its own heating oil sales and petrol station chain . In the mid-1970s, he joined the Mönninghoff group of companies , a closed-die forging and construction company, bought the screw and flange factory Emil Helfferich's successor in Kirchheim / Teck at the end of the 1970s and in mid-1981 took over the Hattingen operation of Leo Gottwald KG (renamed in Mönninghoff GmbH plant Gottwald Hattingen ) diversification beyond the mineral oil business. A liaison office in Bonn headed by former member of the Bundestag Ernst Majonica even carried out lobbying work .

Decline

The decline began with the takeover of the loss-making Frisia oil works from Veba in Emden in 1977/78, which generated monthly losses of 1.5 million DM. In 1981, the monopoly-like position in the oil trade with the Soviet Union collapsed when the main customer Veba established direct contacts with the East as a result of the desperate economic situation in the Soviet Union and the resulting desire for a massive expansion of the exported oil volumes for foreign exchange, which made Bomin superfluous as an intermediary. The failure to extend credit lines in May 1983 by the house bank WestLB then meant that the majority of the Bomin companies had to file a settlement on May 4, 1983 , which ended in subsequent bankruptcy for the parent company and some subsidiaries .

today

Trimonte Office Park 2009

The administration building on Königsallee in Bochum - known as Bomin-Haus  - is used today by the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See . The solar energy branch Bomin-Solar and the former German-Russian joint venture Bominflot Bunkergesellschaft, founded in 1976, and the Bomin-Heizöl company in Berlin still have “Bomin” in their company name. On June 1, 2012, the Mabanaft trading division of Marquard & Bahls announced the takeover of Bominflot and the renaming to Bomin .

The Trimonte office park is located on the site of the demolished Mönninghoff plant on Wiemelhauserstraße / Wasserstraße in Bochum, and the buildings of the Hattingen company are still used by several metalworking companies - including a flange factory - located in the listed factories in Kirchheim / Teck is now a hardware store for historic building materials.

Companies and holdings of BOMIN

The most important members of the former Bomin group with location details and employment fields:

  • Allgemeine Tanklager AG, Offenbach am Main : Tank farm in the Mainhafen
  • Bomin North Sea Ltd., London: Oil field exploration in the North Sea
  • Bomin Shipping & Agency GmbH, Hamburg: Ship management and investment company
  • Bomin Heizöl, Bochum / Berlin: Distribution of heating oil
  • Bomin Solar GmbH, Lörrach: Production and sales of solar technical systems
  • Bominflot bunker company, Hamburg: tank farm, bunker oil
  • Erdölwerke Frisia , Emden: Refinery and tank farm
  • Mönninghoff GmbH, Bochum: steel foundry, drop forge and flange factory with plants in Hattingen and Bochum, construction company
  • Trans-Oel, company for oil transport and trade, Bochum

Tanker fleet

  • Bomin (launched in 1957, bought in 1965, sold in 1978, ship number 5365168, 13,449 GRT )
  • Bomin II (launched in 1958, purchased in 1974, renamed Bomin Wilhelmshaven in 1981, ship number 5011638, 12202 BRT )
  • Bomin (launched in 1972, bought in 1981, ship number 7225582, 5950 BRT )
  • Bomin Emden (launched in 1980, ship number 8007080, 3999 BRT )

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commercial register of the Bochum district court HRB221
  2. ↑ Data from the commercial register HRA 384, Bochum district court
  3. ↑ Article The great unknown is the North Sea oil . ( Memento from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hamburger Abendblatt , June 11, 1983, page 11
  4. ↑ Personal details . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1974, p. 130 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Veba-Öl company chronicle 1970–1980
  6. ↑ Werner Erdmann: The oil prince who bet on the wrong horse . ( Memento from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hamburger Abendblatt , May 5, 1983, page 27
  7. ↑ Website ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2010 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. of the company Bominflot Bunkergesellschaft für Mineralöle mbH & Co. KG  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bominflot.net
  8. ↑ Press release "Bominflot gets a new shareholder and becomes Bomin" from June 1, 2012 on bomin.com ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved November 18, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bomin.com
  9. ↑ In the Trimonte-Park the final sprint begins .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Ruhr Nachrichten (Bochum), March 30, 2002@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.westline.de  
  10. ↑ Website of the company Albert Greifenberg & Co. KG ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.albert-greifenberg.de
  11. ^ Website of the company Kreis Kirchheim ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2009 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kreislaufkirchheim.de
  12. ↑ Collector catalog data on Allgemeine Tanklager AG share
  13. ↑ Article From the Coast . ( Memento from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hamburger Abendblatt , January 19, 1981, page 18

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