Boswau & Knauer

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Boswau & Knauer was a construction company founded in Berlin at the end of the 19th century and later operating from Düsseldorf . As a stock corporation , it was transferred to Walter Thosti Boswau (WTB) based in Augsburg in the 1980s . The company worked with architects such as Albert Froelich , at times also employed its own architects such as Otto Rehnig or implemented large-scale buildings in particular based on plans by external architects such as Johann Emil Schaudt . It was in the 1920s years the leader of the German construction industry .

history

Boswau & Knauer AG shares of RM 1000 in November 1940
Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) based on plans by Johann Emil Schaudt shortly after completion
The Hansa House , built in Hanover between 1905 and 1906
The industrial palace at the Schlesisches Tor , seen from the Spree side
The Grand Hôtel Esplanade based on plans by Otto Rehnig , here in the 1920s
The Oestertalsperre in Plettenberg am Ebbegebirge / North Rhine-Westphalia ;
Photo from 2009

The company was originally founded in 1892 as a plastering company by the architect Paul Boswau and the businessman Hermann Knauer , initially in the form of an open trading company . Paul Boswau retired in 1893 again leave the company, Hermann Knauer she headed until his death in 1909. The company was, because temporary as GmbH changed its name to the beginning of the Weimar Republic converted into a corporation 1,922th From 1924 at the latest, Max Knüttel , who was also a member of the board of directors of the AG, led the company as director.

One of the company's areas of work was originally ephemeral exhibition landscapes such as Alpine panoramas in Rabitz style . Employed architects such as Otto Rehnig and Johann Emil Schaudt worked for the company, but also Albert Frölich and Bernhard Sehring for individual projects .

In the 1920s, the company was based at Mohrenstrasse 9 in Berlin . Specializing in building construction , civil engineering and reinforced concrete construction business there at that time branch offices in Brandenburg an der Havel , Dusseldorf, Gliwice , Hamburg , Hannover and Cologne . In addition, it operated sawmills , planing and wood impregnation plants in Hüfingen and Unterlüß .

After the Second World War , in which Boswau & Knauer had to record "considerable war losses", the construction company was relocated to Düsseldorf in 1949. The company, which in the early 1960s had a total turnover of around DM 160 million with a capital stock of almost DM 10 million  and employed around 3,000 people, hit the headlines under CEO Hans-Joachim Hänchen, particularly with regard to the accounting of the Cologne subsidiary Artur Simon Baugesellschaft mbH . In 1967, when the capital had risen to around 40 million DM with a turnover of more than 200 million DM, Boswau & Knauer was still in the red and, at the time, was largely in the hands of the union-owned Deutsche Bauhütten GmbH , despite the layoff of 1,000 employees for many years Talk about not paying dividends .

In 1982, Boswau & Knauer was taken over by Thosti AG , which merged into Walter Thosti Boswau (WTB) from Augsburg in 1983 .

Well-known buildings

Fonts

  • Boswau & Knauer GmbH (ed.): Building executions 1‑2 , Berlin u. ao J. [around 1905]
  • Boswau & Knauer company building. Owner Hermann Knauer. Berlin W. 30. Victoria Luise-Platz 9 , (Berlin: Lezius), [1921]; Uncommented "business card" as a photographic presentation on 39 panels of the company headquarters

literature

Web links

Commons : Boswau & Knauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Compare the information from the German National Library
  2. ↑ a b Friedpark: Alter Zwölf-Apostel-Friedhof / Gedächtnisstätte / Hermann Knauer on the page historical personalities in Berlin cemeteries (berlin.friedparks.de) in cooperation with the association Grabstättenerhaltung Berlin e. V.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Sponsorship W 56 Library signature 4 ° Ny 1234 5 / Boswau & Knauer business premises. Owner Hermann Knauer. Berlin W. 30. Victoria Luise-Platz 9. - (Berlin: Lezius), [1921] on the website of the Friends of the Berlin State Library e. V. ( freunde-sbb.de ).
  4. ↑ Knüttel, Max in the database of the German Federal Archives with data from the files of the Reich Chancellery for the time of the Weimar Republic (1919–1933)
  5. ↑ Silke Haps: From faux terrain to accessible alpine panorama. Entertainment architecture at the turn of the 20th century . In: Archimaera , 3, 2010, ISSN  1865-7001 , pp. 97-107 ( PDF ).
  6. ↑ Compare the image ( memento from May 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) of the advertising sheet with a photo reproduction of the company building on the bochumer-bunker.de site, which is specialized in bunkers in Bochum , from the Bochumer Study Group for Bunkers, Tunnels, Cover Ditches and Underground Manufacturing Systems . V.
  7. ↑ a b Boswau & Knauer / severely examined / balance sheets . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1963 ( online ).
  8. ↑ kw: Boswau & Knauer / A nuisance . In: Die Zeit , No. 42/1967.
  9. ↑ Landesdenkmalamt Berlin: Berlin, Viktoria-Luise-Platz 9, Motzstraße 55  in the German Digital Library
  10. ↑ in the description of the pictures for the Düsseldorf theater: construction by the construction company Boswau & Knauer, which in turn entrusted the architect Bernhard Sehring. , in Rhein und Düssel (No. 43), October 22, 1905, p. 8
  11. ↑ Photos ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. on Panoramio @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.panoramio.com
  12. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Aegidientorplatz 4 . In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 75.
  13. ↑ Company history of "Werner Scholz GmbH" From apprentice to managing director . Ahlberg Metalltechnik GmbH, with a photo documentation