Brown coal and briquette industry AG
| Brown coal and briquet (t) industry AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | June 29, 1900 |
| resolution | 1971 |
| Reason for dissolution | Merger with Elektro Licht- und Kraftanlagen AG (Elikraft) |
| Seat |
Berlin → Munich (from 1948) → Frankfurt am Main (from 1976) → Borken (from 1989) |
| Branch | Coal economy |
The brown coal and briquette industry AG , BUBIAG for short , was a German company in the coal industry .
BUBIAG operated several lignite mines in Lower Lusatia , and later also in Central Germany and North Hesse , as well as some downstream briquette factories , smoldering and power plants .
history
Bubiag was founded in 1900 by the Jewish coal wholesaler Fritz Friedländer from Gleiwitz with the financial participation of AEG . The basis for the company was formed by two lignite mines near Lauchhammer in Lower Lusatia , which Friedländer had acquired or opened shortly before , namely the “Bismarck” mine in Poley and the “Milly” mine in Bockwitz .
In the next few years, especially in the context of the First World War , the company grew rapidly and rose to become one of the most important mining companies in the Lausitz region. As a result, the Bubiag expanded its activities to the Central German, North Hessian and Rhenish areas.
In the hard-fought coal market of industrialization in the early 20th century, Bubiag was able to assert itself against competition and takeover attempts by competitors, particularly the brothers Ignaz and Julius Petschek , and retained its independence. From the 1920s onwards, the Bubiag cooperated more frequently with Ilse Bergbau AG and with the Silesian Graeflich Schaffgotsch works . The latter (later called the Schaffgotsch mining company ) took over the majority of shares in Bubiag from the Friedländer Group in the 1930s.
In 1934 the Bubiag became a founding member of the Braunkohle-Petrol AG (BRABAG). In this context, Bubiag received a general license agreement for the Bubiag-Didier generators developed jointly with Didier-Werke . These were used in almost all Fischer-Tropsch systems until 1945 . The largest Bubiag-Didier systems went into operation in the Brabag factory in Schwarzheide .
The business operations of Bubiag in the East German territories ended abruptly after the Second World War in the course of the occupation of East Germany by the Red Army and the successive, compensation-free expropriation of companies and facilities by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) in 1945.
After the loss of their goods and businesses in East Germany and Silesia, the Schaffgotsch family moved the headquarters of the remaining group of companies (including Bubiag) to Munich in 1948. Of the mining activities of Bubiag, which from then on had its operational administrative headquarters in Hannoversch Münden , only the northern Hessian mines remained, especially in the Borkener Revier , near Frielendorf (acquired in 1923, now renatured Silbersee ) and on the Meißner (opencast mines Grebestein and Kalbe ). Attempts to establish themselves in the Rheinische Revier were soon abandoned.
In 1951, Bubiag took over the majority of shares in Elektrische Licht- und Kraftanlagen AG (Elikraft) . In 1971 , Schaffgotsch merged Bubiag with their daughter Elikraft under their company . From then on, Elikraft served as the central holding company of the Schaffgotsch Group. In 1976 Elikraft moved its headquarters to Frankfurt am Main .
After the lignite mining industry in North Hesse came to an end, heavy losses and capital cuts in the 1970s and 1980s, Elikraft was mainly active as a pure management company without any real operational business. At the end of the 1980s, the Rudolph family from Borken - Dillich took over the majority in the company and moved the headquarters to Borken in 1989. Most recently (2011) Elikraft operated several parking garages and two hydropower plants.
Web links
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the lignite and briquette industry AG in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Official spelling initially also Braunkohlen- und Briket-Industrie AG (Briket with only one t)
- ^ A b c Daniel Neuner: History of Lauchhammer. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 23, 2015 ; Retrieved August 29, 2012 . 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.
- ↑ a b Petra Listewnik, Michael Schäfer, Jörg Ludwig: Economy and State in Saxony's Industrialization, 1750-1930 . Ed .: Ulrich Hess (= Publications of the Saxon Economic Archive e.V .: Contributions to Economic History . Volume 3 ). Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2003, ISBN 3-935693-86-9 .
- ↑ a b The leftovers are coming . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1974, p. 32 ( online - August 19, 1974 ).
- ↑ a b End of a dynasty . In: The time . No. 34/1974 ( zeit.de ).
- ↑ Special archive of the German economy (ed.): Handbook of German stock corporations . tape 49 , part 1. Hoppenstedt, 1944, p. 97-98 .
- ^ Lorentz A. Conradi: The Chemical Utilization of the Subbituminous Coals of Washington. University of Washington Press, 1950, p. 46.
- ↑ United States Bureau of Mines (ed.): Information Circular. US Department of the Interior, 1945, p. 12.
- ^ Gas Enciclopedia Italiana, accessed June 16, 2019
- ↑ Guesswork on the "southern brown coal" . In: Dürener Zeitung . October 28, 1950 ( full text on wisoveg.de ).
- ↑ www.elikraft.de - Internet presence of the Elektro Licht- und Kraftanlagen AG , Borken
