Dywidag

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Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG

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legal form Corporation
founding 1865 (since 1869 as Dyckerhoff & Widmann)
resolution August 2001
Reason for dissolution Merger with Walter Bau to Walter Bau-AG combined with Dywidag
Seat Munich , Germany
Branch Construction company

Dywidag (Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG) was a large German construction company , which was founded in 1865 as the cement goods factory Lang & Cie. was founded in Karlsruhe and has since been largely absorbed by the Strabag group. Dyckerhoff & Widmann had regional branches and plants in all parts of Germany as well as subsidiaries worldwide. With numerous developments and patents, the company was one of the world's pioneers in building with stamped concrete , reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete . It is not to be confused with Dyckerhoff , a cement manufacturer from Wiesbaden.

history

The fathers of the company, which was founded in 1865 as the cement goods factory Lang & Cie. was founded in Karlsruhe , were the businessman Heinrich Lang, the building inspector Franz Serger and the cement industrialist Wilhelm Gustav Dyckerhoff . After Dyckerhoff's son Eugen Dyckerhoff and his father-in-law Gottlieb Widmann joined the company in 1869, the company was renamed Dyckerhoff & Widmann KG . In 1907 the name was changed to a stock corporation and the company headquarters were relocated to Wiesbaden-Biebrich .

One of the best-known projects is built from 1911 to 1913, the Centennial Hall in Wroclaw , which since 2006 the World Heritage belongs. Franz Dischinger worked for the company from 1913 to 1933 and in particular further developed the shell construction in reinforced concrete.

Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG relocated its headquarters to Berlin in 1935 and became a limited partnership again in 1937 . The owner was Erich Lübbert .

During the Second World War, prisoners from Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp had to do forced labor for the company. After 1945 the company moved to Munich and became a stock corporation again in 1970. The operating since 1923 at Dyckerhoff & Widmann Ulrich Finsterwalder influenced by 1945 as chief designer and partner, the company significantly, especially in the pre-stressed concrete - cantilever .

In 1972 Dywidag merged with the Siemens-Bauunion and made a name for itself in particular as a general contractor in turnkey civil engineering, building construction, industrial construction, underground construction and as a manufacturer of precast elements.

In 1991, the then largest East German construction company, Union-Bau (formerly VEB BMK Coal and Energy ), was taken over by the Treuhandanstalt .

In 2001 Dywidag was merged with the ailing Walter Bau AG from Augsburg to form "Walter Bau AG united with Dywidag" . Four years later, the merged company filed for bankruptcy . German parts of "Walter Bau AG united with Dywidag" were taken over by Strabag under the name Dywidag Bau GmbH . The Dywidag branch in Frankfurt was closed at the end of 2006, Nuremberg and Munich initially continued to work as a pure civil engineering company and today - like the foreign company Dywidag International , which was dissolved in 2011 - belong to the Strabag Group.

The Saar-Palatinate branch was integrated into the Züblin Group (also main shareholder Strabag) in 2007 and then finally closed in 2008.

The Austrian Dywidag was acquired by the owners of the Salzburger Bauunternehmung Hinteregger and will be continued under the name Dyckerhoff & Widmann Gesellschaft mbH as an independent company based in Linz . DYWIDAG-Systems International (DSI) , active in the clamping technology sector, was sold to investors in June 2011.

literature

  • Knut Stegmann: The construction company Dyckerhoff & Widmann. The beginnings of concrete construction in Germany 1865–1918. Tübingen / Berlin, 2014. (with an overview of the entire company's history) ISBN 978-3803007537

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stegmann 2014, pp. 22–33.
  2. ^ Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium . Ernst & Sohn , Berlin 2018, p. 734ff. ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9