Dierig Holding
| Dierig Holding AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | DE0005580005 |
| founding | 1805 |
| Seat |
Augsburg , Germany
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| management |
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| Number of employees | 187 |
| sales | 58.7 million euros (2019) |
| Branch | Textile industry , real estate |
| Website | www.dierig.de |
| As of December 31, 2019 | |
The Dierig Holding AG is a publicly traded , international textile and real estate group with headquarters in Augsburg .
In the textile division, the company develops and markets bed linen from the fleuresse and Kaeppel brands and trades in raw and finished fabrics internationally. A specialty is the development, design and marketing of African damasks . The materials are in West Africa to boubous assembled. In addition, companies in the Dierig Group market contract textiles (Bimatex GmbH: bed linen for hotels, hospitals and care facilities) and technical textiles (Christian Dierig GmbH).
The company's own textile production with spinning , weaving and finishing was relocated in the mid-1990s. Since then, the vacant areas have been developed, converted and rented to third parties by the real estate division. The Dierig Group has been buying and developing real estate in the greater Augsburg area on the open market since 2006. The properties comprise around 520,000 square meters of land and 160,000 square meters of building space at the Augsburg and Kempten locations .
history
The Dierig company was founded in 1805 by Christian Gottlob Dierig (1781–1848) as a textile publishing company in Langenbielau in Silesia . Own looms were put into operation in 1830, and until the late 19th century most of the fabrics were made by hand weavers at home. One of the specialties was jacquard fabrics.
Uprising of the Silesian weavers in 1844
In 1844 the Dierig factories in Langenbielau became a scene of the Silesian weavers' uprising of 1844 . After the Prussian military fired at the demonstrating weavers - ten men and one woman were killed in the process - an angry crowd stormed the factories, smashed the looms and looted the camps. In Gerhart Hauptmann's drama Die Weber , the Dierig company is coded as “Dittrich”. A historically correct reproduction of the events fell victim to the dramatization.
Industrialization and expansion
After Christian Gottlob Dierig's death in 1848, his son Friedrich Dierig senior took over. (1818–1894) managed the business. He and his son Friedrich Dierig jun. (1845–1931) increased the proportion of industrially manufactured goods. Textile printing and spinning mills were also added to the weaving mill. In 1905 a branch was opened in Gellenau . In 1918 Dierig acquired the mechanical weaving mill at Mühlbach in Augsburg , which with 771 jacquard looms was one of the largest jacquard weaving mills in Germany, but was closed due to the war. With the purchase of the factory the expansion of the Silesian company into West Germany began. This was done against the background of moving closer to the customers and breaking free from the peripheral situation. In 2018, Dierig Holding has been represented at its current headquarters in Augsburg for 100 years.
The defining figures of the fourth generation were the brothers Wolfgang (1879–1945) and Gottfried Dierig (1889–1945). Under her leadership, the Dierig company went public in 1928 and in 1930 took over the Hammersen Group with textile factories in Münsterland , Augsburg and Kempten in the Allgäu. The Augsburg cotton spinning mill on Stadtbach joined the group in 1930. With around 15,300 employees in 19 plants, Dierig was the largest cotton company in continental Europe before the Second World War.
Dierig used extensive forced labor for production. Jewish women imprisoned in the forced labor camps in Langenbielau and Gellenau, among others, had to work in the company's weaving mills.
post war period
In the immediate post-war period, the main plant in Langenbielau in Silesia, the plant in Gellenau and the production facilities in the Soviet occupation zone were expropriated. The company then moved its headquarters to Augsburg. In the post-war period, Dierig developed under the leadership of Christian Gottfried Dierig into the largest textile group in West Germany. The weaving mills at Mühlbach, Senkelbach and Fichtelbach as well as the Wertach spinning mill formed a complex in 1950 with around 3,200 employees. In 1955 Dierig employed 10,000 people across Germany. The branded textiles produced under license by the group included the non-iron branded fabrics Cottonova and Diolen Star , from which the non-iron "shirt with the black rose" was made from 1968, and Helanca , a rayon. The fleuresse brand was expanded in 1962.
Reaction to the crisis in the German textile industry
The crisis in the German textile industry , which began around 1955 and worsened after 1970 , Dierig initially sought through acquisitions and cooperations (e.g. by merging the Dierig subsidiary Prinz Druck with the wage equipment of the Augsburg textile company Martini to form Prima-Textil GmbH & Co.) revoke. From the 1980s onwards, staff reductions followed and, from the 1990s onwards, plant closings. The in-house production was then gradually relocated abroad from 1990 to 1997.
present
Textile commercial transactions
Today Dierig acts as a "converter" in the textile sector and is one of the leading providers in the field of fashion fabrics and home textiles. The bed linen as well as the finished goods are designed in our own studios. The bed linen is sold in German-speaking countries, the raw and finished goods worldwide. Most of the production takes place abroad. Christian Dierig , the sixth generation descendant of the founder Christian Gottlob Dierig , has been CEO since June 1997 .
property
After the abandonment of textile production, the real estate division had the task of providing income from renting and leasing to cover pension costs. In the meantime, the real estate segment has developed into a second mainstay of the company.
The group is dedicating the spinning and weaving mill buildings from the historical inventory to rental space and building open spaces. Some of the real estate at the main location is rented to Arbeiterwohlfahrt Augsburg, which operates the Christian-Dierig-Haus senior center there. In addition, the Dierig Group has been buying real estate in the Augsburg area since 2006. Among other things, Dierig acquired parts of the former slaughterhouse and cattle yard in Augsburg in 2006 and 2012 and converted the site into a gastronomy, food and leisure mile. In Gersthofen at the gates of Augsburg, Dierig acquired developed and undeveloped land in 2012 and 2015. Since its development, parts of the space have been rented to the international automotive supplier Faurecia .
The Bocholt location, originally with an area of 100,000 square meters, was developed and sold between 1998 and 2008. The same applies to the Rheine site with around 30,000 square meters. The proceeds flowed into the upgrading of existing properties and the purchase of new properties in and around Augsburg.
Key figures
In the 2019 financial year, the Dierig Group generated sales of 58.7 million euros. Of this, 46.3 million euros went to the textile sector and 12.4 million euros to the real estate sector. The consolidated profit came to 0.3 million euros. The value of the investment properties , i.e. the real estate held as a financial investment, is stated at 78.2 million euros.
Group structure
The Dierig Group is a holding organization. As the parent company, Dierig Holding AG does not have its own operational business, with the exception of a few rental businesses. This is done by subsidiaries:
- Dierig Textilwerke GmbH, Augsburg (real estate)
- fleuresse GmbH, Augsburg (bed linen)
- Adam Kaeppel GmbH, Augsburg (bed linen)
- Christian Dierig GmbH, Augsburg (international fabric trade)
- Bimatex GmbH, Augsburg (international fabric trade)
- Christian Dierig GmbH, Leonding (bed linen in Austria and Eastern Europe)
- Dierig AG, Wil (bed linen in Switzerland)
share
The company's share is listed under ISIN DE0005580005 ( WKN 5580005).
The subscribed capital of eleven million euros is divided into 4.2 million no-par value shares with an arithmetical share in the share capital of 2.62 euros. The largest shareholder is Textil-Treuhand GmbH, which holds a majority stake of 70.13 percent in Dierig Holding AG. The members of the Dierig family pool their shares in Textil-Treuhand GmbH.
Dierig Holding holds 96,900 own shares. The remaining shares are in free float .
literature
- Dierig Holding AG (Ed.): Dierig. Weber. Since 1805 . Edition Braus in the Wachter-Verlag, ISBN 3-89904-164-X .
- Günther Grünsteudel et al. (Ed.): Augsburger Stadtlexikon . 2nd Edition. Perlach-Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-922769-28-4 , p. 351-352 .
- Old companies of the city and the economic region of Augsburg . Engelhardt Verlag, 1993, p. 88-90 .
- Dierig Holding AG (Ed.): Material for Augsburg. 1918 to 2018. Dierig an Lech and Wertach . Self-published, ISBN 978-3-00-058948-5 .
Web links
- Website of Dierig Holding AG
- Dierig Holding in Augsburgwiki
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Dierig Holding in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Pöllmann: Material for Augsburg. 1918 to 2018. Dierig an Lech and Wertach. Ed .: Dierig Holding AG. Self-published, Augsburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-058948-5 , pp. 20-23 .
- ^ Hans Pöllmann: Material for Augsburg. 1918 to 2018. Dierig an Lech and Wertach. Ed .: Dierig Holding AG. Self-published, Augsburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-058948-5 , pp. 19 .
- ^ Forced labor camp for Jews Langenbielau. In: Federal Archives. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
- ^ Hans Pöllmann: Material for Augsburg. 1918 to 2018. Dierig an Lech and Wertach. Ed .: Dierig Holding AG. Self-published, Augsburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-058948-5 , pp. 118 .
- ^ Hans Pöllmann: Material for Augsburg. 1918 to 2018. Dierig an Lech and Wertach. Ed .: Dierig Holding AG. Self-published, Augsburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-058948-5 , pp. 118 .
- ^ Hans Pöllmann: Material for Augsburg. 1918 to 2018. Dierig an Lech and Wertach. Ed .: Dierig Holding AG. Self-published, Augsburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-058948-5 , pp. 136 .
- ↑ http://www.b4bschwaben.de/b4b-nachrichten/augsburg_artikel,-faurecia-und-dierig-investieren-20-millionen-euro-in-standort-gersthofen-_arid,153047.html
- ↑ Dierig Holding AG , p. 2, accessed on June 15, 2020
- ↑ Dierig Holding AG , p. 62, accessed on June 15, 2020
- ↑ Dierig Holding AG , p. 93 , accessed on June 15, 2020
- ^ Dierig Holding AG , p . 90, accessed June 15, 2020
- ↑ Dierig Holding AG , p. 59, accessed on June 15, 2020
Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 0.6 ″ N , 10 ° 52 ′ 23 ″ E