ESG (company)

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ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1967
Seat Munich , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Jörg Ohlsen
Christoph Otten
Dr. Mihaela Seidl
Number of employees 2,000 (2018)
sales € 323 million (2018)
Branch Electronics, software
Website www.esg.de

The ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH is mainly in the field of armaments operating system and software company based in Munich and headquarters in Fuerstenfeldbruck . ESG develops, integrates and operates complex, security-relevant electronic and IT systems for the military, authorities and companies. The business activity is divided into three corporate divisions: Defense & Public Security ( defense technology ), ESG Mobility ( automotive industry ) and Cyoss ( cyber / IT ). The most important major customer is the Bundeswehr ; In addition, mainly companies from the automotive industry, but also from the aviation, consumer and capital goods industries, are among the customers. ESG does not manufacture any hardware itself, but acts as a manufacturer-independent technology and process consultant, carries out studies and simulations for new systems and supports the management of large IT projects.

history

Due to numerous problems in connection with the controllability of the Lockheed F-104G Starfighter , which resulted in many crashes and tragic deaths , the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg) demanded in 1963 that the eight German electronics companies involved in the license replica of the aircraft Measures to increase the safety and operational readiness of the starfighter. This is how the Flug-Elektronik-Gesellschaft mbH (FEG), based in Munich, was founded. By viewing the aircraft as a holistic system, the FEG engineers succeeded in analyzing the disruptive behavior of the Starfighter components and implementing improvements that made the technology and logistics manageable.

As part of the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany's own defense technology industry, the BMVg urged the establishment of a company that would bundle the defense technology development skills of the electronics industry and thus contribute to replacing the previous license production of weapon systems with in-house developments. In 1967, ESG (Elektronik-System-Gesellschaft mbH) was founded by AEG-Telefunken , Rohde & Schwarz , SEL and Siemens . The first order from ESG was to develop a project proposal for the weapon system electronics of a new combat aircraft, the later Tornado , whose avionics system was developed by ESG together with the British company EASAMS and the Italian company SIA.

In 1970, ESG acquired the majority of the shares in FEG, the companies were organizationally merged and, as the lead company for equipment, responsible for material management and technical and logistical support for the electronics of all airborne weapon systems of the Bundeswehr . In addition, ESG also took on the complete material management and technical support of individual aircraft types such as the Transall C-160 transport aircraft, the Fiat G.91 ground attack aircraft and the Bell UH-1D helicopter . In 1992 ESG and FEG merged to form ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH.

For the German army , ESG developed, among other things, a digital fire control system for the Gepard anti-aircraft gun , the ADLER artillery computer network and the HEROS mobile command and information system .

ESG manages the federally owned warehouses (BEL) of the German Air Force at 52 companies that maintain and repair airborne weapon systems on behalf of the German Armed Forces. These companies use the stock of the warehouse for their work, but all individual parts remain the property of the Bundeswehr. The ESG's tasks include determining the need for spare parts and initiating procurement.

Since May 2000 ESG has been operating the Army's “Central Federal Warehouse (ZEBEL)” in Kaufungen . All spare parts for the armed forces are stored there and can be delivered by partner Schenker AG anywhere in Germany within 24 hours. The more than 50,000 different articles are stored in a high-bay warehouse in a 120 m long hall on 12,000 square meters of storage space with more than 13,000 pallet spaces. Due to the associated closure of the individual warehouses spread across Germany, the stock value of the spare parts could be reduced to 80 million euros.

At the beginning of the 1980s, the until then purely military-technical company began to expand into the civilian sector, in particular into the automotive industry, which has become more and more important as a customer of ESG since the end of the 1990s. Regional offices in Munich, Ingolstadt , Rüsselsheim , Wolfsburg , Cologne and Stuttgart , as well as internationally in Detroit and Shanghai are developing services in the areas of driver assistance systems , connected car , vehicle diagnostic systems , electric mobility , user interfaces and infotainment and training solutions , process management and testing & integration offered.

The company was managed by one commercial and one or two technical managers. From 1999 to 2013, Gerhard Schempp was Chief Executive Officer as technical director. Schempp, who is also President of the German Defense Association , was replaced by Kai Horten on January 1, 2015. Since January 2018, Horten has shared the management with Wolfgang Sczygiol, who was head of the Automotive Division of ESG from 1996 to 2011 and held managerial positions at Brose Fahrzeugteile from 2012 to the end of 2017 .

Until August 2015, the shareholders were Airbus Defense and Space , Rohde & Schwarz , Thales with 30% each and Northrop Grumman with 10%, who then sold their shares to the private investment company Armira Partners GmbH & Co KG, based in Munich. Until spring 2016, the shareholders of the investment company included the Bielefelder Gesellschaft GB GbR with Carl Christian Oetker, Richard Oetker and Ludwig Graf Douglas as shareholders. In addition, the son of John Jahr senior , the publishing heir Michael Jahr, Albrecht Fürst zu Oettingen-Spielberg and members of the von Staff family called von Reitzenstein are among the investors.

numbers

year Employee sales
1997 800 € 100 million
2008 1,200 € 202 million
2014 1,600 € 252 million
2015 1,600 € 262 million
2016 1,600 € 267 million
2017 1,700 € 293 million
2018 2,000 € 323 million

Locations

Subsidiaries

  • ESG Aerosystems Inc. (100%)
  • ESG Automotive Inc. (100%)
  • ESG Automotive China (100%)
  • ESG Consulting GmbH (100%)
  • ESG InterOp Solutions GmbH (100%)
  • ServiceXpert GmbH (100%)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e esg.de: Facts & Figures. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Partnership through thick and thin. ( Memento from July 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (ESG company magazine Spektrum , issue for the 50th birthday of the Bundeswehr in 2005; PDF, accessed October 10, 2016)
  3. ↑ ESG looks back on 40 years of partnership with the armed forces and industry. ( Memento from July 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (ESG company magazine Spektrum , Issue III / 2003 on the 40th company anniversary; PDF, accessed October 10, 2016)
  4. ↑ Management of the Air Force's federal camps ( memento from June 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ The ZEBEL cooperation project ( Memento from June 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Henning Krogh: New manager at ESG: Puchta is to lead the vehicle business . In: Automobilwoche . December 8, 2014.
  7. ↑ Portfolio of the Automotive Division of ESG . IT G. Archived from the original on September 25, 2015. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
  8. ↑ Jens Scheiner: ESG: Wolfgang Sczygiol new managing director . In: Automobile Industry . March 12, 2018.
  9. ↑ Götz Fuchslocher: Wolfgang Sczygiol is responsible for ESG's global automotive business . In: Automobile Production . 20th January 2018.
  10. ↑ Vita Wolfgang Sczygiol ( memento from June 25, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) on the ESG website.
  11. ↑ "Facts & Figures" page on the company website . IT G. Archived from the original on June 9, 2015.
  12. ↑ Holding company based in Munich takes over all shares ( memo from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ); ESG press release of July 31, 2015
  13. ↑ Electronics specialist: Airbus separates from ESG . In: Der Spiegel . July 31, 2015.
  14. ↑ Gerhard Hegmann: Oetker and nobles buy armaments company . In: The world . 18th September 2015.
  15. ↑ a b economic and personal data . IT G. Archived from the original on February 15, 1998.
  16. ↑ a b page "Facts & Figures" on the company website . IT G. Archived from the original on May 12, 2009.
  17. ↑ a b esg.de: Facts & Figures ( Memento from June 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ a b esg.de: Facts & Figures ( Memento from July 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ a b esg.de: Facts & Figures ( Memento from September 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  20. ↑ a b esg.de: Facts & Figures ( Memento from June 25, 2018 in the Internet Archive )

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Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 15 ″  N , 11 ° 36 ′ 7 ″  E