Elbe workshops

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The Elbe-Werkstätten GmbH is a Hamburg company that people with disabilities in particular, but not more than 3000 jobs in exclusive own establishments offering.

history

At the beginning of the 1980s, under the then Senator Ortwin Runde, the idea of ​​founding Elbe-Werkstätten GmbH developed in the Hamburg social authority. This took place on May 29, 1986. The public company emerged from Winterhuder Werkstätten GmbH, which had existed in Hamburg since 1958. In addition to Winterhuder Werkstätten GmbH and Hamburger Werkstatt GmbH, founded in 1974, Elbe-Werkstätten GmbH was the third municipal company that offered jobs for people with disabilities. In 2010, the municipal workshops for people with disabilities merged . Hamburger Werkstatt GmbH and Winterhuder Werkstätten GmbH merged in September 2011 under the umbrella of Elbe-Werkstätten GmbH.

working area

The areas in which employees of Elbe-Werkstätten GmbH were or are active include (s) u. a. data archiving and recording, gastronomy and craft . Employees of Elbe-Werkstätten GmbH work, for example, in bookbinding , electrical and metalworking, gardening , sewing , chair weaving, carpentry or pottery .

Contract partner

Contract partner of Elbe-Werkstätten GmbH in the field of handicraft, in the bookbinding, was Books on Demand . In addition, employees of the company also work for Beiersdorf AG or Lufthansa Technik AG .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of Elbe-Werkstätten GmbH , accessed on July 15, 2016.
  2. The Elbe in the digital flow - start of the new service area 'digitization'. In: No fear of heights. Elbe-Werkstätten GmbH magazine, issue 33, 2006, pp. 8–9.
  3. Bookbinding - an old craft is booming at the Elbe workshops . In: No fear of heights. Elbe-Werkstätten GmbH magazine, issue 40, 2009/2010, pp. 12–13.
  4. Disabled people lend a hand for Hamburg's companies . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from March 6, 2012.