Evangelical settlement agency in Bavaria
| The ESW - Evangelical Settlement Works in Bavaria | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | July 18, 1949 |
| Seat | Hans-Sachs-Platz 10, 90403 Nuremberg |
| management | Hannes B. Erhardt ( managing director ); Robert Flock (Managing Director); Erich Theodor Barzen ( Chairman of the Supervisory Board ) |
| Number of employees | 355 |
| sales | EUR 59 million |
| Branch | Housing industry |
| Website | www.esw.de |
| As of July 13, 2017 | |
The Evangelical Siedlungswerk in Bavaria (ESW) - ESW is a founded in 1949 housing companies of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . The company is headquartered in Nuremberg and has a branch in Munich . The Evangelische Siedlungswerk manages around 13,500 units throughout Bavaria.
Company history
After the end of the Second World War , around a fifth - around four million - of the pre-war apartments were destroyed, and at the same time over 12 million people fled and were displaced to Germany. In their need, many people looking for accommodation turned to church institutions, in particular to the Evangelical Relief Organization, an aid organization of the Evangelical Church in Germany . In order to meet the demand, the relief organization set up an advice center on October 1, 1947 for questions about the acquisition and reconstruction of apartments in Nuremberg. In January 1949, after a meeting of the main committee of the aid organization of the Evangelical Churches in Germany, the settlement officer Johann Friedrich, who had also helped found the aid organization with the Nuremberg city mission, was commissioned to examine whether the establishment of Protestant settlement cooperatives could promote housing construction. As a result, on July 18, 1949, the Evangelisches Siedlungswerk in Bayern, Gemeinnützige Bau- und Siedlungsgesellschaft mbH , a non-profit property developer for Bavaria was founded in Nuremberg with the participation of the Bavarian regional church. This should help as many people as possible, especially refugee families, to acquire socially responsible property. The existing settlement service and settlement advice were taken over into the ESW. The settlement company began its work with the manager and settlement consultant Johann Friedrich, who was supported in his work on a voluntary basis by Pastor Balthasar Dyroff .
Not only in Bavaria, all over Germany, such settlement works were brought into being by the respective regional churches, and the Catholic Church also founded numerous settlement agencies throughout Germany and thus participated intensively in social housing construction in the post-war period.
The ESW - Evangelisches Siedlungswerk was mainly supported by the Bavarian regional church when it was founded, but also received support from some general church administrations, for example Nuremberg and Augsburg, associations for internal mission, such as Bamberg and Nuremberg, other diaconal works of the church, such as the Rummelsberger Anstalten , and some companies. As the main shareholder, the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church not only raised a large part of the share capital, but also made numerous properties available under heritable building rights. By 1961, the regional church, church and beneficiary foundations and the parishes had collected heritable building rights for 178,270 square meters of building land.
The supervisory board of the settlement agency was made up of both church officials and personalities from the private sector - such as savings bank and mortgage bank directors or architects. The first chairman of the supervisory board was Karl Plochmann, employee of the overall church administration; he held this office until 1958.
The Protestant housing company initially had its headquarters in Pirckheimerstraße in Nuremberg, before moving to Hans-Sachs-Platz after a few stops, where it stayed until 2017. Due to the necessary renovation work on the office buildings on Hans-Sachs-Platz and Hans-Sachs-Gasse, the company temporarily moved to Spittlertorgraben near the Plärrer in spring 2017. In addition to its headquarters in Nuremberg, ESW has had a branch in Munich since 1950 for work in southern Bavaria. The move to the old company headquarters is planned for autumn 2020.
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Supervisory board
- Chairman
- Dr. Erich Theodor Barzen, Oberkirchenrat, Munich
- Deputy Chairman
- Erich Rödel, bank director i. R., Ingolstadt
- Members
- Michael Bammessel, President DW Bayern, Nuremberg
- Günther Beckstein, former Prime Minister D., Nuremberg
- Günter Gloser, former Minister of State D., Nuremberg
- Barbara Kittelberger, city dean, Munich
- Prof. Hubert Kress, architect, Erlangen
- Christopher Krieghoff, Dean, Nuremberg
- Dr. Stefan Ark Nitsche, regional bishop, Nuremberg
- Jürgen Rose, bank director i. R., Munich
- Christian Vogel, Mayor, Nuremberg
Managing Director of the ESW Group
- Hannes B. Erhardt, Robert Flock
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education: Forced Migration after the Second World War | bpb. Retrieved July 13, 2017 .
- ^ Mona Langen: Protestant Housing in Bavaria: Discussion within the Church and implementation until 1957 . In: Association for Bavarian Church History (Hrsg.): Association for Bavarian Church History . tape 72 . Degener, Neustadt ad Aisch 1997, ISBN 3-7686-4149-X , p. 159 .
- ^ Rudolf Strohbach: On the history of the evangelical settlement works in Bavaria. In: Evangelisches Siedlungswerk in Bayern (Hrsg.): 12 years of Evangelisches Siedlungswerk in Bayern. From the work of a church housing company . Munich 1961, p. 8th ff .
- ↑ Langen: Protestant housing . S. 164 .
- ↑ Langen: Protestant housing . S. 165 .
- ↑ Balthasar Dyroff: The way of the evangelical settlement agency in Bavaria as a diaconal work of the church . In: Evangelisches Siedlungswerk in Bayern (Hrsg.): 12 years of Evangelisches Siedlungswerk in Bayern. From the work of a church housing company. Munich 1961, p. 7th f .
- ^ Rudolf Strohbach, Balthasar Dyroff: The Evangelical Settlement Works in Bavaria . Company archive of the Evangelical Settlement Works in Bavaria, Nuremberg 11 September 1951, p. 3 .
- ↑ Langen: Protestant housing . S. 163 .
- ^ Strohbach: History of the Evangelical Settlement Works . S. 10 . For more information on heritable building rights and the beneficiary foundation association, see Langen, Evangelischer Wohnungsbau, pp. 178–182.
- ↑ Dyroff: Path of the Evangelical Settlement Works . S. 7 . and: Langen, Protestant Housing, p. 164.
- ↑ Langen: Protestant housing . S. 167 .
- ↑ Balthasar Dyroff: Report on the activities of the Evangelical Settlement Works in Bavaria . Company archive of the Evangelical Settlement Works in Bavaria, Nuremberg, p. 3 .