Friedrich Mehmel AG
The Friedrich Mehmel AG was in the 20th century in Hannover based construction company , later a holding among others to manage real estate and equity investments .
history
The company was founded by the bricklayer and architect Friedrich Mehmel right after the First World War in 1918. It initially traded as F. Mehmel, a construction company for building construction , civil engineering and reinforced concrete before it was converted into a stock corporation in 1919 , which, however , was run as a family business for several generations .
With the construction of residential and commercial buildings, including the administration building designed by Hans Poelzig on Beneckeallee, the company was able to quickly establish itself in the construction market in the early years of the Weimar Republic . From 1925 onwards, for a decade, the corporation was involved in a wide variety of residential construction, which was booming at the time, especially in the Hanoverian districts of Südstadt and the garden city built in Kleefeld .
Within the record time of just one year, the workers at Friedrich Mehmel AG erected the Anzeiger-Hochhaus publishing house designed by the architect Fritz Höger . Shortly afterwards, the residential building Walderseestrasse 3 for August Madsack , the Palast-Lichtspiele on Bahnhofstrasse and the Glückauf high-rise building on Geibelplatz were built. The Capitol high-rise on the Schwarzen Bären is one of the buildings that Mehmeln has built using clinker brick .
From 1928 to 1931 the company also had a branch in Hamburg , and later - from 1940 to 1945 - also in Gotha .
After the seizure of power by the National Socialists , the company received - although the active company founders never the NSDAP joined - together with the Schuppert construction and other companies the contract to build the Maschsee and its annexes. In addition, Friedrich Mehmel AG was called in to build various airport structures in the Lower Saxony area and to build the Hermann Göring works in Salzgitter.
From the mid-1930s, Friedrich Mehmel AG was involved in building for the armaments industry in Hanover and other places . For example, at the beginning of the Second World War, production halls were built for Hanomag and the United Light Metal Works .
In the war year 1943, Friedrich Mehmel AG employed 1,300 people, including 300 Reich Germans , 55 Eastern workers , 700 civilian foreigners, 112 Jews and prisoners as well as 75 Russian and 40 other prisoners of war . Also in 1943 the Mehmel factory premises were destroyed by the air raids on Hanover .
In the post-war period , Mehmel was commissioned to repair the war damage to the quay walls of the Linden harbor , so that the harbor basin could be refilled with water as early as December 1945. In addition, Mehmel operated a rubble railway in the southern part of Hanover. The company again built numerous apartment blocks, participated - for example with the Gundlach company - in the reconstruction of the Hanoverian opera house , but also in the construction of the settlement on Mittelfeld and the construction of the Preussag administration building on Leibnizufer .
The post-war buildings erected by Mehmel include real estate on the Hanover exhibition grounds , the Theater am Aegi , residential buildings for the Gartenheim housing association and the Friedrichshöhe health clinic in Bad Pyrmont and the care hospital that was built there as a joint venture. The company also awarded the "stamp of modern architecture" to buildings such as gyms, schools and hospitals, including the Cecilienstift with its nursing home, as well as the Bödeker crèche , the Lower Saxony stadium , the administration building of Salzdetfurth AG and other functional buildings of all kinds.
At the end of the 1950s, Friedrich Mehmel AG had its headquarters at Wiesenstrasse 30 in the Südstadt district of Hanover . The board of the corporation , as family business was led by three generations of his time were the architect Friedrich Mehmel, Ms. Emy Memel and "Dr. ing. Hans Gerstmayr, Hanover ”, while“ Miss. Meta Garbe [and] Dr. jur. Helmut Jetter ”acted as authorized signatories.
After the reconstruction was largely over, the stock corporation shifted its business focus to the execution of contracts from the public sector and the economy. In the 1980s, Friedrich Mehmel AG was converted into a pure holding company. Subsidiaries were the administration of real estate and holdings as well as Friedrich Mehmel GmbH , in which the operative business up to the turnkey construction was combined.
In the 1990s, the company provided special services in bridge construction during the expansion of the A7 federal motorway and on the high-speed railway line from Hanover to Berlin . The now GmbH developed considerable activities, especially in the new federal states .
At the beginning of the 21st century, Friedrich Mehmel AG was listed for the last time in the city of Hanover's address book . In 2007 the company finally filed for bankruptcy .
Other personalities associated with the company
- In 1949 Hanns Friedrich Teichmann completed his practical training in construction at Friedrich Mehmel AG.
literature
- 75 years of Mehmel , 1993
Web links
- Friedrich Mehmel AG, Hanover ✝︎ with data from the Hanover District Court , commercial register number HRB 3603 on the northdata.de website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Mehmel, Friedrich M., AG, Hoch- und Tiefbau , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 436
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Mehmel, Friedrich , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 249; Preview over google books
- ↑ Thorsten Bachmann : Linden. New forays through history , Sutton, Erfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-95400-608-3 , p. 46; Preview over google books
- ↑ Heinz Lauenroth (Ed.): Hanover. Face of a lively city , Hanover; Berlin: Verlag Dr. Buhrbanck & Co. KG, 1955, p. 251; Preview over google books
- ↑ a b c Kurt Joachim von Morr: Address Book of Directors and Supervisory Boards , Part 2, Berlin: Finanz-Verlag, 1958, p. 788; Preview over google books
- ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Wiesenstrasse , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 266
- ↑ Hanns Friedrich Teichmann: The water supply and wastewater disposal in German underground mining (= publications of the Institute for Urban Water Management of the Technical University of Hanover , Volume 4), dissertation from December 11, 1959 Hanover at the Faculty of Construction at the Technical University of Hanover, Hanover 1959, p 100; Preview over google books
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 36.4 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 36.7" E