GEWOBA
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1924 |
| Seat | Bremen |
| management | Peter Stubbe, Manfred Sydow |
| Number of employees | 449 |
| sales | 280 million euros |
| Website | www.gewoba.de |
| Last updated 2012 | |
The GEWOBA is a German housing company with headquarters in Bremen . It is a real estate service provider as well as a redevelopment and development agency with branches in Bremen , Bremerhaven , Hamburg and Oldenburg .
Company details
GEWOBA has the legal form of a stock corporation and employs 449 people. It owns over 40,000 rental apartments (10,000 of them in Bremerhaven) and manages a further 15,000 apartments. With sales of EUR 280 million, the balance sheet total is EUR 1,091.2 million; equity amounts to EUR 329.4 million and the balance sheet profit to EUR 17 million. It has a share capital of EUR 87.5 million.
GEWOBA is currently investing in new rental apartment construction projects in Überseestadt and Stadtwerder and realizing additional buildings in existing quarters. With a housing stock of currently around 42,000 managed units and over 400 employees, GEWOBA in Bremen is the largest housing provider.
Shareholders
The shareholders of GEWOBA are
- the city of Bremen, indirectly through the Hanseatische Wohnungs-Beteiligungs-Gesellschaft (74.24%),
- Bremische Grundstücks GmbH, which is predominantly owned by Bremer Landesbank (7.76%),
- as well as the nwk nordwest Kapitalbeteiligungsgesellschaft der Sparkasse Bremen (4.54%), Commerzbank Immobilien- und Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft (4.13%), the financial holding company of Sparkasse Bremen (3.22%), Hypothekenbank Frankfurt (2.92%), the SEB-Bank succeeding the Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft (1.75%) and the Sparkassen ImmobilienCenter GmbH (1.41%).
Holdings
In 2008, the company had stakes in 15 housing, property, development and project companies with a volume of around 10 million euros in share capital.
Board
Peter Stubbe - previously managing director of the Leipziger Wohnungs- und Baugesellschaft - has succeeded Volker Riebel as the new CEO since June 2011. Manfred Sydow is still on the board.
history
Front and right: Neue Vahr Nord,
middle / left: Aalto high-rise and Neue Vahr Süd
1919-1945
After the First World War , the urban population also increased rapidly in Bremen. Settlement and housing associations were founded to resolve the housing shortage, including Bauhütte Hansa. The unions also endeavored to create facilities for the workers in all areas of life, such as the consumer cooperative Vorwärts, the Volksfürsorge, the funeral parlor Ge-Be-In, the trade union library, etc.In order to make housing more affordable for large groups of people, 1924 a non-profit housing association founded by the Bremen union as an association. The association's headquarters were first in the SPD party office at Geeren No. 6 in Bremen-Mitte , then the Volkshaus on what was then Nordstrasse . In 1928, the Vegesack and Blumenthal trade union founded another housing association.
Between 1924 and 1933 a number of residential and rental houses were built, first in Walle and Gröpelingen , then also among others. a. built in Neustadt as well as in Bremen-Nord.
In May 1933 the National Socialists smashed the trade unions and their associations and societies. The German Labor Front (DAF) took over the property of the housing associations of the union and also the Hansa building works. In 1935 the name Gemeinnützige Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Bremen mbH ( GEWOBA ) was created; she built small settlements in various parts of the city , and makeshift homes were also built during World War II .
After 1945
From 1946 GEWOBA was active again and after a legal dispute the union received half of the shares in the company after 1949. In the meantime it was part of the Bremen Hanseatic Housing and Trust Company.
The Neue Heimat Hamburg (NHH) was before 1933 also a trade company and suffered the same fate as 1933 GEWOBA. After the war, the NHH was confiscated by the British occupying forces and handed over to the DGB in 1952 . While GEWOBA limited itself to repairs and a first new residential building in Bremen, NHH was oriented towards the Hamburg area .
In 1953, under its first chairman Heinrich Plett , the NHH took over the 53% share of GEWOBA from the union. NHH expanded through the purchase of further housing associations. In 1954 the DGB subordinated all of its own housing companies to the NHH. The large corporation now had over 100,000 apartments. GEWOBA boss Albert Götze retired in 1954 and Herbert Ritze from Hamburg managed the NHH subsidiary in Bremen.
The Bremerhaven trade union housing company GEWOG came to the NHH subsidiary GEWOBA via the detour of the Hamburg NHH in 1956.
In Bremen there was close cooperation between politics, the trade union and GEWOBA. Richard Boljahn - often referred to as "King Richard" - was also chairman of the SPD parliamentary group, DGB chairman in Bremen and chairman of the GEWOBA supervisory board until 1969. It was not until 1977 that Boljahn resigned as a member of the supervisory board. Other local politicians and senators supported the union company, which had made major contributions to alleviating the housing shortage.
In Bremen housing estates and large housing estates etc. a. Realized in West Bremen (around 1955), Gartenstadt Vahr (around 1956), Neue Vahr (around 1957), Gartenstadt Süd (around 1957) Green courtyards in Bremerhaven (around 1958), Huchting (around 1960) and Leherheide in Bremerhaven (from 1960) .
After Plett's death (1963) Albert Vietor took over the management of the NHH with an inventory of 200,000 apartments. Neue Heimat Städtebau (1969), Neue Heimat International (1971) and Neue Heimat Kommunal were founded. Since 1971 the NHH - and thus also the GEWOBA - cavorted in the growing area of urban development funding . Large projects such as hospitals (on the left of the Weser in Bremen), congress centers, administration buildings (in Bremen on Rembertiring), shopping centers etc. were tackled. Participations in construction companies were made, the construction of private homes was carried out (e.g. in habenhausen ), and international business was initiated.
In 1982 a report appeared in Der Spiegel, which revealed that several board members had enriched themselves under the leadership of Albert Vietor. A week later, the board of directors under DGB chairman Heinz Oskar Vetter dismissed the accused. At the end of 1982 the NHH announced a loss of 750 million DM at its companies. The company ran into serious financial difficulties. In 1986 a rescue company was founded. The regional companies of NHH - including GEWOBA - became independent again with state help. Neue Heimat Niedersachsen , later BauBeCon, remained in union ownership until 2005.
In 1989 the Charitable Housing Act was repealed. Since then, GEWOBA is no longer a "non-profit" company. In 1997 the company was converted into a stock corporation. For its 75th anniversary in 1999, GEWOBA built a completely new, traffic-calmed residential area “Am Hollergrund” with student dormitories, rental and owner-occupied apartments near the university. GEWOBA also built numerous single-family and terraced houses in the adjacent new district of Borgfeld-West.
In the following years, energetic renovations were also advanced, the first photovoltaic systems were installed. In 2004, GEWOBA built the first passive house in Bremen. With the urban redevelopment of Tenever one of the largest renovation projects in Germany started. GEWOBA bought scrap properties here in order to demolish them; only around 65 percent of the apartments from the former demonstrative building project have been preserved and are being extensively renovated.
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Web links
- GEWOBA website
- “The environment has to fit” Peter Stubbe in an interview with Gareth Joswig, In: www.taz.de, June 5, 2018