Non-profit housing cooperative Hannover-Ost

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Non-profit housing cooperative Hannover-Ost eG
legal form Registered cooperative
purpose Promotion of the members primarily through a good, safe and socially responsible housing supply
Seat Lange Strasse 1, 30559 Hanover
founding 1899

place Hanover
Board Hans-Joachim Galle

Welf Gebhardt
Wolfgang Horch ( Chairman of the Supervisory Board )

Members ≥ 1000 (as of 2012)
Website wobau-hannover.com

The non-profit housing cooperative Hannover-Ost in Hannover , short Wobau Hannover-Ost or Wobau Hannover , is a housing cooperative founded at the end of the 19th century . The registered non-profit cooperative manages the apartments of its comrades in the Hanoverian districts of Anderten , Misburg-Nord and Misburg-Süd as well as in the city of Sehnde . The administration is located at Lange Straße 1 in the Anderten district.

history

Industrialization, immigration and housing shortages

After the cement industry began to establish itself near Hanover in the early days of the German Empire from 1878 with the establishment of the Hanoverian Portland cement factory in the Misburg area , the then village of Misburg developed, which in the course of industrialization had a population of just 451 by 1871 had grown rapidly to one of the largest industrial locations in the Hanover district .

"Since the cement factories produced without large machines, they needed a lot of workers ." But the formerly small village community with only a few farmers was unable to meet the need for workers - mostly unskilled or low- skilled workers were wanted . Therefore recruiters were sent to East Prussia and as far as the province of Posen in Poland in order to lure workers to Misburg. Although the recruiting of foreign workers was actually generally prohibited at the time, around 600 workers from the rural "eastern provinces" immigrated to Misburg by 1890 alone, mostly single men of the Catholic faith - and initially without any knowledge of the German language.

Around 1910: The " Portland-Cementindustrie Hannover-Misburg " with the trademarks of the various manufacturers at the time ;
Illustrirte Zeitung No. 3538 , special title Hanover and border areas. April 20, 1911, with artist's signature graphic artist Änne Koken

The almost 2000 immigrants were initially housed in simple mass accommodation, similar to the one in Bottrop in the Ruhr area . The cement factories Germania and Kronsberg set up workers' houses and barracks on their own company premises for their day laborers , who almost always work for low wages . The Hanoverian Portland even leased a barn , the so-called "old canteen ". Sometimes hundreds of people "lived" in such a canteen, up to twenty people in one bedroom, and could - for a separate payment - be catered for in a shared dining room .

In 1885 Misburg was politically incorporated into the district of Hanover, and on September 22, 1888, a new local statute as a municipality carried out the first local election according to the three-class voting system.

From 1893 the first children of Polish immigrants were born in Misburg, although the women who had also mostly immigrated from Poland also had to work, mostly as so-called “asparagus chickens” in the surrounding agriculture or with Döhrener wool .

Foundation and early buildings

Due to the incessant influx of workers, especially in the cement industry, the general housing shortage in Misburg, but also in the neighboring Anderten, became more and more unbearable until the Misburg community turned to the government of the Hanover province . On September 30, 1898, a meeting was called, which consisted of representatives of the royal Prussian government of Lüneburg and Hanover, the state offices of Burgdorf and Hanover , the authorities of Anderten and Misburg, and representatives of the cement factories. The assembly decided to set up only one building cooperative for the communities of Anderten and Misburg , albeit with headquarters in Misburg.

At the suggestion of the Royal Government and Trade Council Karl Hartmann , another meeting took place in Misburg on December 21, 1898, as a result of which the constituent general assembly could be held on January 5, 1899. Among the 75 members who immediately joined were 60 workers, while Government Councilor Hartmann, who was to be transferred to Berlin around the same time , accepted his election as chairman of the supervisory board . Factory director Max Kuhlemann , who had previously taken over the board of the Hanoverian Portland-Cementfabrik AG, was elected as his deputy . The head of the Hanover State Insurance Company , the Secret Government Councilor Wilhelm Liebrecht, was also significantly involved in the establishment of the building cooperative . The "[...] Oberrevisor Wollenweber" took over the accounting for the newly founded non-profit building association Misburg-Anderten .

In addition to Max Kuhlemann, “[...] the civil engineer Hösch” also achieved a great reputation among the Misburgers; Together with four contractors, the two succeeded in building the first 33 workers' houses within a very short time. After paying 200 marks "[...] for the purchase of the workers 'houses", 66 workers' families were able to move into "their" new apartments on October 1, 1899, barely ten months after the building cooperative was founded. The inauguration was celebrated in the inn near Meyer's garden .

The actual street for the first cooperative houses was not paved until the following year, 1900, and named Hartmannstraße in honor of the Royal Government and Trade Councilor Karl Hartmann, who had earned the cooperative . In the same year the Max-Kuhlemann-Strasse was laid out as well as the Liebrechtstrasse, named after the secret councilor Wilhelm Liebrecht .

While the Portland cement plant in Teutonia built its own workers' house at the - today's - address Lohweg 12-20 around 1900 , around the Catholic Sacred Heart Church, which was completed in 1905, was built mainly by Catholic cement plant workers from the East German areas and from Poland-inhabited housing estate Jerusalem in Misburg-Süd. In 1915 - in the middle of the First World War - there were almost 1,000 Catholics living there .

After the First World War

Taken over in 1944 with the Heimfrieden cooperative : the listed , almost cubic single-family house at Kleinertstrasse 9 in what is now Misburg-Nord , built by Otto Haesler in the spirit of New Building

While the building activities of the cooperative had mainly concentrated on Misburg-Süd before 1918, additional objects were added in Misburg-Nord after the First World War and from 1919: War-disabled and surviving dependents had the then "[...] Misburg community leader Gustav Bratke killed Support in the procurement of cheap building land requested. "

For the period of National Socialism and in the time of the bombing of Hannover during the Second World War, the housing cooperative "was home Peace " in 1944, just as the Community construction and savings club Anderten- Höver and the Community Building Association Misburg-Anderten , due to a disposal of the national government merged with new legal form and under the new name Wohnungsgenossenschaft Misburg-Anderten e.GmbH . This took over a group of buildings erected during the Weimar Republic and in the midst of the global economic crisis , which "[...] is to be highlighted as unique and particularly significant for single-family house construction at that time": The buildings in Otto Haesler, which are now listed in the sense of New Building the Kleinertstrasse .

In 1963 the street Im Heimfrieden was laid out on both sides of the Grenzstraße , which was on the former city limits of Hanover .

After condominiums , single-family houses and senior citizens' apartments were built from 1970 onwards, today's non-profit housing cooperative Hannover-Ost eG was founded in 1972 through the merger with the Sehnde und Umgebung building cooperative

Since the change in the board of directors in 2005, Wobau has appeared with a new company logo , its own homepage and a realignment of the cooperative's goals. These mainly comprised structural measures on existing old and new buildings; in particular, small apartments were merged into family-friendly units and adapted to the general standard of living. The sense of community and neighborhood remained an integral part of the Wobau philosophy .

Around 2012 the housing cooperative Hannover-Ost, based in the former building of the Deutsche Bundespost at Lange Straße 1, had more than 1000 members and around 420 apartments.

Media coverage (selection)

  • Conrad von Meding: Suspicion: tax evasion, breach of trust and fraud Cooperative fires bosses. In the conflict in the housing cooperative WoBau Hannover-Ost, the general meeting has now backed its supervisory board with a large majority and killed both board members. There are allegations of tax evasion, breach of trust and fraud. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) from June 25, 2013, updated on June 27, 2013; online edition
  • Conrad von Meding: Misburger WoBau / Housing comrades calm down / The public prosecutor's office has closed the investigation in the dispute that has been smoldering for almost two years over the board members of the Misburger housing cooperative Hannover-Ost (WoBau). Nothing indicates infidelity and fraud, it is said to justify. In: HAZ. dated August 15, 2014, updated August 18, 2014; online edition

literature

  • Hans-Dieter Schmid : Between integration and retreat into the social milieu of a national minority: Polish immigrants in Misburg 1880–1930. in ders. (Ed.): Hanover - on the edge of the city (= Hannoversche Schriften zur Regional- und Lokalgeschichte. Volume 5). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 1992, ISBN 3-927085-44-8 , pp. 143-220.
  • Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann : National Socialism and Workers' Environment. The National Socialist attack on the proletarian living quarters and the reaction in the socialist associations (= series Political and Social History / Archive of Social Democracy of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Volume 47). Dietz, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-8012-4081-9 . (also habilitation thesis 1996 at the University of Hanover)
  • Wolfgang Illmer (ed.) Among others: Chronicle Misburg. Origin to present. 1st edition. W. Illmer, Hannover-Misburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038582-7 , passim .

Web links

Commons : Gemeinnützige Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft Hannover-Ost  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ A Misburger cement workers received in 1906 around 2.70 marks daily wage or a piece rate from 4 to 4.50 marks a day; compare Juan Carlos Blanco Varela: Cheap labor from the east. In: Wolfgang Illmer (Hrsg.) Ao: Chronik Misburg ... p. 335f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Eberhard Sprick, Mike Weidemann (responsible): Room for living. small chronicle in Wolfgang Illmer (ed.) among others: Chronik Misburg ... p. 666.
  2. ↑ Hans-Joachim Galle, David Jacob Huber, Wolfgang Horch (responsible): Your new apartment on the website of the cooperative, last accessed on May 31, 2016.
  3. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Lange Straße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 155.
  4. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : cement industry. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover . P. 688.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g Juan Carlos Blanco Varela: Polish immigration in Misburg 1888 to 1930. In: Wolfgang Illmer (Hrsg.) Among others: Chronik Misburg. Origin to present. 1st edition. W. Illmer, Hannover-Misburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038582-7 , pp. 335–339.
  6. ↑ Juan Carlos Blanco Varela, Wolfgang Illmer: The industrialization of Misburg began. In: Wolfgang Illmer (Ed.) Et al.: Chronik Misburg ... p. 70.
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h Juan Carlos Blanco Varela, Wolfgang Illmer: The housing cooperative alleviated the housing shortage. In: Wolfgang Illmer (Ed.) Et al.: Chronik Misburg ... p. 72.
  8. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Misburg. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 444f.
  9. ↑ Juan Carlos Blanco Varela, Wolfgang Illmer: Misburg receives a new local statute. In: Wolfgang Illmer (Ed.) Et al.: Chronik Misburg ... p. 71.
  10. ↑ a b Helmut Zimmermann: Hartmannstrasse. in the other: The street names ... p. 107.
  11. ↑ NN : Kommerzienrat Max Kuhlemann. In: Hanoverian heads from administration, economy, art and literature. Volume 1, Verlag H. Osterwald, Hanover 1929. (August Heitmüller drew the heads. Wilhelm Metzig designed the entire equipment of the work. The texts have no authors' names, in the book no page numbers or a table of contents are given)
  12. ^ Helmut Zimmermann: Liebrechtstrasse. in the other: The street names ... p. 160.
  13. ^ Helmut Zimmermann: Max-Kuhlemann-Strasse. in the other: The street names ... p. 171.
  14. ^ Helmut Zimmermann: Liebrechtstrasse. in the other: The street names ... p. 160.
  15. ↑ Wolfgang Neß : The industrial area and map 14 Misburg-Anderten / Misburg-Süd. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 2, Volume 10.2 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , pp. 62f, 180f .; as well as Misburg-Nord in the addendum directory of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover. P. 22ff.
  16. ↑ a b c Helmut Zimmermann: In home peace. in the other: The street names ... p. 126.
  17. ↑ Wolfgang Neß: The time after the First World War. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany ... p. 180f.
  18. ^ Helmut Zimmermann: Grenzstrasse. in other: The street names ... p. 97.

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '39.6 "  N , 9 ° 51' 25.9"  E