Non-profit settlement organization
| Non-profit settlement company GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | March 25, 1949 |
| Seat | Frankfurt am Main |
| management | Andreas Ruf, Filip John |
| Number of employees | 107 |
| sales | EUR 71 million |
| Branch | housing |
| Website | http://www.gsw-ffm.de |
| Status: 2018 | |
The Gemeinnützige Siedlungswerk (GSW) GmbH is a supraregional housing company founded in Germany in 1949 with the statutory purpose of guaranteeing a safe and socially responsible housing supply for broad sections of the population. The company is based in Frankfurt am Main . Partners are four Catholic dioceses in Hesse and Thuringia and their Caritas associations .
history
After the Second World War , the housing shortage was great due to air war damage and the influx of displaced persons in Frankfurt am Main. At the instigation of the Ermland bishop Maximilian Kaller , the Catholic Settlement Service was founded there in the autumn of 1946 , which was primarily supposed to help with the procurement of living space .
It quickly became clear that solving the housing shortage would also require own housing. As early as November 1948, the Limburg bishop Ferdinand Dirichs , in whose diocese Frankfurt was located, set up the St. Georgswerk , which was supposed to collect money for this purpose. The Church's calls for “hourly wage savings” were particularly successful in the 1950s. Employees should save an hour's wages every month and make it available to the St. Georgswerk as a loan.
On March 25, 1949, the bishops of the three Hessian bishoprics of Mainz , Limburg and Fulda founded the non-profit settlement agency in Frankfurt , which was supposed to build apartments for families itself . The Caritas associations of the three dioceses also participated in the new company. Franz Wosnitza was in charge of the company from its foundation until 1972 . By 1981, 9,500 apartments were built. The settlement agency prefers to sell its apartments, which then become the property of the families living there. Often church-owned land is built under heritable building right . 4800 apartments were passed on in this way by 1981. The remaining apartments are rented out, especially to poor families.
After German reunification in 1990, the Diocese of Erfurt and its Caritas Association also joined the GSW.
In 2012, Eberhard von Alten, finance director of the Mainz diocese, became chairman of the GSW's supervisory board . In May 2017 the previous deputy chairman of the GSW supervisory board and head of the finance, administration and construction department of the Limburg diocese, Gordon Sobbeck, succeeded him. Since spring 2019, the financial director of the Fulda diocese, Gerhard Stanke, has been the new chairman of the supervisory board.
The managing directors are Andreas Ruf and Filip John (as of 2018).
Business scope
The GSW Group owns and manages around 8,500 residential units (as of 2018), primarily in the Rhine-Main area , Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringia . Furthermore, the property development business and the construction of its own facilities are among the company's main business areas.
In addition, the GSW continues to be active in the construction of single-family homes , condominiums , cross-generational homes , community housing projects for the elderly, retirement and nursing homes , social institutions and day-care centers . Some of them are built for our own management, but also on behalf of other bodies. Further business areas are the conversion of agricultural land or other so far undeveloped areas into building plots or the management of real estate for third parties, both of which have no direct church connection. In this context, measures for energetic renovation , project development and building land development are carried out on various objects . In addition to business activities, social commitment takes place in the form of promoting the construction of kindergartens in developing countries .
The company has 107 full-time and 131 part-time employees.
The company holds stakes in the trust company for the south-west German housing industry, the Pax-Bank , the WG Immo Kreisstraße Weiterstadt GmbH & Co. KG (until 2017), the bank in the diocese of Essen and the bank for Church and Caritas in Paderborn .
| year |
Balance sheet total in million euros |
Annual turnover in million euros |
Balance sheet profit in million euros |
Number of completed apartments |
Equity in million euros |
Liabilities in million euros |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 285 | 44.5 | 74 | |||
| 2009 | 296.8 | 44.6 | 29 | |||
| 2010 | 300.1 | 48.1 | 2.7 | 104 | 63.6 | 216.2 |
| 2011 | 301.6 | 52.5 | 2.7 | 82 | 66.8 | 213.4 |
| 2012 | 332.8 | 49.4 | 2.7 | 47 | 70.2 | 241.2 |
| 2013 | 327.3 | 85.7 | 2.2 | 72.3 | 231.5 | |
| 2014 | 336.1 | 75.7 | 3.0 | 75.4 | 236.6 | |
| 2015 | 377.5 | 53.1 | 1.1 | 77.1 | 273.0 | |
| 2016 | 434.1 | 74.8 | 3.1 | 80.3 | 324.2 | |
| 2017 | 465.5 | 68.4 | 2.7 | 83.1 | 349.2 | |
| 2018 | 488.5 | 71.4 | 2.7 | 86.1 | 370.7 |
Contemporary housing projects
GSW expanded greatly from 2014 in Erfurt , the company has the former print shop progress on Yuri Gagarin ring bought and built by 2017 there 97 upscale loft apartments for 22 million euros. In addition, the GSW acquired the former Braugold site in order to build around 200 apartments there. In 2014, residential projects in Oberursel , Frankfurt-Harheim , Mainz-Bretzenheim , Frankfurt-Ginnheim , Mainz-Kostheim , Frankfurt-Riedberg and Kronberg were also pursued.
In 2015, a new residential complex for the disabled in Nidderau-Ostheim , a new senior citizens' home in Kassel and residential buildings in Heusenstamm , Mainz-Kastel and Mainz-Marienborn were implemented. A community housing project in Karben was realized in cooperation with a tenant housing association. An architect from GSW accompanies and advises the members of the residential association in implementing their individual wishes and ideas within the given framework.
In 2016, further residential construction projects were started in Kronberg, Frankfurt am Main, Bodenheim , Erfurt and Offenbach am Main . In addition, a package of 16 properties with 404 residential units in Frankfurt am Main and other locations in the Rhine-Main area was acquired.
Measures for energetic renovation , project development and building land development are continuously being carried out at various objects .
social commitment
Social commitment is carried out , for example, in the form of promoting the construction of kindergartens in developing countries .
literature
- Klaus Schatz: History of the Diocese of Limburg . Self-published by the Society for Middle Rhine Church History , Mainz 1983, DNB 830955844 .
Web links
- Website of the non-profit settlement agency
- History of the Diocese of Limburg by Klaus Schatz SJ , (1983), downloadable as PDF (accessed on November 21, 2017)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Gemeinnütziges Siedlungswerk GmbH Frankfurt / Main: Annual Report 2018. (PDF) March 22, 2019, accessed on August 17, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Gemeinnütziges Siedlungswerk GmbH Frankfurt / Main: Annual Report 2014. (PDF) July 14, 2015, accessed on November 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Holger Wetzel: 97 new apartments are to be built on Gagarin-Ring in Erfurt. (PDF) In: Thüringer Allgemeine . March 7, 2015, accessed November 21, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Gemeinnütziges Siedlungswerk GmbH Frankfurt / Main: Annual Report 2015. (PDF) August 4, 2016, accessed on November 21, 2017 .