Georgsmarienhütte (company)

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Georgsmarienhütte GmbH

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founding July 14, 1856
Seat Georgsmarienhütte
management
  • Oliver Santelli, Managing Director Sales
  • Michael Merz, Managing Director Technology
  • Dietmar Hemsath, Chief Financial Officer
  • Frank Brüggestrat, Managing Director Human Resources and Labor Director
Number of employees 1,275 (as of 2019)
Branch Steel industry
Website www.gmh.de

The Georgsmarienhütte GmbH (short GMH ) is a July 14, 1856 as George Mary's Mining and Metallurgical Association based steel plant , located in the directory named after the steel mill town of Georgsmarienhütte south of Osnabrück . The work was named after King George V and Queen Marie , the last ruling couple of the Kingdom of Hanover .

Georgsmarienhütte is one of the leading European suppliers of bar steel, semi-finished products and bright steel made of quality steel and structural steel and generates 80% of its sales with the automotive industry . It is part of the Georgsmarienhütte group of companies ( GMH Group ), an association of over twenty medium-sized companies in Germany, Austria, Australia and the USA.

history

View of the steel mill
The electric arc furnace at Georgsmarienhütte

The Georgsmarienhütte belonged to the Klöckner Group from 1923 until the loss-making plant was acquired in 1993 by the Klöckner manager Jürgen Großmann for a symbolic amount and has been the sole property of Georgsmarienhütte Holding GmbH since 1997 . The company commissioned the first direct current electric arc furnace in Germany in 1994 and switched steel production from blast furnace converter operation to the direct current electric arc process. This made the steelworks independent of iron ore and coal, but dependent on the considerably fluctuating scrap price . In the same year, after a loss in previous years, profit was generated again for the first time.

The changeover to the electric arc process gradually changed the external appearance of the iron and steel works: On August 24, 1996, the old blast furnace was blown up, in 1999 the gasometer built in 1929 on Klöcknerstrasse was blown up, and the second gas container was blown up in 2000.

In 2002 a major investment was made in a new continuous caster and the rolling mill was modernized . Both Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Chancellor Angela Merkel (2005) visited the plant. In 2006 the new 160-ton walking beam furnace was completed as part of the rolling mill. In 2006 GMH celebrated its 150th anniversary. At a ceremony to which Angela Merkel, Christian Wulff , customers, friends and relatives of the GMH were invited, the founding by George V and Queen Marie was commemorated with many guests. On the occasion of its 150th anniversary, the company founded the non-profit "Stiftung Stahlwerk Georgsmarienhütte". At the end of the 2006 financial year, the owner of Georgsmarienhütte, Jürgen Großmann, left the management. However, he remained the owner. On September 1, 2007, the first melt was run with the new LF 2 ladle furnace . In 2008, the continuous caster was again modernized and a new straightening and testing line was commissioned in the finishing shop of the final operations.

literature

  • Werner Beermann, Dieter Görbing: The hut. Work and life in the region around the Georgsmarienhütte steelworks . Self-published by Dieter Görbing, Georgsmarienhütte 1988, 194 pages, ISBN 9783926131027
  • Beermann, Biener, Büker, Geck, Hannig, Hoffmann: 27,210,000 t of steel: the history of Georgsmarienhütte 1945 to 1992. A company of Klöckner-Werke AG . Historical working group Georgsmarienhütte, Georgsmarienhütte 2006, 322 pp.
  • Oliver Driesen : Black as slag, red as embers: the astonishing history of Georgsmarienhütte and its group of companies. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2006, 312 pages, ISBN 978-3455500042
  • Martin Duram: The rolling mills of Georgsmarienhütte 1908–2008. A look back at 100 years of rolled steel from Georgsmarienhütte. Edited by Georgsmarienhütte Holding GmbH Hamburg, Steinbacher Druck, Osnabrück 2008, 110 pages, ISBN 978-3939318057
  • Funk, winemaker: The Georgs-Marien-Hütte near Osnabrück. Schmorl & von Seefeld, Hanover 1872 (digitized version)
  • Georgsmarienhütte GmbH: 150 years of steel from Georgsmarienhütte . Festschrift 2006, 277 pp.
  • Lothar Hülsmann: The Georgsmarienhütter Railways . Lokrundschau Verlag, Gülzow 2000, 128 pages, ISBN 3931647110
  • Lothar H. Hülsmann, Wilfried Scheidemann: The railways of the Georgs-Marien-Hütte . Uhle & Kleimann, Lübbecke 1985, 559 pages, ISBN 978-3922657385
  • Susanne Meyer: Heavy industrial island and rural environment: Georgsmarienhütte 1856–1933 . Coppenrath, Münster 1990, 431 pages, ISBN 978-3885478058
  • Hermann Müller: The Georgs-Marien-Bergwerks- and Hütten-Verein . Volume 1: The history of the Georgs-Marien-Bergwerks- und Hütten-Verein . Georgs-Marien-Bergwerks- und Hütten-Verein, Osnabrück 1896, 268 pp.
  • Hermann Müller: The Georgs-Marien-Bergwerks- and Hütten-Verein . Volume 2: Description of the properties, the facilities and the facilities of the association. Georgs-Marien-Bergwerks- und Hütten-Verein, Osnabrück 1906, 176 pp.
  • Renee Ott: Coal, Steel and Class Struggle: Mining Industry, Workers and Labor Movement in the Osnabrück Region 1857-1878 . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt 1982, 452 pages, ISBN 978-3593331102
  • Rudolf Schulte: History of the Georgs-Marien-Bergwerks- und Hütten-Verein in seven decades : a contribution to the development of the German coal and steel industry. Welzel, Cologne 1928, 157 pp.
  • Erich Sperling: Everything about steel. Economic history about the Georgs-Marien-Bergwerks- und Hüttenverein. Meinders & Elstermann, Osnabrück 1950, 208 pp.
  • Erich Sperling: Everything about steel. Economic history story about Klöckner-Georgsmarienwerke AG, Osnabrück. Dorn, Bremen 1956, 275 pp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Achim Eberhard: Osnabrücker Bergland - overview of the mining and metallurgical industry. Accessed December 31, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Frank Wiebrock: Jürgen Großmann took over the GMHütter steelworks 25 years ago. In: noz.de. June 30, 2018, accessed July 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ https://www.georgsmarienhuette.de/seiten/epaper/Stadtgeschichte_Wirtschaftsgeschichte/index.html#12 Prospectus of the city of Georgsmarienhütte: "City history is economic history"; accessed on October 12, 2018
  4. ↑ Johanna Lügermann: Ten years Foundation steelworks Georgsmarienhütte. In: noz.de. February 10, 2016, accessed March 4, 2016 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 29 ″  N , 8 ° 3 ′ 7 ″  E