Gesobau
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | May 25, 1900 |
| Seat | Berlin , Germany |
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| Number of employees | 407 (2019) |
| sales | EUR 290.5 million (2019) |
| Branch | Housing industry and real estate industry |
| Website | www.gesobau.de |
| Status: 2019 | |
The GESOBAU AG (Society for social housing) is a municipal current six housing companies in Berlin . As of December 31, 2019, 407 employees managed 42,390 residential and 726 commercial units. The inventory includes u. a. Wilhelminian style houses in Pankow , prefabricated buildings in Weißensee as well as old buildings and residential complexes from the early 20th century in Wedding and Wilmersdorf . The large housing estate Märkisches Viertel forms the largest contiguous stock . Here GESOBAU AG looks after 20,591 apartments, which have been modernized energetically since 2008.
history
1900-1918
The railway entrepreneur Philipp Balke founded the “Aktiengesellschaft für Bahn und Tiefbauten” on May 25, 1900 - the forerunner of today's GESOBAU AG. As a partner of the Marcks & Balke company , Balke had been involved in the construction and operation of horse-drawn trams (in Mainz , Kassel and Erfurt ) and branch lines (such as the Buckower Kleinbahn ) since the 1870s .
The first major project of the new stock corporation after 1900 was the construction of the first underground tunnel in Berlin between the Nollendorfplatz and Zoologischer Garten stations . After London , Budapest , Glasgow and Paris, Berlin was the fifth major European city to have an underground system. Another focus of the work in the years up to the First World War was in Alsace-Lorraine , where the company u. a. was involved in the construction of the Metz train station .
1918-1945
In 1917, the "Aktiengesellschaft für Bahnen und Tiefbauten" began to open up new business areas: in addition to forest and timber business, also through the acquisition of land in the Berlin area. In 1922/1923 the company acquired seven old buildings in Schöneberg and then took over the building contractor for 37 apartment buildings in the north of Berlin. At the end of the 1920s, the conversion from a railroad to a real estate company was completed. From 1932 the company managed 44 houses with around 500 apartments and 4,200 m² of undeveloped land. New buildings were no longer erected.
1946-1961
After the Second World War , the stock corporation still had 350 apartments. The houses in Schöneberg were destroyed. In 1949 the "Aktiengesellschaft für Bahnen und Tiefbauten" was renamed to the "Society for social housing non-profit public limited company (GeSoBau)". Initially as a subsidiary of DEGEWO , it resumed residential construction. The first major project in 1955 was the construction of the Schillerhöhe housing estate in Wedding . By 1961 the housing stock rose to 2,200 - even though the houses from the 1920s that were now in the Soviet sector had been expropriated in 1952.
1962-1974
Around 1960 the Berlin Senate got involved in the expansion plans for the undeveloped, wildly populated permanent colonies in Wilhelmsruh . While the district has been striving to build a relaxed, green suburb since the early 1950s, the Senate relied on significantly denser, more urban development. In 1961, the state increased GESOBAU's share capital from a good three to more than 15 million marks . This made it possible to purchase additional properties in the area that would later become the Märkisches Viertel . In December 1962 - a good year after the Berlin Wall was built - Building Senator Rolf Schwedler appointed GESOBAU as the official redevelopment agency for the Märkisches Viertel planning area . On July 1, 1963, construction work began on the first phase of construction. Eleven years later, in 1974, the last 81 of a total of 16,916 apartments were built on Senftenberger Ring. After taking over apartments in the Schillerhöhe estate and building the Märkisches Viertel in 1971, the AG expanded its portfolio to include Borsigwalde , Tegel and Heiligensee .
1975-1989
At the end of the 1970s, the infrastructure of the Märkisches Viertel was also completed. In the following years, GESOBAU promoted social cohesion in the district with a wide variety of services. The district newspaper "MV-Express" has been published since the late 1970s, the first tenants' advisory board was elected in 1984, GESOBAU presented the first guest apartment in 1985 and the company has been continuously improving the living environment in the Märkisches Viertel since the early 1980s. “Green instead of concrete” was the motto. For tens of millions of marks, facades were modernized and redesigned in color, inviting house entrances built, courtyards landscaped, playgrounds expanded, parking spaces and paths rearranged, tenants' gardens laid out. In 1985, Gesobau took over around 2,300 state-owned apartments in newly designated redevelopment areas in Wedding as a trustee and modernized them.
1990-2007
In 1993 the state transferred around 2,000 additional state-owned apartments in Tempelhof and Wilmersdorf to GESOBAU . In 1994 the company acquired the shares in WohnBau Pankow mbH from the state , and a year later also that of the Weißensee housing association . The three companies were carefully brought together under one roof. In 1996 GESOBAU merged with WohnBau Pankow, and in 1997 with WBG Weißensee mbH.
At the same time, the 1990s were dominated by the task of privatizing apartments. GESOBAU fulfilled this state's order through direct sales to tenants, but also through sales to intermediate buyers. At the end of the 1990s - as a third way - the first tenant cooperatives emerged in the former holdings of GESOBAU: the mAX apartment cooperative in the Märkisches Viertel eG and the Vineta 98 apartment cooperative in Pankow.
In 1998 GESOBAU sold its subsidiary Gruppe Nord and its real estate portfolio to VEBA Immobilien . Aktiva Haus- und Wohnungseigentumsverwaltung GmbH was founded in the same year and today manages around 2,000 apartments from other owners under the umbrella of GESOBAU.
Since 2008
GESOBAU plans to invest more than half a billion euros in modernizing its portfolio by 2015 - 480 million euros in the Märkisches Viertel alone . Forty years after its construction, the large estate is facing major challenges: the residential buildings are getting on in years and in particular do not meet today's requirements for energy efficiency in any way. In addition, social changes - in particular the aging of society and the growing social heterogeneity of the population - call for adequate answers. GESOBAU uses energetic modernization as a means of creating a quarter that is sustainable in every respect: This should meet high ecological requirements, offer people of different origins and different living conditions pleasant living space and thus prove that large estates will also be viable in the future. The aim is not a lighthouse project that implements all conceivable technical measures that would not be feasible without a high level of funding, but a realistic, economically feasible solution.
GESOBAU began in 2007 with the energetic modernization of the Märkisches Viertel (around 13,000 apartments). The modernization concept achieves the key figures that the Energy Saving Ordinance provides for new buildings and falls below them by 30 percent, in some cases even by 50 percent. Comparable figures apply to the modernization of 6,000 additional apartments in other locations.
Social and ecological commitment
In 1990 GESOBAU appointed an environmental officer for the first time. In 1993 the company received the Berlin environmental award , and in 1997 an award from the environmental organization BAUM. In January 2009, GESOBAU signed the climate protection alliance of the Berlin Senate - and thus a voluntary commitment to reduce CO 2 emissions. In 2010, GESOBAU received the German Sustainability Award in the category of Germany's most sustainable future strategies (SMEs) and the future award of the real estate industry in the field of sustainability for all of its corporate activities, which focus on the integrated socio-ecological development of the district in the Märkisches Viertel . From now on, all business processes will be characterized by a sustainable orientation, which is intended to underpin the company claim "Live like tomorrow" introduced in 2011. GESOBAU first transparently documented the results of the understanding of sustainability in the area of climate protection and social commitment in the housing industry in December 2011 in a sustainability report.
The GESOBAU Foundation was established in 1998 to promote senior and youth work in the residential areas. In May 2006 GESOBAU started its integration project “Living well together”. The aim is to help shape social change and to develop networks and instruments for neighborly togetherness in the residential areas. Barbara John , commissioner for foreigners in the Berlin Senate, was appointed as the company's integration commissioner in the same year.
In 2007, GESOBAU was the first housing company to sign the Diversity Charter initiated by Chancellor Merkel and the Federal Government 's Integration Commissioner . In May 2007 a pilot project for socio-spatial integration started with the neighborhood floor in the Märkisches Viertel, which was implemented in cooperation with social organizations on site.
See also
- Housing supply Berlin - public law institution
- GSW real estate
literature
- At home at GESOBAU. People and opinions on the anniversary (1900–2000 - 100 years Gesobau) , self-published, Berlin 2000
- Brigitte Jacob, Wolfgang Schächen: 40 years of the Märkisches Viertel / history and present of a large housing estate . jovis Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-936314-07-1
Individual evidence
- ↑ GESOBAU AG Annual Report 2019
- ↑ Jan Kuhnert, Olof Leps: New non-profit housing - Springer . doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-17570-2 ( springer.com [accessed March 1, 2017]).
- ↑ At home at GESOBAU. People and opinions on the anniversary (1900–2000 - 100 years Gesobau), self-published, Berlin 2000
- ↑ GESOBAU AG sustainability report (2011, 2012), archive link ( Memento from April 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )