Gewobag

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Gewobag Housing Corporation Berlin

logo
legal form Corporation
founding May 14, 1919
Seat Berlin , Germany
management Snezana Michaelis, Markus Terboven (Management Board)
Anke Brummer-Kohler
( Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board)
Number of employees 713
sales 456.3 million euros
Branch Housing industry
Website gewobag.de
As of December 31, 2019

The Gewobag is a local from the current six housing companies in Berlin . As of December 31, 2019, 713 employees managed 89,935 rental units. The stock includes residential buildings from all Berlin building eras from the founding years to the present. On behalf of the State of Berlin, Gewobag pursues the corporate goal of providing affordable rental apartments for broad sections of the population and increasing the municipal housing stock.

history

1919-1933

Heimstätten AG Groß-Berlin (HEIMAG), today's Gewobag, was founded as a subsidiary of Gagfah on May 14, 1919 . The sole purpose of the company was "the procurement of healthy housing at reasonable prices for poor families and individuals". From 1920 Heimag built a residential estate for employees around Heimstättenweg in Berlin-Steglitz with around 100 single-family houses in type construction. From 1930 to 1935 the Reichsforschungssiedlung Haselhorst was built between Spandau and Siemensstadt with around 3,500 apartments for 12,000 people. Well-known architects such as Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius , Paul Mebes , Fred Forbat and Otto Bartning took part in the project. HEIMAG initially acted as a property developer on behalf of the Reichsforschungsgesellschaft für Wirtschaftlichkeit im Bau- und Wohnungswesen e. V. On February 19, 1931, HEIMAG was renamed Gemeinnützige Wohnungsbau-AG Groß Berlin (Gewobag), Gagfah withdrew completely from the subsidiary. Half of the owners of the Gewobag were the German Empire and the State of Prussia. When the Reichsforschungsgesellschaft was dissolved in the following months, Gewobag took over the project and completed the construction of the Haselhorster settlement on its own by 1935. At the same time she built the Hippopotamus Estate with 883 apartments in Hohenschönhausen .

1933-1945

Like other housing companies, Gewobag was brought into line by the National Socialists from 1933 onwards . Social democrats and trade unionists on the executive and supervisory boards were replaced by National Socialists. Gewobag built new settlements near armaments factories and doubled their number to 7,658 apartments by 1940. During the Second World War , prisoners of war were also employed as slave labor on the Gewobag construction sites. 15 percent of Gewobag's real estate portfolio was completely destroyed in the Second World War or was unusable at the end of the war. Almost all business records were also lost.

1945–1962

The first years after the Second World War were characterized by the rebuilding of the existing housing stock, especially the Reichsforschungssiedlung, which could be completely restored by 1952. Due to the political division of Berlin in 1948, Gewobag lost control of its entire property in the eastern sectors, including the Hippopotamus Estate. The company, confiscated by the Allies in 1945, was transferred to the City of Berlin in 1949; Gewobag is still owned by the State of Berlin today.

With the First Housing Act (1950/51) of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Load Equalization Act (1952), a new basis was laid for state subsidies for housing construction. From 1953 on, Gewobag implemented numerous new building projects, especially in Spandau, and increased its portfolio to around 10,000 apartments by 1957. In the same year, construction work began on new residential areas in Charlottenburg-Nord and Tegel-Süd. From 1961 to 1965 Gewobag built the Paul Hertz housing estate in Charlottenburg.

1962-1989

From 1962, the Berlin Senate commissioned Gewobag with renovation projects in the city center: large-scale new buildings were built in the Wassertorplatz redevelopment area in Kreuzberg and in the opera district in Charlottenburg . This radical method of “clear cutting” was replaced in the 1970s and 1980s by “careful urban renewal”: In coordination with the residents, Gewobag renovated numerous Wilhelminian-style buildings around Chamissoplatz in Kreuzberg and Klausenerplatz in Charlottenburg .

1989-2014

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gewobag provided technical and personal support to the municipal housing authorities in the eastern part of the city. In September 2000 she took over the shares in the WIP housing company in Prenzlauer Berg and the WIR housing company in Berlin (today Gewobag PB and Gewobag WB). This is how the Gewobag group came into being. On January 3, 2007 the subsidiary Gewobag MB was founded, whose tasks include the development of district concepts, the establishment of meeting places (Kiezstuben) and advice to tenants. In the Reichsforschungssiedlung Haselhorst, which has been a listed building since 1995, Gewobag restored its historical appearance from 2003 to 2013 and modernized 2,750 apartments at a cost of 130 million euros. In 2014 Gewobag opened a museum apartment in Haselhorst that was reconstructed in the style of the 1930s. As one of six municipal housing associations in Berlin, Gewobag signed the “Alliance for Social Housing Policy and Affordable Rents” in 2012. The aim is to create and maintain affordable housing for socially disadvantaged people in the city. The alliance was updated in 2017. In 2013, Gewobag founded the Berlin Life Foundation to promote art and culture, youth and elderly care and sport.

Since 2014

In 2014, Gewobag realigned itself strategically and concentrated its activities in a new company headquarters in Berlin-Moabit. Gewobag gave itself a new corporate design and a new slogan: "Gewobag - The whole variety of Berlin". The company has been pursuing an aggressive growth strategy since 2015. By 2026, Gewobag intends to increase its portfolio of rental apartments from 69,794 units (as of December 31, 2019) to 85,300 through new construction and purchases. The company's portfolio has grown by around 22,000 apartments since 2012. To finance its growth strategy, Gewobag issued a borrower's note loan of 300 million euros in November 2017. It was the largest transaction by a real estate company in the German borrower's note market. In 2019, Gewobag collected a further 1.35 billion euros on the capital market with two promissory notes. This made it possible to purchase a portfolio with almost 6,000 apartments in Berlin-Spandau and Reinickendorf in autumn 2019. These were formerly state-owned apartments from the GSW portfolio , which were privatized in 2004. The acquisition by Gewobag for 920 million euros was the largest re-municipalization purchase in the history of Berlin.

Prominent purchases were the Kreuzberg center with around 300 social apartments at the Kottbusser Tor underground station, which Gewobag acquired in April 2017 for 56.5 million euros, and the Pallasseum with 514 apartments. In September 2017, Gewobag took over 122 turnkey apartments in the new “Wohnen am Mauerpark” quarter. In 2019 and 2020, Gewobag acquired a total of 730 rental apartments in listed building blocks from the 1950s on Karl-Marx-Allee , the former Stalinallee.

At the beginning of 2017, Gewobag completed a communal accommodation for 230 refugees and asylum-seekers in a modular design at Bernauer Straße 138A in Berlin-Tegel. In July 2017, the company handed over further accommodation for 320 people on Spandauer Freudstrasse to the State Office for Refugee Affairs, and a third new building project for refugees was started in spring 2020.

As part of its smart city strategy, the company is testing future-oriented approaches to creating a future-proof, sustainable infrastructure for the city of tomorrow. Model projects are the modernization of 736 apartments in the Mariendorf residential estate and the Waterkant development area in Berlin-Spandau with around 2500 apartments, for which the foundation stone was laid on September 5, 2018. The tenants are supplied with low-temperature district heating through their own district heating network, some of which is generated from river water heat. A mobility hub is planned in the center of the quarter, which, in addition to a large quarter garage, also provides space for car and bike sharing as well as charging stations for e-mobility and interlinks various types of transport. Gewobag has been cooperating with BVG since 2019 and opened a first joint mobility hub on Prinzenstrasse.

Another pilot project for future district and urban development is the upgrading of the former publishing house of the S. Fischer Verlag at Bülowstrasse 90 in Berlin-Schöneberg . In September 2017, the Museum For Urban Contemporary Art of the street art network Urban Nation, a project of the Berliner Leben Foundation, opened in nearby Bülowstrasse 7. To mark the company's 100th birthday on May 14, 2019, Gewobag published a detailed company chronicle on the Internet and, for the first time, a sustainability report.

Known objects

The best-known property in the Gewobag portfolio is the inhabited water tower in Prenzlauer Berg . Other well-known ensembles and buildings:

Corporate structure

The corporate group includes Gewobag Wohnungsbau-Aktiengesellschaft Berlin as the parent company and the following subsidiaries:

  • Gewobag WB Wohnen in Berlin GmbH
  • Gewobag PB Wohnen in Prenzlauer Berg GmbH
  • Gewobag EB development and building support company
  • Gewobag ED energy and service company mbH
  • Gewobag MB Mieterberatungsgesellschaft mbH
  • Gewobag VB Vermögensverwaltungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft GmbH
  • Treuconsult Immobilien GmbH

Others

Gewobag has included the German Corporate Governance Code ( DCGK ) in the version issued by the Senate Department for Finance in the articles of association and the rules of procedure of the supervisory board and the management board.

See also

literature

  • Gewobag (Ed.): Ten years of small housing construction. Berlin 1941.
  • Herbert Nimtz, Peter Less: 1919-1969. Commemorative publication for the 50th anniversary of the non-profit housing corporation Groß-Berlin. Berlin 1969.
  • Gewobag (ed.): Building for Berlin. 75 years of Gewobag 1919–1994. Berlin 1994.
  • Gewobag (Ed.): Urban renewal in the redevelopment area Kreuzberg-Chamissoplatz. Selected projects 1978–1995. Berlin 1995.
  • Heimatmuseum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (ed.): Life in the Paul-Hertz-Siedulung. Berlin 2001.
  • Alf Bremer, Gabriele Klahr, Christian Porst, Michael Stein: Kreuzberg Chamissoplatz. History of a Berlin redevelopment area. Propolis Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-9810108-0-0 .
  • Gewobag (Ed.): Logbook . Berlin 2013, online access .
  • Henry Alex: Haselhorst. The history of the Berlin-Spandau district at the foot of the citadel. Local history association Spandau 1954 e. V., Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-938648-02-5 .
  • Michael Bienert: Modern architecture in Haselhorst. History, residents and restoration of the Reichsforschungssiedlung in Berlin-Spandau. 2nd, expanded edition. Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95723-050-8 .
  • Fred Forbat: Memories of an architect from four countries. Bauhaus Archive, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-922613-60-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Gewobag Annual Report 2019. [1] , accessed on August 26, 2020)
  2. ^ Michael Bienert: Modern architecture in Haselhorst . 2015, ISBN 978-3-95723-050-8 , pp. 28 .
  3. ↑ Protestant Press Service (epd), February 2019
  4. ↑ Light, air and sun. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. January 25, 2018.
  5. ^ Gewobag annual report for 1940, typescript version, unpublished (copy in the Gewobag archive).
  6. ↑ Small kitchen, big demands. In: the daily newspaper. 20th November 2013.
  7. ↑ gewobag.de
  8. ↑ stadtentwicklung.berlin.de
  9. ↑ stiftung-berliner-leben.de
  10. ↑ BBU announcement of November 3, 2017
  11. ↑ [2]
  12. ↑ [3]
  13. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of April 21, 2017.
  14. ↑ [4]
  15. ↑ gewobag.de
  16. ↑ [5]
  17. ↑ [6]
  18. ↑ Press release of March 27, 2017.
  19. ↑ bundesbaublatt.de
  20. ↑ [7]
  21. ↑ gewobag.de
  22. ↑ gewobag.de
  23. ↑ gewobag.de
  24. ↑ stiftung-berliner-leben.de
  25. ↑ gewobag.de
  26. ↑ [8]