Hamburger Hochbahn

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Hamburger Hochbahn AG
Hochbahn.svg

DT5 in the direction of Hauptbahnhof-Süd.JPG
Line U3 of the Hochbahn with the subway station Baumwall

Basic information
Company headquarters Hamburg
Web presence www.hochbahn.de
owner Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
founding May 27, 1911
Board Henrik Falk (Chairman / Corporate
Management ) Claudia Güsken (Human Resources and Operations)
Helmut König (Finance and Sustainability)
Jens-Günter Lang (Technology)
Transport network Hamburg Transport Association
Employee 6074 (Dec. 2019)
sales 534.3 million euros (2019)dep1
Lines
Gauge 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Subway 4th
bus 114
number of vehicles
Subway car 269 ​​units, of which:
DT1 : 3 (shut down)
DT2 : 1 (shut down)
DT3 : 30
DT4 : 126 (incl. VGN)
DT5 : 118 (a total of 163 ordered)
Omnibuses 1090 vehicles (2019), including:
• 622 city buses (incl. Express buses)
(including 33 battery buses, 25 hybrid buses)
• 323 articulated buses (including 2 fuel cell buses, 20 hybrid buses, 305 diesel buses)
• 90 large-capacity articulated buses
statistics
Passengers 396.749 million (2019)
Mileage 129.6 million km per year
Stops Subway: 93, bus: 1402
Catchment area Hamburg (except Bergedorf district )dep1
Length of line network
Subway lines 105.8 km (with VGN)dep1
Bus routes 964 kmdep1
Operating facilities
Depots Subway: 3, bus: 8
Share over 1000 Marks in Hamburger Hochbahn AG from December 1919
U1 stop Jungfernstieg with DT4
Underground rail network
"XXL-Bus" ( double articulated bus Van Hool AGG 300 ) on Metrobus line 5
Volvo 7900 Electric Hybrid of the Elevated Railway

The Hamburger Hochbahn AG (HHA) is the largest transport companies in Hamburg . It operates the Hamburg subway and a large part of the Hamburg city ​​bus network.

The Hochbahn is one of the largest local transport companies in Germany and the largest service provider in the Hamburg Transport Association (HVV). In 2019, the company carried around 396.749 million passengers (bus: 217.244 million, underground: 249.52 million, those who change between the two modes of transport are only taken into account once in the total) and employed 6,074 people, 129 of whom were trainees. The Hamburger Hochbahn AG is located on the HGV Hamburger Gesellschaft für Asset and Investment Management Ltd. wholly owned by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

history

The Hamburger Hochbahn was founded on May 27, 1911 in the form of a stock corporation as a consortium between Siemens & Halske and AEG . It has been the private operator of the newly built elevated railway since 1912 , the first director was Wilhelm Stein , the first chairman of the supervisory board Albert Ballin . The city of Hamburg leased the railway facilities to the company, which was run according to private-sector principles. The first elevated railway line was put into operation in 1912 with the ring line, part of today's underground line U3. The line from the main train station to Rothenburgsort, which no longer exists today, followed.

In 1918/1919 the HHA took over the street railway company in Hamburg (SEGH), in 1923 the Hamburg-Altonaer Centralbahn (HAC) and in 1924 the small electric railway Alt-Rahlstedt - Volksdorf - Wohldorf (EKV).

The subsidiary Fahrzeugwerkstätten Falkenried (FFG) used to develop, build and maintain tram and underground vehicles and buses on the former premises at Falkenried. At the headquarters in Hummelsbüttel and four other workshops at the Hochbahn depot, it is now a full-service provider for Hochbahn u. a. responsible for maintenance and repair of the bus fleet. The first buses at HHA were on the line on December 5, 1921.

On April 1, 1919, HHA also took over the operation of the Alster ships from Alsterdampfschiffahrts-GmbH . From 1924 to 1935, however, it transferred technical operations to the Lütgens & Reimers Ewerführer . During the Second World War , the Hamburger Hochbahn also used forced labor . There were five camps in the urban area, in which mainly Soviet prisoners of war were used.

In 1965 the Hamburger Hochbahn was one of the founding members of the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund HVV - the first transport association worldwide. In 1977 ATG Alster-Touristik was founded with a reorientation towards excursion, sightseeing and tourism offers on the Outer and Inner Alster . In 1978, the HHA carried 1,800 vehicles on 111.45 million kilometers of wagons and ships, 398.2 million passengers, 175.8 million of which were on the underground and 221.0 million on the bus and 1.4 million on the Alster shipping. In addition, 8.5 million passengers came from the tram, which was discontinued on October 1, 1978.

For many years, the Hochbahn was listed on the stock exchange and paid outside shareholders a guaranteed dividend. After the amendment of the Stock Corporation Act with simplified options for a squeeze-out , all free shareholders were compensated in 2003, so that the shares are now completely owned by the Hamburg-based company for asset and investment management .

tram

The elevated railway also operated the tram in Hamburg , the lines and routes of which were gradually changed after 1955 to include underground connections and mainly bus services, even when traffic was broken . The last line was switched to bus operation in autumn 1978.

At the beginning of 2009 the company was entrusted by the authority for urban development and the environment with the planning of the Hamburg Stadtbahn , which was dropped in 2011 after a change of government in Hamburg.

buses

Hamburger Hochbahn has been dealing with the use of hydrogen in the mobility system of the future for two decades. In 2003 the first buses with fuel cells went into operation. By resolution of the Red-Green Senate, from 2020 the Hochbahn will only order buses that do not emit CO 2 . The aim is for the entire fleet to be emission-free by the end of this decade.

Subsidiaries and holdings

  • ATG Alster-Touristik GmbH , Hamburg (100%), founded in 1977 from the Alster shipping branch , whose lines are now operated outside the HVV in addition to the tourism sector
  • FFG Fahrzeugwerkstätten Falkenried GmbH, Hamburg (100%), founded in June 1968 from the main tram workshop for the development of vehicle technology as well as electrical engineering and heating and ventilation construction
  • HADAG Seetouristik und Fährdienst AG, Hamburg (100%), passenger ship traffic on the Elbe
  • HHW Hamburger Hochbahn-Wache GmbH, Hamburg (100%)
  • TEREG Gebäudedienste GmbH, Hamburg (56% Hochbahn, 44% Vattenfall ), founded in 1963 as TEREG Technische Reinigungsgesellschaft Schmeisser mbH , in 1974 HEW became a co-partner
  • ZOB Hamburg GmbH (72.1%), operates the central bus station southeast of the main station
  • HSF Hamburger Schnellbahn-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft mbH, Hamburg (100%)
  • HOCHBAHN management company, Hamburg (100%)
  • HOCHBAHN Grundstücksverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Hamburg (100%)
  • HOCHBAHN Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg (100%)
    • HSG Hanseatische Siedlungs-Gesellschaft mbH, Hamburg (100%), founded in 1934 by Hamburger Sparkasse from 1827 , taken over by the HHA parent company in 1943 as a non-profit housing company to create living space for bombed-out employees
  • hySOLUTIONS GmbH, Hamburg (56% elevated railway, 12.5% Vattenfall , 12.5% electricity network Hamburg , 5% Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein (VHH), 4% Hamburg Chamber of Commerce , 4% Hamburg Chamber of Crafts , 3% Hamburg gas network , 3% Hamburg Port Authority (HPA)), founded in September 2005 for the promotion, support and use of hydrogen and fuel cell technology as well as electrical drive and supply systems in Hamburg
  • HVW Hamburger Verkehr-Werbung GmbH, Hamburg (24.9% Hochbahn, 75.1% DSM Deutsche City-Medien GmbH), founded in June 1937 for the marketing and implementation of advertising on and in HHA means of transport and its stops, is now part of Ströer Group ; A subsidiary of HVW was Spezialreklame A. von Beyer & Co GmbH , which had been posting posters in Schleswig-Holstein since the 1930s and for the sister company Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein (VHH) and the then HHA subsidiary Pinneberger Verkehrsgesellschaft from the 1970s to 1990s (PVG) was responsible

former subsidiary

  • Friedrich Jasper Rund- und Gesellschaftfahrten GmbH, Hamburg (100%), taken over by HHA on November 1, 1959, offered bus travel and tourism offers in travel agencies as well as the connection of Hamburg Airport with buses outside the HVV; a bus operating company whose drivers mainly took over mileage for the parent company HHA was merged with the parent company in 2019. A subsidiary of Jasper was Dau-Reisen GmbH with its own travel agencies, and most recently also another previous subsidiary of the HHA parent, Travers Omnibusgesellschaft mbH (TOG), which provided scheduled services for the HHA and earlier also for the VHH as well as factory traffic and also carried out occasional traffic. Their subsidiaries were in turn the Peter Marquardt Omnibusgesellschaft mbH in Stöckte and the Hansa Kiel Grundstücksverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (formerly Autobus Fernfahrten Hansa GmbH ).
  • Reiseagentur Hans H. Grünwold GmbH, a travel company in which HHA had a 25% stake in the 1970s to 1990s, which at that time also offered rental of the means of transport to all transport companies belonging to the group
  • SBG Süderelbe Bus GmbH, Hamburg (100%), bus operating company for services on elevated railway bus routes in south-west Hamburg; Merged with the parent company in 2019
  • P + R Betriebsgesellschaft für Parken und Reisen mbH, founded in 1969 to manage (some larger) P + R facilities at underground stations
  • Hamburg-Consult Gesellschaft für Verkehrsberatung und Verfahrenstechniken mbH (HC), Hamburg, founded in 1967 in order to pass on the experience of the HHA experts to other companies at home and abroad and to carry out research assignments for the BMFT until the 1990s
  • VDV eTicket Service GmbH & Co. KG, Cologne (10.13%)
  • BeNEX , Hamburg (formerly 51%): With entry in the commercial register on May 25, 2007, the expansion operation of Hamburger Hochbahn AG was spun off to BeNEX, in which the investment company International Public Partnerships (INPP) held 49% of the shares. This HHA stake was sold to INPP in July 2019. In BeNEX GmbH, the holdings in local rail transport and public transport outside Hamburg were held:

At the beginning of 1979, HHA became a partner in Hamburg's C-Bahn-Gesellschaft mbH , together with Mannesmann DEMAG Fördertechnik in Wetter and Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm GmbH in Munich. With the support of the BMFT , it was supposed to ensure the planning and operation of a C-Bahn demonstration system in Hamburg ( City Nord ), which was then not implemented.

Passenger information

See also

Web links

Commons : Hamburger Hochbahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Management report and annual financial statements 2019 , Hochbahn Corporate Report 2019, p. 14, accessed on June 20, 2020
  2. ↑ Management report and annual financial statements 2019 Hochbahn Corporate Report 2019, p. 8, accessed on June 20, 2020
  3. Hochbahn corporate report 2019, accessed on June 20, 2020
  4. ^ Joachim Häger: Hammonia and its subway . Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-7672-9967-4
  5. Forced labor in the Hamburg war economy 1939-1945. State Center for Political Education Hamburg, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
  6. ^ Hamburger Hochbahn AG: data and facts . In: Prospectus for IVA 1979
  7. Gernot Knödler: On the way to the emission-free bus: A man burns for hydrogen . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 27, 2020, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed July 29, 2020]).
  8. Gernot Knödler: The north pushes hydrogen: A substance makes a career . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 24, 2020, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed July 29, 2020]).
  9. 100 years of rolling advertising . In: Fahr mit uns , Issue 2/1962, Hamburg illustrated tram magazine, Hamburger Hochbahn AG, Hamburg 1962, p. 4/5
  10. BeNEX shares sold. Retrieved August 18, 2019 .
  11. Tradition · Performance · Progress . Image brochure of Hamburger Hochbahn AG, Hamburg 1979
  12. C-Bahn in Hamburg's City Nord , accessed on September 11, 2019