House of the Future (Hamburg)
The house of the future is an environmentally oriented competence center in the Hamburg district of Eimsbüttel . It was opened in 1998 by the Hamburg entrepreneur and environmental pioneer Georg Winter at Osterstraße 58 as a competence center for sustainable business and today it houses around 30 non-profit associations and commercial companies. In 1999 the house of the future received the first German building pass, which is now known as the energy certificate.
history
From 1872 to 1995 the company was the headquarters and administrative headquarters of the Hamburg company Ernst Winter & Sohn GmbH & Co. founded in 1847 by Ernst Winter, the company was initially dedicated to the production of lithography diamonds. In the following decades, the first German production facility for diamond tools was built on Osterstrasse.
In 1950 the house was rebuilt as a three-story administration building after being destroyed in the war. The production facilities were relocated to other locations in Germany and abroad. In 1958, the company was the first in Europe to produce tools with synthetic diamond as an abrasive. In 1968 the brothers Ernst Michael and Georg Winter took over the management.
In 1972 Georg Winter set the course for opening up the economy to environmentally-oriented entrepreneurial activity with the conception and introduction of the world's first environmentally-oriented management system. As part of this so-called "winter model", he arranged for the first biology industrial building in Germany to be erected at the Norderstedt production site in 1985. In 1996, the French Saint-Gobain Group took over the diamond tool company.
With his initiatives and book publications, Georg Winter gave important impulses for the development and dissemination of environmentally-oriented corporate management: In 1984 he founded the German Working Group for Environmentally Conscious Management ( BAUM e.V. ), which several hundred companies and corporations joined. In 1998, in line with these initiatives, the house at Osterstraße 58 was reopened, completely gutted and redesigned inside and outside according to building biology principles. In this context, the House of the Future received its first German building pass in 1999.
Orientation of the organizations
Based on the conviction that the equal coexistence of humans and nature is a prerequisite for the exercise of human rights, the House of the Future is committed to a better understanding between humans and nature and to the recognition of nature's own rights. Symposia, workshops and publications on the rights of nature are organized or supported (for example, on December 10, 2008, the expert conference “Rights of Nature” at the invitation of the House of the Future).
Around 30 non-profit associations and commercial companies are based in the House of the Future. All of these companies are active at the interface between business and the environment. They include the Federal German Working Group for Environmentally Conscious Management BAUM eV, the International Network for Environmental Management (INEM), the Ökomarkt Consumer and Agricultural Advice Association, the Naturschutzbund Deutschland , Landesverband Hamburg eV and the Naturschutzjugend .
Other actors are architects, consulting service providers, development policy initiatives, engineering and project offices as well as media and education actors who align their work with the five ecological and sustainable principles of the House of the Future: “We protect the biosphere by promoting innovative solutions for Economic practice and society. "
literature
- Wilhelm Winter: The history of the house of Ernst Winter & Son . Hamburg 1970.
- Georg Winter: The environmentally conscious company. A handbook of operational ecology with 22 checklists for practice . Beck Verlag , Munich 1987, ISBN 3-406-32153-4 .
- Jürgen Hopfmann, Georg Winter (ed.): Germany as a future location. The environmentally conscious entrepreneur program . Droemer Knaur , 1997, ISBN 3-426-26939-2 .
- Georg Winter: The environmentally conscious company. The future starts today . Vahlen Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-32153-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saint-Gobain Diamantwerkzeuge GmbH & Co.KG ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INEM
- ↑ Organic market HH
- ↑ Principles of the House of the Future
Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 30.5 ″ N , 9 ° 57 ′ 25 ″ E