Heitkamp group of companies

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Heitkamp BauHolding GmbH

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founding 1892
Seat Herne, Germany
management Michael Müller, Jörg Kranz, Gerhard Wilwerding (Managing Directors)
Number of employees 330 (as of early 2015)
Branch Construction company
Website heitkamp-ug.de/

Headquarters of Heitkamp BauHolding GmbH in Herne

The Heitkamp group, most recently headed by Heitkamp Bauholding GmbH from the Westphalian town of Herne , was active in the fields of engineering, power plant construction and infrastructure construction. With its bankruptcy in November 2011, the group disintegrated; the former group company Heitkamp Ingenieur- und Kraftwerkbau based in Essen continues to exist as a subsidiary of the Turkish Rönesans group.

history

The Heitkamp company has its origins in the civil engineering company E. Heitkamp founded in 1892 by Engelbert Scharpwinkel gen. Heitkamp in (Herne-) Wanne . At the end of the 19th century , canals and roads were initially built for the farmers in the neighborhood. In 1902 the founder's son, Heinrich Heitkamp , took over the management of the still young construction company and expanded the field of activity - u. a. with the execution of construction work underground and above ground for the hard coal mining that characterizes the Ruhr area . In the following decades, construction activities were expanded beyond the region. During this time, z. For example, the construction of the new station Herne , the construction of the Chemical Works Hüls in Marl , natural gas, sewer and regulatory work for the Emschergenossenschaft and Lippeverband , the construction of highways and numerous Abteuf work for mine Shamrock , Unser Fritz u. a.

1946 to 1963

After the Second World War , the name of the company, now known as E. Heitkamp Tiefbaugeschäft , was changed to Bauunternehmung E. Heitkamp GmbH in 1946 . In addition to Heinrich Heitkamp sen. his sons Heinrich jun. and Robert. After extensive work on clearing the rubble in the region, the company's business activities were expanded to include other areas. Buildings for authorities and the German Federal Railroad were built, and in the early 1950s the company started as a special mining company with underground track construction. 1957 Heitkamp also rose with a contract for the power plant Westerholt the Hibernia AG into the power plant construction. For the first time, mining dumps were used as a building material resource for dam and road construction . Heitkamp was involved in the overall expansion of the Ruhr Expressway between Essen and Dortmund as well as in the construction of the new federal railway line from Gelsenkirchen to Haltern am See .

This was followed by investments in the new construction of steelworks 2 at Henrichshütte in Hattingen and in the construction of the Brassert power plant in Marl and the Springorum power plant in Bochum-Weitmar. A corresponding patent was granted on May 28, 1958 for the track tamping machine developed by Heitkamp for underground track construction . In 1960, Heitkamp entered the tunneling sector with the construction of the Erbscheidt tunnel as part of the construction of the Biggetalsperre . In addition, there were orders for the construction of the Federal Ministry of Defense on Hardthöhe in Bonn. At that time, Heitkamp employed around 4,000 people.

1964 to 1980

In 1964, Robert Heitkamp took over sole management of the company and over the next few decades expanded the family-owned company into one of the ten largest construction companies in Germany. In the same year, Heitkamp built the first natural draft cooling tower at the Ibbenbüren power plant . This has been followed by 53 cooling towers throughout Germany and another 38 worldwide (including in Australia , America , Africa , Greece , Spain , the Netherlands , etc.). In 1995, Heitkamp erected two natural draft cooling towers in the course of the largest single order in the company's history for the new construction of the Lippendorf power plant, and in 1998 the highest natural draft cooling tower in the world for the Niederaussem power plant at a height of 200 m .

1970 to 1981

From 1970 to 1981 Heitkamp was involved in various building projects, both nationally and internationally. a. Involved in the field of power plant and nuclear power plant construction , transport construction, civil engineering, building construction, hydraulic engineering and mining.

Heitkamp was u. a. Involved in the construction of the Brunsbüttel , Philippsburg I and II and Brokdorf nuclear power plants as well as internationally in nuclear power plants in Austria ( Tullnerfeld / Zwentendorf nuclear power plant) and Switzerland ( Gösgen -Däniken nuclear power plant ). As a consequence of the experience in nuclear power plant construction, Heitkamp was commissioned with the companies Hochtief and Dyckerhoff & Widmann to build the Wackersdorf reprocessing plant , the construction of which was stopped in 1989 for political reasons.

Significant participation in the construction and expansion of the underground systems in Berlin, Hanover, Bielefeld, Dortmund, Stuttgart and Munich as well as essential work on the construction of the federal motorway 42 (Emscherschnellweg) and federal motorway 45 (Sauerland line) were the national infrastructure projects. International road construction work was carried out in Yemen (Sana's - Taiz and Taiz to the Red Sea), participation in the construction of the subway in Vienna and technical leadership in the construction of the first Dover - Calais Channel Tunnel , which was later interrupted for political reasons.

National hydraulic engineering projects were during this time. a. Participation in the construction of the Obernau dam and the relocation of the Ruhr river near Neheim , the Hofuf drainage project in Saudi Arabia and the construction of a water tunnel in Venezuela took place internationally .

The engineering and building construction, especially services in the field of turnkey construction , were expanded. Bridge structures (e.g. the three-span road bridge "Zum Fürstenmoor" in Hamburg-Harburg , the Emscher bridge in Deusen , the Annener Berg bridge near Annen ) as well as the participation in the construction of the underground car park at Cologne Cathedral and most of the tunnel projects in the course of the Federal Railway The high-speed Kassel-Würzburg line reflects the engineering-construction participations. Heitkamp also contributed to the construction of the Munich Olympic site .

During this time, the new construction of the Technical City Hall in Frankfurt am Main, the construction of the Gelsenkirchen Park Stadium , new buildings for the Technical University of Berlin , orders for the expansion of the airports in Frankfurt am Main and Hanover-Langenhagen, the new construction of the Lower Saxony State Parliament in Hanover, New hotel buildings (Penta Hotel and Steigenberger Hotel in Berlin) and the construction of the hospitals of the miners' union in Recklinghausen and Bochum as well as the large hospital in Münster.

In the mining sector, Heitkamp was involved in the construction of the reinforced concrete headframe over shaft 3 of the Consolidation colliery in Gelsenkirchen and in the construction of the new Ruhr coal mine "An der Haard" in the Recklinghausen district . Began at this time with the discharge, marketing or stockpiling of tailings of Ruhrgebiets- mines .

The railway construction division developed a . a. received a track contract from Elmshorn-Barmstedt-Oldesloer Eisenbahn AG and the international participation in the renewal of the Riyadh- Dammam railway line in Saudi Arabia .

Alfred Herrhausen became the first chairman of the company's newly established advisory board in 1975 .

1981 to 1999

In 1981 the company had around 8,500 employees and generated sales of around DM 1.1 billion . In that year Robert Heitkamp withdrew from the operative business and handed over the chairmanship of the management to his son Engelbert Heitkamp.

Until the reunification of Germany in 1990, Heitkamp expanded the field of activity to include the renovation , modernization and redesign of buildings. One of the first modernization projects was the two town hall towers in Marl.

Another mainstay was added to the already existing activities: the founding of the subsidiary Heitkamp Umwelttechnik GmbH in 1985.

By the widespread introduction of mobile telephony were Heitkamp stations for the C network of the German Federal Post Office and later also for the private network D created.

Heitkamp participated in the execution of the Euro-Tunnel between Calais and Dover and nationally in underground and S-Bahn projects, e.g. B. in Dortmund. Several engineering structures were carried out for Deutsche Bahn in the area of ​​the new Cologne - Rhine / Main line.

Construction work in these years included a .:

  • Coating of the cooling tower outer shell on the natural draft cooling tower of the Völklingen thermal power station
  • Natural draft cooling tower for the Isar 2 nuclear power plant near Landshut
  • Hoheward railway tunnel at the Hoheward heap in Herten
  • ICE external cleaning system of the Deutsche Bundesbahn in Hamburg-Eidelstedt
  • U-Bahn buildings and a. in Frankfurt am Main, Nuremberg, Duisburg and Berlin
  • Participation in the construction of the BAB 560 , bypass Hennef and BAB 57 from Goch to the Dutch border
  • Participation in the construction of the fuel element interim storage facility in Ahaus
  • Apartment hotel, administration building, medical center with supermarket at Ungererpark in Munich
  • New construction of the headquarters of Veba Öl AG in Gelsenkirchen-Scholven
  • Participation in the new building of the Daimler-Benz headquarters in Stuttgart-Möhringen

After German reunification in 1990, Heitkamp was involved in construction work in the five new federal states and had branches in Chemnitz , Dresden , Erfurt , Magdeburg , Potsdam , Halle (Saale) and Rostock .

Examples include a. the reconstruction of the New Synagogue on Oranienburger Strasse in Berlin, the coating of the natural draft cooling tower in Rostock , participation in the development of the Markt Nordseite in Weimar , reconstructions in the Dutch Quarter in Potsdam , participation in the construction of the Siemens Microelectronics Center in Dresden , participation in the lowering of the Rhine bank tunnel in Düsseldorf and the expansion of the BAB 2 in the area of Bottrop .

In the field of mining activities, a. The coke-side dedusting system of the Zollverein coking plant in Essen-Katernberg as well as various reconstructions in the field of mining in the Ore Mountains .

In 1999 Heitkamp merged with Deilmann- Haniel GmbH. The construction activities of both companies are combined as E. Heitkamp GmbH and the mining activities as Deilmann-Haniel GmbH . The civil engineering activities of the E. Heitkamp GmbH construction company were also merged into the legally independent subsidiary Heitkamp Erd- und Straßenbau GmbH .

2000 to 2010

In 2001 the former main branch of railway construction was transferred to the independent subsidiary Heitkamp Rail GmbH .

The following building projects, which were created by or with Heitkamp, ​​should be mentioned as examples:

In 2005 the engineering departments of the construction company E. Heitkamp GmbH were merged into the subsidiary Heitkamp Ingenieur- und Kraftwerkbau GmbH.

After a massive drop in orders in the mining sector and due to the intensifying competitive situation in the German construction industry, Heitkamp-Deilmann-Haniel GmbH decided to implement radical restructuring measures at the end of 2005. In the course of these restructuring measures, u. a. the Aton GmbH international and national parts of the specialist mining sector, today Deilmann-Haniel International Mining and Tunneling GmbH , and the Dutch group Heijmans Heitkamp Rail GmbH. In addition, the main turnkey construction branch in Ratingen with branches in Düsseldorf , Dortmund , Hamburg , Munich and Stuttgart was closed. In 2008 Heitkamp-Deilmann-Haniel GmbH changed its name to today's Heitkamp BauHolding .

From then on, Heitkamp Bauholding combined the four business areas:

  • Engineering and power plant construction (Heitkamp Ingenieur- und Kraftwerkbau GmbH)
  • Infrastructure construction (Heitkamp Umwelttechnik GmbH, Heitkamp Erd- und Straßenbau GmbH)
  • Universal construction (domoplan GmbH, Heitkamp ProjektPartner GmbH)
  • Special construction (BuM Beton- und Monierbau GmbH, Bergsicherung Schneeberg GmbH, Bergsicherung Ilfeld GmbH)

In February 2009, Jürgen Thumann , a great-grandson of the company's founder , took over the majority of the shares in the Heitkamp Group and was most recently on the company's supervisory board .

Bankruptcy and liquidation

Preliminary insolvency administration was ordered for the company Heitkamp BauHolding on November 23, 2011 . Individual non-insolvent subsidiaries were sold in the spring of 2012 and some of them continue to use the Heitkamp name; the Heitkamp group no longer exists. The seven non-insolvent subsidiaries were sold in March 2012:

  • Infrastructure construction
    • Heitkamp Earthworks and Roads to Dobau Holding GmbH
    • Heitkamp Umwelttechnik (approx. 300 employees) also to Dobau Holding GmbH
  • Engineering and power plant construction
    • Heitkamp engineering and power plant construction (approx. 200 employees) to the Zech Group based in Bremen; In 2014, Renaissance Construction took over the majority of Heitkamp Ingenieur- und Kraftwerkbau, and in 2015, Renaissance Construction took over 100%.
  • Universal construction
  • Special construction
    • Bergsicherung Ilfeld (Thuringia) to the Feldhaus Group in Schmallenberg
    • Bergsicherung Schneeberg (Saxony) is also part of the Feldhaus Group
    • Beton- und Monierbau in Herne (approx. 250 employees) also to the Feldhaus Group

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Construction company Heitkamp is making profits again. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , ...
  2. ↑ Construction giant Heitkamp from Herne files for bankruptcy. The West, November 22, 2011, accessed May 8, 2012 .