Huta civil engineering

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Ullsteinhaus in Berlin
Share of HUTA Hoch- und Tiefbau-AG dated March 1928 for RM 1000
former building of the Federal Audit Office in Frankfurt am Main
Continental high-rise in Hanover (now university)
former postal check office in Breslau

The Huta civil engineering AG or to 1916 Lolat-reinforced concrete GmbH was a German construction company based in Wroclaw and Hanover .

history

The company was founded by the civil engineer Hans Bechtel from Mannheim . Bechtel was initially employed by the fortification building authorities in Metz and Ulm before he joined Gustav Lolat's construction company in Düsseldorf , one of the leading construction companies for reinforced concrete construction at the time , and was entrusted with the management of the Berlin office. After leaving Lolat he founded his own company under the Wroclaw with his approval on May 4, 1904 Company construction company for Lolat-reinforced concrete GmbH , which was able to grow rapidly by specializing in large industrial projects in the still relatively new reinforced concrete construction. The company had branches in Berlin, Halle (Saale), Hanover, Stettin and Nuremberg, among others. In 1907 it was converted into a stock corporation with a capital of one million marks . By participating in Oppeln-Frauendorfer Portlandzement AG , the company also entered the building materials industry . With the takeover of the Austrian concrete construction company G. A. Wayss in Vienna with its branches in Linz and Salzburg, it also spread abroad. Gustav Adolf Wayss was a member of the company's Supervisory Board until his death in 1917 . However, the focus of foreign activities was Russia, where Lolat-Eisenbeton GmbH had been active since 1907 and built electricity and gas works, coking plants, cement factories, a mercury smelter and dams. Branches for the Russian business were opened in St. Petersburg, Riga, Warsaw, Kiev and Charkow. In 1912 a contract was signed with the Reich Colonial Office for the expansion of the port of Apia , as well as the construction of a railway and a water supply system. But it could no longer be carried out because of the First World War . The company Huta civil engineering AG took over the company in 1916 during the war. The Austrian business was given up after the war for economic reasons.

In the second half of 1942 Huta was involved in construction work in Auschwitz through its branch in Katowice, including the construction of the crematoria. During this time she was significantly influenced by Dresdner Bank , which held 26 percent of the shares and chaired the supervisory board through the deputy head of the branch in Wroclaw. The economic historian Johannes Bähr, who examined the history of Dresdner Bank and its holdings, comes to the conclusion that there is hardly a company that was “so close to the center of the Holocaust” as Huta. In Berlin, Huta employed forced labor at BEHALA in the Osthafen in Berlin-Friedrichshain and in Berlin-Charlottenburg, as well as its Halle / Saale branch on the construction site of Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG , Magdeburg branch. In 1946, the assets of the AG, Berlin branch, were confiscated in the SBZ on the basis of order No. 124 of the SMA .

The lost Second World War and the associated abandonment of the headquarters in Wroclaw brought significant changes. In 1946, Huta found a new home in Hanover , where the company's only West German branch existed, and was involved in the reconstruction of the destroyed city. Hans Bechtel, who was a member of the supervisory board to the end after retiring from operational business, died in Hanover in 1950. The administration building of Continental AG in Hanover, erected in 1952/1953, was at that time the highest reinforced concrete building in the Federal Republic of Germany. In addition to Hanover, the company was also present in other major German cities. In the mid-1950s there were branches in Berlin, Dortmund, Frankfurt am Main and Bonn, where Huta was involved in the construction of the Federal Post Office and the Federal Ministry of Finance. In 1962 the company acquired Willy Christiansen KG in Schleswig and E. Hegerfeld Industriebau KG in Essen, and in 1963 Best Bau KG from Munich . The parent company and its subsidiaries merged in 1967 to form Huta-Hegerfeld AG . At the same time the head office was relocated to Essen . In 1985 the company had to file for bankruptcy.

buildings

Before World War II

St. Hedwig in Oberursel

In World War II

After the Second World War

literature

  • 50 years of Huta 1904–1954. Darmstadt 1954.
  • Huta-Hegerfeld Aktiengesellschaft Essen. Essen 1967.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus-Dietmar Henke, Johannes Bähr, Harald Wixforth, Dieter Ziegler: The Dresdner Bank in the Third Reich . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57759-X , p. 560 ff .
  2. ↑ Letter from the Central Construction Office of the Waffen SS and Police Auschwitz O / S to Huta Hoch- und Tiefbau-AG, Kattowitz, from July 29, 1942, sheet 21 quoted from: ibid., P. 557.
  3. ↑ fotopolska.eu
  4. ↑ spiegel.de
  5. ↑ recherche.lha.sachsen-anhalt.de
  6. ↑ nd-archiv.de
  7. ↑ Agnieszka Gryglewska: Wrocławskie hale targowe. 1908-2008 . Muzeum Architektury we Wrocławiu, Wrocław 2008, ISBN 978-83-8926249-3 , p. 19 .
  8. ↑ Werner Steinwender, Günther trauer, Heinrich Wendt: The expansion of the Werder bridge train over the city or in Breslau . Ed .: City Council of the Capital Wroclaw. Wroclaw 1930 ( wroc.pl ).