Josef C. Neckermann

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Josef C. Neckermann - GmbH & Co KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1895
Seat Wurzburg
management Personally liable partner: Neckermann Energie GmbH, managing director Dieter Heisig
Branch Fuel trading, raw materials trading, biodiesel production, development of commercial and industrial real estate

The Josef C. Neckermann - GmbH & Co KG was a family-owned German company group with headquarters in Würzburg (Bayern). Business areas were fuel trading, trading in raw materials for biodiesel production , biodiesel production itself and the development of the commercial and industrial real estate required for this. Owners were members of a line of the Neckermann family . The personally liable partner is Neckermann-Brennstoffe GmbH, Würzburg (Managing Director until March 9, 2009: Marlene Neckermann, from March 9, 2009: Dieter Heisig).

On January 16, 2013, the opening of insolvency proceedings was rejected due to lack of assets, the company is dissolved.

history

The JC Neckermann company was founded in 1895 as a coal trading company. The then 23-year-old founder Josef Carl Peter Neckermann (1868–1928), father of the German businessman and dressage rider Josef Neckermann (1912–1992; Neckermann Versand , Neckermann department store, Neckermann Reisen ), wanted his father's butcher's business, Peter Neckermann (1842–1902 ) and had his inheritance paid off early.

He moved to Würzburg, where he founded a coal trade and his own shipping company to transport coal on the Main.

JC Neckermann subsequently expanded his coal trading company into a company with 80 employees, which supplied major customers such as the Royal Bavarian State Railways and, after the end of the First World War, also the Deutsche Reichsbahn and was involved in numerous other companies. In addition, he acquired several houses in Würzburg as well as shares in the Bayerischer Staatsanzeiger and the Frankfurter Zeitung . Because of his property and his connections in business and politics, he was dubbed the " Rockefeller of Würzburg".

After JC Neckermann's death in 1928, the eldest of his two sons, the later founder of the mail order company, Josef Neckermann, joined the management and expanded the trading network. After the end of the Second World War, the destroyed company had to be rebuilt, initially with imported coal from England. In 1948 Josef Neckermann's brother Walter (1914-1972) took over the management and expanded the company considerably. When he died in 1972, his widow Elsa took over the business. During this time, heating oil sales were added to the company's business areas. In 1995 Elsa Neckermann handed over ownership and management of the company to her daughter Marlene Neckermann (* 1944). With her partner Dieter Heisig (* 1942), both lateral entrants from outside the industry, she restructured the company. In 1996 the first petrol station for biodiesel was opened. In 1999 JC Neckermann entered into a strategic partnership with the French mineral oil company Elf Aquitaine : the end-consumer business was spun off. A branch was established in Bosnia-Herzegovina to refurbish the tank facilities at Sarajevo Airport . As part of the "Oil for democracy" JC Neckermann delivered on behalf of the European Commission heavy oil to 300 by the opposition to Milosevic -Regierung controlled cities in Serbia , after its fall also to the main heating plant in Belgrade , in 2001 bitumen for road construction by Ex- Yugoslavia .

In October 2004 the first biodiesel plant went into operation in Halle (Saale) , from 2005 to 2007 Austria's largest biodiesel plant was built at the port of Enns . In 2005 the operational holding company GATE was founded, into which the Neckermann family brought their biodiesel business together with the Swiss financial investment company Fortune Management. From 2006, the newly founded GATE subsidiary Neckermann Renewables built the third biodiesel plant with rapeseed silos and oil mills in Lutherstadt Wittenberg , Germany's first integrated biodiesel plant.

In 2006, Biodiesel Enns received the “Regional Energy Globe Special Austria (Upper Austria)” sustainability award . In 2007, Dieter Heisig, CEO of the GATE Group, became the first German “ ÖkoGlobe ”, a DEVK insurance company , as a “pioneer of biodiesel from the very beginning ” and the ACV Automobile Club, awarded in the People category.

In April 2008, bankruptcy proceedings had to be opened for Biodiesel Enns . In the course of this process, the entire GATE group was taken over in July 2008 by a consortium of international investors (95%) and management (5%) in order to carry out a restructuring and reorganization.

Under the leadership of Martin Richard Kristek from November 2008 to April 2011, the company expanded its offering to include electricity supply to end customers. In 2010, attempts were made to enter the electricity market for electric cars , but this project was abandoned after six months. Kristek then launched Care-Energy, his own electricity product, on the market in November 2011 .

The company was dissolved in 2013, the personally liable partner Neckermann Energie GmbH continues to exist and focuses on the renewable energies sector .

Holdings

Members of the Neckermann family (Marlene Neckermann, her husband Dieter Heisig and her son Philip Neckermann (* 1982)) brought their biodiesel activities into the newly founded GATE Group (Global Alternative Energy) with a minority stake of 35%, the financial investor Fortune Management Inc. initially held a majority stake of 65%. The GATE Group is one of the largest suppliers of biodiesel in the market for B5 admixtures (5% biodiesel share) in Europe. It buys the raw materials required for production from agricultural wholesalers and, in addition to three biodiesel production plants in Enns (Austria), Halle (Saale) (Germany) and Wittenberg (Germany) , operates its own oil mill and tank farm. The plants have an annual capacity of around 370,000 tons of biodiesel, around 220,000 tons of raw rapeseed oil, around 300,000 tons of rapeseed meal as animal feed and around 40,000 tons of pharmaceutical glycerine. Mainly major customers are supplied.

The companies and holdings of the GATE Group are (as of August 2008):

  • GATE Global Alternative Energy Holding AG , administrative headquarters in Zug , Switzerland
  • GATE Financial Services AG , Zug, Switzerland
  • GATE Global Alternative Energy Germany GmbH , Wittenberg , Germany (in the Agrochemiepark Piesteritz)
  • Neckermann Renewables GmbH , Wittenberg
  • Neckermann Renewables Wittenberg GmbH , Wittenberg (biodiesel production plant with oil mills): founded in October 2004, at the time of commissioning the world's largest fully integrated biodiesel refinery (capacity: 200,000 tonnes per year). In February 2008, production in Wittenberg was temporarily interrupted due to the changed, barely cost-covering market situation and short-time work was registered.
  • JCN Neckermann Biodiesel GmbH , Halle (Saale), Trotha district (biodiesel production plant)
  • Biodiesel Enns GmbH & Co. KG , Enns (biodiesel production plant): This company was originally 51 percent owned by Neckermann Renewables GmbH, a 100 percent subsidiary of the GATE Group. The other 49% belonged to “Invest Unternehmensbeteiligungs Aktiengesellschaft” (“Invest AG”), a subsidiary of Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich . From April 2005 to April 2007, the two cooperation partners built Austria's largest biodiesel plant in Enns, with a production capacity of over 100,000 t (124 million l / year) based on rapeseed oil , which corresponds to around a third of Austria's biodiesel demand. However, only 10% of the rapeseed could be secured from Austria, the rest should therefore come from Hungary and the Czech Republic, which is why Hungary's own rapeseed mill should be built. The main customer was supposed to be the mineral oil group OMV AG and small petrol station chains. Due to the sharp rise in prices, there were problems with securing raw materials, and increases in costs for plant construction blew the financing plan. Therefore, the plant could only go into operation briefly in 2007; On April 16, 2008, the bankruptcy proceedings were opened against Biodiesel Enns. With liabilities of 46.4 million euros and creditor claims of 63.2 million euros, it was the largest bankruptcy in Upper Austria for years.

After the bankruptcy of Biodiesel Enns, the entire GATE group was taken over in July 2008 by a consortium of international investors (95%) and management (5%) in order to carry out restructuring and reorganization. The biodiesel plant in Enns is to be sold, the GATE Group is to become a contract manufacturer for other companies in the field of oilseed processing , biodiesel and kosher pharmaceutical glycerine .

For the o. A. JCN Neckermann Biodiesel GmbH has filed an application to open insolvency proceedings. According to a public announcement on June 26, 2009, the applicant was subject to the provisional administration of the applicant's assets; the most recent acts were published on March 6, 2012 (business no .: 59 IN 527/09 at the Halle district court).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notation per commercial register entry, Würzburg HRA 1931
  2. ↑ District Court Würzburg, HRA 1931, announcement of February 5, 2013, see also here . Retrieved June 22, 2017.
  3. ↑ Energy Globe Award project database Energy Globe Award project database ( Memento from May 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed from the web archive on June 22, 2017.
  4. ↑ With passion for climate protection ( Memento from May 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed from the web archive on June 22, 2017.
  5. ↑ Martin Richard Kristek filed the general power of attorney with Josef C. Neckermann GmbH & Co. KG with immediate effect , www.presseportal.de, April 18, 2011, accessed on May 15, 2014.
  6. ↑ With electricity in the dead end? , www.mainpost.de, March 13, 2012, accessed on May 15, 2014.
  7. ↑ Neckermann Neue Energien AG: How a traditional company moves with the times ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), press release from Neckermann Neue Energien AG, March 26, 2014, accessed on May 15, 2014.
  8. ^ History of Neckermann Strom , www.neckermann-strom.de, accessed on May 15, 2014.
  9. ↑ Biodiesel Enns GmbH & Co KG: April 16, 2008 opening of bankruptcy at LG Steyr , press release Kreditschutzverband from 1870
  10. ↑ Examination meeting in bankruptcy Biodiesel Enns GmbH & Co KG: Creditors demand over 63 million euros ( Memento from July 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), press release Kreditschutzverband from 1870.
  11. ↑ Leo Himmelbauer: Bankruptcy perfect: Biodiesel Enns files for bankruptcy - dispute over the cause. WirtschaftsBlatt , April 15, 2008, archived from the original on April 24, 2008 ; Retrieved May 19, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Leo Himmelbauer: Biodiesel flops in Enns and elsewhere: loss of € 149 million, negative equity. WirtschaftsBlatt, April 28, 2008, archived from the original on May 2, 2008 ; Retrieved May 19, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Biodiesel plant in Enns becomes a grave of millions ( Memento from May 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) ,wirtschaftsblatt.at, July 3, 2008
  14. ↑ Karl Leitner: Biodiesel plant in Enns becomes a grave of millions. WirtschaftsBlatt, July 2, 2008, archived from the original on September 28, 2008 ; Retrieved May 19, 2014 .
  15. ↑ Enns biodiesel plant: creditor claims increased , derStandard.at , August 13, 2008, accessed on May 19, 2014
  16. ↑ Biodiesel plant in Wittenberg shortly before restart - agrarzeitung.de - July 22, 2008 (fee required) GATE press release, July 22, 2008
  17. ↑ on http://www.insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de/ , last status from 2012: [1] , accessed on June 22, 2017.