Leonhard Moll

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Leonhard Moll AG

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legal form Corporation
founding 1894
Seat Munich , Germany
management Christian Kilger, Rüdiger Lugert, Uwe Balshüsemann
Number of employees 1510
sales 265 million euros
Branch Construction / chemistry
Website www.leonhard-moll.de
Status: 2018

The Leonhard Moll AG is a German group of companies with headquarters in Munich . In 2018, the group generated sales of around 260 million euros and employed over 1500 people.

Company founder

Leonhard Moll was born in Külsheim-Erkenbrechtshofen (today a district of Bad Windsheim in Middle Franconia) in 1870 as the son of a day laborer . After completing an apprenticeship in the building trade, he was initially employed by the city of Munich until he founded his construction company in 1894. He died in Munich in 1945. The municipality of Külsheim-Erkenbrechtshofen granted him honorary citizenship . The Leonhard minor road in Jettingen-Scheppach is named after the company founder. The named of the city of Munich in 1990 Leonhard-Moll-Bogen in Munich is renamed Landau arc since, 2015.

Beginnings

Today's Leonhard Moll AG emerged from a construction business founded by the then master builder Leonhard Moll in Munich in 1894, which initially worked in the areas of construction and project development. In addition to residential houses, Moll also built public buildings, was active in hydraulic engineering (shipping routes, port facilities) and built industrial buildings. After the First World War he built what was then a modern building yard with workshops, warehouses, warehouses and loading facilities. In 1926 he expanded the business area to include a road construction department. In 1929 Moll also founded a concrete plant, from which today's Leonhard Moll Betonwerke GmbH & Co. KG division emerged . In 1932 Moll was involved in the construction of the Freiburg Sternwald tunnel for the route relocation of the Höllentalbahn .

The company's other projects included B. the first tar road surface in Germany in 1930, the Isar bridge in Bad Tölz , the Ludwig bridge in Munich or the Munich-Riem airport .

Developed from 1935 and made the division Betonwerke masts in spun concrete method , the u. a. serve as antenna support. In 1937, Leonhard Moll applied for a patent for railway sleepers made of prestressed concrete and began production on a large industrial scale during the Second World War.

During the Nazi era, the construction companies of the Moll Group also received orders from the National Socialist regime (e.g. building the road to Hitler's Berghof on Obersalzberg , in Munich, among other things, participating in the building of the House of German Art , the Führerbau and the NSDAP Administration building - today the Munich House of Cultural Institutes - and in the redesign of Königsplatz ), as well as participation in the construction of the west wall and the construction of bunkers for submarines and armaments factories (e.g. powder factory of Deutsche Sprengchemie GmbH in Waldkraiburg ). In the later years of the war in particular, forced laborers were also used in the buildings .

The construction company, which had installed the roof structure in the new building of the East Jewish synagogue in 1930/1931, demolished the main synagogue on June 8, 1938 by order of the City of Munich . Here, however, the new organ sold by the Israelite Religious Community to the Archbishop's Ordinariate at cost price could be expanded. Furthermore, the time capsule was secured from the foundation stone with the foundation documents . Today it is again in the possession of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde for Munich and Upper Bavaria and found its way into the new foundation walls of the synagogue on Jakobsplatz.

Even before the Second World War, the construction industry was in the war economic system of the Organization Todt incorporated and thus Leonhard Moll war key construction projects, labor - allocated energy and building materials - to the end of the war forced laborers.

In 1944, a large construction site was set up near Landsberg am Lech for the construction of three semi-underground bunkers for the production of the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter (" Ringeltaube project "). The company Leonhard Moll received the order for a bunker near Igling , code name "Weingut II". The construction costs for the bunker vault alone were estimated at over 20 million Reichsmarks . By the end of the war, however, only around 70% of the work on this bunker had been completed. Hundreds of Jewish concentration camp prisoners from the largest concentration camp complex in the German Reich, which was specially built around Landsberg and Kaufering, had to work on the construction site free of charge and malnourished in two shifts of twelve hours each (the "Weingut II" bunker was opened in the 1950s under Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss , taken over by the Bundeswehr, completed and now houses the Air Force Maintenance Group 13 Landsberg).

In view of the historical responsibility, both the company and the grandchildren of the company founder made personal contributions to the compensation. In 2000, Leonhard Moll AG was one of the first German companies to join the initiative of the German Business Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” and made extensive payments.

Furthermore, Dr. As members of the Moll family, Hans and Franz Moll donated considerable sums to the Association for the Promotion of the New Jewish Community and Cultural Center on St. Jakobsplatz in Munich .

After 1945

Type plate on a precast concrete box of a barrier control near Ruderatshofen

After the death of the founder, the company was continued by his sons and grandchildren. After 1945, the Leonhard Moll construction company developed such large and well-known Munich projects as the sports facilities of the Olympic site (1968–1972), industrial facilities for the BMW car company , breweries, the Neue Pinakothek , the Munich police headquarters , the dome in the Hellabrunn zoo , or the Großmarkthalle Munich (including some building designs in working groups ).

At times the company was also involved in the Marienstein coal mine near Waakirchen.

A special field of business was opened with the tunnel construction division when several German cities started building the subway in the 1970s due to the changed traffic conditions. Among other things, one was involved in working groups in the Munich subway construction; In Frankfurt am Main, several construction lots (tunnel tubes and underground station) were built for the Stadtbahnbauamt together with Sager & Woerner KG and Held & Francke Bauaktiengesellschaft in consortia under the technical management of Leonhard Moll GmbH & Co. KG. Road tunnels were also built, u. a. the Lionheart Tunnel (1991–1995) in Annweiler .

At the end of the 1980s, the branches of Leonhard Moll GmbH & Co. KG in Munich, Chemnitz and Frankfurt am Main were restructured into independent companies. In 1994 the assembly was brought into today's Leonhard Moll AG.

The building activities building construction, road and civil engineering, tunnel construction and civil engineering were sold in 1997 and today belong 100% to the construction group STRABAG SE as its German division under the company Strabag-Bau-AG . On March 1, 2006, the building construction and civil engineering of Strabag Bau-AG was transferred to Ed. Züblin AG sold.

Leonhard Moll AG is now part of the Moll Group with further holdings in Germany and abroad.

Business areas

The Leonhard Moll Group today consists of three divisions:

concrete

Leonhard Moll Betonwerke GmbH & Co. KG has a long tradition, as Leonhard Moll built a concrete factory as early as 1929. Spun concrete masts have been developed and manufactured on an industrial scale since 1935 and have also been used as antenna supports since the introduction of the railway radio system. After Leonhard Moll applied for a patent for pre-stressed concrete sleepers in 1937 - he became a pioneer of this technology - the concrete sleepers, which have since been manufactured millions of times, developed into the mainstay of sales. The production program is based on constant technical optimization and thus meets the quality requirements of Deutsche Bahn AG . The company has its locations in Munich, Hanover and Laussig near Leipzig as well as foreign subsidiaries in Poland, the Czech Republic and Great Britain.

The Leonhard Moll concrete works division produced several million prestressed concrete sleepers during the reconstruction after the Second World War. After the reunification of Germany, production at the Laussig location was added in 1994 and the plant in Hanover in 2004. Today the company has a share of the German concrete sleeper market of around 20%.

Today's business areas of the concrete plants division are:

  • Concrete sleepers (production capacity: over 500,000 prestressed concrete sleepers per year)
  • Planning, project planning, delivery and commissioning of complete concrete sleeper works

Colours

Keimfarben GmbH & Co. KG : Manufacture of products for the mineral-silicate Building, the center of gravity mineral colors . Two German locations in Diedorf (headquarters) and Alteno / Luckau , as well as eleven foreign subsidiaries in Europe (Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Scandinavia, Poland, the Czech Republic) and the USA.

Fire protection and thermal insulation

Techno-Physik Group: The world's largest manufacturer of inorganic, high-temperature-resistant panels made from vermiculite as a raw material . Two German locations in Essen (headquarters) and Werdohl , as well as two other foreign subsidiaries in Slovenia ( Cerknica ) and Austria ( Amstetten ). Manufacture of THERMAX® and FIPRO® fire protection panels from the natural raw material vermiculite for constructions in passive structural fire protection and fire protection in shipbuilding as well as the offshore industry. Production of thermal insulation materials from vermiculite and micro glass fibers for applications in high-temperature technology.

Leonhard Moll Foundation

For the 100th anniversary of the company and with the idea of ​​reconciliation, the Moll Group set up a foundation in 1995 which, in cooperation with the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and the Technical University of Munich, provided four scholarships for students of architecture with monument preservation , inorganic Provides chemistry , business and economics , law and art history at universities in Wroclaw , Budapest , Krakow , Prague and Saint Petersburg as well as in Israel. These were the first permanent scholarships that these two Munich universities received.

Moll area

In the early 1980s, the Westpark (part of the IGA International Garden Show 1983) and, from 1989, the Hansapark residential complex was built on the former building yard site of the Leonhard Moll construction company in Munich . The celebration work , a culture and event center, is located on the former "Mollgelände" .

literature

  • Leonhard Moll AG (ed.), Hans Neudecker (design): 100 years of Leonhard Moll 1894 to 1994 . Munich 1994.
  • Leonhard Moll GmbH & Co. (Ed.): Advising, supervising, building. Main focus of a construction company. The 70s and 80s . Munich 1986.
  • Leonhard Moll KG (ed.), Hans Wiese (collaborator): Leonhard Moll aged 75, 1894–1969 . Munich 1969.
  • Leonhard Moll, construction company for civil engineering, reinforced concrete, Munich. (Advertising leaflet) Wild, Munich 1910.
  • The Moll-Post, employee newspaper of the group of companies , published 6.1995-10.1996, ZDB-ID: 1344436-0; Predecessor: Die neue Mollpost , published irregularly 1.1992–5.1993, ZDB-ID: 1344434-7.
  • German Biographical Encyclopedia . Vol. 7, Munich 1998, p. 190.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Consolidated financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  2. City of Munich Official Gazette No. 3/30. January 2015
  3. ^ Special supplement to the Freiburger Zeitung on the opening of the new railway line, November 8, 1934, accessed on May 13, 2010
  4. ^ Karl-Ulrich Gelberg: The minutes of the Bavarian Council of Ministers, 1945–1954 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-486-57566-X ; P. 39: Protocol No. 57 of February 5, 1949