Leonhard Weiss
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1900 |
| Seat | Goeppingen , Germany |
| management | Dieter Straub (Chairman), Marcus Herwarth, Robert Kreß, Christian Ott, Ralf Schmidt, Stefan Schmidt-Weiss, Alexander Weiss |
| Number of employees | 5,800 |
| sales | 1.6 billion euros |
| Branch | Construction company |
| Website | Leonhard-Weiss.de |
| As of December 31, 2019 | |
The Leonhard Weiss GmbH & Co. KG (abbreviation: LW), based in Göppingen, is a German construction company founded in 1900 .
history
Leonard White (1880-1938) founded the company in 1900 as a track maintenance operation and was awarded the contract for the construction of the section of railway line Aalen - Neresheim - Ballmertshofen the Härtsfeldbahn . This was followed by work for the city of Göppingen from 1912, for example earthworks for the cemetery expansion and various new roads. After the purchase of the site on Fabrikstrasse in 1921, an office building with a residential building was built there.
After Leonhard Weiß 'death in 1938 the company was taken over by the widow Ottilie Weiss, son Walter Weiss and son-in-law Werner Schmidt sen. continued. From 1938 the company was also active in Crailsheim . The company headquarters there was relocated to Satteldorf in 2001 .
Until 1997 the company was run exclusively by the Weiss and Schmidt families. After a restructuring and amalgamation of the previously independent locations in Göppingen and Crailsheim, the company has been run by several managing directors since 1998.
The range of products offered by the company has been continuously expanded over the years.
The Leonhard Weiss Group has numerous branches and subsidiaries in Germany and other European countries. In 2018 it achieved a construction output of 1.322 billion euros and employed over 5,800 people at the end of 2019.
Range of activities
- Roads and civil engineering
- Network construction / network services
- General contractor network construction
- Track infrastructure construction
- Civil engineering
- Turnkey construction
- Structural repair and mastic asphalt
Projects (selection)
- ICE route Nuremberg – Munich (2002–2005)
- Upgrading the Munich S-Bahn (2003-2004)
- Transhipment station Ulm-Nord (2004-2005)
- Lübeck Airport , expansion to CAT II operating level (2004–2005)
- Federal motorway 73 Suhl – Lichtenfels (2004–2007)
- Baden-Württemberg State Fair (2005–2007)
- Lötschberg Base Tunnel (2005-2007)
- Science and congress center " darmstadtium ", Darmstadt (2005-2007)
- Bundesautobahn 6 Walldorf – Weinsberg, section junction Sinsheim – junction Sinsheim-Steinfurt (2006–2007)
- Rhein-Neckar-Arena - outdoor facilities, paths and roads, structural work (2007-2008)
- VDE 8.1 upgraded line Nuremberg – Ebensfeld (2015–2017)
