Max Früh
| Max Früh GmbH & Co.KG
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1908 |
| resolution | 2013 |
| Seat | Achern , Germany |
| management | Madeleine morning |
| Branch | Civil engineering Special civil engineering |
The Max Früh GmbH & Co. KG was a medium-sized construction company based in Achern / Baden. The company's core competence was bridge building. The clients were mainly public institutions, e.g. B. Road construction authorities, water authorities, municipal utilities, urban transport companies, states and municipalities as well as Deutsche Bahn .
history
In 1908, the company was founded as the building business Gebrüder Früh by the building craftsman Max Früh together with his brother Otto in Achern. Business activities came to a standstill as a result of the First World War . At that time the company employed around 20 people.
In the 1920s, the company increasingly relied on reinforced concrete . The founder Otto Früh left as a limited partner in 1938 . By 1939 the number of employees rose to 300. A newly opened office in Freiburg had to be closed again, but branches were opened in Mulhouse and Strasbourg .
From 1941 the company, whose employees were subordinate to the Wehrmacht , had to take over the fortification work on the Atlantic Wall .
In 1946 the company was given the legal form of a limited partnership (KG) . In the 1950s, bridge building became the main field of activity. The company has been operating a ready-mixed concrete plant since 1964 and takes over parts of the insolvent company Gollnow, from which Stahlbau Früh is formed.
In 1971 the company employed 360 people. In the 1970s, Stahlbau Früh became a loss maker and had to be wound up in 1983. The Früh company received the major order to expand the Rhine Valley Railway between Karlsruhe and Offenburg to four lanes and used the freeze tunnel process it had also developed, as well as the sleeper replacement carrier process . The company had a unique selling point in Europe when using this process, which enables the construction of traffic structures while the railways are in operation.
The managing director, Hans-Peter Früh, was also involved in the development of this process via the German patent DE 29721177U1 from February 12, 1998. Another patent application DE 102006043043A1 on the automated monitoring of rail routes during ongoing construction work was filed on September 9, 2006.
On November 12, 2012, the company filed for bankruptcy.
profile
The company was mainly active in Germany and France. Customers abroad included public and private clients: the Republic of France , Arte , Électricité de France (EDF), Eurométropole de Strasbourg , Compagnie des Transports Strasbourgeois (CTS), Départemental du Bas-Rhin (DDE), SERS, Cie and die French railways SNCF .
The company developed technically sophisticated special solutions, such as B. the threshold substitute carrier method. Max Früh worked in the fields of bridge construction, special foundation engineering , renovations and industrial construction.
The company was involved in the expansion of the A6 and A98 with numerous buildings .
On October 1, 2011, the operational part of the company was incorporated into Früh Ingenieurbau GmbH & Co. KG. This took place as part of a transfer of operations in accordance with Section 613a BGB. Initially, the shareholders were Scheith GmbH from Waldshut and Max Früh GmbH & Co. KG. The technical director Hans-Peter Früh passed away on October 19, 2011.
On June 25, 2012, Max Früh GmbH & Co. KG retired as a partner in Früh Ingenieurbau GmbH & Co. KG, and on November 12, 2012 the bankruptcy petition followed.
Buildings (selection)
- 1990: Freudenstein tunnel
- 2001: La-Ferté-Steg, Stuttgart
- 2002: Pierre-Pflimlin-Bridge , Eschau retirement home
- 2005: Neckar bridge on the A6 federal motorway, Mannheim
- 2006: Heerstraßenbrücke over the A8 federal motorway in Stuttgart, access to the New Stuttgart Trade Fair Center
The company was involved in the construction of two award-winning structures. In 2006 the La Ferté footbridge received the German Bridge Construction Prize and the Pierre Pflimlin Bridge the Ruban d'or (Golden Ribbon).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Patent ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ patent application
- ↑ Annual Report 2007, page 5 (pdf)
- ^ German Bridge Construction Award 2006 ( Memento from September 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://de.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?ID=s0013810 Link to Structurae.de
- ↑ http://de.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?ID=s0043657 Link to Structurae.de
- ↑ Awards from the Max Früh company
