Metje + Ziegler

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Metje + Ziegler
legal form Pty Ltd.
founding 1907
Seat Windhoek , NamibiaNamibiaNamibia 
Branch Holding
Website metjeziegler.com

Metje + Ziegler ( M + Z for short , pronounced M and Z ) is one of the oldest and largest private Namibian corporate groups .

history

It was founded in 1907 as a construction company by Hermann Metje in Lüderitz . The import of building materials quickly became an important branch of the company. Two years later, Metje accepted Heinrich Ziegler as a partner in the company and named him Metje & Ziegler . In 1909, Ziegler worked as an architect for the construction of the historic double house in Lüderitz.

The company was represented nationwide as early as 1910 and also played an important role in agriculture . Ziegler died in 1914 fighting in France during the First World War . He is buried in Le Fortês . The company had previously been taken over by neutrals after the entire Metje family had been deported to Pietermaritzburg in the South African Republic . A year later, Hermann Metje was able to take over the company again.

In 1921 the business was expanded and a branch was opened in Keetmanshoop . A year later, Metje took his cousin FW Karl P. Albrecht into the company and founded other companies with him. In 1923 an office is opened in Hamburg . Four years later a branch follows in Walvis Bay , which is managed from Windhoek by Ernst Behnsen from 1932 .

In 1936, Metze & Ziegler started selling Mercedes-Benz vehicles . Three years later, after the sudden death of Hermann Metje, his son Wilfried takes over the business. 1945, after the end of the Second World War , a branch was opened in Otjiwarongo .

In 1948 the former private company became a public company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in South Africa . In 1950, the company moved to Windhoek, and from 1969 in the Metje & Behnsen building on Kaiserstraße , which had been specially constructed since 1967 , the first high-rise in the city. In 1955 another branch is opened, this time in Tsumeb .

In 1975 a branch was opened in Swakopmund . In 1989 and 1990, the branches in Keetmanshoop, Tsumeb and Walvis Bay were closed for Namibia's independence. At the same time, the & in the company name was replaced by a + . The company was listed on the Namibian Stock Exchange (NSX) in 1993 , before the company withdrew from the JSE and NSX ten years later. The building materials business on which the company was founded in 1907 was sold to Pupkewitz Holdings a little later .

Today (as of April 2020) M + Z is a representative for Audi , Volkswagen , Mercedes-Benz, MAN , Chrysler , Alfa Romeo , Fiat , Dodge , Jeep , Fuso and Harley-Davidson in Namibia.

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