Mindener Stadtwerke

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Mindener Stadtwerke GmbH

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founding 1902/2013
Seat Minden / Westf.
management Managing Directors: Susanne Treptow and Joachim Schmidt
Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Michael Buhre
Website https://www.mindener-stadtwerke.de
As of July 2, 2019

The Minden public utilities are a municipal utility companies , which the East Westphalian town of Minden in North Rhine-Westphalia with gas and electricity supplies.

structure

The shareholders of Mindener Stadtwerke are the city of Minden with 51% and Stadtwerke Hameln with 49%. Six representatives from the city of Minden and five from the city of Hameln sit on the supervisory board. The former mayor of Minden Michael Buhre is chairman of the supervisory board . The management rests equally with Susanne Treptow, who is also managing director of Stadtwerke Hameln, and Joachim Schmidt, who is also managing director of Mindener Entwicklungs- und Wirtschaftsförderungs GmbH.

Coverage area

The area of ​​the core city of Minden is supplied with natural gas. Mindener Stadtwerke also supplies the surrounding communities of Hille , Petershagen and Porta Westfalica in North Rhine-Westphalia and Bückeburg in Lower Saxony with electricity . This supply area has historical reasons and is based on the supply area of ​​the former Minden-Ravensberg power station (EMR).

history

Old logo of Stadtwerke Minden (until 2012)

At the end of the 19th century, private investors began to supply some areas of the city with electricity. The city did not necessarily agree with this, as it feared competition for the city gas works. This led to negotiations that led to the establishment of a municipal electricity company on November 12, 1902.

In 1913, as the owner, the city was unable to make any further investments and from then on it obtained electricity from the Minden-Ravensberg electricity company, which was founded in 1909. She then also joined this company as a partner. From 1910 onwards, the company had its own power station in Kirchlengern and was able to supply the city of Minden with electricity at low cost.

On January 1, 2002, the Minden-Ravensberg electricity company took over Stadtwerke Minden, a 100 percent limited company, which had previously been in municipal hands . Previously, on January 1, 2001, there had already been a smaller holding, E.ON took over 25 percent of the shares in EMR. At the beginning of 2002, E.ON also became the owner of Stadtwerke Minden through its majority stake in EMR.

At that time, Stadtwerke Minden was the supplier of electricity, gas, water , heat and liquid gas .

On the other hand, a referendum against the complete sale of the municipal utilities to the Minden-Ravensberg electricity company, which the city council had already decided.

In August 2007 it was announced that Stadtwerke Minden had been merged with E.ON Westfalen Weser with retroactive effect from January 1, 2007 . The history of Stadtwerke Minden ended after more than 100 years.

Remunicipalisation

On August 19, 2010 there was a re-establishment under the same name, through the entry in the commercial register under the company number 3506689. Since then, an interest group under the leadership of Stadtwerke Hameln has tried to revive the Stadtwerke Minden. This remunicipalisation was supported by the imminent expiry of the usage rights for the public networks for electricity (2017) and gas as well as water (2021).

With the Westfalica GmbH in Bad Oeynhausen, which belongs to Gelsenwasser, another interested party presented itself in 2011 to the new Minden municipal utility.

At the end of October 2012, the City Council of Minden decided to re-establish the Minden public utility company by January 1, 2013 together with the Hameln public utility company. Westfalica GmbH, which belongs to Gelsenwasser, was defeated in the selection process.

Related companies

Stadtwerke Minden did not have its own transport department, as a tram company was founded in the region in 1882 as a separate limited liability company, which was later run under the umbrella of the Minden-Ravensberg electricity company, and its own district railway company , which existed from 1883 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mindener Tageblatt of April 9, 2013: Ceremony for the opening of the new Minden municipal utilities , accessed on May 17, 2013
  2. ↑ Presentation of the shareholder structure
  3. ↑ Representation of the company's organs
  4. ↑ Representation of the coverage area
  5. ↑ energy Chronicle Udo Leuschner , accessed on July 5 2011th
  6. ↑ Press release from Stadtwerke Hameln
  7. ↑ Mindener Tageblatt: Minden is thinking about its own municipal utilities, accessed in November 2010
  8. ↑ Mindener Tageblatt: A Great Opportunity for the City Article of December 10, 2011, accessed on December 14, 2011
  9. ↑ Press release of the city of Minden on the decision of the city council on October 25, 2012 , accessed on May 17, 2013

Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 22.4 "  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 8"  E