Nesseler Grünzig Group

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nettle greenzig group
legal form Group of companies
founding 1910
Seat Aachen , Germany
management
  • Joachim Neßeler
    (managing partner)
  • Hubertus Neßeler
    (managing partner)
  • Karl Peter Arnolds
    (Managing Director)
  • Fritz Schupp
    (Managing Director)
Number of employees 218
sales EUR 123 million
Branch Construction, real estate
Website www.nesseler.de
Stand 2013

The Nesseler Grünzig Group is a company founded in 1910 in Stolberg in the construction trade and the real estate industry. It operates the construction of large-scale projects for industry, trade and commerce as well as the construction of entire districts throughout the Rhineland . In addition to construction work, the portfolio of the nesseler grünzig group includes a broad spectrum of services ranging from project development and planning to the operation of real estate. The company headquarters has been in Aachen-Brand since 2003 .

The beginnings

At the beginning of the 20th century, the construction company of the master builder and architect Carl Peltzer (* 1863) was the dominant local construction company, whose most important contracts included the reconstruction of the dilapidated Stolberg Castle and the construction of the old Goethe grammar school and the imperial post office . After Carl Peltzer and his brothers had taken over the shares of the partners Moritz Kraus and Henry Walchenbach in the zinc casting factory Kraus, Walchenbach & Peltzer after their departure in 1908 and this company had come fully into the possession of the Peltzer family , he transferred his company to the Leipzig construction company Castner & Hennig, which also operates in the Stolberg area . In the following years, she was particularly responsible for the expansion of the factory and a new administration building for the company William Prym GmbH & Co KG, as well as for the construction of the Villa Waldfriede for the Prym family according to plans by the architect Gabriel von Seidl . Robert Grünzig appeared for the first time as site manager.

Robert Grünzig era

Robert Grünzig (1880–1954) was born in Schönau near Leipzig as the son of a building contractor, also learned the trade of a master builder and joined the company Castner & Hennig in 1906, first as a construction manager and later as an authorized signatory . As a personally liable partner, Grünzig took over the shares of the departed partner Castner as early as 1910, after which the company was renamed Henning & Grünzig . The company expanded further and also received significant construction contracts outside of Stolberg. After the partner Hennig also withdrew in 1918, Grünzig became the sole owner of the company and renamed it in his name with its headquarters in Zweifaller Strasse in Stolberg. In the same year, Grünzig acquired a large brickworks in the area of ​​today's Sittarder Strasse in Forst near Aachen, a first pillar outside of Stolberg.

Grünzig soon benefited from the beginning boom of the Roaring Twenties , received construction contracts for the first time from the Technical University in Aachen, and from 1927 onwards increasingly began building residential housing. With around 1200 employees in 1928, the first high point in the company's history was reached before the effects of the subsequent global economic crisis took hold in the construction industry and initially led to layoffs in Grünzig's company.

Under the leadership of the Euskirchen center politician and Reichstag vice- president Thomas Esser , he was appointed to join Thyssen AG and the Mannheimer BBC with his company as one of three shareholders in Westmark Industrie GmbH Aachen , which was founded in 1929 and whose exclusive task was to operate the coal mine in Faulquemont in Lorraine as part of the German reparations after the First World War . Grünzig was responsible for the construction of the factory facilities, the administration building, the construction of the associated housing developments and the construction of the entire track system. For these construction projects alone, Grünzig temporarily employed more than 900 people. However, both Thomas Esser and the three shareholders of the NSDAP , which is now striving for power in Germany, were accused of having received bribes for this construction project. The allegations turned out to be baseless and the legal proceedings that had already started were discontinued.

At the beginning of the 1930s, Grünzig acquired a marble factory in what is now Eynattener Strasse in Aachen and in 1932 another brickworks in Nordstrasse in Brand near Aachen, and one year later he opened the Grünzig GmbH branch in Schießstrasse in Düsseldorf , which was operated by his from 1937 Son Hans Grünzig was managed as managing partner. In 1934 Robert Grünzig joined the NSDAP. In 1938, together with his son-in-law Ludwig Charlier, he took over the Aachen cloth factory Marx & Auerbach on the corner of Templergraben-Eilfschornsteinstrasse for 641,000 Reichsmarks . The Jewish previous owner Fritz Marx, who was already the fourth generation to run his company, had to sell his factory well below its value as part of the National Socialist Aryanization and then almost emigrated in December 1938 , after he had to pay the Jewish tax and the Reich flight tax from the sales proceeds destitute in the USA. The purchased Grünzig cloth factory was henceforth under Grünzig & Charlier and later, after leaving Charlier as Grünzig & Co renamed. After the Second World War , the factory shut down during the war by Erna Grünzig (1920–2013), Robert Grünzig's youngest daughter, and her husband Hans-Hubert Neßeler were reopened in 1948 and relocated to Indeweg in Brand in the mid-1950s operated until 1963.

Before the outbreak of war, the construction company itself received numerous construction contracts, some of which were relevant to the war, and at times had more than 2,700 employees. During the war years, the company was subordinated to the Todt Organization and was involved in numerous other military construction projects together with other construction companies in the form of working groups . In connection with this, the Grünzig company also hired foreign civil and forced laborers . From 2000, 55 years after the end of the war, the later Nesseler Grünzig group participated in the foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” , which made compensation payments to former Nazi forced laborers.

After the war, the company took over the construction and reconstruction of numerous residential and commercial buildings, administration buildings and churches, especially in Aachen and Düsseldorf. Among other things, Grünzig reconstructed one of Aachen's landmarks, the Elisenbrunnen , which was completely destroyed in 1943 . The Nuellens house, today's Elisengalerie, was also rebuilt and served as the company's headquarters in Aachen since the 1930s and as the family residence from 1949. At the same time, Robert Grünzig set up a logistics center with a joinery, sawmill, vehicle fleet and petrol station on the site of the Brickyard in Brand, which was now out of operation and on whose site the building yard was located.

Robert Grünzig died in 1954. He found his final resting place in the Stolberg cemetery.

Buildings in the Robert Grünzig era (selection)

In the responsibility of the company Henning & Grünzig, Stolberg :

Responsible for the company Robert Grünzig, Stolberg :

  • Administration building of the Talbot wagon factory in Aachen, 1920s
  • Aachen plant of the Belgian tire manufacturer Englebert , 1920s
  • House of the RWTH Aachen student body, 1923
  • Settlement buildings for the Eschweiler Mining Association , from 1927
  • Housing developments for the Carolus Magnus pit union in Übach-Palenberg , from 1927
  • Factory building, railway tracks, administration building and housing estate for the Societé de Carbonnages in Faulquemont, 1930s

On behalf of the Todt Organization :

Hans Grünzig's era

Hans Grünzig (1909–1986), the eldest son of Robert Grünzig, studied civil engineering at the Technical University in Aachen and in 1937 took over the Düsseldorf branch as managing partner. After the death of his father, Hans Grünzig and his sister Barbara, married Laschet, joined the main company as general partner and restructured it in a forward-looking manner. After the closure of the cloth factory on Indeweg in Brand run by his youngest sister Erna and her husband Hans-Hubert Neßeler in 1963, Grünzig converted the site and the facilities into a precast concrete plant .

A larger, more modern precast concrete plant was built in 1967 in the now disused brickworks on Sittarder Strasse in Aachen-Forst. This first plant of its kind was transferred to the West German prefabricated part factory Grünzig GmbH in 1970 . A strategic cooperation led to the entry of further contractors into the company, which had been operating as WFG West-Ferteilteilbau GmbH since 1973 . Just one year later, it became the second largest plant of its kind in North Rhine-Westphalia. When the investment cooperation ended in 1976, the WFG was reintegrated as an operations department in Bauunternehmung Grünzig GmbH .

In 1970 Hans Grünzig moved the Düsseldorfer Grünzig GmbH to Aachen, and the branch was finally closed in 1986. Outside Aachen, Hans Grünzig finally took over the construction company Hermann Bock KG in Düren in 1977 , which specialized in civil engineering and pipeline construction. In the same year the Laschet shareholders left the group.

Under the direction of Hans Grünzig, the company's range of services was significantly expanded. In addition to the building construction carried out as before, orders for the construction of bridges and sewage treatment plants as well as road, underground and pipeline construction have now been accepted. As a result of the founding of the WFG in the 1970s, precast concrete construction and turnkey construction became the main focus of the company. To this end, Grünzig often joined forces with other renowned construction companies to form ARGEN , depending on the size of the property to be built .

Nevertheless, Bauunternehmung Grünzig GmbH was not spared the general recession in construction in the 1980s : orders fell and employees had to be laid off. Hans Grünzig had already made provisions for the social security of these employees in the 1950s and was one of the first companies in the region to introduce a company pension scheme.

As a native of Stolberger, Hans Grünzig was also associated with the local football club Stolberger SV, for which he built the Robert Grünzig arena named after his father in 1956 and of which he was later appointed honorary chairman. Just a few months before his death, he took over the management of the club again and, in 1985, played a key role in organizing the event for the club's 75th anniversary.

Buildings in the Hans Grünzig era (selection)

Construction takeover as a consortium :

Joachim & Hubertus Neßeler, the third generation of the family

In economically difficult times, Joachim and Klaus Neßeler, grandsons of the company founder and sons of the cloth manufacturer Hans Hubert Neßeler and his wife Erna, née Grünzig joined the construction company's management team. They implemented far-reaching reforms, completely merged Hermann Bock KG from Düren with Robert Grünzig GmbH, and at the same time gave up civil engineering and cable construction. Klaus Neßeler left the company management in 1985. Since then, Joachim Neßeler has been the sole shareholder - and personally liable until 1997 - of Robert Grünzig GmbH & Co. KG , the group's parent company.

In 1983 the group of companies was split up through a real division between the shareholder families Grünzig and Neßeler. The Grünzig family took over the marble works and part of the company property. In 2003 the marble factory was relocated from Eynattener Straße in Aachen to Nordstraße in Aachen-Brand, the former building and depot. The descendants of Hans Grünzig, under the name Grünzig GmbH & Co KG, run a company that is completely separate from the nesseler grünzig group under company law and specializes in the brokerage of residential and commercial properties in Aachen and the surrounding area.

Since the beginning of the 1980s, the group has concentrated increasingly on the field of turnkey construction with shell construction and precast concrete parts from its own production. Customers are companies from industry, commerce and trade as well as project developers for functional buildings and developers for residential buildings.

In 1992 the younger brother Hubertus Neßeler joined the group. Together, Joachim and Hubertus Neßeler expanded the group to include the subsidiary nesseler projektidee gmbh , in which they each hold 50 percent of the share capital. Business purpose is project development and property developer.

Since 1995, nesseler grünzig plan has been taking on construction planning services, initially in the area of ​​architectural planning, later also in the field of building services planning.

In the 2000s, in addition to new buildings, the focus was also on modernization and renovation.

In 2012 the nesselerbetrieb gmbh & co kg was founded. Your task is the operation of real estate with a focus on the control and management of building services systems.

In 1994, the company was one of the first in Germany to be awarded the ISO 9001 quality standard . In addition, in 2005 it received certification for the occupational health and safety management system of the construction trade association and an award for its IT security solutions. Joachim Neßeler was awarded the Aachen Social Prize in 2010 for his social commitment both to the interests of his company employees and to public projects .

Thanks to the complete reorganization under the current name of the nesseler grünzig group , construction contracts were obtained from all over Germany and, according to the company's own information on its website, the total turnover of the company with only around 220 employees increased to more than 120 million euros (2013).

Since 2003, the headquarters of the corporate group with its administration has been in Aachen, Indeweg 80, the location of the former textile factory Grünzig & Co. The precast concrete plant and the building yard have their facilities in Aachen, Sittarder Straße 20.

Projects of the nesseler grünzig group (selection)

  • Lammerting Technologiepark Cologne, 1998–2009
  • Annapark Center Alsdorf , 2001–2002
  • Factory buildings in Brehna near Leipzig, 2002–2008
  • Bingen logistics hall, 2007–2008
  • Quartier 4 housing estate in Essen , 2007–2009
  • Physics settlement Cologne-Porz, 2005–2010
  • Extension buildings Luisenhospital Aachen 2009–2010
  • Extension buildings for the Aixtron company in Herzogenrath , 2010–2011

literature

  • Otto Eschweiler, Hans-Dieter Indetzki (ed.): The Aachen Economic Region ( = monographs of German economic areas) , Oldenburg 1984, p. 263, ISBN 3-88363-031-4 .
  • Robert Grünzig: construction company, ring kiln factory, marble factory , Stolberg u. a. circa 1960.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Number of employees from 1988 to 2013 according to our own company statistics ( memento of the original from March 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nesseler-bau.de
  2. Sales figures from 1982 to 2013 according to company statistics ( memento of the original from June 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nesseler-bau.de
  3. Aachener Zeitung: He has had a lasting impact on the appearance of the city. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved on July 2, 2012 (activities by the Carl Peltzer construction company).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.aachener-zeitung.de  
  4. Joachim Zinsen: How the Jews were robbed in Aachen , in. Aachener Nachrichten of July 16, 2018
  5. Aachener Zeitung: Villas testify to the former mining era. Retrieved July 6, 2014 (mining settlements).
  6. Mention of Hans Grünzig in the chronicle 100 years SSV  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / fcstolberg10.jimdo.com  
  7. ^ Aachener Nachrichten: High-rise hovers over the ground floor. Retrieved on July 6, 2014 (Kreishaus Aachen).
  8. Relocation of the Marble Works Grünzig, Aachener Zeitung of April 2, 2003  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.aachener-zeitung.de  
  9. Information on nesseler projektidee GmbH on Unternehmensregister.de
  10. Brief profile of the company and certifications at Aix-Quasigeum - Society for Quality Management, Occupational Safety, Health and Environmental Protection (PDF; 174 kB)
  11. Aachener Zeitung: Grünzig-Bau exemplary in IT security. Retrieved on July 16, 2014 (Award Secure-it. Nrw. 2005).
  12. ^ Joachim Neßeler Prize Winner of Aachen Social 2010
  13. Kölner Stadtanzeiger: A tailored suit for the authorities. Retrieved on July 6, 2014 (Lammerting Industriepark).