PreussenElektra

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PreussenElektra Aktiengesellschaft

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legal form Corporation
founding October 1927
resolution July 17, 2000
Reason for dissolution Merger to form E.ON Energie
Seat Hanover , Germany
management Ulrich Hartmann
Number of employees 17,245
sales 9,100 million DM
Branch Energy industry

Old company car in the Hessian lignite mining museum in Borken with the inscription Preußische Elektrizitäts AG

The PreussenElektra Aktiengesellschaft (formerly Prussian electricity corporation or later Prussia Elektra Aktiengesellschaft , former abbreviation PREAG ) was the second largest energy supply company in Germany , based in Hannover . PreussenElektra existed from 1923 to 2000. In 2000, PreussenElektra merged with Bayernwerk to form E.ON Energie .

The supply or catchment area of PreussenElektra comprised the federal states of Schleswig-Holstein , Lower Saxony and part of Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia .

In September 2015, E.ON announced that the remaining operation and dismantling of its German nuclear power plants would be managed on January 1, 2016 by the new PreussenElektra (formerly E.ON Kernkraft GmbH ) based in Hanover. This transition was completed with the entry in the commercial register on July 1, 2016.

history

Predecessor company

The Preussische Kraftwerk Oberweser AG was founded on September 28, 1923 with a share capital of ten million Reichsmarks and is based in Kassel (Hesse). The Prussian state founded the company in order to pool its holdings in energy supply and energy production companies in its territory . For this purpose, the Hemfurth , Mainkur , Kesselstadt and Großkrotzenburg hydropower plants were transferred to the Preussische Kraftwerk Oberweser AG .

In the union Großkraftwerk Main-Weser AG in 1921 the mining activities in the Borkener lignite area (Hessen), as well as the construction of the large power plant Main-Weser , which is in the planning stage, were combined.

The former large power station Ahlem , of which only the machine hall has been preserved

The power plant Hannover AG in Ahlem (near Hanover) built 1922-1924 by the engineer Georg Klingenberg for AEG planned large-scale power plant in Hanover with a capacity of 37.5  MW . The hard coal required for the power plant was delivered from the Deister and the Ruhr area via the adjacent Hannover-Linden branch canal and the rail connections . It was also responsible for switching from the overland network to the interconnected network. The power plant was shut down in the early 1950s.

In October 1927, the Preussische Kraftwerk Oberweser AG , the Großkraftwerk Hannover AG and the union Großkraftwerk Main-Weser AG were merged to form the Prussian Electricity Corporation based in Berlin .

1927 to 1939

A large-scale supply was built up in the following years through the acquisition of or participation in municipal energy supply companies, especially in central Germany, and the establishment of own energy supply companies. As a result of this expansion, the annual power plant output in 1937 reached one billion kilowatt hours (kWh).

Together with the city ​​of Frankfurt am Main , the Preußische Elektrizitäts-Aktiengesellschaft founded a joint venture in 1927 , the Braunkohlen-Schwel-Kraftwerk Hessen-Frankfurt AG (HEFRAG) . The aim was to convert the Wölfersheim power plant into a smoldering power plant . From 1930 this company was wholly owned by PREAG.

In May 1928, PreussenElektra , Bayernwerk (Munich) and Elektrowerke AG (Berlin) founded the stock corporation for the German electricity industry based in Berlin. It is regarded as the forerunner of the German Association that existed until 2001 .

The Schleswig-Holstein Power AG (SCHLESWAG), headquartered in Rendsburg (Schleswig-Holstein) was established on December 21, 1929th It emerged from the Schleswig-Holsteinische-Elektrizitäts -versorgung GmbH , whose owners were the Schleswig-Holsteinische Elektrizitäts-Verband (Rendsburg) with 70% and the Aktiengesellschaft für Energiewirtschaft (Berlin) with 30% and which was founded on January 5, 1924 . From the municipal power plants in Flensburg , Kiel and Neumünster the related Schleswig-Holstein Electricity Supply GmbH , the electrical energy and supplied in 1925 to 13 cities and 425 rural communities. In order to be able to expand the power grid , the municipal power plants and the Schleswig-Holstein Electricity Association merged to form the United Großkraftwerke Schleswig-Holstein GmbH . PreussenElektra bought the 30 percent stake in the Aktiengesellschaft für Energiewirtschaft and acquired a further 42.5% from Schleswig-Holsteinische-Elektrizitäts -versorgung GmbH , thus PreussenElektra held 72.5% of the shares. It was then renamed Schleswig-Holsteinische Stromversorgungs AG .

The power supply Weser-Ems AG (EWE AG), based in Oldenburg (Lower Saxony) went from 1,929 incurred Weser-Ems-Power AG (Wesag) in the field of Space City forth. As early as 1930, Wesag merged with Stromversorgungs AG (Oldag) to form Stromversorgungs AG Oldenburg-Ostfriesland (Strosag) . In 1943, Strosag and the State Electricity Association Oldenburg (merger of local electricity cooperatives) merged to form Energieversorgung Weser-Ems AG (EWE AG), with PreussenElektra accounting for 27.4% of the shares and communal owners for the remaining 72.6%. In 2003 the municipal owners bought the 27.4% shares from E.ON AG .

The Braunschweigische Kohlen-Bergwerke AG , based in Helmstedt (Lower Saxony), founded in 1873, was taken over by PreussenElektra and Elektrowerke AG Berlin at the end of the 1920s .

Westpreussische Überlandwerke Marienwerder GmbH based in Marienwerder ( West Prussia ).

The Thüringer Gas Company Ltd (ThGG), based in Leipzig in 1930, together with the Elektra AG ( Dresden taken) to 50% each. At that time, the ThGG operated 17 of its own plants and thus supplied 211 communities with gas and electricity . In addition, she owned 46 shares in other energy supply companies in the entire area of ​​the German Reich and in three energy supply companies in Luxembourg .

The Energy Aktiengesellschaft Central Germany (EAM) was founded in Kassel on September 6, 1929th PreussenElektra held a 26.1% stake in the capital and in return EAM received 5% of the capital of PreussenElektra. Involved were the Zweckverband Überlandwerk Edertalsperre (supported by the districts of Kassel , Fritzlar , Hofgeismar , Münden , Melsungen , Göttingen , Uslar , Homberg , Warburg , Witzenhausen , Heiligenstadt and Ziegenhain ), the Überlandwerke Südhannover GmbH (supported by the districts of Northeim and Einbeck ), with their district supply systems the districts: Rotenburg , Hersfeld , Kirchhain , Marburg and Hanau and the Preussische Elektrizitäts AG (they brought their supply systems in the district of Frankenberg ). On April 1, 1930, the city of Göttingen was added with the municipal power station .

The Prussian state's stake (77.8%) in Überlandwerke und Straßenbahnen Hannover AG ( ÜSTRA ) was transferred to Preussische Elektrizitäts AG shortly after it was founded. The power generation and distribution of the ÜSTRA was outsourced to the Hannoversche Stromversorgungs AG ( Hastra ) on January 1st, 1929 , whereby the ÜSTRA only acted as a transport company . The company was taken over by the City of Hanover in 1970 as part of the “Red Dot” campaign .

The Hanover-Braunschweigische Stromversorgungs AG (HASTRA), based in Hanover, was created on April 30, 1929 as a regional energy supplier from the merger of the Hannoversche Stromversorgungs AG and the Überlandwerke Braunschweig . The shareholders were PreussenElektra with a stake of 66%, Überlandwerk Braunschweig with 20% and municipal corporations with 14%. It was responsible for supplying around a third of Lower Saxony with electricity. In some areas, it also supplied water , natural gas and district heating . PreussenElektra held 57.49% of the company and the districts of Celle , Diepholz , Goslar , Hanover , Helmstedt , Hildesheim , Lüchow-Dannenberg , Lüneburg , Nienburg (Weser) , Northeim , Peine , Soltau-Fallingbostel , Wolfenbüttel and the cities of Celle , Lüchow , Lüneburg , Nienburg (Weser) and the company Braunschweigerversorgung AG together held 42.51%.

The Nordwestdeutsche Kraftwerke Aktiengesellschaft (NWK AG) was founded by Siemens & Halske around 1900 under the name Siemens Elektro Betriebe . In 1925, the Prussian state acquired the majority in Nordwestdeutsche Kraftwerke Aktiengesellschaft . It was formally merged with the Preussische Elektrizitäts-AG in 1985 . However, both companies acted together in the energy supply.

Second World War

PreussenElektra employed Polish slave laborers during World War II . 700 forced laborers were employed in the Borken plant. This emerges from a document dated April 23, 1940.

Towards the end of the war, the power plants became a strategic target for the Allied bombing raids .

1945 to 2000

The headquarters of PreussenElektra were relocated from Berlin to Hanover (Lower Saxony) in 1947.

The factories in the Soviet occupation zone were confiscated . The supply area now comprised the federal states of Schleswig-Holstein , Lower Saxony and a large part of Hesse .

In 1946 PreussenElektra sold 2.4 billion kWh of energy. By 1955 the amount rose to 5.8 billion kWh. In 1999 PreussenElektra delivered 110.3 billion kilowatt hours to its customers. As a result of the merger with the Viag subsidiary Bayernwerk AG in 2000, the amount of electricity supplied rose to around 200 billion kWh.

In 1955, the power supply Lahn-Dill GmbH was founded by merging the Hessen-Nassauische Überlandzentrale GmbH , based in Oberscheld , and the “Wetzlar department” of PreussenElektra. PreussenElektra held around 86% of the power supply Lahn-Dill GmbH .

PreussenElektra acquired 52.8% of Landesgas Niedersachsen AG , based in Sarstedt . It went on in Avacon AG .

The power Magdeburg , located in Magdeburg ( Saxony-Anhalt ), was a wholly owned subsidiary of PreussenElektra. It went on in Avacon AG .

In 1994 the PreussenElektra Group employed around 26,000 people, including 6,700 at PreußenElektra AG .

In 1999, the Hanover-Braunschweigische Stromversorgungs AG , the Überland-Zentrale Helmstedt AG , the Energieversorgung Magdeburg AG , the Ferngas Salzgitter GmbH and the Landesgas Niedersachsen AG merged to form Avacon AG , based in Helmstedt. At the Avacon PreussenElektra was involved with 64.6%. The remaining shares were held by municipal shareholders. On August 20, 2005, it was renamed E.ON Avacon AG .

Electriciteitsbedrijf Zuid-Holland (EZH)

In 1941 the Electriciteitsbedrijf Zuid-Holland (EZH) was founded in Voorburg ( Netherlands ) as an operating company for high-voltage supply in the province of Zuid-Holland . In 1974, Electriciteitsbedrijf Zuid-Holland became the operator of the Maasvlakte power plant, which was fired with oil and gas . This power plant was expanded in 1985 by a coal-fired power plant . In the following years the Electriciteitsbedrijf Zuid-Holland was involved in the takeover of energy supply companies in the Netherlands. In 1999, Electriciteitsbedrijf Zuid-Holland was the fourth largest energy supply company in the Netherlands.

In January 2000, Electriciteitsbedrijf Zuid-Holland was taken over by PreussenElektra and incorporated into E.ON Benelux bv as E.ON Benelux Generation in the course of the same year .

United Electricity and Mining Corporation (VEBA AG)

In 1929, the Preussische Elektrizitäts AG became a subsidiary of the Vereinigte Elektrizitäts- und Bergwerks-Aktiengesellschaft (VEBA AG), in which the company holdings of the Prussian state were combined. The Prussian state held 83.6% of the shares in PreussenElektra.

The PreussenElektra was after the Second World War, a wholly owned subsidiary of VEBA . As part of the merger of VEBA and VIAG to form E.ON AG , PreussenElektra Aktiengesellschaft merged with Bayernwerk AG on July 14, 2000 to form E.ON Energie AG .

Established in 2016

On July 1, 2016, E.ON Kernkraft GmbH was renamed PreussenElektra GmbH to cover the nuclear power activities that remained with E.ON after the spin-off of Uniper from the "clean" business areas of renewable energies , sales and grids operated under the E.ON brand to delimit.

Former power plants

The information about the power plants operated by PreussenElektra is based on the websites Kraftwerke-Online.de and fundinguniverse.com

Nuclear power plants

After the merger of PreussenElektra with Bayernwerke, energy generation using nuclear energy was combined in E.ON Kernkraft GmbH , which in turn was renamed PreussenElektra (2016) in 2016 .

Coal power plants

After the merger of PreussenElektra with Bayernwerke, energy generation from coal was combined in E.ON Kraftwerke GmbH .

Oil / gas power plants

After the merger of PreussenElektra with Bayernwerke, energy production using oil or gas was combined in E.ON Kraftwerke GmbH .

Hydropower plants

After the merger of PreussenElektra with Bayernwerke, energy generation with hydropower was combined in E.ON Wasserkraft GmbH .

Holdings

Preussische Elektrizitäts AG had the following investments:

In the case of information without brackets, PreussenElektra's stake is one hundred percent.

Web links

Commons : PreussenElektra  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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