Peter Gross Construction
| Peter Gross Bau Holding GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1885 |
| Seat | St. Ingbert , Germany |
| management |
executive Director
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| Number of employees | around 1400 (2019) |
| sales | EUR 500 million (2018) |
| Branch | Construction industry |
| Website | https://gross-bau.de |
The Peter Gross Bau Holding GmbH , based in St. Ingbert is a 1885 based construction SME.
Locations and business areas
The Gross assembly group has around 1400 employees, 250 engineers, more than 600 skilled workers and 70 trainees. 40 companies belong to the group of companies. Locations exist in St. Ingbert , Kaiserslautern , Pfungstadt , Karlsruhe , Koblenz , Mannheim , Munich , Stuttgart , Pirmasens , Langenhagen , Pfullendorf , Villingen-Schwenningen, Luxembourg and Basel with construction sites nationwide. The group of companies is active in all areas of civil engineering, supplemented by extensive activities in the fields of construction, raw and recyclable materials.
history
In St. Ingbert an der Saar, which was still Bavarian at the time, in 1885 the master bricklayer and independent craftsman Peter Gross from the Palatinate village of Neunkirchen am Potzberg founded his own company. The day the company was founded is marked by the “membership certificate” of the then Bavarian construction trade association with the cadastral number 2502 - issued on October 1, 1885. At the age of 30, company founder Peter Gross sen. and steadily expanded his business, buying horses and wagons for transportation. From 1904 he owned a sandstone quarry.
A medium-sized construction company developed from the small craft business of the Palatinate master mason, which is still family-owned today. The Peter Gross assembly group has been part of the economic history of the city of St. Ingbert for four generations. Company founder Peter Gross sen. got involved in social policy early on - as a representative of the German Miners' Association for the Palatinate, he campaigned for the establishment of a new trade union.
After 23 years, the company founder passed his business on to his 25-year-old son Peter Gross junior. Six years later the company already had 100 employees. The First World War forced the closure and Peter Gross jun. became a Royal Bavarian soldier. He returned unharmed in 1918 and the new start began. “Back from the field, I reopened my building construction and civil engineering business. I consider myself highly recommended for new and repair work, ”he advertised in the newspaper. The company survived the global economic crisis and inflation in the 1920s. In 1939 the Peter Gross company already had 350 employees. The Second World War forced the company to shut down again. In 1950, Ottmar Peter Gross joined his father's company at the age of 24. The great need for construction in the 1950s and 1960s led to the emergence of the supraregional active assembly. In addition to civil engineering and industrial construction, road, civil and bridge construction were added. The newly acquired large site on Dudweilerstraße in St. Ingbert offered space for expansion: new administration buildings, a ready-mixed concrete and precast plant, an asphalt mixing plant, own workshops and modern machinery were built. In 1969 the traditional company Albert-Bau in Neunkirchen, Saarland, was taken over. New construction segments such as hydraulic engineering and turnkey construction expanded the company's offering. Pipeline, track and mining as well as the recycling and landfill business were added later. New company locations expanded the radius in the early 1990s: Cottbus, Dresden, Berlin. The rapid growth made it necessary to expand the management team at an early stage. In 1973, Klaus Jürgen Heller, the first non-family manager, joined the company management, the first few years alongside Ottmar Peter Gross, then for many years alone. Heller shaped the company for 34 years until 2005.
In 1994, Philipp P. Gross, the fourth generation, joined the management team at the age of 28, and in 2000 Steffen Walter, both of whom have managed the company to this day. In order to be able to be active with its own logistics locations in the south-west of Germany, the assembly group participated in medium-sized companies in the following years. Wilhelm Füssler Bau and Bautrans, both in Karlsruhe, Matthias Strobel Bau in Pfullendorf, Theisinger & Probst Bau in Pirmasens and Hastrabau in Langenhagen joined the Peter Gross assembly group. Own new locations were established until 2016 in Karlsruhe, Kaiserslautern, Mannheim, Stuttgart, Luxembourg and Basel. In 2017, the civil engineering company Willi Meyer Bau in Villingen-Schwenningen, another company, was added to the Gross construction group.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Assembly group Gross - Peter Gross Bau. Accessed December 11, 2019 (German).