Pommer special concrete construction

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Max Pommer (1913)

The Pomeranian Special concrete GmbH is a construction company in Leipzig . The company specializing in reinforced concrete was founded in 1898 by the Leipzig architect and building contractor Max Pommer .

Extension for the CG Röder music printing plant

The reason why the successful architect and site manager Max Pommer became a building contractor himself was the order he received from the C. G. Röder sheet music printing company in Leipzig in 1898 for an extension.

Pommer wanted to build the printer's building as a reinforced concrete structure, but could not find any construction companies who wanted to carry out this new type of construction according to Pommer's plans. The Martenstein & Josseaux office in Offenbach was Hennebique's main German licensee for the Hennebique reinforced concrete construction system, which consistently implemented the monolithic building idea of ​​an insoluble unit of ceiling slab and supporting longitudinal and transverse ribs . So Pommer carried out the construction itself under the direction of Martenstein & Josseaux, who also provided the static calculations.

The building application of February 28, 1898 for the extension of the company CG Röder in Perthesstrasse 3 in Leipzig-Reudnitz was followed on April 26 by architectural plans (correction of the already approved building planning ) for a building according to the "well-proven Hennebique system". The building permit for the new building was granted on May 7, 1898. The shell test followed on September 24th and the final acceptance on December 23rd. The print shop's production in the new premises began on January 7, 1899.

This makes the print shop wing in Leipzig's Perthesstrasse the oldest building in Germany (possibly even all of Europe) with a complete multi-storey reinforced concrete structure based on the system by François Hennebique. It was built a year before the warehouse and silo complex at the Strasbourg harbor, which Eduard Züblin built in 1899. Züblin's building has so far been considered the oldest, which the monument conservator Stefan W. Krieg was able to refute. In connection with a demolition request for the building, which is now in a desolate condition, he carried out extensive research, which he published for the first time in 2005. As a result, the already granted demolition permit was revoked.

The preservation and permanent security of this incunable of reinforced concrete construction seems to have been assured in the meantime. At the end of 2009 it became known that the Leipziger Kling Group had acquired the property and is planning to renovate the oldest reinforced concrete building in Germany, as well as the other facilities of the former CG Röder printing company, in accordance with a listed building. The new owner definitely rules out demolition.

After being acquired by a well-known Leipzig property developer, the ensemble of buildings was renovated at great expense in accordance with the listed building standards. With a different use, now as a residential building with a total of 56 residential units, what is probably the oldest reinforced concrete structure in Europe was handed over to the new residents in 2018.

Company history

Since Martenstein & Josseaux also had the right to sell concessions to other sub-licensees, Pommer negotiated with them about the award of the Hennebique concession for Saxony. The contract was signed on June 13, 1898. This day is considered the founding date of the construction company Max Pommer. Pommer was the first Saxon civil engineer who had a license to build reinforced concrete. In the following year he carried out five more buildings with Hennebique constructions. When Hennebique had the utility model deleted in 1901, Pommer canceled the contract and was now able to plan and execute reinforced concrete constructions himself. Pommer still ran the construction company within his architectural office, which was located in his house on Hillerstraße and Plagwitzer Straße ( Haus Pommer ). By specializing in the then young field of reinforced concrete, the company achieved a high level of awareness and played a key role in the beginnings of industrial construction in Saxony at the end of the 19th century.

During the construction of the Leipzig main train station in 1913: The signs “MAX POMMER LEIPZIG EISEN-BETON-BAU” are clearly visible .

By 1905 the company had grown so much that Pommer had to relocate his office to Weststrasse 65. On December 28, 1906, he had his company Eisenbetonbau Max Pommer entered in the commercial register. Until the end of 1912 he also ran his architectural office. Since the turn of the century, the number of construction companies in the field of reinforced concrete construction had increased rapidly. Meanwhile, three other companies competed with Max Pommer in Leipzig. At the beginning of the First World War , the Pommer company had 100 employees and branches in Halle, Chemnitz and Dresden.

After Pommer's death in 1915, his sons Hans and Max (II), whom Pommer had taken on as partners in 1907 and 1910, took over the management of the company, which, however, only existed on paper as a result of the war. After they both returned from the war in 1918, they began to rebuild the company, but the order book at the time was very modest. From 1934 onwards, the number of orders increased by leaps and bounds, so that the company soon had more than 600 employees again. In 1934 Max Pommer (III.), Who had studied civil engineering in Munich and Dresden, joined the company, and in 1936 he became the company's authorized signatory. When Hans Pommer died in 1939, Max Pommer (III.) Took the position of personally liable partner. As a result, the company was able to survive as an important operation for the war economy with the construction of barracks and orders for the armaments industry. From 1941 onwards the first orders to build air raid shelters were received.

After the Second World War , after the American occupation, the Pommer company soon received orders for the reconstruction of railway bridges or Leipzig Central Station. After the occupying power changed, the company survived the first waves of expropriation in the Soviet occupation zone unscathed, although one of the company owners was a member of the NSDAP , and from 1944 onwards the company increased prisoners of war (Russians, Poles, English, French, Dutch, and later also Italians) to replace them German workers drafted to the front were supplied and, due to the obligation on the part of the Todt Organization, had to rebuild destroyed bridges in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union for the Deutsche Reichsbahn.

From 1948 the conditions for private companies in the GDR worsened . In 1953 the company was presented with excessive tax claims, but these were withdrawn after the uprising on June 17th . This secured the company's existence for the time being, only orders were now placed centrally. The reprisals went so far that Max Pommer (III.) Was accused of having caused a construction accident as an act of sabotage, in 1954 for 10 months in the notorious "Roter Ochse" prison in Halle / S. was imprisoned. Due to economic constraints, however, Max Pommer (II.) And Max Pommer (III.) Had to allow state participation in their company from January 1, 1959, they now became personally liable partners ( general partners ), and the Deutsche Investitionsbank became a limited partner . As the bank continued to grant loans, ownership changed more and more in favor of the state. After Max Pommer (II.) Died in 1967, his son Max Pommer (III.) Took over the management of the company. In 1968 it was merged with the companies Eduard Steyer and Schwabach in a working group, before the company was finally transferred to public ownership in 1972 and merged with the companies Steyer, Richter and Berger to form VEB Ingenieurbau Leipzig . Werner from the Steyer company became director, Max Pommer (III.) Deputy and technical director, and his son Dieter Pommer, who had been with the company since 1968, remained the head of the project planning department. In order to come to an agreement with the former owners, however, the arrangement was made that the private entrepreneur could continue to work in the company until he retired, so Dieter Pommer was employed in VEB Ingenieurbau until 1988.

Dieter Pommer founded today's Pommer Spezialbetonbau GmbH under the old company on October 1st, 1991 . Michael Pommer, son of Dieter Pommers, has been a member of the company since August 1997 and the sole managing director since 2000. He restructured the company with an extended range of services (divisions concrete construction, concrete repair and industrial floor coating with epoxy resins).

Buildings (selection)

In Leipzig

  • 1898: CG Röder printing works, Perthesstraße 3 (oldest multi-storey reinforced concrete building in Germany based on the Hennebique system)
  • 1899: Robert Gruner office building, Brühl / Hainstraße (first reinforced concrete building in downtown Leipzig)
  • 1899: Sieler & Vogel company building, Goldschmidtstrasse
  • 1906: New cotton spinning mill , Spinnereistrasse
  • 1906: Brandstetter printing works , Dresdner Straße 11–13 (today the seat of the Leipzig Chamber of Crafts )
  • 1908: Oelßners Hof , Nikolaistraße 20–26 / Ritterstraße 23–29
  • 1910–1912: Wagons for the Great Leipzig Tram, Dresdner Strasse
  • 1912: Held department store, Lützner Strasse / Merseburger Strasse
  • 1912: Astoria cinema, Windmühlenstraße
  • 1913: Central station (cross platform)
  • 1913: Mädlerpassage exhibition center
  • 1913–1914: Department store of Theodor Althoff AG , Petersstrasse (today Karstadt)
  • 1914: Alswede department store
  • 1914: Riebeck Brewery, Mühlstrasse
  • 1914–1915: Bismarck Tower , Hänichen
  • 1914–1915: Hotel Astoria, Willy-Brandt-Platz
  • 1923: University Women's Clinic, Philipp-Rosenthal-Strasse
  • 1927: Orthopedic University Clinic, Semmelweisstrasse
  • 1928: Sachsenbrücke, Anton-Bruckner-Allee
  • 1928–1929: Book printing school ( Gutenberg School ), Gutenbergplatz 8
  • 1928: Conversion of the main fire station, Goerdelerring
  • 1949: Reconstruction of the main train station
  • 1949–1950: Messehof exhibition center, Petersstrasse
  • 1958: Bridge in the Zoo (first prestressed concrete bridge from Max Pommer and the first in the Leipzig district)
  • 1962: Paußnitz bridge, Schleußiger Weg
  • 1969: S-Bahn stop industrial area West with a passenger tunnel, Franz-Flemming-Straße
  • 1993: Underground car park in the AOK building , Wilmar-Schwabe-Straße 2–4
  • 1993: Rietzschke Bridge, Mölkau
  • 1996: Water enclosure in the zoo

In other places

  • 1900: Markersdorfer Bridge near Burgstädt (Germany's first reinforced concrete bridge with a frame construction based on the Hennebique system, broken off in August 2010 by decision of the municipal council against protests by experts, although not endangered)
  • 1908: Central station , Chemnitz (cross platform)
  • 1913–1923: Grain store and warehouse in Westhafen , Berlin
  • 1916: Ernemann-Werke , Dresden-Striesen (individual buildings)
  • 1925: Friedrichstadt Hospital , Dresden
  • 1927: Women's Clinic, Dresden
  • 1927: New buildings for the Wanderer works , Chemnitz
  • 1936: Motorway bridges near Peißen and Zschopau
  • 1951: Bismuth Sanatorium, Wolkenstein
  • 1952–1953: Wolfen paint factory
  • 1954: Maxhütte , Unterwellenborn
  • 1962–1963: Water tower, Geithain

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan W. Krieg: According to the “Hennebique system that has proven itself well”. The oldest reinforced concrete industrial buildings in Leipzig. In: industrie-culture , 11th year 2005, no. 3, p. 18 f.
  2. ^ Jens Rometsch: Germany's oldest reinforced concrete building saved. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , December 24, 2009, p. 18.

literature

  • Stefan W. Krieg, Dieter Pommer: Max Pommer. Architect and concrete pioneer. Edited by the Saxon Economic Archives, Sax-Verlag, Markkleeberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86729-148-4 .
  • Stefan W. Krieg: Max Pommer and the oldest known Hennebique-construction in Germany: a printer's shop at Leipzig. In: Proceedings of the Third International Congress on Construction History. Vol. 2. Neunplus1, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-936033-31-1 , pp. 911-918.
  • Stefan W. Krieg: Germany's oldest reinforced concrete building is in Leipzig. In: Monument Protection Information , Volume 30 (2006), No. 2, pp. 55–57.
  • Stefan W. War: Social reform and reinforced concrete. Max Pommer - a pioneer in many fields. In: Leipziger Blätter , H. 47 (Fall 2005), pp. 71–73.
  • Stefan W. Krieg: According to the "well-proven Hennebique system". The oldest reinforced concrete industrial buildings in Leipzig. In: industrie-culture , 11th year 2005, no. 3, p. 18 f.
  • Thomas Adam: The beginnings of industrial construction in Saxony. Quadrat Verlag, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-932751-07-8 .
  • Operating party leadership of the SED (ed.): With a new profile. VEB Civil Engineering Leipzig. (Festschrift for the 10th anniversary) Leipzig 1982.

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