STAMAG steel and mechanical engineering

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The STAMAG steel and engineering AG is the first East German company operating in a corporation was converted. The notarial certification of the conversion took place on April 1, 1990. The AG was initially based in Regis-Breitingen .

history

Stahl- und Maschinenbau AG , which was established in 1990 after the political change , has its origins in 1949.

In this year the VEB Zentralwerkstatt Regis operated for the Borna lignite mining area, as did the Central Repair Department (ZRA). Their tasks were the repair and maintenance of systems and equipment in the opencast mines, the briquette factories and power plants. In the 1960s, their areas of responsibility expanded from the Central German lignite mining area to the Lusatian mining area . In a first combine formation in 1971, the ZRA was renamed the Central Assembly Department Regis (ZMA) and was part of the VEB Repair Combine Coal (IKK). At that time there were three central assembly departments with over 1,000 employees, which were managed by a directorate (ZMA Regis, ZMA Graefenhainichen, ZMA Lausitz). After a new combine was formed in 1981, the Regis central workshop became the parent company of the plant construction brown coal combine (KABB). Their task was to build complete conveyor systems.

On April 1, 1990, the Regis central workshop was privatized and became the first East German company to be converted into a corporation, Stahl- und Maschinenbau AG .

Areas of activity

Since the transformation in 1990, Stahl- und Maschinenbau AG initially took over the areas of activity of the Combine Plant Construction Lignite. This mainly affected the areas of the lignite industry for the Lusatian and Central German lignite districts, general repairs to large equipment such as excavators, spreaders and conveyor bridges. Stamag also carried out performance-enhancing measures for large equipment technology as well as the maintenance of rail vehicles and the manufacture, repair and procurement of spare and wear parts. The project planning, the construction as well as the production and assembly of complete belt conveyors and much more were also part of their tasks.

Trustee management and privatization

At that time, STAMAG Stahl- und Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft consisted of various companies that were merged in the course of the formation of the combine in GDR times. These included spare parts and industrial sales, the Regis central workshop, the sawmill in Geithain, the Bösdorf steel and chilled cast iron works and a few other sub-operations. Since the transformation into a corporation, STAMAG was owned by the Treuhandanstalt until the end of 1992 .

In an interview, the chairman of the supervisory board, Reinhard Walter, explains that STAMAG is in the black and emphasizes that no liquidity credit has to be used. This was achieved through the successful restructuring from the monostructure coal to steel and mechanical engineering. Nevertheless, there was a demand for the reduction of personnel and the outsourcing of the sub-operations.

During this time, the Treuhandanstalt was obliged to sell all former GDR operations quickly, and a bonus program was even introduced for the employees. But there were "For many companies [...] no interested parties." In September 1992, an employee of the Treuhand learned from a supervisory board that STAMAG was to be liquidated. This will make Dr. Walter Schneider (name changed) took notice of STAMAG. Schneider, who had already bought numerous companies in the new federal states since 1991, was, like many of the buyers, not checked for liquidity. Schneider “did not pay the purchase price for many of the businesses that he bought in Halle. [...] Nevertheless, the head office [= Treuhand] sells 98 percent of the Stamag shares. [...] The purchase price is set at one million D-Marks, which Schneider pays on December 29th. ”However, shortly afterwards the investor has 10 million D-Marks transferred from STAMAG to his West German accounts. However, STAMAG had to pay old debts. The trust helped the entrepreneur to 40 million marks. After the dubious deals were uncovered and Schneider was convicted, STAMAG was sold to the Swiss manager Franz Felix in 1994.

Conversion into STAMAG EIV GmbH

In the course of privatization after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990, main departments were outsourced and a. spare parts and industrial sales (EIV). The EIV is later bought on September 4th, 1999, shortly before the final bankruptcy of the parent company Stamag, by Rainer Illian, a long-time employee in the company. The until then only employed managing director of the EIV becomes a partner of the EIV through the purchase.

The shareholders' meeting took place on September 15, 1999 and the commercial register was announced on December 16, 1999. The central tasks are the trade and sale of drive technology and industrial supplies, in particular spare, individual and wear parts, as well as related services.

Todays situation

Today's STAMAG Ersatzteil- und Industrievertrieb GmbH is still based in the Queis industrial park (Landsberg, Saxony-Anhalt). Hendrik Illian became managing director of STAMAG in 2015 and will take over TRANS-INNOVA GmbH in 2020.

In addition to the pure trading business, other business areas such as maintenance service and the mechanical processing of assemblies have been added.

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Dirk Laabs: The German gold rush. The real story of the trust. Pantheon, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-570-55164-6 , p. 281 .
  2. ^ Sächsisches Staatsarchiv: Sächsisches Staatsarchiv. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Company RUNDSCHAU. STAMAG newspaper. No. 6. Regis, June 1991. p. 4.
  4. ↑ Dirk Laabs: The German gold rush. The real story of the trust . Pantheon, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-570-55164-6 , p. 223 .
  5. ↑ Dirk Laabs: The German gold rush. The real story of the trust . Pantheon, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-570-55164-6 , p. 228 .
  6. ↑ Dirk Laabs: The German gold rush. The real story of the trust. Pantheon, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-570-55164-6 , p. 282 .
  7. ↑ STAMAG: STAMAG GmbH company profiles. In: https://www.companyhouse.de/s/STAMAG . Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
  8. ↑ STAMAG: Home. In: https://stamag.de/de . Retrieved August 6, 2020 .