Sager & Woerner

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Sager & Woerner was an internationally active German construction company that had existed since 1898 and was majority owned by the Woerner family until 1980 (merger with Heilmann & Littmann Bau AG to form Heilit + Woerner Bau-AG ).

history

The company was founded in 1898 by Michael Sager (1825–1898), who has been an independent engineer and building contractor in Munich since 1864, and the brothers Franz Woerner (1859–1937) and Roman Woerner (1857–1932), who worked as stonemasons and building contractors in Aschaffenburg were founded. Initially, the company existed in the legal form of a general partnership , later as a limited partnership (KG). It had already built buildings in Germany and abroad before the First World War. The Prinzregentenbrücke , the Corneliusbrücke , the Wittelsbacherbrücke , the Reichenbachbrücke and the Bogenhausener Brücke in Munich as large-span massive arched bridge constructions, as well as the port facilities in Tangier and Larache , Morocco , built together with the construction company Philipp Holzmann , received special mention at the time . One of the projects in the field of hydraulic engineering was the "lowering" of Lake Chiemsee , which began in spring 1902, lowering the lake level by 70 cm.

Between the world wars, the company was involved in the expansion of the German road network, especially the motorways , and developed the rubber-tyred roller that is still in use today and mastic asphalt as a surface material . Fritz Todt , already a member of the NSDAP at that time and inspector general for roads under Hitler from 1933, was the technical director of the construction company Sager & Woerner from 1925 to 1933. In 1927, under his leadership, the company proposed building a motorway from Munich to the Würmsee .

From 1938, Sager & Wörner was one of the companies that received orders from the Todt Organization , including: Projects such as the Atlantic Wall and the like. a. in Denmark and defenses on the Channel Islands .

After May 8, 1945, the construction company grew into one of the most important construction partnerships in the Federal Republic of Germany (1980 with approx. 4000 employees) and was still mainly active in road construction, civil engineering and civil engineering. In 1980, the Schörghuber Group merged Sager & Woerner with Heilmann & Littmann Bau-AG to form Heilit + Woerner Bau-AG . This was taken over in 1988 by Walter Thosti Boswau (WTB) and merged into Walter Bau in 2000 . This company went bankrupt in 2005.

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  1. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 36, 1902, No. 66 (from August 16, 1902), p. 428.
  2. ↑ Karola Fings , War, Society and Concentration Camps: Himmler's SS Building Brigades p. 200 FN18
  3. ↑ From Aschaffenburg to the wide world in FAZ of November 28, 2013, page 48