Schoeller-Bleckmann steel works

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Schoeller-Bleckmann Stahlwerke AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1924 (merger of Schoeller Stahlwerke AG , Bleckmann Stahlwerke AG )
resolution 1988–1995 (VEW Vereinigte Edelstahlwerke AG ; split of ÖIAG Österreichischen Industrieholding AG )
Seat Ternitz Lower Austria / Mürzzuschlag Styria
Branch Mining , steel production and processing

The Schoeller-Bleckmann steel mills were an Austrian mining company . It was created in 1924 through the merger of the two companies Schoeller Stahlwerke and Bleckmann Stahlwerke . Later there was a split into different, highly specialized companies with separate ownership.

founding

Schoeller steel works

Schoeller Stahlwerke AG
(1868 Ternitzer Walzwerk- und Stahlfabrikations-Actien-Gesellschaft)
legal form Corporation
founding 1862 Alexander von Schoeller & Alfred Krupp (1847 Theresienhütte am Ternitz , 1855/56 Ternitzer Eisenwerke Reichenbach )
resolution 1924 (merger with Bleckmann Stahlwerke AG to form Schoeller-Bleckmann Stahlwerke AG )
Seat Ternitz Lower Austria
Branch Steel production and processing

The Schoeller Stahlwerke were founded in Ternitz in 1862 by Alexander Ritter von Schoeller (1805–1886), who earlier founded the Berndorfer Metallwarenfabrik with Alfred Krupp (1812–1887) . They took over the Ternitzer Eisenwerke Reichenbach , which in 1855/56 from the Theresienhütte am Ternitz owned by the steel goods manufacturer Franz Müller sen from Gumpendorf . ( Martin Müller and Son Company ), who founded it in 1847 after the Vienna-Gloggnitz Railway opened in 1842.

In 1868, Alexander von Schoeller, with the participation of Hermann Krupp (1814–1879), converted the company into the Ternitzer Walzwerk- und Stahlfabrikations-Actien-Gesellschaft . It was not until 1883 that the shares of the now deceased Hermann Krupp were bought back by his son Arthur Krupp (1856–1938). After Alexander's death, his successor and nephew Gustav Adolph von Schoeller (1826–1889) merged the branches in Hirschwang and Edlach an der Rax with the Ternitz plant for economic reasons . After Gustav's death, his cousin and universal heir Sir Paul Eduard von Schoeller (1853–1920), after his brother Philipp Wilhelm von Schoeller (1845–1916) withdrew from the company, acquired the Krupp shares and became the sole owner. He carried out fundamental modernization measures and the types of steel produced here were able to establish themselves on the world market. Under his leadership, the plant achieved its greatest economic expansion. After him, his cousin Richard Schoeller (1871–1950) took over the company.

Bleckmann steel works

Bleckmann Stahlwerke AG
(Hammerwerk Phönix, 1874 Bleckmann Stahlwerke, 1920 Phönix Stahlwerke Joh. E. Bleckmann)
legal form Corporation
founding 1862 Johann HA Bleckmann (Hammer Phönix , Eisenrecht 1360)
resolution 1924 (merger with Schoeller Stahlwerke AG to form Schoeller-Bleckmann Stahlwerke AG )
Seat Mürzzuschlag Styria
Branch Mining , steel production and processing

The Bleckmann steel works go back to the Mürzzuschlager Hammerwerk Phönix , which Johann H. A. Bleckmann acquired from Prince Sulkowsky in 1862 . The iron hammers in Mürzzuschlag go back to the High Middle Ages, in 1360 Duke Rudolf granted Mürzzuschlag the iron right for the "sole production of small iron" between Leoben and Semmering.

Bleckmann expanded it between 1863 and 1874 into the integrated steel works Bleckmann Stahlwerke AG . Later the Neuhammer and the Sagmühl were added in the Hönigsberg district , both of which were converted into rolling mills . At that time around 600 workers were employed, this number rose to almost 3,000 people including prisoners of war during the First World War . The company produced blade and tool steel with modern crucible cast steel furnaces from 1864 and the first Siemens-Martin furnaces (since 1874) . The engineer Max Mauermann developed rustproof steel in 1912 . The world reputation of Phoenix Steel was based on this. Bleckmann's sons Eugen and Walter took over the company after his death.

Mergers and company structure from 1924

In 1924, Richard Schoeller merged Bleckmann Stahlwerke AG with Stahlwerke Schoeller AG to form Schoeller-Bleckmann Stahlwerke AG and took over overall management. In 1933 he passed the company on to his nephew: under the leadership of Philipp Alois Schoeller (1892–1977), “who 'had dedicated himself to National Socialism for better or for worse since 1936', as stated in the study on 'Austria's banks in the National Socialism '(Verlag CH Beck) means “, Schoeller-Bleckmann developed into an important company in the Austrian armaments industry for the Second World War . Schoeller was an illegal party member of the NSDAP in the Austrian corporate state before 1938 , and from 1938 to 1945 he held high positions as a representative of the interests of industry. Between 1938 and 1945 he was President of the Chamber of Commerce in Vienna and was awarded the title of Wehrwirtschaftsführer by Hitler .

The Schoeller-Bleckmann Stahlwerke AG were dismantled after the war, except for a small rest area extensively, which was eventually nationalized in the year 1946th Subsequently, there was a renewed economic upswing in the post-war years.

Schoeller-Bleckmann at VOEST 1975

In 1975 the Austrian stainless steel producers were merged to form the state-owned United Edelstahlwerke AG (VEW) as a 100% subsidiary of VÖEST-Alpine AG .

Successor company after 1988

As early as the early 1960s, the company was divided into several areas: plant construction, steel pipe production and oil field products. In 1988 the VEW split up again and the subsequent privatization. Schoeller-Bleckmann was integrated into the Austrian Industries AG group in 1990 , and - when this also soon became obsolete - directly into the Österreichische Industrieholding AG (ÖIAG). Between 1993 and 1995, the operating units were sold separately.

Böhler Bleche

When the Swedish Uddeholm Group was split up and bought by VOEST, the former Schoeller-Bleckmann Stahlwerke became part of the Böhler-Uddeholm AG group and now operate as Böhler Bleche GmbH & Co KG in Mürzzuschlag. In 2007, the company and its mother, Böhler-Uddeholm, were reintegrated into voestalpine .

Schoeller Bleckmann Medical Technology (SBM)

In 1972 Schoeller Bleckmann acquired the Technomedica company , whose owner and founder, Dr. Kalasek, who was the inventor of the steam / air mixture process. This started the production of large-capacity sterilizers in Ternitz. SBM  Schoeller Bleckmann Medizintechnik Ges.mbH in its current form was founded in 1990 as a subsidiary of Munich Medical Mechanics . In 2001 Pharmatec took over the majority of SBM. In July 2007, SBM was taken over by Robert Bosch GmbH .

Schoeller-Bleckmann stainless steel pipe (SBER)

In 1991, to become legally independent division seamless stainless steel tubes in the Schoeller-Bleckmann Edelstahlrohr GmbH, headquartered in Ternitz, 1995 took place the privatization through a management buy-out of four managers. Since 1999, SBER has been wholly owned by the Spanish Tubacex . With the resolution of the general meeting of July 19, 1999, Schoeller-Bleckmann Edelstahlrohr GmbH was renamed a stock corporation, with the general meeting of November 20, 2006 the AG was renamed back to a GmbH.

Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield (SBO)

Furthermore, in 1995 the Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG for directional drilling technology for crude oil and natural gas, which is also located in Ternitz, was taken over by Berndorf AG and floated on the stock exchange in 1997, where it trades under the name Schoeller-Bleckmann AG .

Schoeller Bleckmann Nooter / Nitec (SBN)

From 1935 Schoeller-Bleckmann produced apparatus and process vessels for chemistry, petrochemistry (refineries) and biochemistry as well as the food and beverage industry and pharmaceutical industry. In 1986 apparatus manufacturing was concentrated in Ternitz. In 1996 the apparatus construction was taken over by the Nooter Corporation , St. Louis, USA, and operated under the name Schoeller-Bleckmann Nooter . On April 30, 2008, the SBN was taken over by the Christof Group , headquartered in Graz , and has been operating under the name Schoeller-Bleckmann Nitec GmbH since then .

Schoeller Bleckmann Technical Service (SBT)

The Schoeller Bleckmann Technical Service GmbH & Co KG was created in 1993 in the field of care and maintenance of the steel plant Ternitz (Schoeller-Bleckmann AG). The services are also offered to other companies, primarily in the Ternitz area. If the SBT was originally a joint subsidiary of Schoeller-Bleckmann Edelstahlrohr (SBER) and Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield (SBO), the SBT has been 100 percent owned by Schoeller since 2000 (according to the company register) and 1999 (according to the company website) Bleckmann Edelstahlrohr GmbH.

literature

  • Helmut Brenner, Wolfgang Nagele, Andrea Pühringer: In the shadow of the phoenix. Highs and lows of a dominant industrial company and its effects on the region. Herbert Weishaupt Verlag, Gnas 1993.
  • Schoeller-Bleckmann AG (Ed.): Schoeller-Bleckmann. Report on the centenary of the stainless steel works. Self-published, Vienna no year [1962].
  • Roger Fugléwicz: The change in the corporate structure and entrepreneurial function, demonstrated using the example of Schoeller-Bleckmann Stahlwerke. Economics dissertation at the University of Innsbruck , Innsbruck 1954.
  • Franz Mathis: Big Business in Austria, Austrian large companies in brief presentations. Oldenbourg, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-53771-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History. In: Serviceportal Ternitz → Overview and information. City of Ternitz, accessed on February 15, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Mürzzuschlag viewed "historically". (No longer available online.) In: Mürzzuschlag - Die Stadt. City of Mürzzuschlag, archived from the original on February 21, 2010 ; Retrieved February 15, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.muerzzuschlag.at
  3. ↑ Marianne Enigl : How Austrian aristocrats joined the NSDAP despite being blocked from membership. ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Subtitles "shelter". profil online , January 9, 2010. Accessed October 11, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.profil.at
  4. ↑ Michael Nikbakhsh: Contemporary history: The administered horror. profil online, December 2, 2006. Retrieved October 11, 2010.
  5. ↑ E. Lebensaft, Ch. Mentschl:  Philipp Alois v. S. (Schoeller, Philipp Josef von). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 25 f. (Direct links on p. 25 , p. 26 ).
  6. ^ Website of Schoeller-Bleckmann Medizintechnik
  7. ↑ SBER - Milestones of Schoeller-Bleckmann Edelstahlrohr GmbH ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved February 19, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sber.co.at
  8. ^ Website of Schoeller-Bleckmann Edelstahlrohr GmbH
  9. ↑ Schoeller-Bleckmann Edelstahlrohr GmbH. ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Entry on firmenabc.at @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.firmenabc.at
  10. ↑ firmenmonitor.at - change in commercial register SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN stainless steel pipe . Amendment to the commercial register dated July 22, 1999, accessed on February 19, 2014.
  11. ↑ firmenmonitor.at - change in commercial register SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN stainless steel pipe . Amendment to the commercial register dated November 29, 2006, accessed on February 19, 2014.
  12. ↑ firmenmonitor.at - SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN stainless steel pipe
  13. ↑ Schoeller − Bleckmann Nooter website
  14. ^ Website of Schoeller Bleckmann Technisches Service GmbH & Co KG
  15. ↑ SBT company website: History . Retrieved February 19, 2014
  16. ↑ firmenmonitor.at - change in the commercial register SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN Technisches Service GmbH . Amendment to the commercial register from May 15, 1999, accessed on February 19, 2014
  17. ↑ firmenmonitor.at - change in the commercial register SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN Technisches Service GmbH . Amendment to the commercial register dated April 4, 2000, accessed on February 19, 2014.
  18. ↑ SBT company website: History . Retrieved February 19, 2014
  19. ↑ firmenabc.at - SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN Technisches Service GmbH & Co. KG ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved February 19, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.firmenabc.at
  20. ↑ www.sber.co.at - Subsidiary SBER ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved February 19, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sber.co.at
  21. ↑ firmenmonitor.at - SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN Technisches Service GmbH