Georg Fischer AG's social commitment
The steelworks Georg Fischer created since its inception for its staff facilities such as family apartments, holiday camps and educational institutions. They set up lecture cycles and courses in Schaffhausen and the surrounding area for the further training of employees , as well as factory schools, apprentice homes, rest homes and sanatoriums.
Support of the employees in everyday life
Planting land was given to employees free of charge for the cultivation of fruit and vegetables on a total area of 7.5 hectares in 570 plots . Horticultural lectures were set up for the cultivation. Using the residual heat from annealing furnaces , z. B. created a dehydrator for drying fruit and vegetables. From 1914 to 1918 its own peat factory was operated on the Husemersee . During the Second World War , coal was distributed to employees, hospitals and schools. The dehydrator was expanded and renewed and two electric ovens were purchased for it.
housing
The housing was supported and developed in proportion to the increasing number of workers. The first workers' houses with numerous apartments were built in 1868. A first residential colony was built in 1906/1908 on the rear "Breite" in Schaffhausen, another was built in Singen am Hohentwiel (1922/1923), as well as the "Sanatorium du Midi" in Davos and the Collinetta recreation home near Ascona .
Social housing at Georg Fischer began with the construction of the workers' house in Schaffhausen's "Mühlental" in 1868 and the first residential colony in Singen in 1895. Extensive construction phases began in 1906 with the establishment of the company's own "Baugesellschaft Breite". In 1910/1911 the "Schwarzadlergüetli" and in 1920 official apartments were built on Felsenstieg / Lochstrasse in Schaffhausen. 82 apartments with 3 to 5 rooms and 21 apartments in Singen were built on the "Breite" in Schaffhausen. In 1920 civil servants' apartments were built on the Schaffhausen Geissberg . The Schweizerbild workers' colony in Stetten was completed in 1918. Another construction project for 19 working-class families began in the former Paradies monastery in Schlatt . Multi-family houses with a total of 119 apartments were also built in Schaffhausen between 1919 and 1921. Between 1922 and 1930, over 100 apartments were set up for the Singen plant. At the same time, a larger block with single-family houses was built on Rielasingerstrasse. In 1947, the newly founded Georg Fischer AG housing company built accommodation for foreign workers. In 1949 Georg Fischer AG owned over 513 company apartments in Singen and 340 other company apartments in and around Schaffhausen - at that time 20% of married workers and employees were housed in company apartments that had central heating, bathrooms and practical kitchens.
literature
- Johannes Müller: Social work. in: Festschrift for the 150th company anniversary. Ed .: Georg Fischer AG, Schaffhausen 1949 (facsimile).
- Werner Stein: cultural timetable, from the Vienna Congress to the end of the Second World War. Volume 4. Berlin / Munich / Vienna 1946, cit. after: Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-596-26384-0 .
- F.-W. Henning: Pre-industrial Germany 800 to 1800; Economic and social history Volume 1. Paderborn 1974, ISBN 3-506-99162-0 .
- F.-W. Henning: The industrialized Germany 1914 to 1972; Economic and social history Volume 3. Paderborn 1974, ISBN 3-506-99168-X .
Web links
- Industrial housing welfare, illustrated using the example of A.-G. the iron and steel works formerly Georg Fischer in Schaffhausen and Singen , in: Das Wohnen, December 1930, pp. 247–250. ( Online )
- Corporate archive of Georg Fischer AG