Hennigsdorf steel and rolling mill

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The Hennigsdorf steel and rolling mill was a large steel and rolling mill in Hennigsdorf in Brandenburg . It has been operated by the Riva Group since 1992 as HES Hennigsdorfer Elektrostahlwerke GmbH .

history

Partial bond for 5,000 marks from Stahl- und Walzwerk Hennigsdorf AG from August 1922

In 1917, the AEG supervisory board decided to build an electric steel and rolling mill for AEG in Hennigsdorf. Construction began on April 18th. In the following years the plant was developed into a "steel and rolling mill", which consisted of four plants:

  1. Siemens-Martin factory,
  2. Steel mold foundry ,
  3. Rolling mill ,
  4. Power plant.

The first steel tapping took place on July 20, 1918. On October 1st, 1921 the stock corporation "Stahl- und Walzwerk Hennigsdorf AG" was founded. On October 1st, the factory became the property of Mitteldeutsche Stahl AG . During the Second World War , inmates of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp had to do forced labor here. After the end of the war, the steel and rolling mill was largely dismantled by June 30, 1946 in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement .

By order of the Soviet military administration in October 1947, the gutted steel and rolling mill was handed over to the state government of Brandenburg for reconstruction as one of the first state- owned companies . Then the steel and rolling mill was run as VEB Stahl- und Walzwerk Hennigsdorf and from the mid-1950s as VEB Stahl- und Walzwerk Hennigsdorf " Wilhelm Florin " . The first steel tapping after the end of the war took place on March 12, 1948. In 1951 the steel mill was able to achieve the pre-war value of steel produced again. During the GDR era, the plant was constantly expanded. From 1970 the factory became the parent company of the VEB Quality and Stainless Steel Combine (QEK).

In 1948, the company sports association (BSG) Stahl Hennigsdorf was founded, which offered sports such as football, table tennis, boxing, volleyball and rugby. In rugby , the BSG became the GDR record champions with 27 championship titles.

Privatization by the Treuhandanstalt

Shift change in the VEB steel and rolling mill "Wilhelm Florin" (1962)

After the fall of the Wall , the Treuhandanstalt incorporated the plant into Hennigsdorfer Stahl GmbH and systematically returned it to the core business. When the Treuhand put the plant up for sale in 1991 and the applicants cut out the lucrative parts, a conflict broke out. 200 steelworkers moved to the trust and occupied the plant for 13 days. Finally a compromise was reached and the company was sold to an Italian steel company. Thus, among other things, through the sale, formation of subsidiaries or operating units with their own profit and loss account:

  • Delitzsch drawing mill,
  • Consumer goods production (caravans),
  • Car accessories,
  • Velten gray foundry,
  • the most important departments of the main energetics,
  • some maintenance trades (Ratiomittelbau),
  • Data processing and
  • various operational units (gardening, youth club, holiday homes, children's holiday camps, library, workers' and apprentice homes, ...).

The Treuhand's restructuring concept also provided for the short-term shutdown of the outdated Siemens-Martin ovens in core operations and a reduction in the workforce to 3,800 in 1991.

As early as 1977, the "VEB Quality and Stainless Steel Combine Brandenburg" had received a transfer of know-how from the Riva Group through the mediation of the plant manufacturer Danieli . When the Treuhandanstalt privatized the electric steelworks and the wire mill of the “ Brandenburger Elektrostahlwerke GmbH” together with the electric steelworks and the rolling mill of the “Hennigsdorfer Stahl GmbH” in March 1992 , Riva was awarded the contract in the official bidding process. The "HES Hennigsdorfer Elektrostahlwerke GmbH" (HES) was founded and the acquired real estate and facilities of the "Hennigsdorfer Stahl GmbH" were transferred to it. With the takeover, the workforce determined by the HSG's social plan was also transferred to the HES. The remaining workers were placed in rescue organizations.

Riva comprehensively modernized the plants - partly with funds from the trust - and increased production considerably within a few years, mainly supplying the large construction site at Potsdamer Platz with structural steel.

On February 22nd, 2015, Manfred Stolpe said in retrospect in a public speech in Potsdam: “We had to work very hard to maintain the steel industry. Only Emilio Riva from Milan helped to maintain the Hennigsdorf, Brandenburg an der Havel and Eisenhüttenstadt locations. As a foreigner he was initially strongly rejected by the workers and later venerated like a saint. "

numbers

Production:

  • In 1929/1930 a total of 90,700 t of liquid steel
  • In 1931/1932 liquid steel totaled 45,013 t
  • In 1934/1935 liquid steel totaled 118,362 t
  • 1938/1939 liquid steel totaled 180,561 t.

In the sheet rolling mill:

  • 1929/1930 49,152 tons
  • 1934/1935 79,115 t
  • 1938/1939 125,182 tons

generated.

The Hennigsdorf steel and rolling mill employed more than 8,500 workers until 1989. There were also around 700 trainees.

In 2007, the company produced 937,112 tons of electrical steel, 767,864 tons in the rolling mill and 66,835 tons in further processing. On December 31, 2007, HES GmbH had 725 employees including 35 trainees. With sales of around EUR 142 million, a profit of around EUR 1.9 million was transferred to the Riva Group.

Web links

Commons : VEB Stahl- und Walzwerk Hennigsdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Misselwitz : The courageous steel workers from Hennigsdorf, forward 3/2019, p. 24
  2. ↑ irina grabowski: Treuhand insists on Riva . In: The daily newspaper: taz . November 26, 1991, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 4 ( taz.de [accessed September 29, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Massimo Bognanni, Sven Prange: Made in Germany: Great moments in German economic history . Campus Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-593-50590-9 ( google.it [accessed September 29, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Riva donated 100,000 marks for the cathedral . In: Berliner-Kurier.de . ( berliner-kurier.de [accessed September 29, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Joest Feenders: Stolpe, Manfred - The history of Berlin - Association for the history of Berlin eV - founded in 1865. Accessed on September 29, 2017 (German).
  6. ↑ HES balance sheet for 2007 in the electronic Federal Gazette , read on 09-03-28.

Coordinates: 52 ° 39 ′ 1.2 ″  N , 13 ° 12 ′ 42.5 ″  E