TÜV Hessen
The TÜV Hessen (TÜV Technical Inspection Hessen GmbH) is an international service company based in Darmstadt .
Originally, the company is a purely technical testing organization, but with its focus on testing and certification, it now operates in a wide field within the service industry. It currently employs around 1,350 people and achieved annual sales of around € 157 million in the 2019 financial year.
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Fields of work
The company has around 90 locations throughout Germany. In addition to technical examinations , advice, reports and tests, the range of services also includes training and certification. TÜV Hessen is also active in the classic services - general inspection (" inspection sticker "), system testing, expediting , product tests or expert reports. In 2016, around 1300 employees generated around 128 million euros.
Parallel to the development of the technology, the fields of work were gradually expanded from the original steam boiler test to include electricity, vehicles , driving licenses , power plant technology , fire protection technology , elevators , expediting , environmental protection , management systems , property valuation and construction technology .
Brand, logo, image
The TÜV brand is protected by VdTÜV and may only be used by affiliated organizations.
Independence of the various TÜV organizations
Since 1999, TÜV Hessen has owned 55% of TÜV Süd AG and 45% of the state of Hesse .
In addition to TÜV Süd, there are nationally and internationally competing TÜV companies TÜV Nord , TÜV Rheinland , TÜV Saarland and TÜV Thuringia . Large parts of the population and many customers of the companies are not aware that these companies are not just regional companies of an overall TÜV .
The various TÜV organizations try to position themselves differently in order to be perceived differently by the population and customers. After all, there is competition not only with DEKRA , but also with each other. For example, TÜV Hessen operates a considerable number of assessment bodies for fitness to drive in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, i.e. in the former area of TÜV Nord.
Holdings
The company is a member of the VdTÜV . Subsidiary: In 2008, TÜV Hessen took over the GÜK Society for the Monitoring of Motor Vehicles. It was renamed to TÜV Hessen Mobility and Consulting GmbH. This 100% subsidiary based in Darmstadt was dissolved on October 1, 2014 and partially merged with TÜV Hessen. The former 100% subsidiary TÜV Hessen Consulting GmbH (short form: TH Consult) was active in Thuringia and Hesse in the field of management systems (quality, environment, occupational safety, IT). It was dissolved on January 1, 2011 and merged into TÜV Hessen.
Company history
1848-1877
During the industrial revolution, there were repeated devastating steam boiler explosions. Therefore, in 1848, the state of Saxony issued the "Ordinance on the supervision of steam boilers in Saxony". Through this, experienced engineers are appointed steam boiler inspectors who are allowed to carry out risk assessments. The current name for it is notified body . Saxony was thus a pioneer, other states only partially followed suit and with a delay.
Since then, to protect the company's own production facilities, "monitoring associations for guaranteeing safety" have been set up in which steam boiler owners employ test engineers. This made it possible to split the costs of monitoring among the various companies. The year of birth of the various TÜVs is 1866, when the company for the "Monitoring and Insurance of Steam Boilers " was founded with its headquarters in Mannheim . 21 companies with a total of 37 steam boilers are involved.
In the course of the next few years, further regional associations will be founded that operate in separate areas. So z. B. on March 5, 1873 in Offenbach am Main the "Society for the revision and monitoring of steam boilers with headquarters in Offenbach a. M." and in 1876 the steam boiler monitoring association in Kassel . These two associations can be seen as the origin of TÜV Hessen.
1880-1906
In addition to the monitoring of steam boilers, the associations were given more and more tasks after the establishment of the German Reich , as technology continued to advance. 1905 names z. B. the cost law systems requiring monitoring such as passenger elevators , and motor vehicles , steam barrels and vessels for gases, acetylene and electricity systems.
In 1902, on the basis of the "Law on Steam Boilers and Steam Vessels", the steam boiler inspection was nationalized in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, and a "Grand Ducal Steam Boiler Inspection" was founded, whose headquarters were in Darmstadt .
In 1904, with the increasing number of automobiles, the first tests of motor vehicles and motor vehicle drivers are carried out. This business field, which is the main focus of the TÜV in today's perception, developed quite late.
1930-1945
In 1930, in addition to the office in Darmstadt for the province of Upper Hesse, another office for the state steam boiler inspection was set up in Gießen . At this point in time, only around 10% of the systems in Germany that are subject to mandatory monitoring are monitored by government agencies, the remaining 90% by non-governmental monitoring organizations.
In 1938, a decree of the Reich Minister of Economics dated March 19, 1938 reorganized the regional distribution. The technical supervision in the Reich area is divided into 14 districts, Hessen becomes district "5" together with the Saarland . Offices are in Kassel , Frankfurt am Main , Wiesbaden , Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken . In 1940 the technical supervision in occupied Lorraine ( Metz office ) was added.
In 1945 the still existing TÜV Frankfurt was forbidden from any activity as an expert; the (state) Hessian steam boiler inspection in Darmstadt was solely responsible for southern and upper Hesse.
1946-1969
In 1946, surveillance offices are established in the old branches, i.e. in Darmstadt , Frankfurt am Main and Kassel .
On August 23, 1947, the law on the reorganization of technical inspection in Hesse comes into force. Unlike other states government bodies alone are offices for control monitoring of installations subject to charge. The supervisory function was consequently performed by civil servants . In most of the other countries in the western occupation zones, the technical monitoring organizations are commissioned to do this.
On December 7, 1949, TÜV Frankfurt was re-established; it had previously been expropriated without compensation.
1970-1999
In 1970, TÜV Frankfurt and the state government agreed on the future distribution of work, in 1972 TÜV Frankfurt was renamed "Technischer Monitoring-Verein Hessen eV". In 1977, the three branches of the monitoring offices were merged to form the state company TÜH State Technical Inspection Hesse.
In 1989 TÜV Hessen eV wants to merge with TÜV Bayern eV. However, since the state government refuses to transfer the competencies to TÜV Bayern, the merger is initially on hold. However, it will be pursued further in that certain fields of activity (essentially environmental protection , safety technology , quality assurance , electrical, vehicle, conveyor, construction and hospital technology) are transferred to TÜV Hessen GmbH, TÜV Hessen eV retains pressure vessel, welding, Material, power plant and plant technology. In 1992, the cooperation agreement was concluded, with which the companies TÜ Hessen and (state) TÜH State Technical Inspection Hesse (TÜH) are connected and which regulates the cooperation with the Technical Inspection Association Southwest Germany eV ( TÜV Südwest ). In 1996, TÜV Hessen eV merged with TÜV Bayern Sachsen eV to form TÜV Bayern Hessen Sachsen eV
The transfer of state tasks progressed over time, because on September 18, 1998 the conclusion of an agency and service leasing contract between the state of Hesse and TÜV Süddeutschland Holding AG. Ultimately, TÜV Süd AG takes on all tasks nationalized at the beginning of the century.
2000 until today
At the beginning of 2007 efforts were made to merge the two groups TÜV Nord and TÜV SÜD, of which TÜV Hessen is now 55% majority owner. The common name “TÜV Europe” was up for discussion. After newspaper reports had already confirmed the merger and announced it for September 2007, the two companies announced on August 27, 2007 that they would remain independent.
In February 2008, TÜV Süd and TÜV Rheinland confirmed that they wanted to merge. At the end of August 2008, both companies withdrew their application for approval from the Federal Cartel Office, as the Federal Cartel Office had indicated that it would not be able to approve the merger in the planned form. In December 2008, the merger plans were finally abandoned.
Also in 2008, TÜV Hessen took over 100 percent of the GÜK Gesellschaft zur Monitoring von Automobilen mbH.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ TÜV Süd and TÜV Nord are negotiating a merger ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The merger of TÜV Süd and TÜV Nord burst (tagesschau.de archive)
- ↑ Press release from TÜV Rheinland of February 13, 2008 ( Memento of the original of October 12, 2008 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.
- ↑ TÜV major merger does not kill jobs ( memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) FTD, 13. Feb 2008
