Thyssen shaft construction

Thyssen Schachtbau GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	May 7, 1919
Seat	Mülheim an der Ruhr , Germany
management	Markus Beermann, managing director Markus Gevers, managing director
Number of employees	1200
Branch	Mining
Website	www.thyssen-schachtbau.com
As of August 3, 2015

Thyssen Schachtbau is an internationally active German mining specialist company based in Mülheim an der Ruhr ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

Company history

In April 1871 August Thyssen founded the Thyssen Compagnie ( Thyssen & Co. ) in Mülheim an der Ruhr together with his father Friedrich Thyssen . This date is the cornerstone of all the following Thyssen companies and holdings. From 1883, August Thyssen acquired Kuxe (share certificates) from the coal mine of the German Emperor's Union in Duisburg - Hamborn . In 1891, this coal mine finally belonged to him completely and formed the basis for his activities in the Ruhr mining industry . In order to promote this, the specialist department for drilling and shaft construction was founded in 1898, which is to be regarded as the actual birth of Thyssen Schachtbau GmbH . After the acquisition of Tiefbohr AG Lubisch, the drilling and shaft construction department was founded as an independent company Bohr- und Schachtbau GmbH Mülheim an der Ruhr, which was dissolved again in 1909 due to changed market conditions and incorporated into the German Emperor's union as a shaft construction department.

At the end of the First World War , the German Emperors' union was split up into the August-Thyssen-Hütte iron and steel division and the Friedrich Thyssen union, which bundled the mining activities. Schachtbau Thyssen GmbH was founded on May 7, 1919, with its headquarters in Mülheim an der Ruhr. After Thyssen's death in 1926, it was mainly his son Fritz Thyssen and the children of his brother Joseph , Julius and Hans , who died in 1915, who , as the owners of Thyssen & Co. AG, determined the fate of the company.

After initial sympathy for National Socialism , Fritz Thyssen gave up early on and went into opposition to Adolf Hitler . He was then expropriated and taken to a concentration camp. The remaining shares of his nephews Julius and Hans in Thyssen & Co. AG were acquired by the German state in 1940 for a fraction of their value. Schachtbau Thyssen GmbH also became the property of the German state, which sold it on to Reichswerke Hermann Göring in 1940 . The new owner merged Schachtbau Thyssen GmbH with Bergbau AG Salzgitter in 1941 to form Großdeutsche Schachtbau- und Tiefbohr-GmbH.

After the Second World War , the name was changed to Deutsche Schachtbau- und Tiefbohr-GmbH. By transferring parts of their property expropriated by the National Socialists and the Allies back to Fritz Thyssen or, after his death in 1951, to his wife Amélie Thyssen and his daughter Anita Countess Zichy-Thyssen , Schachtbau Thyssen GmbH, Mülheim an der, was finally re-established in 1952 Ruhr, which since then has only been owned by the Fritz Thyssen family, son of August Thyssen . In 1970 the company was renamed to the still valid name Thyssen Schachtbau GmbH . Today Claudio L. Graf Zichy-Thyssen is the sole managing partner of the company .

organization

Group structure

Thyssen Schachtbau is a subsidiary of Thyssen Shaft Holding GmbH , the Group comprised, at the head of the Thyssen & Co. GmbH stands.

Subsidiaries

• RAR pipe and plant construction Recklinghausen GmbH
• TS Bau GmbH
• DIG German interior construction GmbH
• OLKO-Maschinentechnik GmbH
• Mining special company Ruhr-Lippe mbH
• German mining special company
• OOO Thyssen Mining Construction East
• TOO shaft construction Kazakhstan
• Thyssen Mining Construction of Australia Pty. Ltd.

Sister companies

• Emscher processing GmbH
• TS Technologie + Service GmbH
• Thyssen Schachtbau Immobilien GmbH

Business areas

Thyssen Schachtbau is divided into the business areas

• Mining
• Shaft construction and drilling
• administration

Business areas

Mining

• Driving routes in hard rock
• Driving routes in areas at risk of firedamp
• Drive-on techniques:

- Full headers

- Roadheaders

- Drilling and blasting drives

• Creation of large horizontal and vertical spaces
• Depths of Blind shafts
• Track and sink work
• Looting of coal mines
• Rehabilitation of tunnels and routes

Shaft construction and drilling

• Sinking and lining of shafts for mining, tunneling and civil engineering as well as for final storage of radioactive waste
• Use of the usual shaft construction technology, cementation technology and * frozen shaft technology
• Shaft drilling
• Raise boring
• Bunker construction
• Delivery, installation and commissioning of the shaft conveyor technology
• Turnkey design, construction and assembly of mining complexes
• Creation of exploration wells from above and below ground
• Creation of special structures such as water dams , long-term secure and permanently secure shaft closures

administration

The business management is divided into the central services finance and accounting, human resources and information technology, as well as staff positions Controlling , Legal, Treasury and occupational safety .

Outstanding projects

Mining

Project	Approach length
Full headers	> 90,000 m
Rock stretches	> 150,000 m
Seam stretches in hard coal mining	> 400,000 m
Filling site Auguste Victoria colliery , DEU
Wabash Mine, USA

Shaft construction and drilling

country	Project	Manhole	Depth
Germany	Gorleben exploration mine	Shaft 1	933 m
		Shaft 2	843 m
	Rhineland composite mine	Rheinberg shaft	1265 m
	Prosper-Haniel mine	Hünxe shaft	1350 m
	Saar mine	North shaft	1750 m
		Primsmulde	1260 m
South Africa	Western deep levels	Weather blind shaft,	550 m
Switzerland	Gotthard Base Tunnel	Sedrun II well	800 m
Russia	Norilsk	WS-10 slot	2,050 m
		SKS-1 shaft	2,050 m
	Gremyachinsky mine	Skip shaft 1	1,147 m
		Skip shaft 2	1,147 m
		Service slot	1,115 m

literature

• Jörg Lesczensk: August Thyssen 1842–1926. Life world of a business citizen
• Manfred Rasch, Stephan Wegener (eds.): August and Joseph Thyssen. The family and their company
• Thomas Rother: The Thyssens. Tragedy of the steel barons ThyssenKrupp corporate archive, Duisburg
• Stephan Wegener (eds.): August and Joseph Thyssen. The family and their company

Web links

• Thyssen Mining Report 2013 (PDF; 9.2 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thyssen mining report 2014/15 ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2016 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. 
2. ↑ Thyssen Schachtbau company website ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. , accessed June 23, 2014.