VEB building materials supply Dresden
| VEB building materials supply Dresden | |
|---|---|
| legal form | VEB |
| founding | 1948 |
| Seat | Dresden-Neustadt |
The VEB building material supply Dresden (BVD) was an independent state-owned trading company (VEB) for building materials.
history
In Saxony, the Association of People's Own Enterprises (VVB) was formed on the basis of Order No. 76 of the SMAD of April 23, 1948. 60 companies were united in VVB (L) Steine und Erden in Dresden . The VVB (L) started operations on July 1, 1948. The association was an independent legal entity that operated under a statute approved by the state government. In implementation of the ordinance on the reorganization of the state-owned industry of December 22, 1950, the VVB (L) was dissolved.
VEB Baustoffversorgung Dresden, which was founded in 1950 and emerged from the DHZ (Deutsche Handelszentrale), was initially subordinate to the Ministry of Construction of the German Democratic Republic, then to the Economic Council of the Dresden District and later to the District Building Office . With effect from January 1, 1958, uniform state- owned building material supply companies were founded in all 15 districts . The former operations of the DHZ building materials were converted accordingly.
At the end of the 1960s, VEB Baustoffversorgung Dresden built one of the largest building material warehouses in the GDR on an area of around 16 hectares, new in Dresden and in 1972 another, smaller one in Löbau. Both camps had extensive sidings from the Reichsbahn network to the unloading and loading points. In Dresden, VEB Transformatoren- und Röntgenwerk operated the connecting railway from Radebeul Ost station and in Löbau the Deutsche Reichsbahn itself from Löbau station.
Since 1970 the VEB Baustoffversorgung has been an independent publicly owned trading company for building materials of all kinds. The purpose was to supply the local and central construction companies ( combines ) as well as the rest of the economy with its trading program. VVB Baumaterialien Berlin , later converted into VEB Kombinat Baustoffversorgung Berlin, was the superordinate and authorized to issue instructions .
From June 1, 1990, the company operated as Dresdner Baustoffhandel GmbH i. G. The operational business was transferred to Raab Karcher AG in Essen in autumn 1990. This company took over around 70% of the workforce. The remainder of the company (company headquarters, Berliner Straße warehouse in Dresden and other remaining assets and liabilities) was liquidated (wound up) over a period of several years following a decision by the Treuhandanstalt .
The last long-term director of the VEB was Joachim Schneider, who also became the managing director of Dresdner Baustoffhandel GmbH i. G. was. On December 31, 1991, he retired from the company.
In May 1991, bought the former Raab Karcher AG (a subsidiary of VEBA ) so-called assets, so the camp in Dresden Kaditz and Löbau as a real estate together with the existing stocks of commodities and technology, took over the possibility mainly the staff and asked about it in addition the administration area of the VEB. For several years now, all Raab-Karcher branches have belonged to the French Saint Gobain group.
legal form
State-owned company (VEB) until June 30, 1990, then GmbH i. G. , from mid-1991 GmbH i. L.
Economic performance
The VEB had (as of December 31, 1989) 416 employees and in 1989 achieved a turnover of approx. 646 million marks in the GDR with them. Its main task was to supply the construction companies with all building materials (cement, bricks, concrete parts, tiles, doors and windows, glass, heating and sanitary systems, insulation material, building panels, structural steel including reinforcing steel and other building materials) for complex residential construction as well as for the Construction and assembly combinations coal and energy in Cottbus, chemistry in Halle, the VEB Spezialbau Potsdam ( NVA , police , MfS , GSSD and others), as far as these had construction sites in the Dresden district. From around 1970, after the ordinance on the construction of private homes came into force, the supply and care of the citizens who built their own homes in the Dresden district on their own was added, and a short time later all sections of the population from all districts were supplied (Weekend house builder, allotment gardener). In 1987, in Dresden- Kaditz , the GDR's first self-service store for the needs of the population, called a specialist store at the time, analogous to today's hardware stores.
Although there was a contractual obligation between the state-owned companies under the Contract Act (statutory contracting obligation), the VEB still had a number of contractual disputes, partly to enforce contracts, partly because of its suppliers' violations of state or contractually agreed quality standards or non-compliance with delivery times.
structure
The headquarters of the VEB management have been at Hamburger Strasse 24 in Dresden since the 1950s and from around 1968 in the Albertstadt industrial area, Strasse C No. 6, 8060 Dresden (today Else-Sander-Strasse 6, 01099 Dresden). All trading departments were also located there. They concluded the supply and sales contracts for the VEB with the manufacturers (brickworks, cement works, lime works, companies for standardized prefabricated wood parts such as doors / windows, steelworks, glassworks, etc.) on the one hand and with consumers (not only construction companies, but also many other companies that purchased construction or finishing materials). In addition, they handled so-called drop shipments, in which the goods were sent directly to the consumer without intermediate storage, while the contractual relationship and invoicing took place via the VEB. The third-party business volume was around 20% of total sales.
Part of the third-party business was also the domestic contract binding and contract fulfillment for products and basic materials to be imported from abroad (ceramics, fittings, prestressing steel, various special binders such as caustic magnesite). The contract binding with the foreign suppliers was incumbent exclusively on the responsible foreign trade company. That was first the foreign trade company (AHB) mining trade, later from around 1980 the AHB Limex .
The VEB had its own delivery warehouse in Dresden-Kaditz, Löbau , Görlitz (this only leased), as well as further warehouses in Dresden for certain products: Berliner Straße (only reinforcing steel trade and reinforcing steel bending machine for residential construction), Bremer Straße (only flat glass) in Dresden- Friedrichstadt and Fritz-Reuter-Straße 39/41 (only wooden construction elements such as windows and doors for complex residential construction) in the Leipziger Vorstadt in Dresden-Neustadt.
The distribution centers in Dresden-Kaditz, Löbau and Rattwitz ( Stiebitz ) each had a cement filling station, the one in Dresden being the largest. From the cement works in Karsdorf , Bernburg , Eisenhüttenstadt , Rüdersdorf and Deuna, the loose cement was delivered in special container wagons by rail in closed trains, the two containers per freight wagon were emptied into large silos using compressed air. From these, in turn, cement transport vehicles (also provided with containers) were used to deliver to the silos on construction sites and concrete works.
In addition, in order to achieve a denser trade network and the shortest possible delivery routes, the VEB concluded storage and handling contracts with other, predominantly private or cooperative building materials dealers. There, the companies, also known as agency warehouses , sold all or part of the VEB's product range, depending on local conditions. For this they received a commission from the VEB, which, however, also concluded most of the sales or sales contracts with consumers (construction companies, etc.). Such agency warehouses were, for example, the ELG (purchasing and supply cooperative of the building trade) Bau Meißen, ELG Bau Bautzen, ELG Bau Langburkersdorf, ELG Bau Dippoldiswalde, BHG Tharandt, PGH Keramik Löbau, Miersch & Stephan Dresden KG (general partner Mr. Roger Stephan), company Saxonia (owner Mrs. Evelin Wilke), Dresden, Fritz-Reuter-Str. (today a location of Raab Karcher AG, which still operates under the name Saxonia), Fleischer Dresden, Trepte Großharthau (owner Gottfried Böhme), BHG (rural trading cooperative) Hermsdorf (Erzg), the VEB Kombinat coal and energy, company Bautzen, Rattwitz branch (only for loose cement) and many others. There were around 30 agency warehouses in total.
swell
- Order on the establishment of VEB Kombinat Baustoffversorgung Berlin
- Ordinance on the State-owned Combines, Combine Enterprises and State-Owned Enterprises of November 8, 1979, GDR Law Gazette 1979 p. 355
- Statute of the VEB Kombinat Baustoffversorgung Berlin, valid from July 1, 1981, BStU Federal Archives DY 30/35658
- Law on the rights and obligations of the state-owned enterprise
- Kurt Rotter: Was it worth it? KARO Verlag Berlin 1993 (owned by the first author)
- Order via DHZ Steine und Erden , Saxon Main State Archive Dresden , inventory 11575: "VVB (L) Steine und Erden, Dresden"
- personal knowledge of the company's long-time lawyer (1970 to 1991), first author
- Law on the Contract System in the Socialist Economy (Contract Act, Journal of Laws I p. 293) of March 25, 1982, § 11.Previous acts were the Act on the Contract System in the Socialist Economy (Contract Act) of 11 December 1957 and the Act on the Contract system in the socialist economy of February 25, 1965 (Journal of Laws of I p. 107).