Wiener Stadtwerke

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WIENER STADTWERKE GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1999 (as a stock corporation)
Seat Vienna 3 , Thomas-Klestil-Platz 13
Number of employees around 15,000 (annual average 2019)
sales EUR 3.03 billion (AR 2019 according to IFRS )
Branch Energy, transport, garage, funeral & cemeteries
Website www.wienerstadtwerke.at

Wiener Stadtwerke corporate headquarters in the Orbi Tower, Erdberg.

The Wiener Stadtwerke GmbH is the service infrastructure of the city and province of Vienna .

Wiener Stadtwerke GmbH is Austria 's largest municipal infrastructure service provider and is one of the 30 largest companies in Austria. On average in 2019, around 15,000 people were employed across the Group.

history

At the end of the 19th century, energy supply, public transport and funerals in Vienna were owned by private companies. Mayor Karl Lueger , an exponent of the Christian Social Party, communalized these areas. All remaining horse-drawn tram lines were converted to electrical operation; the Viennese steam tramway lines were subsequently bought and also converted. The municipal gasworks in Simmering went into operation in 1899 - when a furnace battery was heated up on September 28, illuminating gas was introduced into the pipe network for the first time. In the same 11th district, a steam power plant went into operation in 1902, supplying electricity to the Viennese tram network for the first time. From 1903 burials were taken over by the municipal funeral of the municipality of Vienna.

In 1903, in particular, there were disputes between the municipal electricity companies and private electricity providers, as the local authority used brute force to prevent competing companies from carrying out their orders, sometimes even against existing court orders.

After preliminary negotiations in the summer of 1923 with the then Federal Railways of Austria (BBÖ) on the transfer of the routes of the Vienna City Railway previously served by them with steam trains, i.e. Upper Wiental Line, Lower Wiental Line, Danube Canal Line, Belt Line and Connection Arch , it was possible in December 1923 between the municipality of Vienna and A fixed-term lease and operating agreement is concluded with the federal government, to which the mainline lines were subject. This was legally implemented through three federal and state laws of the same content of the city of Vienna and the state of Lower Austria. Starting in 1924, the municipality of Vienna - urban trams, financed entirely from the municipal budget, converted the routes taken over into a tram-like electrified and now urban light rail network. Beginning in June 1925, Wiener Verkehrsbetrieb was able to gradually put the sections of the route into operation under the name Wiener Elektro Stadtbahn and with the municipality's own fleet of vehicles , which was also used in the normal tram network . The suburban line and the connecting railway that remained with the BBÖ, as well as the rest of the Austrian railway network, were now completely separated from the new electric light rail.

After the " Anschluss of Austria ", the "draft of the statute on the establishment of the authority of the Reich governor in Vienna - municipal administration [...] was approved by the Reich Minister of the Interior dated June 4, 1942 [...] [...]." After consultations with the councilors […], the main statute of the Reichsgau Vienna and the statute on the establishment of the authority of the Reichsstatthalters in Vienna - municipal administration were approved by the Reichsstatthalters on November 6, 1942 ”and under nos. 154 and 155 in the ordinance and official gazette for the Reichsgau Vienna (VABlWien) announced. In the statute on the structure of the authority of the Reich governor in Vienna - municipal administration , the main departments A to M were divided according to § 2. In the main department K, the economic enterprises and [the] economic development were bundled.

Accordingly, the municipal administration ran the following own businesses :

In the rebuilt Republic of Austria a joint General of which was in 1946 Vienna municipal power plants, the Vienna municipal gas works and the Vienna municipal transport built that from 1955 to 2010 in the then newly constructed ring tower was to be found. By merging the three municipal companies electricity, gas works and transport companies, the Wiener Stadtwerke was founded on January 1st, 1949 . In 1953 the city burial was reintegrated. Political supervision was exercised by the city council in charge of Wiener Stadtwerke together with the responsible council committee.

The starting shot for the subway construction was given on January 26, 1968. Construction work on Karlsplatz began just one year later. After a construction period of 13 years, the basic network of Vienna's underground lines, consisting of routes 32 kilometers in length and the U1 ,  U2 and  U4 lines, was completed in 1982  . Until 1989 the belt line of the light rail became the U6 line  .

Heizbetriebe Wien was founded in 1969 with the task of building up the district heating supply, supplying new urban residential complexes with environmentally friendly heating energy and operating the Spittelau district heating plant . 14 years later, they were renamed Fernwärme Wien (today Wien Energie Fernwärme ) - Wiener Stadtwerke companies. Wiener Stadtwerke and Heizbetriebe Wien founded a joint energy consultancy in 1985 with the aim of providing comprehensive and competent customer support in all energy issues. Today, the joint appearance of the energy supply companies under the name Wien Energie continues to be a customer-oriented service area.

Because of the conversion to natural gas, around 1.5 million gas appliances had to be converted and adapted for more than 750,000 customers in 1970–1978. In 1986, today's Remise Transport Museum opened as a tram museum , which today is the largest tram museum in the world with 90 historical original vehicles.

In 1999 Wiener Stadtwerke was spun off from the municipal administration, the magistrate, and converted into the public limited company Wiener Stadtwerke Holding AG . In the following years, their business areas were liberalized (1999–2003: electricity market liberalization, 2000: gas market liberalization, 2002: market opening in funerals). In 2007, Wien Energie's Simmering gas network was opened.

The corporate headquarters of Wiener Stadtwerke has been located in the area called TownTown in Erdberg (3rd district) since 2010 . In 2010, the funeral and cemeteries division was restructured under the umbrella of B & F Wien - Bestattung und Friedhöfe Wien GmbH.

In 2011 the energy sector of Wiener Stadtwerke was reorganized and divided into a regulated area (gas and electricity network) and a competitive area (district heating, sales, energy comfort). Furthermore, Wien Energie continued to operate as a central competitor company with integrated district heating in 2013 and the new company “Wiener Netze”, responsible for networks for electricity, natural gas, district heating and telecommunications, was created.

On November 6, 2017, the local council decided to convert the company into a limited liability company. The change was entered in the commercial register on December 20, 2017.

Structure and organization

The group is owned by the City of Vienna . The owner's representative is Ulrike Sima , acting city councilor for the environment and Wiener Stadtwerke .

management

Managing directors:

  • General Director Martin Krajcsir (Division: Finance and Mobility)
  • Deputy General Director Peter Weinelt (Division: Energy, Human Resources and IT)

Supervisory Board:

  • Chairman of the supervisory board:
    • Magistrate Director Erich Hechtner, City of Vienna
  • 1. Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board:
    • Finance Director Dietmar Griebler, City of Vienna
  • 2. Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board:
    • Head of department Andrea Faast, Vienna Chamber of Commerce , Department of Urban Planning and Transport Policy
  • Members of the supervisory board:
    • Andreas Bauer, Wiener Netze GmbH
    • Michael Bauer, Wiener Linien GmbH & Co KG
    • Kurt Wessely, Wiener Linien GmbH & Co KG
    • Kurt Januschke, Wien Energie GmbH
    • Elfriede Baumann
    • Michael Sprengnagl, Wiener Stadtwerke GmbH
    • Thomas Ritt, Vienna Chamber of Labor
    • Karin Rest, Attorney at Law, Rohrgger Scheibner Bachmann Rechtsanwälte GmbH
    • Chief Forestry Officer Günther Schmalzer, City of Vienna
    • Stefan Freytag, Federal Ministry for Art, Culture, Public Service and Sport
    • Andreas Staribacher , PKF auditing and tax advice

Companies

The group includes the following companies:

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contact: https://www.wienerstadtwerke.at/eportal3/ep/contentView.do/pageTypeId/71952/programId/71263/contentTypeId/1001/channelId/-49484/contentId/75347 accessed on June 30, 2020.
  2. ↑ Company profile : https://www.wienerstadtwerke.at/eportal3/ep/channelView.do/pageTypeId/71283/channelId/-51225 accessed on June 30, 2020.
  3. ↑ Annual Report 2019, p. 17: https://www.wienerstadtwerke.at/eportal3/ep/contentView.do/pageTypeId/71283/programId/3600056/contentTypeId/1001/channelId/-49476/contentId/5001347 accessed on 30. June 2020.
  4. ^ The struggle of the municipality of Vienna against the private electricity companies. With a photograph. In:  Wiener Bilder , No. 20/1903 (8th year), May 13, 1903, p. 6, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrb.
  5. ^ A b c Markus Kaiser: The history of the Viennese transport company from 1903–1938. Diploma thesis at the University of Vienna , Vienna 2012, p. 74. See also the quote and the corresponding footnote 263 on: Administrative report of the municipality of Vienna - urban trams for the year 1923 taking into account the second half of 1921 and the year 1922. Vienna 1924, p. 4. ( full text online ; PDF; 127 p.)
  6. ↑ a b c (lit.) : Stadtbahn. In: Städtewerk: The new Vienna. 1928, pp. 98–116 , here in particular p. 98 : “… The municipal administration also gained the conviction on the basis of thorough study of the facts by the tram management that on the one hand only the complete merger of the light rail with the tram in operational and tariff relation and The creation of a common fleet of vehicles were the basic conditions for electrification to be carried out with affordable means and the prospect of economic success; … ”See also the legend for the image“ Vienna City Railway Network. // Belt- Danube Canal- u. Wientallinie // main line // connecting line // suburb line ".
  7. ↑ a b (lit.) : The urban trams. In: Städtewerk: The new Vienna. 1928, pp. 73-97
  8. ↑ a b Ordinance and Official Gazette for the Reichsgau Vienna (VABlWien), year 1942, 43rd issue, issued in Vienna on November 14, 1942 (digital copies in ALEX - historical legal and legal texts online ):
    • No. 154, Main Statute of the Reichsgau Vienna, November 6, 1942, pp. 131f.
    • No. 155, Statute on the establishment of the authority of the Reich Governor in Vienna - Municipal Administration, November 6, 1942, p. 132
  9. ^ Administrative report of the municipal administration of the Reichsgau Vienna from April 1, 1940 to May 31, 1945, published by the Vienna City Administration, Department of Statistics, Vol. 1940-1945, undated (digital copies in: wienbibliothek digital of the Vienna library in the town hall ):
    • Articles of Association in Section I. General Administration - Item 1. Organization, pp. 9-10 .
    • XII. Urban enterprises and mixed-economy enterprises - 1.) General administrative matters, p. 407 .
  10. ↑ (Lit.) : The electricity works. In: Städtewerk: The new Vienna. 1928, pp. 47-72
  11. ↑ (Lit.) : The gas works. In: Städtewerk: The new Vienna. 1928, pp. 13-46
  12. ↑ (lit.) : The urban funeral. In: Städtewerk: The new Vienna. 1928, pp. 127-134
  13. ↑ (lit.) : The announcement companies. In: Städtewerk: The new Vienna. 1928, pp. 135-144
  14. ↑ (lit.) : The brewery of the city of Vienna. In: Städtewerk: The new Vienna. 1928, pp. 117-126
  15. ↑ (lit.) : The urban warehouses. In: Städtewerk: The new Vienna. 1928, pp. 169-174
  16. ↑ Municipal Council - public meeting on March 28, 1946. In: Official Journal of the City of Vienna , Vol. 1946, No. 11, April 3, 1946, p. 1: “6. (Pr. Z. 288, P. 1) The application for the establishment of a general directorate for the municipal electricity works, gas works and transport companies as well as for a change in the organizational statute for the companies of the City of Vienna is proposed in the version proposed in Appendix No. 8 on the basis of § 24 of the rules of procedure accepted without negotiation. "( Digitized in: wienbibliothek digital der Wienbibliothek im Rathaus .)
  17. ↑ Wiener Stadtwerke will change from an AG to a GmbH at the beginning of 2018. In: The Standard . November 7, 2017. Retrieved November 7, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Wiener Stadtwerke is now a "GmbH". Company website, accessed June 30, 2020.
  19. ↑ Management. In: wienerstadtwerke.at . Retrieved June 30, 2020.
  20. ↑ Imprint In: wienerstadtwerke.at . Retrieved June 30, 2020.
  21. ↑ Corporate divisions of Wiener Stadtwerke: https://www.wienerstadtwerke.at/eportal3/ep/channelView.do/pageTypeId/71283/channelId/-51226 accessed on June 30, 2020.

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 31.3 "  N , 16 ° 24 ′ 46.8"  E