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Windreich GmbH iI

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legal form GmbH
founding 1999
Seat Wolfschlugen , Germany
management Holger Blümle,
insolvency administrator
Number of employees 130 (group-wide)
Branch Wind energy
Website www.windreich.de
As of December 11, 2013

The wind Reich GmbH iI , based in Baden-Württemberg Wolfschlugen is a company that specializes in the design and construction as well as the financing, operation and sale of wind turbines has specialized, targeting both onshore and offshore are. The company is wholly owned by Willi Balz and has been in insolvency proceedings since December 2013.

history

In 1999 the FC Windkraft GmbH was founded by the engineer Willi Balz. The company first invested in wind power projects on land. In 2009, the first projects at sea began, such as B. the offshore wind farms (OWP) " Global Tech I ", " MEG Offshore I " and "Deutsche Bucht". The application for “Global Tech I” was submitted on June 7, 2001 by the project planner and geologist Hans-Jürgen Kothe and his Nordsee Windpower GbR and approved on May 24, 2006 by the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH).

"MEG Offshore I" (80 wind turbines , total output 400 MW ) was applied for on April 10, 2006 and approved by the BSH on August 31, 2009, "German Bight" (42 wind turbines, total output 273 MW) was applied for on June 23, 2004 and Approved on February 26, 2010.

Windreich AG emerged from the company FC Windkraft GmbH in 2010. The stock corporation is planned to go public in 2012. However, this plan was abandoned after about four months. Instead, bonds were offered via the Bondm segment of the Stuttgart Stock Exchange .

On January 18, 2013 it was announced that the television presenter Sabine Christiansen would be appointed as deputy chairwoman of the supervisory board after Walter Döring (former Minister of Economics in Baden-Württemberg, FDP) had surprisingly resigned from this position at the 2012 press conference.

In March 2013, Windreich AG was converted back into a GmbH. In addition, the company's bonds were re-listed from the Bondm stock exchange segment to the simple open market in order - according to the company - to save around EUR 500,000 in costs. At the beginning of March 2013 it became known that the Stuttgart public prosecutor's office had initiated investigations against five incumbent and former members of the Windreich board, including the incumbent chairman and sole shareholder Willi Balz and former board member Walter Döring, on suspicion of balance sheet manipulation , capital investment fraud , market price manipulation and credit fraud . The public prosecutor's office searched the offices of Windreich and the private rooms of four incumbent and former board members.

At the end of April 2013, 23 employees, around a fifth of Windreich employees, were given notice .

Bankruptcy proceedings

On September 6, 2013, Windreich filed for insolvency at the Esslingen District Court due to insolvency. Three days later it was announced that the company's founder Willi Balz is withdrawing from the company as managing director, Werner Heer was his successor . A provisional creditors' committee was formed and a provisional trustee was appointed to accompany the new managing director in this function.

The Esslingen District Court opened the insolvency proceedings on December 1, 2013. The previous administrator, Holger Blümle, was appointed as the insolvency administrator. January 2017 followed an indictment against several parties for delayed bankruptcy and aiding and abetting, as well as fraud. The charges were admitted on all counts and the trial began in August 2019.

business development

The individual projects are run by specially founded companies, mostly in the legal form of a GmbH , some of which are also based in Wolfschlugen. For the offshore projects in Germany's Exclusive Economic Zone , these are:

for the wind farms in the North Sea

  • Global Tech I (80 wind turbines): Wetfeet Offshore Windenergy GmbH
  • MEG Offshore I , today Merkur (66 wind turbines): Merkur Offshore GmbH (joint venture with DEME )
  • German Bight (42 wind turbines): British Wind Energy GmbH
  • Austerngrund (80 wind turbines): Austerngrund GmbH
  • BightPower (2 × 80 WEA) and "AreaC" (3 × 80 WEA): Wetfeet GmbH

for the wind farms in the Baltic Sea

  • BalticPower (80 wind turbines): Wetfeet GmbH
  • BalticEagle (80 wind turbines), Ostseeperle (35 wind turbines) and Ostseeschatz (45 wind turbines): Financial Insurance GmbH

Windreich AG holds 9.45% of the shares in Fuhrländer AG.

The company also dealt with electromobility . The founder Willi Balz took part in several competitions with electric cars, a Jaguar E model was equipped with an electric drive.

Broadcast reports

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hoppenstedt University Database No. 606128317
  2. ↑ Wind farms in the German North and Baltic Seas (PDF; 90 kB)
  3. ↑ Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency: Approval of offshore wind farms ( Memento from October 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Windreich AG: Investors in concern
  5. ↑ Handelsblatt: Sabine Christiansen becomes a member of the Supervisory Board at Windreich , accessed on September 10, 2013
  6. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung of March 7, 2013: Raid at Windreich AG - suspected windy business
  7. ↑ Sabine Reifenberger: New wave of layoffs at Windreich , finance-magazin.de, May 3, 2013, accessed on May 29, 2013
  8. ↑ FAZ online: Wind farm developer - Windreich is insolvent and applies for bankruptcy
  9. ^ Letter to the bond subscribers about Willi Balz's withdrawal, accessed on September 10, 2013 ( Memento from August 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Public prosecutor's office brings charges. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten online, January 20, 2017.
  11. ↑ The Windreich bankruptcy process should start this year. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung online, February 21, 2019.
  12. ↑ Windreich AG, half-yearly financial report as of June 30 , 2012 ( memento of March 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 785 kB), p. 7
  13. ^ Windreich: Zu Lande ( Memento of March 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )