Economy in Magdeburg
Saxony-Anhalt's state capital Magdeburg is one of the oldest industrial centers in Germany and is an important business location in Eastern Germany . The city lies at the intersection of important transport routes ( motorway junction , railway junction , waterway junction ) and, with its educational and research facilities, offers an optimal basis for the economy. In addition to logistics , environmental technology , recycling management , health management , mechanical and plant engineering , the growing cultural and creative industries and information and communication technology industries are among the main industries in Magdeburg. The largest and most successful companies include, for example, FAM, regiocom, SKET , Enercon , Getec heat & power , Siemens and T-Systems .
In 2012 economic growth was only 1.4%, but in its most recent development Magdeburg was voted the most dynamic city in Germany by experts. The unemployment rate in December 2014 was 10.5%. In June 2012 there were 102,648 employees subject to social security contributions at the place of work in Magdeburg, of which 44,607 are commuters. With 24,290 outbound commuters, the commuter balance is + 20,317. For every 1,000 inhabitants between the ages of 18 and 64 there are 703 employees subject to social insurance contributions.
Location factors
Magdeburg, with its numerous industrial and business parks and the Ostfalen Technology Park , which is directly adjacent to Magdeburg, is an important and steadily growing business location and, with its surrounding districts of Börde , Jerichower Land and Salzlandkreis, as the Magdeburg region, uses common location advantages, such as the great fertility of the Magdeburg Börde and the mineral treasures in the Magdeburg area, including salt, potash and lignite. It is being developed into an important traffic, logistics and distribution hub in the new federal states. As the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt , the proximity to politics promotes quick decision-making. With relatively low rents, a diverse range of cultural and leisure activities, many sporting events, numerous green spaces and various local recreation areas, Magdeburg offers a good basis for a modern economic area. In addition, the city has a well-developed basic medical service with its four hospitals, including two as maximum care providers .
Magdeburg was voted the most dynamic city in Germany in 2012. The reasons for this are the unemployment rate, which has fallen sharply to 10.5% in recent years, and the income tax rate that has increased by 42%. In addition, an above-average number of companies praised the economic friendliness of the administration. The city of Magdeburg offers seven innovation and start-up centers with different thematic focal points for settling companies.
Education and Research
Magdeburg is an important location for education and research. Around 19,000 students study at the Otto von Guericke University and Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences .
In addition, the city is home to more than 20 research facilities, including the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation , the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems , the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology , the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research and the German Center for neurodegenerative diseases . Several research institutions such as the Institute for Automation and Communication or the Virtual Development and Training Center have settled in the city quarter of the Science Port. In the coming years the area is to be expanded into a center for research institutions.
Transport and infrastructure
The city is conveniently located at the intersection of Germany and Europe with important traffic arteries such as the east-west highway A 2 Hanover - Berlin, one of the most frequented federal motorways in Germany, and the A 14 Magdeburg - Leipzig crossing at the Magdeburg motorway junction . The northern extension of the A 14 in the direction of Schwerin is being planned and partly under construction. The B 1 runs from east to west through Magdeburg and, together with the Magdeburger Ring running from north to south, serves as the main traffic axis through the city. The federal highways B 189 , B 71 and B 81 , all of which start and end in Magdeburg, run across the Magdeburger Ring . In addition, the federal highways B 184 and B 246 begin east of Magdeburg . Magdeburg continues to function as a railway hub where five main railway lines meet. Around 800 trains pass the railway junction every day. The city has a freight yard in Magdeburg-Rothensee and the marshalling yard in Magdeburg-Buckau, which is still used as a storage yard .
In addition to road and rail traffic , Magdeburg is optimally connected to shipping . The city is located on Europe's largest waterway cross , where the Elbe crosses the Mittelland Canal and the Elbe-Havel Canal . The port of Magdeburg is one of the largest inland ports in Germany and consists of four ports used for cargo handling. It has a port railway connected to the Magdeburg railway junction and is located in the catchment area of the seaports of Hamburg and Bremen . In the north of the city, the only freight transport center (GVZ) designated in Saxony-Anhalt has been integrated at the Magdeburg Rothensee Industrial and Logistics Center (ILC) at the intersection of road, rail and water .
The Magdeburg Business Airport Airfield is also located south of the city . Magdeburg-Cochstedt Airport is around 30 km away , and thanks to new investments in a 68 hectare industrial and commercial area and two large cargo halls, it can offer cargo air traffic. Furthermore, the business location Magdeburg lies in the triangle of the major airports Halle-Leipzig , Hanover-Langenhagen and the Berlin airports Schönefeld and Tegel .
The public transport is the train Mittelelbe , the regional trains, tram , city bus lines optimally positioned and ferries. These are summarized in tariffs in the Magdeburg regional transport association (marego).
history
Middle Ages to the beginning of the modern age
The receipt of market rights by Emperor Otto I in 965 marked the beginning of a flourishing and growing economy for Magdeburg and the surrounding regions. After the city was granted city privilege in 1188 and all goods passing the city had to be offered there, the city's prosperity continued to grow. The city became an important trading center in the Middle Ages and was a junction of important long-distance connections such as the Heerstraße Magdeburg-Brandenburg or the Lüneburg Heerstraße .
At the end of the 13th century Magdeburg became a member of the Hanseatic League . It joined the Saxon city federations and developed next to Braunschweig into a suburb of the Saxon city federation . Due to the Magdeburg stacking law, the grain trade was monopolized on the middle Elbe. Because of its central position in the grain trade, Magdeburg was known as the “bread house of the Hanseatic League”. Magdeburg had long-distance relationships as far as northern France, Flanders, England, Poland, Russia, Sweden and Norway.
Agriculture benefits, as it has for centuries, from the soil of the Magdeburg Börde, a soil with the best soil quality, which is a prerequisite for the food industry. Due to the fertile soil and clear spring water of the heather, Magdeburg developed into a stronghold of beer brewing in the late Middle Ages, which was operated in the local monastery of Our Dear Women as early as the 11th century . In 1309 a civil, commercial brewery in Magdeburg was first mentioned in a document; Around 1500 there were around 500 breweries in Magdeburg that sold their beer as far as Bavaria.
When Otto von Guericke became mayor of Magdeburg in 1646 , he began to settle Protestants fleeing from Catholic France in the city. Many were well educated, founded their own companies and thus ensured a further economic upswing.
After a first failed attempt in 1824, the revival of the Magdeburg Stock Exchange was driven in 1843 . In addition to grain, potatoes, oil, alcohol and company papers, mainly sugar was traded, as Magdeburg became an important center of the European sugar industry through the extraction of sugar beets in the profitable Magdeburg Börde . In addition to Paris and London , the Magdeburg Stock Exchange even achieved the status of a leading global stock exchange .
industrialization
Industrial production began in the 1830s. In the years that followed, the city became the economic center of northern central Germany, as the three private railway companies made it easy to reach by rail, steam shipping on the Elbe flourished and the economy grew strongly. Due to the growth of the port of Hamburg , the need for storage and transshipment points also increased in the hinterland, whereupon the construction of the commercial port began in 1886 . After seven years of construction, the trading port was opened in 1893. At that time it gained a reputation as the most important port for handling sugar and salt. At the same time, companies in the Magdeburg area acquired more and more modern machines, so that in 1861 814 steam engines were working in the area - only in Düsseldorf there were 918 more. The Gruson family made Buckau a mechanical engineering site. The Gruson was prepared by the Krupp factory in Essen 's second largest arms-producing companies in Germany. During the same period, other well-known mechanical engineering companies settled in Magdeburg. For example, the “Magdeburger Dampfschiffahrt-Companie” and the machine factory “Alte Bude” opened in 1828. With the expansion of the rail network in Magdeburg, the economy grew increasingly. In 1850, Bernhard Schäffer founded the armatures factory "Schäffer & Budenberg", Rudolf Ernst Wolf opened a machine factory in 1862 (merged in 1928 to machine factory Buckau R. Wolf ), which became one of the leading ammunition factories alongside the armature factory in Polte , and in 1886 Fahlberg-List took over the world's first Saccharine production . During the founding period , Magdeburg experienced another major economic development boost and other companies settled there.
First World War and Weimar Republic
Magdeburg heavy industry earned very good at the First World War . Companies began to change their products, for example the Lichtenberg candy machine factory instead of candy all at once produced bullet shells, the Mundlos sewing machine factory produced bayonets. Because of the many factories, many people moved from the villages to Magdeburg, entire settlements on the outskirts were built by architects such as Bruno Taut and Otto Richter . After the end of the war, Magdeburg was one of the 20 largest cities in Germany with over 300,000 inhabitants. However, the Magdeburg economy experienced a crisis as the armaments factories switched to civilian products and many employees had to lay off. The aim was to remedy the situation by building the Mittelland Canal and a new industrial area in the north. The canal port , Magdeburg's largest port, was also built. In 1927, exhibition halls, the town hall and an observation tower were built in Rotehornpark for the German theater exhibition . In the years that followed, the exhibition grounds made Magdeburg a leading exhibition center.
Third Reich
After the seizure of power of Hitler in 1933 the economy is the country converted to a war economy in the 1940s. It should become independent of foreign raw material deliveries. This brings an upswing for the central German chemical and lignite industry. With the construction of the Reichsautobahn and the completion of the Mittelland Canal, the unemployment figures in Magdeburg are falling. The Polte factory becomes the largest ammunition manufacturer in Europe. The Junkers are one of the largest manufacturer of aircraft engines. The first series-produced jet engines were built there in 1944. The Krupp Grusonwerke develop the Panzerkampfwagen I . 4,800 tanks were delivered to the Wehrmacht by the end of the war.
Thousands of Magdeburg residents who were critical of the Nazi regime were arrested or emigrated by 1941. So-called “non-Aryans” were forced out of their jobs and later sent to concentration camps. 83 of 2173 members of the Jewish community still live afterwards. This, and the recruitment of all capable German men in 1942, ensure that foreign workers who were recruited from the occupied countries and are used as cheap labor have to be employed in the Magdeburg factories . Due to the high proportion of foreign workers in industry, up to 65% in some companies, the National Socialist leadership treated prisoners of war and inmates of the concentration camps immorally. From 1943, satellite camps of the Buchenwald and Ravensbrück concentration camps were established near the Magdeburg works. Inmates work up to 12 hours, seven days a week.
The arms manufacturers Polte with 12,000 employees, Krupp-Gruson with 10,000 employees and Junkers with 15,500 employees together with the fuel manufacturer BRABAG formed one of the most important conurbations of production facilities. This made Magdeburg an important target of the Allied air raids . The city was destroyed by an air raid on January 16, 1945 , 90% of the inner city and 60% of the entire city was affected. Around 2,000 to 2,500 people lost their lives.
Post-war period and turnaround
The post-war economy in the newly formed Magdeburg district was characterized on the one hand by large-scale agriculture in the Börde and Altmark, and on the other by the heavy machinery combines, which is why Magdeburg was known as the “city of heavy machinery” in the GDR. In mid-1946, the Gruson factory became a Soviet stock corporation (SAG), at the end of 1953 with 11,500 employees it became the VEB heavy machinery construction " Ernst Thälmann " and finally in 1969 the heavy machinery construction combine "Ernst Thälmann" (SKET). Other mechanical engineering companies were VEB Schwermaschinenbau "Karl Liebknecht" or VEB Schwermaschinenbau Georgi Dimitroff , in which the numerous mechanical engineering companies from the time before 1945 were combined. Until 1953, the Magdeburg large-scale enterprises contributed as SAG enterprises to the fulfillment of the reparation obligations imposed on Germany. In 1990 many companies expropriated in 1972 could be run again in private hands.
But in the course of the turnaround , the large industrial combines had severe structural difficulties in the transition to the social market economy and collapsed because their technical systems were mostly out of date, they were characterized by a high level of labor and caused severe environmental damage. This resulted in the loss of several thousand jobs. Only years later did the region slowly recover and show a steady economic recovery. Some of the large heavy machinery combines, such as the SKET, were also able to survive in a modified form and have largely recovered to this day. However, the structural weakness of the region compared to the old federal states remains, which is also reflected in the high vacancy rate in the former industrial areas.
In addition to the historic industrial and commercial areas, new areas were opened up, especially in the years after the fall of the Wall. In the north of the city on the A 2 , the Rothensee Industry and Logistics Center (ILC) was created in the direct vicinity of the Magdeburg port. The port also experienced constant expansion, so in 2008 the Hansa port was created . The Magdeburg / Sülzetal industrial area was also created in the south of the city along the A 14 together with Osterweddingen . In contrast to these modern areas are the old locations such as the SKET Freie Straße industrial park or the Ölmühle industrial park. A striking feature in many of the historical locations, however, is the high vacancy rate in some of the industrial plants. In addition to the demolition of the empty facilities or the direct relocation of companies, there are also attempts in many places to convert old factories into event locations. Among the successful concepts as a venue for concerts, discos and congresses is the factory , the engine , the sack factory , the Halber85 that culture Fichte and the culture factory . The aerosol arena , a former bread factory on Klosterkamp, has been converted into a Hall of Fame , where various events take place.
economic sectors
Due to the favorable traffic situation and the fertile soil of the Magdeburg Börde , Magdeburg is one of the oldest industrial centers in Germany. Until the 19th century, trade and traffic on the Elbe were based on privileges such as stacking, market, customs and coinage rights. Today, mechanical and plant engineering , the logistics industry , environmental technology and the circular economy , the health industry , the cultural and creative industries and the information and communication technology industry are among the city's most important economic focal points.
Mechanical and plant engineering
With over 11,000 employees in around 60 companies, mechanical and plant engineering is the largest industry in Magdeburg. This branch is in Magdeburg through historical companies like the "Magdeburger Dampfschiffahrt-Companie", the machine factory "Alte Bude", the armatures factory "Schäffer & Budenberg", the "Maschinen-Fabrik und Schiffsbauwerkstatt H. Gruson Buckau -Magdeburg" or the armaturenfabrik Polte traditionally deeply rooted and has had a worldwide reputation since 1838. In the economic model of the state capital, the city council named this as a particularly important industry. The Magdeburg companies operate on national and international markets. At the university , at the university of applied sciences and at numerous research institutions in the city, the research focus is in the field of mechanical and plant engineering.
Large, historically rooted but also newly settled companies are based in Magdeburg. They include companies such as FAM Magdeburger Förderanlagen und Baumaschinen , SKET , Enercon , VAKOMA Production GmbH, SAM Stahlturm- und Apparatebau Magdeburg GmbH, ABP Maschinenbau GmbH, MMB Magdeburger Maschinenbau, MAM Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Magdeburg GmbH or SIGMA Maschinenbau GmbH.
logistics
The logistics industry is one of the most important branches of industry in Magdeburg. The good transport connections make the city a central transport hub in central Germany. The state capital is on the A 2 Hanover - Berlin and the A 14 Magdeburg - Leipzig, although this is to be expanded further north towards Schwerin. The connection of the Magdeburg railway junction with its marshalling yard in Magdeburg-Rothensee to the international rail network, also in the direction of Hamburg and Rostock ports, enables high-performance rail traffic. With the expansion of the Magdeburg railway junction by Deutsche Bahn in the coming years, the capacities of rail transport will be increased considerably. A third important factor is the location at the Magdeburg waterway intersection at the intersection of the Elbe , Mittelland Canal and Elbe-Havel Canal . In the north of Magdeburg is the port of Magdeburg , one of the largest inland ports in Germany and a connection to the motorway and rail network. This trimodality makes the state capital an important logistics location and an important port hinterland hub . The airport Magdeburg-Cochstedt is located 30 km south of Magdeburg , which can offer cargo air traffic by expanding an industrial and commercial area and two large cargo halls . The Magdeburg logistics center is also located in the triangle of the major airports Halle-Leipzig , Hanover-Langenhagen , Berlin-Tegel and Berlin-Schönefeld .
The Rothensee Industry and Logistics Center (ILC) in the immediate vicinity of the Magdeburg port with the freight traffic center, the A 2 and connection to the rail network is the largest industrial area in Magdeburg and the largest logistics center in Saxony with its total area of 307 hectares and almost 35 industrial and logistics companies. Stop . The proximity to the main customs office enables international traffic to be processed quickly. The ILC houses large logistics companies such as the Norma logistics center , Gunz Warenhandels Logistikzentrum GmbH, Kraftverkehr Nagel GmbH, Scania and Dachser GmbH . Other logistics companies in the Magdeburg economic area are the EDEKA logistics center, the GEHE Pharma Handel GmbH logistics center, Ritter Logistik GmbH and Vossmann Logistik GmbH.
Research and science are also dedicated to the topic of logistics. At the Otto von Guericke University , the main tasks of business decision-making problems in the entire field of logistics management are examined. The Institute for Logistics and Material Flow Technology is also located there, which also deals with the subject of technical logistics. In addition, the university is working with other partners in Saxony-Anhalt in applied logistics and transport research on the reference project “Transport Galileo” with the targeted development of innovations in the transport, mobility and logistics sector. The European satellite navigation system as well as other satellite and terrestrial positioning, navigation and communication systems are used for the implementation . At the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences , students specialize in logistics and infrastructure.
Cultural and creative industries
The culture and creative industries are a steadily growing branch of industry in Magdeburg that deals with the creation, production, distribution and media dissemination of cultural and creative goods and services. At the moment, 5,000 people are employed in almost 100 companies in Magdeburg, i.e. 7.9% of the overall economy, in the industry, which accounts for 40% of the industry's turnover in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. This means that the share in the total economic volume is above average. The share of sales in the overall economy in Magdeburg is at EUR 300 million annually at 4.9% and is thus well above the national average of 2.6%. The companies in Magdeburg are spread across the areas of architecture, book market, performing arts, design, film, photography, music, press, radio, software / games and advertising.
The creative location Magdeburg, however, shows a certain degree of fragmentation, which is why, with a few exceptions, companies rarely appear supra-regional. The largest companies are the MDR with its national radio station in which radio and television studios are integrated, the radio stations SAW and Rockland in the Hansapark or the daily newspaper Volksstimme . Regional television stations such as MDF.1 , the Open Channel and KulturMD are also based in Magdeburg. There are also smaller film and advertising production companies such as Media Portrait, Freistil Film, blende 39 or Improma.
In 2012 an internal administrative steering group was developed, which forms an interface between the creative scene and politics. In addition , a cultural and creative business center is being built on Brandenburger Strasse in the former arts and crafts school near Magdeburg's main train station . Over 3,000 m² of usable space is available for various companies. The area bears the traditional name “Forum Gestaltung”.
Health economy
The health sector has become an important branch for the region and is therefore part of the economic model of the city of Magdeburg. The focus is on medical technology , drug production and brain research . Internationally, Magdeburg is also considered a neuroscientific center. Together with the city of Halle (Saale) , Magdeburg forms a center for the health industry, in which together 27% of the state's employees are located.
The Magdeburg network InnoMed eV connects various companies, institutes and research facilities in medical technology. In addition to purely medical-technical areas of responsibility, more general topics of the health economy are increasingly being served. Healthcare companies based in Magdeburg are HUMAN Diagnostics, HASOMED GmbH and VRSystems GmbH.
Neurosciences are a focus of excellence at Otto von Guericke University . The Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences (CBBS) was founded in 2007, creating a cross-faculty cooperation, for example with the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology . At the Chair for Medical Telematics and Medical Technology, research focuses such as medical imaging for operating rooms, intelligent tools for minimally invasive operations and telemedicine are dealt with. In addition, the medical technology course has been offered at the university since 2014. At the Faculty of Computer Science, the Institute for Simulation and Graphics deals with areas of health management. At the medical faculty, 30% of the professorships are neuroscientific. The German Academy for Microtherapy also exists there as a teaching facility for microtherapeutic procedures.
In addition to the Magdeburg University Hospital and the Magdeburg Hospital as maximum care providers, there are the Pfeiffer Foundations and the St. Marienstift Hospital in Magdeburg . Magdeburg is also the seat of the AOK Sachsen-Anhalt and the IKK health plus .
Environmental technology and circular economy
The areas of environmental technology and the circular economy are becoming more and more important in times of global environmental pollution and are therefore part of the state capital's economic model. While the circular economy is concerned with bringing raw materials used back into the production process after they have been used as goods , environmental technology deals with technical and technological processes to protect the environment .
Several disposal and recycling companies such as STORK Umweltdienste GmbH, LRP-Autorecycling Magdeburg GmbH, Resource Recycling Industries or FEGERT Recycling have settled in Magdeburg over the last few years and decades. And companies such as eab-solar have also settled in the field of environmental technology. The Magdeburg -Rothensee waste-to-energy plant , which processes around 650,000 t of residual waste annually, is located at the Magdeburg harbor . In addition to the existing Magdeburg-Rothensee biomass cogeneration plant, another biomass cogeneration plant is currently being built in the Cracau district . The Prokon Bio-Ölwerk Magdeburg produces biodiesel, rape oil refined, pharmaceutical glycerine and rapeseed meal from rape. The company, which consists of two oil plants, has a production capacity of around 325,000 tons. With the completion of a third bio-oil plant, the production capacity will be expanded to around 600,000 tons. The organic oil plant Magdeburg is one of the largest vegetable oil producers in Germany.
Magdeburg has developed with Enercon and Vestas Wind Systems in the field of alternative energies in the last few years into a location for the production of wind turbines and is itself a location for wind turbines. In addition to wind power, the city also uses solar power with the help of solar systems, the largest system with 15 hectares, the Magdeburg solar park , is located on Cracauer Anger .
At the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, there are several courses in the field of water and recycling management, such as engineering ecology, recycling and waste management and water engineering. Ifak - Institute for Automation and Communication , founded in 1991, conducts research in the field of process industry and environmental technology. In addition, the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research is located in Magdeburg, which deals with the fields of “Earth and Environment”, “Health” and “Energy”.
Information and communication technology industry
In times of rapidly advancing technological developments, the information and communication technology industry is becoming increasingly important. In Magdeburg and the surrounding area, a network of communication and IT companies has developed in recent years. In Magdeburg alone, over 5,500 people work in the industry. Advantages of the location are the proximity to various research institutions, the Otto-von-Guericke University and the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences , where specialists in the information and communications industry are trained. The university in particular offers several subject-specific courses at the Faculties of Computer Science and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology.
In 2014, in Biere near Magdeburg, T-Systems opened Germany's largest data center with almost 40,000 m² . In Magdeburg, T-Systems already operates a data center that is identical to the one in Biere. Together, these systems form a TwinCore data center in which the applications and customer data are continuously stored in parallel. If one of the two data centers fails, the other intervenes. In addition to T-Systems, other IT service providers - Telekom , Siemens and IBM - have their offices in Magdeburg. Other resident IT service providers are DATEV , regiocom GmbH or Crafting IT.
Another important area are the numerous call and service centers. The largest are the Bosch Communication Center, Otto Kreditcenter Magdeburg, regiocom GmbH, Walter Services GmbH , Business Communication GmbH , Arvato and Sitel GmbH.
tourism
With its numerous sights, cultural and leisure activities, sporting events and spacious green areas, Magdeburg offers the basis for its constantly growing tourism industry . Over 553,000 guests stayed in Magdeburg in 2013, including almost 76,000 from abroad. They generated gross sales of over 80 million euros. In addition, there are around 8 million day visitors annually, which ensure gross sales of a total of 248 million euros. Magdeburg is thus among the 40 most visited German cities. In contrast to the record low in 2000, the state capital was able to increase the number of overnight stays by almost 50%.
The Magdeburg hotel landscape consists of over 40 accommodations with a bed capacity of around 5,200 beds, with an occupancy rate of around 40 percent. The average length of stay for hotel guests from Germany is 1.6 days and that of guests from abroad 1.7 days. With their 4 stars , the Best Western Hotel Geheimer Rat , the Ratswaage Hotel, the Ramada Hotel and Plaza Hotel next to the Herrenkrug Park Hotel on the Elbe and the Maritim Hotel , each with a 4-star superior, are among the best-classified hotels in Magdeburg . Magdeburg Marketing Kongress und Tourismus GmbH (MMKT GmbH) is mainly responsible for the marketing of the city of Magdeburg .
Exhibition and congress industry
The trade fair industry has historical roots in Magdeburg. Magdeburg was declared a trade fair city as early as 1035 and gave the city the right to hold trade exhibitions and conventions. Visitors from many countries traded in Magdeburg in the small trading area at the ford. By 1922 a trade fair and exhibition center was built in Rotehornpark , which made Magdeburg one of the leading trade fair centers in Germany. One of the largest and most successful exhibitions of this time was the International Theater Exhibition in 1927. As part of this exhibition, additional exhibition halls, the town hall and the observation tower were built . After the area was largely destroyed in the Second World War, a new exhibition center was needed. But it was not until 1999 that the largest exhibition center in the region was created as part of the 25th Federal Horticultural Show with the 12,000 m² Magdeburg exhibition center. Almost 30 trade fairs are held annually.
In addition to the trade fairs, Magdeburg is also the venue for national and international conferences and congresses . The largest conference and congress centers include the town hall, the GETEC arena , the AMO culture and congress center , the Fichte congress and cultural center, the Magdeburg conference center and the society center in the Klosterbergegarten . Hotels like the Maritim Hotel and the Ramada Hotel also offer space for large meetings and congresses.
Food economy
The food industry has played an important role in Magdeburg for centuries. Agriculture has benefited from the soil of the Magdeburg Börde for centuries , a soil with the best soil quality, which is a prerequisite for the food industry. In the Middle Ages, Magdeburg's staple law resulted in the grain trade being monopolized on the central Elbe. In the grain trade, the city was known as the “bread house of the Hanseatic League” because of its central position. There are still numerous companies in the grain industry in and around Magdeburg. Manufacturing industries such as Magdeburger Mühlenwerke GmbH, which process over 250,000 t of grain annually, or the Harry bakery in the joint Magdeburg / Sülzetal industrial area are also located there.
The Magdeburg Börde also made Magdeburg a stronghold for beer brewing in the late Middle Ages. Around 1500 there were around 500 breweries in Magdeburg. With the switch to industrial brewing, this situation changed quickly; numerous breweries were closed. In 1900 there were still 24 breweries in Magdeburg's urban area, only three of them survived the war and were combined in the VEB Beverage Combine in Magdeburg: the Diamant Brewery , the Bodenstein Brewery , which was renamed the Börde Brewery , and the Sudenburger Brauhaus . Of these, only the Diamant brewery survived for a while, but it was also closed in 1994. The attempt to brew beer again in Magdeburg was unsuccessful for some time. In 2006 the Diamant private brewery was founded, but only in small batches. In 2014, Ulf Steinforth, founder of Sport Events Steinforth , tried to revive the Sudenburger beer. For this he secured the trademark rights to the "Magdeburg Beverage Combine". Although the beer is still brewed in Naila in Upper Franconia , the aim is to brew the beer again in Magdeburg.
The Abtshof Magdeburg is a manufacturer of spirits and is known nationwide for its absinthe . As the first company in Germany, it has been producing kosher spirits since 1993 . The company Röstfein , founded in Magdeburg in 1908 , is the only coffee manufacturer in the new federal states and employs around 150 people in Magdeburg. Since 1991 the fruit juice manufacturer Albi has had a production site in the state capital, where the juices are filled in common packaging forms.
Finance
In 1865, councilors from Magdeburg created the “General-Feur-Cassa in the city of Magdeburg” based on the example of the Hamburger Feuerkasse. This makes Magdeburg the second oldest public insurance location in Germany. With the emergence of the private insurance industry in the 19th century, companies with worldwide activities emerged in Magdeburg. The “Magdeburger Feuerversicherungs-Gesellschaft” was the market leader in its time, which means that Magdeburg was also considered a national insurance city. The first German insurance group developed from it. Other important insurance companies were the "Wilhelma Allgemeine Versicherungs-AG", the "Magdeburger Lebens-Versicherungs-Gesellschaft" and the "Magdeburgische Land-Feuersozietät". With the Public Insurance Saxony-Anhalt (ÖSA) founded in 1991, Magdeburg is the seat of the only company in this branch of industry in Saxony-Anhalt. It consists of the Public Fire Insurance Saxony-Anhalt and the Public Life Insurance Saxony-Anhalt.
In addition to Hanover and Braunschweig , the Norddeutsche Landesbank (Nord / LB) has its headquarters in Magdeburg. In addition, the Sachsen-Anhalt Investment Bank , the Volksbank Magdeburg , the Stadtsparkasse Magdeburg and the “Bürgschaftsbank Sachsen-Anhalt” have their headquarters in the state capital.
Companies
In 2014, 18 of the 100 companies with the largest number of employees in Saxony-Anhalt and 16 among the 100 companies with the highest turnover are in Magdeburg, making the city top of the list in the annual NORD / LB study in both areas .
- Employers with the largest number of employees in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, based in Magdeburg (as of December 2014)
| Companies | Workers | Branch |
|---|---|---|
| Deutsche Bahn AG | 7,529 | Transport industry |
| Edeka markets | 4.015 | retail trade |
| Magdeburger Förderanlagen und Baumaschinen GmbH | 1,616 | Mechanical and plant engineering |
| regiocom GmbH | 1,493 | IT and commercial services |
| Klinikum Magdeburg gGmbH | 1,408 | Healthcare |
| Bosch Communication Center Magdeburg GmbH | 1,134 | Services |
| GETEC Energie Holding GmbH | 825 | Energy services |
| Municipal Works Magdeburg GmbH | 761 | Energy-and water supply |
| IK Hofmann GmbH | 734 | Services |
| Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe GmbH | 675 | Passenger transportation |
| The private employment agency & personal leasing GmbH | 657 | Services |
| reinEX Services GmbH | 565 | Services |
| STRABAG AG | 550 | construction industry |
| Rothenseer Rotorblattproduktion GmbH | 461 | Mechanical and plant engineering |
| Stadtsparkasse Magdeburg | 430 | Banking |
| NORD / LB Landesbank for Saxony-Anhalt | 401 | Banking |
| MDR | 385 | Radio, television |
| SKET GmbH | 342 | mechanical engineering |
- Employers with the highest turnover in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, based in Magdeburg (as of December 2014)
| Companies | Turnover 2013 in million euros | Branch |
|---|---|---|
| Edeka markets | 2479.5 | retail trade |
| GETEC Energie Holding GmbH | 744.8 | Energy services |
| Municipal Works Magdeburg GmbH | 483.5 | Energy-and water supply |
| Magdeburger Förderanlagen und Baumaschinen GmbH | 351.0 | Mechanical and plant engineering |
| Lotto-Toto GmbH Saxony-Anhalt | 186.2 | Lottery company |
| Klinikum Magdeburg gGmbH | 132.6 | Healthcare |
| Housing GmbH Magdeburg | 100.2 | Housing |
| STRABAG AG | 95.2 | construction industry |
| regiocom GmbH | 87.5 | IT and commercial services |
| Nordlam GmbH | 82.9 | Wood processing industry |
| SAM Stahlturm- und Apparatebau Magdeburg GmbH | 79.8 | steel construction |
| GA Energieanlagenbau Nord GmbH | 70.3 | Electrical industry |
| Dm-market | 68.5 | retail trade |
| MAM Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Magdeburg GmbH | 62.7 | Mechanical and plant engineering |
| SKET GmbH | 62.3 | mechanical engineering |
| Schuberth GmbH | 60.0 | Manufacture of body protection products |
Web links
- Magdeburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Economy section on the official website of the city of Magdeburg
- Society for Economic Service Magdeburg
Individual evidence
- ^ Economic growth Magdeburg ( Memento from June 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) July 21, 2014
- ↑ Fewer unemployed people in Magdeburg www.volksstimme.de November 1, 2014
- ↑ Statistical reports - Commuter flows of employees subject to social insurance ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, June 30, 2012
- ↑ Census database May 9, 2011
- ↑ Most dynamic city in Germany www.welt.de November 29, 2012
- ↑ For the section cf. Günther Korbel: The Napoleonic foundations of Magdeburg . Volume 3: On the history of building in the Sudenburg . Magdeburg 1995 (series of publications Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg, Volume 18.3), pp. 124–128 with notes.
- ↑ History of Magdeburg's economy from the Middle Ages to the end of the Second World War
- ↑ The ILC - the largest industrial and logistics center in Saxony-Anhalt ( Memento from March 29, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
- ^ Center for culture and creative industries "Forum Gestaltung" www.magdeburg.de
- ^ New medical technology course ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) www.mdr.de August 24, 2014
- ↑ 15 million euros for a power plant ( Memento from June 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) www.volksstimme.de November 27, 2014
- ↑ T-Systems opens Germany's largest cloud data center
- ↑ Daily visitors spend a quarter of a billion www.volksstimme.de April 28, 2015
- ↑ Federal Statistical Office, Statistical Yearbook 2013 - The Top 50 in City Tourism
- ^ Magdeburg in Figures 2013 - Tourism
- ^ Overnight stays in Magdeburg
- ↑ Tourism - guests and overnight stays in tourist traffic, accommodation capacity. (PDF; 822 kB) June 2015. (No longer available online.) In: Statistical Report. State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, October 2015, p. 12 f. , archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on December 1, 2015 .
- ↑ Something is brewing about Sudenburg www.volksstimme.de July 12, 2014
- ↑ Kosher schnapps from Magdeburg . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1992 ( online ).
- ↑ List of the 100 largest companies in Saxony-Anhalt ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) December 2014 edition