Dyckerhoff & Widmann

Dywidag ( Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG ) was a formerly large German construction group as Cement Products Factory Lang & Cie.. 1865 Founded in Karlsruhe, and since then has largely been absorbed into the Strabag Group.

History

The founding fathers of the company were the merchant Heinrich Lang, the building inspector Franz Serger and the cement Industrial Wilhelm Gustav Dyckerhoff. After the entry of Dyckerhoff son Eugen Dyckerhoff and whose father Gottlieb Widmann in the company in 1869, a change of name to Dyckerhoff & Widmann KG.

The company was one of numerous developments and patents global pioneers of building with stamped concrete, reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete. One of the most well-known projects is the built in 1911-1913 Centennial Hall in Wroclaw, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2006. The company Dyckerhoff & Widmann, who initially moved its headquarters to Wiesbaden -Biebrich, then to Berlin and finally to Munich, maintained regional offices and plants in all parts of Germany, and subsidiaries around the world.

Forced to work for the company during the Second World War had prisoners of the concentration camp Auschwitz III Monowitz.

In 1972, the Dywidag merged with Siemens Bauunion and made a name for himself in particular as a general contractor in turnkey engineering, building construction, industrial construction, as well as underground precast manufacturer.

In 2001 Dywidag was with the ailing Augsburg Walter Bau AG " united Walter Bau AG Dywidag " for merged. Four years later, the merged company claimed bankruptcy. German parts of the " Walter Bau AG together with Dywidag " Ltd. were taken over by Strabag under the name Dywidag construction. The Dywidag Frankfurt office was closed in late 2006, Nuremberg and Munich, worked as a pure engineering company initially continue and are today - as well as the foreign company Dywidag International - the Strabag Group.

The branch Saar- Palatinate was ( also the main shareholder Strabag ) integrated 2007 in the Züblin Group and then finally closed in 2008.

The Austrian Dywidag was acquired by the owners of the Salzburg Construction company background Egger and will continue as an independent company. Which is active in clamping technology area DYWIDAG-Systems International ( DSI) has been sold to investors.