Heitkamp BauHolding

The Heitkamp GmbH Bauholding from the Westphalian Herne was the holding company of the Group Heitkamp, who worked in the fields of engineering and construction of power plants and infrastructure. With its bankruptcy in November 2011, the group fell apart.

History

Has its origin Heitkamp founded by Engelbert Scharpwinkel, called Heitkamp, in Herne-Wanne in the 1892 civil engineering company E. Heitkamp. At the end of the 19th century canals and roads were initially built for the farmers of the neighborhood. 1902 took over the son of E. Scharpwinkel, Heinrich Heitkamp, the management of the fledgling construction company and built the field of inter alia with the entry into the then formative for the Ruhr mining business from. In the following decades, construction activities have been extended beyond the borders of Herne addition: civil engineering, railway and traffic route construction and mining services were the mainstay of the company. In this period, for example, fell the construction of the Herne station, recording the construction of the Chemische Werke Hüls, Marl, earthworks, canal and irrigation works for the Emschergenossenschaft and Lippeverband, beginning with the construction of highways and numerous Abteufleistungen in regional coal mines ( colliery Shamrock, Unser Fritz, inter alia, ).

1946-1963

After the Second World War took place in 1946 the name was changed in the meantime as " E. Heitkamp civil engineering business in Wanne- Eickel " run things in " E. Heitkamp GmbH ". Shareholders were, in addition to Heinrich Heitkamp sen., His sons Henry and Robert. Subsequent to any debris evictions the business of the company was extended to other areas. Buildings for government and the German Federal Railways have been created, and in the early 1950s, the company entered as a mining specialist company with track work underground. 1957 increases Heitkamp with a contract for the power plant Westerholt the Hibernia AG in a power plant construction. First tailings heaps were used as building material for the dam and road construction. Heitkamp is also involved in the overall development of the Ruhr fast way of eating over Bochum to Dortmund as the new building of the Federal Railway Gelsenkirchen to Haltern am See.

This was followed by investments in the construction of the steel plant Henrichshütte 2 in Hattingen as well as on the power plant construction sites " Brassert " in Marl and " Springorum " in Bochum. For the force developed by Heitkamp Tamping machine for track laying underground a corresponding patent was granted on May 28, 1958. 1960 increases Heitkamp with the construction of Erbscheidt tunnel during the construction of the Bigge Dam in the field of tunneling one. In addition, orders the construction of the Federal Ministry of Defence on the " Hardthöhe " in Bonn. At this time Heitkamp has around 4,000 employees.

1964-1980

In 1964 Robert Heitkamp the sole corporate governance and the company family-owned built in the coming decades from one of the ten largest construction companies in Germany. In the same year Heitkamp created the first natural draft cooling tower at the power plant in Ibbenbüren. This was followed up throughout Germany today and 53 worldwide further 38 cooling towers ( including Australia, America, Africa, Greece, Spain, Netherlands, etc.). In 1995 built Heitkamp, in the wake of the biggest in the history of the company individual order, the new construction of the power plant lip village among others two natural draft cooling towers and in 1998 the highest with an altitude of 200 m natural draft cooling tower in the world at the power plant Niederaußem.

1970-1981

In the years 1970-1981 Heitkamp was nationally and internationally on various construction projects among other things, in the field of power plant and nuclear power plant construction, infrastructure construction, civil engineering, structural engineering, hydroelectric and mining engineering involved.

Heitkamp was, inter alia, in the construction of nuclear power plants in Brunsbuttel, Philipsburg I and II and Brokdorf involved as well as internationally in nuclear power plants in Austria ( nuclear power plant Tullnerfeld / Zwentendorf ) and Switzerland ( Gösgen - Däniken ). As a consequence of the experience gained in the nuclear power plant construction Heitkamp was commissioned together with the Company Hochtief AG and Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG to build the reprocessing plant Wacker village, whose construction was stopped in 1989 for political reasons.

Significant investments in the construction of subways in Berlin, Hannover, Bielefeld, Dortmund, Stuttgart and Munich, as well as significant work on the construction of the federal highway 42 ( Emscherschnellweg ) and BAB 45 ( Sauerlandlinie ) were the national infrastructure projects. International road construction took place in Yemen ( Sana 's - Taiz Taiz and the Red Sea ), participation in the underground construction in Vienna as well as the technical leadership in the construction of the first Channel Tunnel Dover - Calais, which was later interrupted for political reasons.

National Water construction projects were during this period included the investments in the construction of the dam Obernau and at the laying of the Ruhr- run at Neheim, internationally was the construction of the drainage project Hofuf in Saudi Arabia and the construction of a water tunnel in Venezuela.

The engineering and building construction, here services in the field of turnkey construction were developed. Bridge structures (eg, 3 - span road bridge " to Fürstenmoor " in Hamburg -Harburg, Emscher bridge in Dortmund- Deusen, Bridge Annener mountain in the space of Witten- Annen ) as well as the investments in the construction of the parking garage at the Cologne Cathedral and the most tunnel projects related to the Federal Railroad high-speed line Kassel and Würzburg reflect the civil engineering technical investments. Likewise Heitkamp worked in the construction of the Munich Olympic site with.

This period also saw the construction of the Technical City Hall in Frankfurt, the construction of the Park stadium in Gelsenkirchen, new buildings for the Technical University of Berlin, orders the airport at Frankfurt and Hannover -Langenhagen Airport, the construction of the Lower Saxony state parliament in Hanover, hotel construction fall ( Penta Hotel and Steigenberger Hotel in Berlin) and the construction of hospitals in the Federal Miners in Recklinghausen and Bochum and the University hospital Münster.

In the field of mining Heitkamp was "3/ 4/9 Zeche Consolidation " involved in Gelsenkirchen and the construction of the new Ruhr coal mine " At the Haard " in the district of Recklinghausen in the construction of the conveyor tower in reinforced concrete of the pit. We started at this time with the dissipation, marketing or stockpiling of tailings the Ruhr mines.

The division railway wrapped among others a track behalf of Elmshorn - Barmstedt - Oldesloer from Eisenbahn AG and internationally was the participation in the renewal of the railway line Riyadh - Dammam in Saudi Arabia.

The first chairman of the newly formed Advisory Board in 1975 was Dr. Alfred Lord Hausen.

1981-1999

1981, the company employed approximately 8,500 employees and generated sales of approximately DM 1.1 billion, Robert Heitkamp moved from the operating business back and gave the chair of the management to his son, Prof. Dr. Engelbert Heitkamp.

Until the German reunification in 1990, Heitkamp expanded the field of activity to the areas of rehabilitation, modernization and transformation of structures. One of the first modernization projects were the two town hall towers in Marl, Westphalia.

Among the existing activities was added another pillar: The Foundation of the subsidiary Heitkamp Environmental GmbH in 1985.

Due to the widespread introduction of mobile communications have been created by Heitkamp stations for the C- network of the German post office and later also for the private D network.

Heitkamp was involved in the implementation of the Euro - tunnel between Calais and Dover and nationally to U- Bahn and S -Bahn projects, eg in Dortmund. Rhine / Main conducted several engineering structures - For the German railway were in the new Cologne.

Construction in these years were, inter alia: - Coating of the outer shell at the natural draft cooling tower thermal power station Völklingen; - Natural draft cooling tower at nuclear power station Isar 2 at Landshut; - Railway tunnel Hoheward on the heap Hoheward in Herten; - ICE - cleaning plant of the German Federal Railroad in Hamburg- Eidelstedt; - Inter alia underground buildings in Frankfurt, Nürnberg, Duisburg and Berlin; - Investments in the construction of BAB 560, bypassing Hennef and BAB 57 from Goch to the Dutch border; - Participation in the fuel element in Ahaus interim storage; - Apartment hotel, office buildings, health center with supermarket at Ungerer Park in Munich; - New central administration of Veba Oil AG in Gelsenkirchen- Scholven; - Participation in the construction of the new Daimler -Benz headquarters in Stuttgart- Möhringen

After German reunification in 1990, Heitkamp was involved in construction projects in the five new Länder and had offices in Chemnitz, Dresden, Erfurt, Magdeburg, Potsdam, Halle and Rostock.

To name an example, among others, are the reconstruction of the New Synagogue on Oranienburger Strasse, Berlin, the coating of the Naturzugkühltums in Rostock, involvement in the development market north side in Weimar, reconstructions in the Dutch Quarter in Potsdam, participation in the Siemens Microelectronics Center in Dresden, but also participation in the lowering the banks of the Rhine in Dusseldorf tunnel and the extension of the motorway 2 in the region Bottrop.

In the field of mining activities are, inter alia, the koksseitige dust coking plant Zollverein, Essen, to name as well as various reconstructions in the mining sector in the Erzgebirge.

1999 merged with the Heitkamp - Deilmann Haniel GmbH. The construction activities of both companies are collectively E. Heitkamp GmbH and mining activities under the Deilmann -Haniel GmbH. The underground work of E. Heitkamp GmbH in the legally independent subsidiary Heitkamp were earthworks and road GmbH merged.

2000-2010

2001, the former main railway branch was transferred to the independent subsidiary Heitkamp Rail GmbH.

Notable examples are the following construction projects that were created by or with Heitkamp: - So-called " bookend " at the Berlin Hauptbahnhof; - " Transparent Factory " of Volkswagen AG in Dresden and the Zollernhof in Berlin with the ZDF Berlin studio; - Construction of the new building of the National Bank in Riga, Latvia; - Construction of the sluice Hohenwarthe; - Modernization of the former Mannesmann skyscraper in Dusseldorf; - New construction and modernization of the complex " Marstallplatz Munich " at the Maximilian Strasse in Munich; - Construction of the new line NBS Cologne - Rhine / Main in the DB; - Construction of a university building with a library for the University of Malmo in Malmo, Sweden.

In 2005, the Civil Engineering technical departments of E. Heitkamp GmbH in the subsidiary Heitkamp are summarized engineering and construction of power plants GmbH.

After massive decline in orders in the mining sector and due to the intensifying competition in the German construction industry, the Heitkamp -Deilmann -Haniel GmbH in late 2005 decided drastic restructuring measures. As part of this restructuring, among others acquired Aton GmbH International and part of the national specialist mining division, today Deilmann -Haniel International Mining and Tunneling GmbH, and the Dutch group Heijmans Heitkamp Rail GmbH. In addition, the principal place of business Turnkey Construction in Ratingen was closed with offices in Dusseldorf, Dortmund, Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart.

2008 renamed the Heitkamp -Deilmann -Haniel GmbH in today's Heitkamp BauHolding to GmbH.

The Heitkamp Bauholding now comprises four business areas: - Engineering and construction of power plants ( Heitkamp Ingenieur - GmbH and power plant ) - Infrastructure ( Heitkamp Environmental Engineering GmbH, Heitkamp earthworks and road GmbH) - Universalbau ( DomoPlan GmbH, Heitkamp Project Partner GmbH ) - Special Construction ( BuM FIELDWORX GmbH, Bergsicherung Schneeberg GmbH, Bergsicherung Ilfeld GmbH)

In February 2009, he Jürgen Thumann, a great-grandson of the company founder, the majority of shares of Heitkamp Group and was recently the the Supervisory Board of the company.

Bankruptcy in 2011

Against the Heitkamp BauHolding GmbH has been ordered on 23 November 2011, a provisional insolvency administration. Individual is not insolvent subsidiaries were sold in the course of spring 2012 and bear the name Heitkamp partially on ( including the Heitkamp engineering and construction of power plants ); Heitkamp Group today no longer exists.

Settlement in 2012

On 12 March 2012, the seven non - bankrupt subsidiaries were settled.

The following areas were sold:

  • Infrastructure Heitkamp earthworks and road GmbH for knitters group from Dortmund
  • Heitkamp GmbH Environmental (approx. 300 employees ) for knitters group from Dortmund
  • Heitkamp Ingenieur and power plant (about 200 employees) to Zech Group, based in Bremen.
  • DomoPlan GmbH (about 80 employees) to Echterhoff construction group Westerkappeln.
  • Bergsicherung Ilfeld GmbH ( Thuringia) to the field house group in Schmallenberg
  • Bergsicherung Schneeberg GmbH (Saxony ) to the field house group in Schmallenberg
  • FIELDWORX GmbH in Herne (approx. 250 employees) to the field house group in Schmallenberg.
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