Hoesch AG
Hoesch AG was a major steel and mining company with operations in the Ruhr and the winning country. It was founded as an iron and steel plant Hoesch AG in 1871 by Leopold Hoesch Dortmund and the former Krupp ( now ThyssenKrupp ) adopted in 1991.
History
Hoesch family was established long before the foundation of the Dortmund company with various metal-processing companies in the Eifel and operating plants in Monschau, Lenders village near Düren (since 1819) and Eschweiler (since 1847).
1871 Leopold Hoesch founded together with his sons William ( 1845-1923 ) and Albert Hoesch ( 1847-1898 ) and his cousins Viktor ( 1824-1888 ) and Eberhard Hoesch ( 1827-1907 ) in Dortmund in the then province of Westphalia, a new iron - and steel plant in order to exploit the locational advantages of the emerging Ruhr region ( rich coal deposits, railway for the transport of ore ).
The new company survived the crisis and founder took over the mine in 1899 Westfalia with the associated Kaiserstühl plant. In the Weimar Republic was the Hoesch AG one of the few heavy engineering company that have not been integrated into the United Steel Works. Hoesch 1930 merged with the Cologne - New - Essen mine association, in 1966 with the Dortmund- Horder hut Union.
1965, the Hoesch Group generated sales of 2.358 billion DM and employed 48,600 employees. At this time, one-fifth of the standing on the payroll Dortmund population worked at " Karl Hoesch ". This term was a loving respect intentioned declaration under Hoeschianern and stands as idiom particularly for anything that has to do with the steel company Hoesch AG.
At the height of the steel crisis Hoesch merged in 1972 with the Dutch Koninklijke Hoogovens to Estel Group. The collaboration, however, was terminated in 1982 at the instigation of the then CEO Detlev Karsten Hoesch Rohwedder again, who was convinced that the corporate cultures did not match and the Dutch steel Manager favored the interests of Dortmund operating parts. For the successful rehabilitation of the Hoesch group Rohwedder was in 1983 awarded " Manager of the Year ".
In 1991, the Hoesch AG was acquired in the course of a hostile takeover by the former Krupp Group.
The workers of the Hoesch group was considered to be well organized and ready to strike. Are well documented in the following labor disputes:
- Strike the Hoesch sheet piling and profile 1999
Elements of the business
For Hoesch group included the Dortmund Westphalia hut, steel mills Phoenix AG of Mining and Metallurgy operation and Hermannshütte in Dortmund- Horde, the smelter Union in the west of Dortmund city center, the steelworks winners AG / Hoesch Siegerlandwerke AG works in Kreuztal remote village, Kreuztal oak and knowledge, as well as a variety of engineering companies, such as the Pohlig Heckel Bleichert (Weser hut ), the software company mbp, the former group Orenstein & Koppel and many others. The spatial distribution or distance between the blast furnace site in Dortmund- Horde and the steel plant and rolling mill made costly transportation required and was a key cost factor for the company.
Current situation
After the hostile takeover by Krupp and its subsequent merger with Thyssen previous Hoesch Group companies belong mostly to ThyssenKrupp AG today.
The liquid phase, the production of crude iron and steel, is closed in 2001. Today more than 1000 people are employed at the site of Westfalenhütte. Derived from the Duisburg steel works hot strip is here, cold rolled, annealed and electrolytically galvanized or hot dip galvanized.
The products are mainly used in the automotive industry. The most modern galvanizing line of the ThyssenKrupp Group is conducted in Dortmund. Also located on the grounds of the surface engineering center, one of the world's leading research and development centers for the coating of flat steel.
Some operating parts of the Thyssen group still bear the name of the Hoesch group:
- Hoesch Rothe Erde
- Hoesch Building Systems GmbH
- Hoesch Hohen Limburg
- Hoesch Contecna
- Hoesch sheet pile wall and profile ( now owned the Salzgitter Group )
- Hoesch swords Profile GmbH ( now owned by Calvi Holding Italy)
After more than 150 years, disappeared on October 1, 2012, the name of the company health insurance Hoesch through the merger with the BKK site
The former company-owned housing company Hoesch housing company now operates under the name Housing Westphalia, a 100% subsidiary RAG, and still owns a large inventory of former company housing in Dortmund North City, the Ruhr and the winning country. In the fall of 2007, the housing Westphalia became part of the group of companies of Evonik.
As one approaches the city of Dortmund from the south, so immediately the Hoesch Gasometer falls on the Phoenix West premises with the monumental lettering Hoesch eye. The Gasometer is one of the few buildings that are still left on the Hoesch terrain.
Since the closure of steel production at Phoenix East, large parts of the production facilities were dismantled by a Chinese company and shipped to China to be built there again and produce. It was also on the grounds of Westfalenhütte the modern coking plant in the world that Kaiserstühl plant, dismantled and put back into operation in China.
On the site Phoenix - East, a residential and recreational area with the central Phoenix Lake was built.
On the history of the Hoesch group in Dortmund Hoesch Museum recalls the historic Porter House of Westfalenhütte. The museum was opened on 23 October 2005.