History of the company/bank and archive description for EKO Stahl GmbH
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History of the
company/bank: |
Foundation of town and company was decided upon during the 3rd Party Congress of the former SED (July 20 - 24, 1950).
Factors for this decision on location were:
- 1. Most possible approximation of production to raw material sources (coke from Poland, ore from the Soviet Union).
- 2. Favourable connections to the traffic network (roads, rails, waterways).
- 3. Creation of industrial centres in former agricultural areas and, with it, elimination of the significant difference
between urban and rural areas.
100 km southeast of Berlin, the construction of the Eisenhüttenkombinat started on August 18, 1950.
Foundation stone for blast furnace 1 laid by minister Fritz Selbmann on January 1st 1951, construction of another five blast furnaces and the construction of an ore preparation and sintering plant followed until 1954 ; start of cold rolling mill construction on June 1st 1963, cold rolling mill trial operation on June 28th 1968 ; foundation of VEB Bandstahlkombinat with EKO as parent plant on January 1st 1969 ; BOF shop commissioning on November 6th 1984 ; company conversion into EKO Stahl AG (public limited company) with its subsidiaries on May 16th 1990 ; conversion of EKO Stahl AG into a GmbH (private limited company) on June 17th 1994 ; privatisation on January 1st 1995 ; Cockerill Sambre holds 60% of EKO shares ; commissioning of the new blast furnace 5A on April 2nd 1997 ; ceremonial commissioning of hot rolling mill on July 22nd 1997.
Firm names, legal position, take-over of companies:
Name from August 18, 1950 to May 16, 1990; Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost, since January 1, 1969 parent company of VEB
Bandstahlkombinat "Hermann Matern" Eisenhüttenstadt with integrated plants: VEB Blechwalzwerk Olbernhau, VEB Kaltwalzwerk Bad Salzungen, VEB Kaltwalzwerk Oranienburg, VEB Walzwerk Burg, VEB Walzwerk Finow, until middle of the 70th VEB Eisen- und Hüttenwerke Thale, from 1980 on VEB Magnesitwerk Aken, from 1989 on VEB
Metallurgieanlagen Wittstock; Name from May 17, 1990 to June 16, 1994; EKO Stahl AG with its subsidiaries.
Name from June 17, 1994; EKO Stahl GmbH with its subsidiaries:
- EKO Feinblechhandel GmbH
- Stahlhandel Burg GmbH
- EKO Handelsunion GmbH
- EKO Bauteile GmbH
- EKO Stahlexport Essen GmbH
- EKO Stahlhandel GmbH Berlin
- BSG Bandstahl GmbH Esslingen
- EKO Feinblechhandel GmbH Burbach
- QualifizierungsCentrum der Wirtschaft
Current field of activity:
Hot metal and steel
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| Archive description |
EKO Stahl GmbH archive:
Founded in 1952 in order to document development and growing of the first socialist company and town.
Records:
- records of VEB Bandstahlkombinat 1950 until 1989, 109 shelf metres
- records of EKO Stahl AG 1990 until 1994, 35 shelf metres
- records of EKO Stahl GmbH 1994 until today, 7 shelf metres
- records of subsidiary Metallurgieanlagen Wittstock, 2 shelf metres
- records of subsidiary Blechwalzwerk Olberhau, 24 shelf metres
- records of branch Bandstahlveredlung Porschdorf, 4 shelf metres
- records of subsidiary Anlagenbau, 3.5 shelf metres
- records of EKO Stahl Supervisory board, 1.5 shelf metres (blocked)
- records of company trade union management 1950 until 1989, 2.5 shelf metres
- records of works council from 1990 on, 3 shelf metres
- records of GST (youth society for sports and technique) before 1989, 0.5 shelf metres
Records have not been completed yet, because a lot of historical documents are still deposited in the central registration department (old registration) of the company archive.
Collections:
photo archive, about 25,000 photographs
negative archive, about 15,000 negatives
transparency archive, 1,768 slides
film archive, 96 films
video archive, 268 videos VHS and 8 Betacam
historical sound archive, 276 tapes
music archive, 1,734 tapes
newspaper archive (firm brochures/firm papers), about 5,000 newspapers / brochures
archive library, about 1,000 books
works of art, 496 exhibits
exhibits / museum goods (flags, banners for honor, medals, models, posters), about 1,500 exhibits
Records and collections of EKO are held in their entity in the company archive. Records of integrated plants and affiliated comapnies are partially held by other institutions. There does exist an inventory for the records of the company archive.
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| Publications |
- Czerny, Jochen: EKO-Eisen für die Republik (EKO iron for the republic), in: Illustrierte historische Hefte (illustrated historical issues), Heft 34, Berlin 1984.
- Unser Friedenswerk: Teil 1 - 3. Betriebsgeschichte des VEB Bandstahlkombinat "Hermann Matern" Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost. Eisenhüttenstadt 1978. (History of VEB Bandstahlkombinat "Hermann Matern" Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost).
- Betriebsgeschichte VEB Eisen- und Hüttenwerke Thale von 1686 bis 1986 (Kombinatsbetrieb). (History of VEB Eisen- und Hüttenwerke Thale from 1686 to 1986 (integrated plant)).
- Technikgeschichte VEB Eisen- und Hüttenwerke Thale von 1686 bis 1945. (Technical history of VEB Eisen- und Hüttenwerke Thale from 1686 to 1945).
- 300 Jahre Eisen- und Hüttenwerke Thale: 1686 bis 1986. (300 years Eisen- und Hüttenwerke Thale: 1686 to 1986).
- Hans-Heinz Kasper: Von der Saigerhütte zum Kupferhammer Grünthal: 1537 bis 1873: Geschichte des VEB Blechwalzwerk Olbernhau. (From Saiger metallurgical plant to copper smelting plant Grünthal: 1537 to 1873: history of VEB Blechwalzwerk Olbernhau).
- Richter / Förster / Lakemann: Stalinstadt - Eisenhüttenstadt. Von der Utopie zur Gegenwart: Wandel industrieller, regionaler und sozialer Strukturen Eisenhüttenstadts. (Stalinstadt - Eisenhüttenstadt. From utopia to present time: change of industrial, regional and social structures of Eisenhüttenstadt).
- Firmenzeitschrift (firm newspaper) "EKO aktuell", quarterly.
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| Conditions of use |
On inquiry, access to the archival holdings can be permitted. Documents up to 1989 are available for purposes of research.
Business Hours:
Mo. - Th. ; 7.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. / 12.00 a.m. - 16.00 p.m.
Fr. 7.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. / 12.00 a.m. - 14.00 p.m. |
