The Philipp wood man AG was a world-wide active German building company with seat in Frankfurt/Main.

The building contractor 1849 of Johann Philipp wood man based in three-calibrate.

International attention attained wood man by the 1902 and from the German bank financed Bagdad course begun. The occasional largest German building contractor was at first predominantly in the building of railways active, extended its sphere of activity however soon into all ranges of the high and foundation engineering. 1856 followed the removal to Frankfurt, where 1863 a building factory developed. From now on the building history of Frankfurt was also closely connected with wood man.

1873 took part wood man in the building Frankfurt opera houses, 1877 followed the stone bridge over the Rhine in Basel as the first foreign project, 1882 the main station Amsterdam, 1883 reception building of the main station Frankfurt, 1889 work for the northeast ship canal and 1892 the Law Courts began the wood man commitment in South America with holding companies in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Uruguay.1907 were wood man in the Elbe tunnel in Hamburg involved, 1910 to the Edertalsperre. 1917 followed the transformation into a corporation. Also in housebuilding the enterprise with the settlements Heller yard and Riederwald was active in Frankfurt. A further large-scale project was 1925 the Hindenburgdamm.

After the Second World War the Philipp wood man AG took part in the establishment of the Frankfurt rubble exploitation corporation, which made new building material of building debris. Wood man was among other things in Frankfurt involved in the reconstruction of the Goethe house, the city hall and the Paulskirche. In the traffic sector wood man on the Rhine Main airport built and also with the Frankfurt underground also.

In October 1999 the enterprise its existence celebrated. Still in the same year heavy economic difficulties became publicly. That world-wide active tradition enterprises had 20 in the last years. Century by Missmanagement, which already exceeded the border in opinion of specialists to the criminal one, in combination with the difficult basic conditions for the German building industry, a loss of 2,4 billion DM accumulated. As mainguilty Lothar Mayer was constituted (see VDI messages from 26 November 1999). An medium-effectively announced rescue attempt of the Federal Chancellor at that time Gerhard failed, so that the Philipp wood man AG to 21. March 2002 finally insolvency to announce had.

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