The company Wienerberger AG is the world largest manufacturer of bricks and of other building materials. It has its company center in Vienna. At present (December 2004) world-wide approximately 13,000 coworkers are busy in 235 works in 25 countries.

By the trend in the USA after building with firm building materials, which was not increased too lastly by the hurricane Katrina in the year 2005, it succeeded to ascend Wienerberger also in the USA by general Shale to the number unity.

History

The company was already created 1819 by Alois bad brook at the Viennese mountain to Vienna and taken over after its death, in the year 1857, by its nephew Heinrich of Drasche Wartinberg and continued to develop. Since 1869 are kotiert it also at the Viennese stock exchange. Already at that time it had to the 10,000 coworkers. At the Viennese mountain south of Vienna, where the loam for the brick production was won, numerous ponds developed. Some these ponds witness today still of it and serve the Wienern as local recreation area. Many workers came from the to Vienna around here a work to find.

The bad living conditions of these brick workers caused the young physician and journalist Victor eagle to the draft up of socialcritical reports over the poverty "of the in such a way specified ". After the stock exchange course of the company the conditions of work and wage worsened usually from and coming immigrant worker dramatically. The daily work time did not amount to 15 hours, weekend or work-free days gave it. Besides a so-called Trucksystem ("truck "exchange, bartering meant) was introduced, instead of money got the workers Blechmarken it only in the cafeterias in-house at superelevated prices to redeem could. Who with erbetteltem money outward bought became to dismiss.

Karl cook described in the brochure "35 years trade union organisation of the brick workers of Austria "the lot of the brick female workers:

"The brick female worker from at that time had already temporally early to the work. At 4 o'clock early was begun already with the brick shipping, at 5 o'clock, later at 6 o'clock early, with the brick striking. Of course the woman had to perform all most necessary domestic work before, which to older children instructions give to cook the younger coffee it to tighten and her in time to the impact place to then lead, so that they, before they go still into the school, set up bricks, prepare sand and perform such extra works. Enough that the brick female worker worked 16, later 10 hours in the day, she had to work after stopping time until late into the night inside further at home. Laundry wash, which the lunch prepare for the next day and which most urgent Flickarbeiten settle. "

Worth mentioning it is here that the Wienerberger brick factory and building firm paid altogether 490,000 guldens at dividend in the year 1887, which corresponded to a profit of 12 per cent. On 1 December 1888 with the title "the situation of the brick workers "of articles published by Viktor eagle caused nevertheless that the Gewerbeinspektorat forbade the behavior of the Wienerberger of brick works examined and the application of the Trucksystems forbidden anyway, other bad states however only 1895 after the large brick worker strike was eliminated.

Also in Croatia, Hungary and the company had Werke, whom it lost however in consequence of the First World War in the year 1918. Toward end of the Second World War 1945 large parts of the production places were destroyed with Vienna by bomb attacks.

The need of building materials for the reconstruction of Vienna according to the war led a little later to a new record production.

In the year 1986 the Wienerberger AG under the direction of Erhard Schaschl began to develop Wolfgang Reithofer and Paul Tanos international locations and took over first German manufacturers (company Oltmanns). 1990 built it also immediately after the east opening their support legs in the formerly socialist countries out (1990 Hungary).

The company center is in Vienna, the Austria center still in the area southern of the establishment in Hennersdorf the Viennese city boundary in Lower Austria.

After further assumptions (1996: Terca/Benelux, 1999: General Shale/USA, ZZ Wancor/Switzerland, Mabo/Scandinavia, 2000: Cherokee Sanford/USA, 2001: Optiroc/Northern Europe, 2002: Hanson PLC/Europe, 2003: Koramic Roofing) develops the company at the beginning of the 2000er years to the world market leader on the brick sector and the number two with roofing tiles. The conversion amounted to in accordance with business report 2004 1,758, 8 million euro (EBITDA: 405,4 million euro, PUBLIC EXHIBITION FOR MULTIMEDIA: 257,5 million euro).

Architecture price

2004 lent for the first time the international architecture price to Wienerberger "Brick Award ". The price endowed with 21.000 euro distinguishes every two years contemporary European Ziegelarchitektur. The first price went 2004 at Josef polarizing excrement out of Tschechien for its pedestrian passage under the Prager Hradschin.

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