The Goldbeck GmbH is a family-run construction company based in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. Its main area of operation lies in civil engineering for the commercial and public sectors. According to 2022 figures, the company has around 100 locations, including 13 of its own plants.Martin Krause: Goldbeck wächst in Krise rasant. In: Bielefelder Tageblatt, 8 September 2022.
History The company was founded on 1 September 1969 by Ortwin Goldbeck in Bielefeld-Ummeln as a steel construction company.Tanja Kewes: Teslas Baumeister. In: Handelsblatt, 3 July 2020.Paul Edgar Fels: Ein sehr persönliches Buch. In: Westfalen-Blatt, 23 December 2021. The first local branch was established in 1973 in Langenhagen near Hanover. In the mid-1980s, it also began to manufacture office buildings and multi-storey car parks in addition to industrial buildings.Lothar Schnitzler: Wer zuletzt lacht. In: Wirtschaftswoche, 2008-22 (26 May 2008). In the 1990s, the company continued its expansion with the opening of a new plant in the town of Treuen in Vogtland (1992),Firma Goldbeck ehrt Jubilare. In: Neue Westfälische, 3 November 2015. the purchase of a precast concrete part plant in the Czech Republic (1994)Goldbeckbau. Leistung gestiegen. Hohe Investitionen. In: Handelsblatt, 17 September 1996. and the foundation of Goldbeck International GmbH (1997).
In 2001, the company founded the subsidiary Goldbeck Solar to offer photovoltaic system installation on industrial building roofs, general building roofs and in free areas.Goldbeck an der Spitze. In: Westfalen-Blatt, 28 November 2014. In the same year, it set up a joint venture called Goldbeck Rhomberg together with an Austrian partner to cater to the Austrian and Swiss markets.Auf reichlich Erfolg gebaut. Goldbeck Rhomberg steigert Umsatz um 26 Prozent auf 169 Millionen Euro. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten, 14 June 2018. Ortwin Goldbeck handed over the management of the company to his sons Jörg-Uwe and Jan-Hendrik Goldbeck in 2007. In 2009, a new plant for precast concrete parts launched in Hamm.Goldbeck-Werk eröffnet. Investition von zehn Millionen Euro. Rekord-Bauzeit. In: Neue Westfälische, 22 August 2009. This was followed by the purchase and modernisation of a plant for precast concrete parts in Vöhringen near Ulm four years later.Goldbeck will Vöhringer Werk ausbauen. In: Südwest Presse, 13 February 2013. The photovoltaic business was spun off from the corporate group in 2018.Anja Müller: Gemeinsames Werte-Gerüst. In: Handelsblatt, 30 June 2022. The following year, Goldbeck acquired the French industrial and logistics turnkey contractor, GSE Group.Goldbeck übernimmt GSE-Group. In: Immobilien Zeitung, 28 March 2019. The company’s interest in the Scandinavian market prompted it to buy all shares in the Danish family business DS Gruppen in 2022.
Jan-Hendrik Goldbeck is a vocal critic of German politics and regulations.. Seine Firma errichtet Parkhäuser im ganzen Land, die Tesla-Fabrik in Grünheide hat er in Rekordzeit hochgezogen. In diesem Tempo will Jan Hendrik Goldbeck nun auch besonders günstig Wohnungen bauen. Lässt man ihn? ZEIT Nr. 11/2025, 12 March 2025
Products and services Goldbeck designs and constructs the following building types: industrial buildings, office buildings, multi-storey car parks, residential and school buildings. The company also offers existing building refurbishment.Paul Edgar Fels: Fünf-Milliarden-Marke geknackt. In: Westfalen-Blatt, 8 September 2022. Its range of building-related services include property management and facility management, as well as the management of parking areas and multi-storey car parks.Sebastian Kaiser: 30 Millionen Euro in Ummeln investiert. In: Bielefelder Tageblatt, 13 January 2020. Cooperation with public-sector clients on property construction and operation is handled by a dedicated specialist unit (Goldbeck Public Partner).Goldbeck Services wächst. In: Immobilien Zeitung, 19 November 2020.
Foundation The Goldbeck Foundation was founded in 2009. It primarily promotes projects in the fields of science and research, art and culture, as well as education and social issues.
Sources Georg Meck: Vertrauen ist besser. Ortwin Goldbeck – eine Unternehmerbiografie. Herder. Freiburg, Basel, Wien 2021, . Elena Brenk, Mechthild Hempe: Goldbeck. Seit 1969. teNeues. Kempen 2019, . Anne Kitsch: „Ein inneres Bild unserer zukünftigen Realität“. Ortwin Goldbeck – Reflexionen über eine Unternehmenskultur. Goldbeck, Bielefeld 2007, .
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