FORWARD-LOOKING BY TRADITION
The company history
The beginnings
Electricity and lumber mill
Anton Staudinger (1852 – 1916)
Anton Staudinger operated an electricity and lumber mill at the Kötzting windmill. He recognised the importance of the energy supply, and became Kötzting’s supplier of new, revolutionary, electrical energy in the early 20th century.
Numerous hydropower turbines and a dam belong to the windmill. Kötzting market obtained electric street lighting and this clean and safe energy also found use in homes and businesses.
Beginning of 20th century
Electricity and lumber mill
Michael Staudinger (1883 – 1957)
Michael Staudinger carried his father's business forward and so, in 1910 – 1911, the course for the new era was set and all of Kötzting was supplied with electricity from Staudinger power plant.
Post World War 2
Electricity and lumber mill
Anton Staudinger (1929 - 1998)
The son, Anton, the youngest of three children, started working at his father’s electricity and lumber mill business at the end of World War 2 in 1945 at the age of 16. In 1955, he married Lucia Pilz from Chemnitz. Their relationship resulted in 5 children: the boys were also called Michael and Anton.
1967 - 1991
Steel Construction/Stable Equipment
Anton Staudinger (1929 - 1998)
Anton Staudinger expanded the company to the areas of steel construction and stable equipment. Steel gates and doors as well as wooden silos were manufactured on the factory site. At the beginning of the 1970s, there were more than 40 employees.
1975 – beginning of the 1990ies
Film industry
Anton Staudinger (1929 - 1998)
In 1975, Staudinger established the company Telecom GmbH, whose area of expertise included the production and marketing of film and television programs, the implementation and brokering of co-productions as well as the purchase and sale of licences domestically and abroad. 20th Century Fox transfers the exclusive TV broadcasting rights for the German-speaking areas of Europe.
1975 - at the time of the “Iron Curtain” - Staudinger signed a contract with the state committee of the USSR: For the 1st time in the history of the Bolshoi theatre in Moscow, a large, international production (Romeo and Juliet) took place for the 200 year anniversary.
1980 – mid 1990s
Textile industry
Anton Staudinger (1929 - 1998)
From the 1980s to the mid 1990s, Staudinger imported silk fabrics from China. In cooperation with textile company Joy Season Industrial Ltd, Hong Kong, the Rosner and Triumph companies (among others) and the Neue Augsburger Kattunfabrik (NAK fabric) were supplied with silk from China.
1981
Industrial estate / Ingolstadt
Anton Staudinger (1929 - 1998)
In 1981, Staudinger purchased an industrial estate at Ingolstadt near the railway station. The manufacture of the buildings, some of which were still partial shells, was completed between 1981 and 1983, and has since undergone further conversion and extension. The overall rental area of the industrial estate was extended with an additional building to approx. 148,000 m² in 2009.
1983
Michael Staudinger enters the family company
Michael Staudinger (born 1957)
Because of his father's poor health, Anton Staudinger’s oldest son Michael entered the company at 25 years old.
Poseidon Gardens, Ischia
In 1983, Staudinger purchased the Poseidon Gardens thermal park on the island of Ischia in the Gulf of Naples. He turned this into one of the most well-known and modern wellness and therapeutic locations with 21 bathing pools, a Roman steam sauna, a medical department and several restaurants. The uniqueness of this thermal spa is characterised by the incredible location in a bay with its own private beach as well as the thermal baths embedded in a partially terraced garden landscape.
1985
First German Clinic for Traditional Chinese Medicine
Anton Staudinger (1929 - 1998)
Anton Staudinger bought the old Kötzting Hospital and opened the “First Clinic for Traditional Chinese Medicine” in Germany in 1991, after 5 years of renovation and conversion work. In cooperation with a Beijing University, conventional and traditional Chinese medicine were brought together in a harmonious way.
1987 - 1993
Investments in China
Anton Staudinger (1929 - 1998)
In 1987, Anton Staudinger invested in a 49% share of the world's third largest shopping centre (at the time) - the Beijing Hua Wei Center in Peking, and the Tian He Center in Lanzhou, Gansu province, in 1993.
Building and Project Development
Speciality Retail Centre, Plauen
Michael Staudinger
Michael Staudinger changed from being a builder to a property developer and project developer: And the Speciality Retail Centre in Plauen was opened in 1993. The building and layout design and the interior construction took place in a user-specific way in accordance with the ideas of tenants A.T.U and Bauhaus AG. From the purchase of the site to in-house project development and construction to optimum tenant support – everything from a single, as per the new motto.
Building and Project Development
Keniastraße Industrial Estate, Duisburg
Michael Staudinger
Michael Staudinger also acted as project developer and investor on this project. In the former company site of the Hahnschen Werke, the Keniastraße Industrial Estate was created from 1994 - 2012. Staudinger developed made-to-measure rental areas with individual usage and space concepts for tenants such as Bauhaus, AOL Bertelsmann, Mercedes Benz, Mediamarkt, Dänisches Bettenlager, Fressnapf and others.
1994
Lübbinchen Castle Estate/Agriculture
Anton Staudinger (1929 - 1998)
In 1994, Anton Staudinger purchased the Lübbinchen estate in the Schenkendöbern municipality in Brandenburg. The listed building, which built in 1840, has now been renovated. The estate includes a dairy farm with approx. 3500 cattle and 850 hectares of forest and farmland, a biogas system and fish ponds.
Hotel industry
Hotel Lam/Bavarian Forest
Anton Staudinger (1929 - 1998)
The hotel in the Lam health spa with a view of the local mountains was purchased by Anton Staudinger Senior in 1995 before being taken over and managed by his son, Anton Staudinger Junior. Initially there was a management contract with the Steigenberger hotel chain, and later with Best Western. Since 2019, the property with its large and diverse wellness area and golf course has been managed as the independent “Sonnenhof” hotel.
Management & Move
Management by
Michael Staudinger
After Anton Staudinger’s death in 1998, Michael Staudinger, who 41 years old at the time, managed the family company’s fortunes. The TCM Clinic Bad Kötzting as well as the Hotel Sonnenhof in Lam were managed by his younger brother, Anton Staudinger Junior. Michael Staudinger expanded the company, and focused on nationwide construction, rental and management of properties in the major cities.
Move to new office
Bad Kötzting headquarters
In mid-1998, the new office building of the main administration in Bad Kötzting was completed.
BAUWERT AG
Michael Staudinger invests in
BAUWERT AG in Berlin
In the summer of 2009, Michael Staudinger became the managing partner of the BAUWERT investment group. The company, which was established in 1983 in Munich by Dr. Jürgen Leibfried, a university friend of Michael Staudinger, initially concentrated on renovating old buildings, and consequently extended its activities to include the development of high quality office, residential and retail areas nationwide, but with a focus on Berlin.