About us

After being entered into the commercial register on 18 January 1936, Robert Bosch-Siedlung GmbH (SIGE) built its first 200 flats in Kleinmachnow near Berlin and Dessau to provide Bosch factory employees with much needed housing.
Although all of the company’s entire portfolio was expropriated at the end of the Second World War, the ensuing housing shortage created plenty of scope for SIGE’s activities. In the 1950s, the company built 100 flats in Stuttgart’s Degerloch, Weilimdorf and Vaihingen boroughs. More followed in Stuttgart-Mitte and Feuerbach.

Starting in 1953, SIGE also embarked on housing projects at Bosch sites, including Wernau, Bamberg, Waiblingen, Rutesheim, Leinfelden, Plochingen, Giengen, Gerlingen. As early as 1966, the company wet the roof of its 2000th unit in Blaichach. From there the building activity moved to Ansbach, Reutlingen, Hildesheim, Bühl and Schwieberdingen.
In the 1960s, SIGE began offering Bosch employees the chance to buy flats. At this time, however, the intense demand for flats in Germany gradually abated. It was only after the fall of the Berlin Wall that real estate development in Falkensee, Kleinmachnow and Radeberg picked up again, as did the rental business in Eisenach and Sebnitz.

When East Germany repealed the law that held most real estate under state control on 1 January 1990, SIGE lost its non-profit status and became liable for tax. Despite no longer calling itself a housing cooperative, the company remained committed to social housing. Since the German word "Siedlung" (housing scheme) in the company’s name had become dated, it was changed to "Wohnungsgesellschaft" (housing company). On 7 October 1993, the new name Robert Bosch Wohnungsgesellschaft mbH, better known in-house as WOGE, was entered in the commercial register.

In 2001, the Bosch housing service, which provides company employees with furnished flats in the greater Stuttgart metropolitan area, was incorporated into WOGE.

Robert Bosch Wohnungsgesellschaft mbH currently leases and manages some 2,800 residential units, equivalent to a total living area of around 165,000 square metres, spread across various locations in Germany.