Founded in 1894, the construction company Moll made architectural history through technical innovation and left a lasting mark on Munich’s cityscape with a number of prominent buildings. In the late 1920s, Leonhard Moll was quick to adopt modern construction machinery and began producing concrete railway sleepers, thereby initiating the company’s industrial diversification. The role played by Moll during the Nazi era is currently the subject of comprehensive academic research.
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Coming to terms with the Nazi past
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At the beginning of July 2023, debris from Munich's former main synagogue was found during work near the Großhesseloher Weir in the Isar. The depressing discovery bore witness to the brutal marginalisation and persecution of Jewish life that also took place in our city during the Nazi era. For the management of the Moll Group, it was also another reminder that our company is sadly linked to this dark chapter in German history - through the demolition of the synagogue in 1938 by order of the Nazi regime.
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How did the stones of the synagogue end up in the River Isar in the 1950s? What was the role of the construction company Moll during the Nazi era? The management of the Moll Group has taken the discovery in the Isar as an occasion to revisit these questions and to commission an independent research institute to carry out a more comprehensive review of the company’s history. The findings are expected in early 2027 and will then be presented in summary form here.
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Remembrance, responsibility and the future
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After the Second World War, both the descendants of the company’s founder, in a personal capacity, and the Moll company itself contributed to compensation programmes. This commitment continued over the following decades – for example, when Leonhard Moll AG became one of the first German companies to join the business foundation initiative “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” in 2000 and, in 2001, paid into the fund for victims of forced labour. In 2003, Dr. Hans and Franz Moll made a donation to the newly established “Association for the Promotion of the New Jewish Community and Cultural Centre at St. Jakobsplatz in Munich”. The subsequent restoration of the synagogue in Reichenbachstrasse – which was officially reopened in a ceremony in the summer of 2025 – was likewise supported financially by the Moll family.
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Support for students
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In 1994, the Moll Group established two scholarship foundations at Ludwig Maximilian University and at the Technical University in Munich, with a total endowment of DM 1,000,000. Their purpose is to support students from Germany and around the world. The recipients are awarded one-year scholarships to study architecture with a focus on heritage conservation or inorganic chemistry at TUM. At LMU, the scholarships are granted to students of art history, business administration and law.
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Support in everyday life
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To ensure that the scholarship holders have good accommodation for the duration of their scholarship, we have concluded an agreement with the Willi Graf student residence (Graf was a member of the “White Rose”, a student resistance group against Nazi rule). Living in a residential community encourages interaction and the exchange of ideas with German and other international students and is intended to make it easier for scholarship holders to settle into their new surroundings. In addition, we help them secure internships related to their studies within companies of the Moll Group, with Munich-based architects or in public heritage conservation.
Responsibility for fulfilling the foundation’s purpose lies with a foundation advisory board. It is composed of the rector or president of the respective Munich university, a full professor from one of the disciplines mentioned above and a representative of the founding family, Leonhard Moll. The advisory board decides on the allocation of scholarships from the foundation assets.
Günther Weiß
Managing Director Moll GmbH & Co KG
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