Dietrich Garski

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Dietrich Garski (born June 4, 1931 in Potsdam ) is a Berlin architect , building contractor and real estate agent who was involved in a real estate affair in the 1980s that toppled the Berlin Senate in 1981 ( Garski affair ).

Life

At the end of the 1970s, Garski's company, Berliner Bautechnik AG with 200 employees, received guarantees from the State of Berlin of almost 100 million marks for loans from the state-owned Berliner Bank (over around 120 million marks), with which real estate projects (military academies) in Saudi Arabia are financed were. When the Saudis did not pay after construction delays, the company went bankrupt and the guarantees fell due, which led to the so-called Garski affair and the fall of the Berlin Senate under Dietrich Stobbe . Garski went into hiding in late 1980 and was arrested on April 1, 1983 on the Caribbean island of St. Martin . On April 22, 1983, he returned to Germany voluntarily. He was released on bail in late July 1983, but was arrested again on December 12, 1984 because of the risk of fleeing. He made a comprehensive confession and was sentenced in October 1985 by the Berlin Regional Court to three years and eleven months in prison for embezzlement and credit fraud , but was released after just one year and was released from Moabit prison in March 1987 .

In the mid-1990s he was active again as a real estate entrepreneur, especially in his hometown of Potsdam ; For example, with a senior citizens' residence on the site of the former, destroyed Holy Spirit Church , the shape of which, including the tower, the new building replicates. He renovated houses in the Dutch Quarter and built the Hotel Voltaire in the city center. Officially, he only acted as a consultant to companies owned by his third wife, Claudia Garski. At the end of the 1990s, as a kind of unofficial moderator of investor interests, he had a major influence on Potsdam's urban development. In Brandenburg an der Havel , Garski was active in the renovation of the old town through his wife's companies in the 1990s, but later withdrew from projects in the city.

Projects

  • 1969–1973: Aschingerhaus, Joachimsthaler Strasse , Berlin, former company headquarters, demolished in 2015
  • 1992: Hofgarten-Karree (Penz-Garski-Karree), Potsdam
  • 1992–2005: Renovation of the Werner-Alfred-Bad , Hegelallee 23, Potsdam
  • 1996: Reconstruction and expansion of the Palais Brühl, built in 1826, as Hotel Voltaire (today NH-Hotel ), Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 88, Potsdam
  • 1996–1997: Residenz Heilig Geist Park, Burgstrasse 31, 14467 Potsdam, (planning: Augusto Romano Burelli )
  • Renovation of several houses in the Dutch Quarter , Potsdam

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Klesmann, Susanne Rost: Garski's second chance . In: Berliner Zeitung of March 22, 2002.
  2. ↑ It's gone. At last! In: Berliner Morgenpost , July 7, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Garski, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and contractor
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam