Ekkehard Streletzki

Ekkehard Streletzki (born August 11, 1940 in Wissen an der Sieg) is an entrepreneur and hotelier in Berlin . Among other things, he is the owner of the business and event hotel Estrel in Berlin-Neukölln and is the managing director of Saramartel Handels- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG.

Childhood, youth and education

Ekkehard Streletzki grew up in Hamm an der Sieg in his mother's house, the house where Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen was born . Streletzki's father, whose family owned a small hotel in Ratibor , came from Silesia .

He attended the Schule im Wissen and then began to study civil engineering with a focus on statics at the University of Applied Sciences for Construction in Koblenz , which he completed with a diploma .

Professional background

Entrepreneur

From 1963 Ekkehard Streletzki worked as a structural engineer in a test statics office in Munich . In 1967 he founded his own statics office in Munich. In 1972 he founded a statics office in Tehran . In Saudi Arabia, his structural engineering office was working on a construction project involving new high-rise buildings and a shopping center.

In 1976 Ekkehard Streletzki founded the service company Diabos in Munich . The company deals with cutting concrete with the help of diamond saws and drills. In the following years, Streletzki opened eight more Diabos branches in major German cities. Shortly before the reunification , he left the company and handed it over to his employees.

From the beginning of the 1990s, Ekkehard Streletzki founded other companies and took over holdings in Berlin and the New States . This included Uwetec, a company in the field of environmental technology , which he took over in 1992. It dealt with the implementation of various infrastructure and energy projects, including the construction of an energy-efficient brick factory in Moscow .

Some of the companies and holdings that Ekkehard Streletzki took over from the beginning of the 1990s are brought together under the umbrella of his holding company Saramartel Handels- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Berlin. Saramartel has a total of around 600 employees.

hotelier

In 1994 Ekkehard Streletzki opened the Estrel Hotel on Sonnenallee in Berlin-Neukölln on a former industrial area . One of the reasons for opening the Estrel was the high hotel prices in Berlin in the early 1990s. Ekkehard Streletzki, who often came to Berlin on business trips, decided to build a hotel himself that offers good hotel rooms at affordable prices. Until then, Streletzki had not dealt with hotels and, as he himself admits, understood nothing about hotels. Today it is not only Germany's largest, but also the most economically successful hotel, because money is made there with a room occupancy of only 35 percent.

In 2007 he opened his second hotel in the federal capital , the “Ellington Hotel Berlin” on Nürnberger Strasse . In 2009 Streletzki opened another hotel project, the "Restaurant & Hotel" in Britz Castle . Ekkehard Streletzki also holds shares in the Babelsberg Film Park in Potsdam.

The Estrel Hotel

The Estrel Hotel

The Estrel hotel with 1,125 rooms and suites, the largest hotel complex in Germany. The name of the hotel is made up of the first letter of the first name and the first syllable of the last name of its owner. Streletzki himself summed up the concept for his hotel in a slogan: "Four-star hotel at a two-star price". The hotel is connected to the Estrel Festival Center with the daily Las Vegas live show "Stars in Concert" and the Convention Hall, which offers space for around 6,000 people. In 1999 the Estrel was expanded to include a convention center for events for 100 million marks. Up to 1800 events take place here every year. Their thematic bandwidth ranges from party conferences, trade fairs and congresses to boxing matches and media events.

family

Ekkehard Streletzki has been married to Sigrid Streletzki since 1988. The couple have two grown children, a son and a daughter. Another son from his first marriage works for the Ekkehard Streletzkis company.

Awards

• 2000: Hotelier of the Year
  • This award is presented annually by the Allgemeine Hotel- und Gastronomie-Zeitung (AHGZ).
• 2005: Cross of Merit on the ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his life's work and social commitment
• 2008/2009: Berlin Entrepreneur of the Year

Publications

• Interview with Ekkehard Streletzki: "Why did you invest in a hotel?" , Burkhard von Freyberg (ed.): Hospitality Development: Planning and implementing hotel projects successfully. 2014, ISBN 978-3-503-14482-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Steffen Uhlmann: "The fool of Neukölln." In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 12, 2014.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Ekkehard Streletzki In: Berliner Morgenpost , December 20, 2009.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Rainer Zitelmann : Set yourself bigger goals! The secrets of successful personalities , redline Verlag , Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86881-560-3
4. ↑ ^{a b} Oliver Heilwagen: Nobel hostel with siding . In: The world . July 14, 2002.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Carina Groh-Kontio: A hotel that bears his name. In: Handelsblatt . January 28, 2014.
6. ↑ Susann Sitzler: Dressed up for the weekend In: DIE ZEIT Online . 17th December 2012.
7. ^ Andreas Kurtz: Failed at the Moscow gatekeeper In: Berliner Zeitung . November 20, 2007.
8. ↑ Estrel boss is hotelier of the year. In: The world . January 14, 2000.