Hannelore Kraus

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Hannelore Kraus (* 1939 in Frankfurt-Gutleutviertel ) is a German political scientist and pension manager in Frankfurt-Gutleutviertel. She became known for her fight against the planned railway tower , which was to become the tallest building in Europe.

Life

Hannelore Kraus comes from the liberal Frankfurt bourgeoisie. Her father was a plumbing wholesaler in Gutleutviertel .

She studied sociology in Frankfurt and graduated from Theodor W. Adorno with a diploma . She also attended the Academy for World Trade and took a trip through Poland, Hungary and Romania in her own Citroën 2CV . She received her doctorate in political science from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 1971 with the dissertation “The ideas of the American congress on the development of Germany after the Second World War”. She went to Washington and New York on a scholarship and decided to stay abroad. Until the end of the 1970s she worked as a development worker for the United Nations a. a. in the Ivory Coast and Nigeria, in Haiti, then in Ethiopia, later she went to the People's Republic of China. When her parents got sick, she returned to Frankfurt. In 1983 she opened a guesthouse with ten rooms in her parents' Art Nouveau building on Gutleutstrasse, in the immediate vicinity of the main train station, which became a focal point for guests from Africa and South America, for artists and intellectuals. The publisher Klaus Wagenbach and the publisher Antje Kunstmann were regular guests at the book fair .

At the end of the 1980s she became known throughout Germany when, as the property neighbor of the Frankfurt train station, she refused to approve the construction of the railway tower, the so-called Campanile , which was planned as the tallest building in Europe and was to become a new landmark of the city. The CDU ruling in the city council had partially approved the tower two days before the local elections in 1989. “The plan to create a fait accompli before the red-green high-rise opponents came to power, failed because of a house owner.” Hannelore Kraus fought at the head of a citizens' initiative, which grew through the project to build luxury apartments and had a negative impact on the social structures feared. (see: Gentrification ) It prevented the start of construction of the 180 million mark building project, ultimately in court alone. The reason she gave was that her house would be in the shade because of the oversized tower. In the course of the negotiations, Hannelore Kraus refused the compensation of three million marks offered by the investors.

According to Marianne Rodenstein , Hannelore Kraus became a "symbol for the unsaleable Frankfurt population".

Works

  • Concepts of senators and representatives of the American Congress on Germany policy after the Second World War: war programs, post-war policy and their current aspects . Heidelberg 1971. (Heidelberg, Univ., Philos.-Histor. Fac., Diss. 1971)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Raimund Hoghe: "When nobody sings, it's quiet". Zeit Online, August 25, 1989
  2. a b She fought for the Gutleut district , Frankfurter Rundschau, December 29, 2015
  3. Constanze Kleis : Instructions for use for Frankfurt am Main , Piper Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-27579-8 , p. 208
  4. Wild West on the Main . Der Spiegel 38/1997
  5. "Here we are, here we stay" . Interview with Hannelore Kraus, Frankfurter Rundschau, December 4, 2012
  6. No more awareness of monument protection? The example of Frankfurt. Part 3 of the series: Who Owns Public Space? (Deutschlandfunk April 9, 2007)
  7. Kevin Costelloe: Frankfurt Woman's Campaign Stalls Skyscraper: Frau Kraus Wants to Keep Her Sunlight. Los Angeles Times, September 17, 1989
  8. Interview with Günther Jauch - TV show Na see! ZDF, 1989 (archived on YouTube)
  9. Alone against the campanile. - Article with interview in the Hessenschau. Hessischer Rundfunk, July 26, 1989, archived on YouTube
  10. ^ Marianne Rodenstein: From the "high-rise epidemic" to the "skyline as a trademark" - the steep career of high-rise buildings in Frankfurt am Main , in this. (Ed.): High-rise buildings in Germany. Future or ruin of the cities? W. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 978-3-17-016274-7 , p. 53