Harald Huth
Harald Gerome Huth (* 1969 in Mannheim ) is an investor and builder in Berlin . He is the owner and managing director u. a. of HIGHI Holding GmbH. Huth is mainly known for planning and building shopping centers . For example, in 1994 he developed the Gropius Passagen in Berlin-Gropiusstadt .
Life
Harald Gerome Huth grew up in Heidelberg and graduated from high school there. After graduating from high school, he moved to the original location of his family in Hamburg and completed a degree in economics and a trainee program in a retail company. Then he worked as a manager of a department store. He later switched to HypoVereinsbank with the task of realizing a fund for shopping centers, which is why he moved to Berlin in 1994. In Berlin he then developed the Gropius Passagen in Berlin-Neukölln that same year . In 2007 he founded his own HGHI (High Gain House Investment) Holding GmbH. Harald Gerome Huth has three sons and lives in the district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in the Westend district .
criticism
For the construction of the Mall of Berlin , which opened in autumn 2014, in addition to the four-month delay, fire protection deficiencies and the bankruptcy of the general contractor, various subcontractors cheated on the construction workers for their wages on behalf of HGHI Leipziger Platz GmbH. Accordingly, the mostly Romanian workers were allowed to work for 10 hours a day for an hourly wage of just under 6 euros. Ultimately, the construction workers' wages weren't even paid in full. After a construction worker, the workers were withheld written employment contracts and in some cases no accommodation was provided.
Investor Harald Huth's “HGHI Leipziger Platz GmbH” commissioned the construction of the Mall of Berlin . The “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Leipziger Platz N ° 12” carried out the contract under the management of the now insolvent “Fettchenhauer Controlling und Logistic GmbH”. The subcontractors “Metatec-Fundus GmbH & Co. KG” from Berlin-Kreuzberg and “openmallmaster GmbH” from Frankfurt am Main were directly responsible for the wage fraud . Ultimately, however, the main responsibility lies with the client of "HGHI Leipziger Platz GmbH" of the investor Harald Htuh. This main responsibility also exists in accordance with the law on mandatory working conditions for cross-border posted workers and for employees regularly employed in Germany of the Employee Posting Act - AEntG in Section 14 Liability of the Client. The DGB first made the case public on October 31, 2014, which is why the Mall of Berlin received increased media attention in November. Because of this, the scandal and the Mall of Berlin was nicknamed Mall of Shame.
Well-known projects
Project | image | realization | opening | sqm GFA | Website |
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The lock | |||||
Mall of Berlin | 2012-2014 | 09/2014 | 153,368 | Website Mall of Berlin | |
Schultheiss Quartier |
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2015-2018 | 2018 | 79,700 | Website Schulheiss Quartier |
Pedestrian street Gorkistraße |
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2016-2021 | 2021 | 90,000 | Website Gorkistraße |
Mendelson Palais office building (headquarters of HGHI Holding GmbH) | 2017 | 3rd quarter 2017 | Mendelson Palais website | ||
Wannsee terraces | 2006-2013 | 2015 | Wannsee terraces |
Web links
- Barbara Nolte: Shopping mall investor Harald Huth: "My idea for Steglitz: completely overstrain". In: tagesspiegel.de . November 15, 2018, accessed March 27, 2020 .
- Gabriela Keller: The king of Berlin malls: In the shopping empire. In: taz.de . August 9, 2016, accessed March 27, 2020 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Berliner Morgenpost- Berlin: About the person. November 26, 2017, accessed on March 22, 2020 (German).
- ↑ The Wannsee Terraces will return by April. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Mall of Shame. November 25, 2014, accessed April 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung: "Mall of Berlin": Investor Harald Huth separates from general contractor. Accessed April 2, 2020 (German).
- ↑ "Compassion for the Romanian construction workers". Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Peter Nowak: Mall of Shame: Exploitation remains legal . In: The daily newspaper: taz . May 4, 2017, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed April 2, 2020]).
- ↑ Mall of Shame | The Chronicle. March 16, 2015, accessed April 3, 2020 .
- ↑ § 14 AEntG - single standard. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung: "Mall of Berlin": Investor Harald Huth separates from general contractor. Retrieved on March 22, 2020 (German).
- ↑ HGHI Holding GmbH - Real Estate Development | Projects. Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Noble beans instead of beer | Forum - the weekly magazine. Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Gorkistraße pedestrian zone - retail and office space in Tegel | Begin. Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
- ^ Mendelssohn Palais Berlin | Headquarters of HGHI Holding GmbH. Retrieved on March 22, 2020 (German).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Huth, Harald |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Huth, Harald Gerome (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German investor and builder in Berlin |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1969 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |