Heinrich Feldhoff Foundation

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"Deutscher Hof" building, 2011
Feldhoff family grave in the south-west cemetery in Dortmund

The Heinrich Feldhoff Foundation was a non-profit foundation in Dortmund . It was recognized on February 27, 1978 by the foundation supervisory authority at the Arnsberg district government . On October 21, 2009, the foundation supervisory authority approved its dissolution. The founder was the civil engineer Heinrich Wilhelm Feldhoff (born April 6, 1907 in Dortmund, † November 8, 1975 in Dortmund). The foundation was registered under the order number 15.2.101-124 in the foundation register for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). The purpose of the foundation was to “support people who are dependent on help because of their physical, mental or emotional state”. According to a statement of assets from 1977, the foundation's assets consisted largely of 16 apartment buildings in the port district of the city ​​center North (Nordstadt) with a market value of 2.6 million DM adjusted for land charges . From 1976 to 1999, annual distributions totaled over 1.5 million DM. DM turned.

Benefactor

Most of the houses were built by the founder's father, the building contractor Heinrich Feldhoff, in the 1920s. The house Mallinckrodtstr. 274 was still inhabited by the family when it was only one-story due to the effects of the war. Heinrich Wilhelm Feldhoff lived there with his parents and after their death alone. According to contemporary witnesses, he lived a modest and withdrawn life. The proximity to the church, namely to the Catholic parish of St. Apostles, allows conclusions to be drawn about the motive for the establishment of the foundation. There the family donated church windows and a bell ("Feldhoff bell"). The Foundation's Board of Trustees always had to be headed by a Catholic pastor. But the desire to keep the housing stock together after his death was also likely to have been the driving force; in his will of March 6, 1974, which was opened by the Dortmund District Court on November 24, 1975, he decreed to transfer all of his assets to the foundation of the same name . The relatives were excluded from the inheritance, but also from the foundation bodies.

Heinrich Wilhelm Feldhoff is buried in the family grave in the south-west cemetery in Dortmund .

Foundation assets

  • Mallinckrodtstrasse 217 / 217a / 219 (sold 2007 to TDS GmbH, Dortmund; sold 2010 to Kulaina Property 33 GmbH, Gütersloh)
  • Mallinckrodtstrasse 235 (sold in 2007 to TDS GmbH, Dortmund; sold in 2010 to Kulaina Property 33 GmbH, Gütersloh) (at the end of July 2011 the city's Hafen district office moved in) (renovated in 2014)
  • Mallinckrodtstrasse 277 / Arnoldstrasse 1 / Arnoldstrasse 3 ("Deutscher Hof") (Arnoldstrasse formerly Gneisenaustraße) (sold in 2008 to Ms. Radmila Huskic, Dortmund). The owner is renovating the building.
  • Mallinckrodtstrasse 317 / Evertstrasse 1 (formerly Scharnhorststr. 111) (built in 1926) (sold 2007 to TDS GmbH, Dortmund; sold 2010 to Kulaina Property 33 GmbH, Gütersloh, refurbished in 2013 by Gauss Consult GmbH, Gütersloh)
  • Arnoldstrasse 5 (formerly Gneisenaustraße) (sold 2003)
  • Gneisenaustr. 67 (sold 2003)
  • Gneisenaustr. 77 (sold)
  • Gneisenaustr. 83 (sold)
  • Gneisenaustr. 91 (sold 2003)
  • Gneisenaustr. 97/99 (sold)
  • Lessingstrasse 77 (sold)
  • Lützowstrasse 74 (sold 2003)
  • Affiliated properties Clemens-Veltum-Str. 75/77/79/81 (formerly Lessingstraße) (sold in 2008 to Schäper & Rick GmbH Bauträger, Ascheberg) and Mallinckrodtstr. 272/274 (lease by Hovermann Liegenschaften with multi-family houses built)
  • Speicherstrasse 45 (long lease property of the city of Dortmund, relapsed there in 2007)

activity

The foundation built in 1994 on its own property at Clemens-Veltum-Str. 75/77/79/81 (formerly Lessingstraße) social housing for the elderly and the disabled. The construction costs of approx. 7 million DM were subsidized with public funds amounting to approx. 4 million DM. The old buildings, which were badly damaged in the war, Mallinckrodtstr. 272/274 were dismantled and in 1996 also replaced by social housing on a long lease by Hovermann Liegenschaften GmbH.

From 1976 to 1999, the Foundation paid out between DM 60,000 and DM 70,000 annually from the rental and leasing income, a total of over DM 1.5 million. Beneficiaries were u. a. Caritas Dortmund as the largest recipient of donations with almost 800,000 DM, Arbeiterwohlfahrt Dortmund from 1983 to 1999 with a good 450,000 DM, the Diakonisches Werk Dortmund Lünen from 1983 to 1999 with a good 250,000 DM, the Dortmund handicapped workshops from 1983 to 1999 with just under 150,000 DM, as well the Society for Mental Health and the Catholic City Office.

Decline and dissolution

In the 1999 annual accounts, which had been compiled by a tax advisor, the rental account showed a deficit of DM 454,205.35. There have been no distributions since 2000. The foundation's tax advisor determined in 2001 that the foundation could not finance a proper renovation of the houses. In 2003, the first three foundation properties were sold.

After complaints from tenants and the local representative of the German Tenants' Association about neglect and vacancies in the Heinrich-Feldhoff-Stiftung's houses and first press reports in the Dortmund edition of the Westfälische Rundschau , the foundation supervision began a comprehensive investigation with local appointments at the end of 2003. One of the reasons for the decline of the foundation was the function of the lawyer and notary Andreas Gerling, who had been legal representative (foundation board member), litigation representative and property manager ( Dr. Andreas Gerling property management ) at the same time since 1994 , which makes effective control of the foundation more difficult would have. It threw a telling light on the long-time CEO that he was later convicted of breach of trust in criminal proceedings and lost his professional license.

The foundation supervision and the creditor banks , namely the Sparkasse Dortmund , ensured that in 2004 the foundation board of Andreas Gerling and his deputy Walter Dahms was replaced by the lawyer and notary Harald Günther and the deputy tax advisor Michael Weber. The property management was transferred to a company of the long-time chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Dortmund city council, Hans Georg Hovermann, who had built social housing on a long-term lease of the foundation and had gone bankrupt with real estate companies in 2003.

In August 2007, the Westfälische Rundschau, Dortmund edition, started the series “An Legacy Forfeited” about the decline of the Heinrich Feldhoff Foundation. For the first time, the extent of the financial imbalance became visible to the public: “The debts of € 5.6 million were only offset by calculated real estate assets of € 5.85 million in 2004. So € 250,000 plus - not in the account, but as book value. ”In 2007 and 2008, all of the foundation's apartments were sold. At the end of 2008, foundation board member Harald Günther drew a conclusion: he had at least achieved the goal "that the foundation does not leave any debts."

On June 24th, 2009 the board of trustees decided to dissolve the foundation. With the approval of the dissolution by the foundation supervisory authority on October 21, 2009, the Heinrich Feldhoff Foundation ended.

aftermath

Even after the sale and dissolution of the Heinrich Feldhoff Foundation, houses remained in public discussion.

With the influx of Bulgarian and Romanian Sinti and Roma , conditions arose in vacant and disorganized and speculatively used houses in the northern part of the city that were referred to as “problem and disgusting houses”. In 2011 this also included the Mallinckrodtstr. 317 / Evertstrasse 1.

The “Deutscher Hof” restaurant, which developed into a meeting place for the Dortmund neo-Nazi scene, was located in the house at Mallinckrodtstrasse 277 at the corner of Arnoldstrasse . The property was named the National Socialist Underground in connection with the series of murders by the right-wing extremist terrorist group , as the eighth person killed in this series, Mehmet Kubaşık , was shot dead in his kiosk in the immediate vicinity of this property on April 4, 2006, which led to speculation about the involvement of local neo-Nazis .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Leave millions behind and the grave goes to waste” , Ellen Sarrazin, Westfälische Rundschau, Dortmund edition, August 19, 2007, accessed on July 30, 2014
  2. ↑ “Leave millions behind and the grave goes to waste” , Ellen Sarrazin, Westfälische Rundschau, Dortmund edition, August 19, 2007, accessed on July 30, 2014
  3. ^ Opening of the new district office Hafen Lokalkompass Dortmund-City, July 28, 2011
  4. ↑ "The end of the Heinrich Feldhoff Foundation in Nordstadt: The decline of a million dollar inheritance ended five years ago" ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Nordstadtblogger, October 21, 2014, accessed November 1, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nordstadtblogger.de
  5. ↑ "The end of the Heinrich Feldhoff Foundation in Nordstadt" ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Nordstadtblogger from October 21, 2014, accessed on April 17, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nordstadtblogger.de
  6. ^ German Architecture Forum, user entry from December 23, 2013 , accessed on April 17, 2015
  7. ^ "Feldhoff houses sink in the dirt" , Ellen Sarrazin, Westfälische Rundschau, Dortmund edition, August 20, 2007
  8. ^ "Controllers blind in both eyes" , Ellen Sarrazin, Westfälische Rundschau, Dortmund edition, 23 August 2007
  9. ^ "Lawyer collects prison sentence again" , Dirk Berger, Westfälische Rundschau, Dortmund edition, April 4, 2010
  10. ↑ "Millions Foundation on the Edge of Ruins" , Ellen Sarrazin, Westfälische Rundschau, Dortmund edition, August 17, 2007
  11. ↑ "Heinrich Feldhoff Foundation: All properties have been sold", Ellen Sarrazin, Westfälische Rundschau, Dortmund edition, October 29, 2008
  12. ↑ "Disgust resides in the north of Dortmund" , Kirsten Simon, Westfälische Rundschau, Dortmund edition, February 20, 2011
  13. ↑ "Kiosk murder in 2006 close to the Nazi meeting" German Hof "in the northern city" , Andreas Winkelsträter, Westfälische Rundschau, Dortmund Issue 17 November, 2011.