Helmut Greve

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Helmut Paul Greve (born June 2, 1922 in Hamburg ; † July 3, 2016 there ) was a real estate agent, developer and patron in Hamburg. Among other things, he was CEO of Helmut Greve Bau und Boden AG. He was the Hungarian honorary consul in Hamburg for many years before handing this office over to his daughter Eva-Maria Greve.

Life

Helmut Greve was the son of a businessman and came from a Mennonite family that immigrated to Altona and Hamburg in the 1690s . His religious upbringing shaped his actions to the end. In 1946 he made up his Abitur and studied law in Hamburg from 1949 to 1951 and political science by distance learning in Graz, where he received his doctorate in 1962 on the subject of “Berlin as a problem in international law”.

Greve's entrepreneurial career began in 1950 with a small real estate company. He began to build apartments that were needed after the war on two properties he inherited and a rubble plot that he had bought. In the 1960s and 1970s he built buildings in City Nord and three other office complexes. His group now includes more than twenty individual companies that have specialized in the construction of shopping centers and office buildings. The focus is on the “Dr. Helmut Greve Bau und Boden AG ”in Hamburg. There are over 2000 employees, apartments, offices, shopping arcades, a sports park, senior citizens' residences, hotels and the New Living Home in Lokstedt . The annual turnover has been since when? in a three-digit million range and his empire in Hamburg includes more than one million square meters of office and living space. This also includes the Alster City he built in Hamburg-Barmbek-Süd .

Greve was on the board of a Mennonite German-Dutch aid organization (IMO-Int. Mennonite Organization) and was familiar with the need in Paraguay, Bolivia, Kenya and Bosnia. For many years he was also a member of the church council of the Mennonite congregation in Hamburg-Altona .

In Hungary, he thanked the country with a million donation for helping to tear down the Iron Curtain, whereupon he was appointed Honorary Consul General by the Hungarian government in 1991.

Helmut Greve was married to Hannelore Greve since 1944 . Both lived on their property in Großensee . They have three children together. He is buried in the Mennonite cemetery in Hamburg-Altona .

Patronage

Together with his wife Hannelore Greve, who runs a furniture store in City Nord , he founded the “Dr. Helmut and Hannelore Greve Foundation for Science and Culture ”(later renamed“ Hamburg Foundation for Science, Development and Culture Helmut and Hannelore Greve ”). So far you have supported, among other things

Since 1988 Helmut Greve has been an honorary member of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences in Hamburg.

The grave of Helmut Paul Greve.

Honors

In 2001 Greve was awarded the Golden Star, the highest level of the “ Apor Vilmos Medal of Merit” of the Hungarian Knights of Malta , for building old people's homes and for donations to support the victims of the Theis floods .

Both Helmut and Hannelore Greve became honorary citizens of Hamburg in 2005 . Greve was an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg .

They were also both honorary senators of the University of Hamburg . Helmut Greve was also awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit on April 3, 2007 .

Web links

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  1. ↑ http://lebenswege.faz.net/trauerbeispiel/helmut-paul-greve/47424107 Obituaries
  2. ↑ Martin Scheele: Helmut Greve: "Buy, build, never sell" . In: manager magazin . August 15, 2003 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Award 2005: Prof. Dr. hc Hannelore Greve (born 1926) and Prof. Dr. Helmut Greve (1922-2016) , hamburg.de Senate Chancellery (accessed February 12, 2019)
  4. ↑ Berlin Bibliography, (1961 to 1966) , page 228, In the Berlin Senate Library, edited by Ursula Scholz, Rainald Stromayer (1973).
  5. ↑ a b Grand Cross of Merit for Helmut Greve. In: mennonews.de . April 3, 2007, accessed July 9, 2016.
  6. ↑ Interview in the Hamburger Abendblatt 2012 on abendblatt.de, accessed on February 26, 2014.
  7. ↑ Katy Krause: Hamburg's unusual cemetery. In: Hamburger Abendblatt of March 17, 2017, p. 15
  8. ↑ Thanks from the University President to the donor couple ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2007 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-hamburg.de
  9. ^ Report on the establishment of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg
  10. ↑ Ranking of the most generous entrepreneurs 2005
  11. ↑ Hambuerg personally , abendblatt.de of June 21, 2001 (accessed on February 12, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Greve, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greve, Helmut Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and patron
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July, 2016
Place of death Hamburg