Josef wound

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Josef Wund (born December 11, 1938 in Eriskirch -Mariabrunn; †  December 14, 2017 in Waldburg near Ravensburg ) was a German architect and entrepreneur .

Life

Josef Wund was the son of a horse-drawn carriage driver in Mariabrunn near Friedrichshafen and initially completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer. On his second educational path, he later studied architecture and civil engineering, worked as an employed architect and later in partnership (Knittel and Wund Architects). After the dissolution of this partnership, in which mainly regional residential and commercial construction was carried out, at the age of 27 he realized exhibition hall 1 in Friedrichshafen, at that time the largest cantilevered aerated concrete suspended roof hall in the world. As a result, his main focus was on large industrial buildings nationwide. When building a complete site for ThyssenKrupp , he offered turnkey construction with a deadline and fixed price guarantee for the first time. This model found increasing demand and won numerous other large orders.

In the mid-1990s, he began building the Erding thermal baths and became known as the “ spa king”. For Expo 2000 he designed the German pavilion for around 120 million Deutschmarks, which he advanced on his own account. The “Supporting Company of the German Pavilion” paid 78 million Deutschmarks in rent over the 153-day period. In the course of the refugee crisis in Germany from 2015 , Wund sold the building to the city of Hanover for 5.7 million euros .

Further major investments in bathing projects followed: Among other things, he invested 37 million euros in the " Badeparadies Schwarzwald " in Titisee-Neustadt , 30 million euros in the "bathing world Euskirchen " and 50 million euros in the "bathing world Sinsheim ". Another “bathing paradise” is being planned in Bad Vilbel .

In 2011 a lawsuit for bribery and tax evasion was opened before the Stuttgart district court against Wund. He was accused of having bribed two supervisory board members in 1996 so that they would campaign for him to be awarded the contract. The proceedings were discontinued in exchange for a payment of one million euros to charitable organizations.

Wund died on December 14, 2017 in a Cessna Citation Mustang plane crash near Sieberatsreute, a district of Waldburg in Upper Swabia, during the approach to the Bodensee-Airport Friedrichshafen .

Architecture projects

Wund Group

The Wund group currently operates five leisure pools and the German Pavilion for the EXPO 2000 world exhibition in Hanover:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Expo 2000 - The Pavilion of Josef Wund  in the German Digital Library
  2. ^ Rainer Stadler: The sky of Bavaria . In: SZ-Magazin from January 2012
  3. ↑ Wund Group
  4. ^ Siegfried Grosskopf: Bribery accusation brings the spa king to the cadre . In: Badische Zeitung from January 19, 2011
  5. ^ Klaus-Dieter Weiss: A circus tent for Germany . In: Tagesspiegel of February 18, 2000
  6. ↑ Expo: Gigantic rent for German pavilion . In: Der Spiegel from November 21, 1999
  7. ^ Conrad von Meding: "Now the hour of crisis profiteers strikes" Hannoversche Allgemeine from October 12, 2015
  8. ↑ Christof Ernst: Euskirchen: Trouble in the "bathing paradise" . In: Express of January 24, 2011
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Kächele: The largest sauna in the world is in Sinsheim ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung of May 16, 2013
  10. ↑ Frankfurter Neue Presse: Clear start for a tropical paradise in the Wetterau. In: fnp.de. December 8, 2017. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Bernd S. Winckler: "Badeparadies" operator: Josef Wund rejects all accusations . In: Kölnische Rundschau from January 21, 2011
  12. ^ Spa king: I don't have to bribe . In: Badische Zeitung from January 20, 2011.
  13. ^ Proceedings against Josef Wund discontinued . In: Augsburger Allgemeine of July 29, 2011
  14. ^ Frankfurter Neue Presse: Plane crash near Ravensburg: Thermen investor Josef Wund among the fatalities. In: fnp.de. December 15, 2017. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Bernd Steinle: The most beautiful defeat you can imagine. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 9, 2005
  16. ↑ Wund Group
personal data
SURNAME Sore, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Mariabrunn near Eriskirch
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 2017
Place of death Sieberatsreute, Waldburg (Württemberg)