Karl Heinz Pepper

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Europa-Center, formerly also called the “Pepper-Center”

Karl Heinz Pepper (born March 17, 1910 in Berlin ; † October 15, 2003 ) was a Berlin businessman, builder and investor . He became known nationwide through the construction of the Europa Center in Berlin.

Life

Pepper was born the son of a piano manufacturer in Berlin. After graduating from high school, he first went to the Sorbonne in Paris to study law. However, he soon dropped out of college to start a company. In 1933 he had a license as a radio wholesaler and his company resided in Ritterstrasse, not far from the center of Berlin.

After the Second World War , he went into the repair of radio sets and later in the wholesale of radio and television sets. From 1958 he became a builder and investor: he built several high-rise buildings on Ernst-Reuter-Platz in Berlin . In 1961 the "Siemensstadt shopping center" was created. In the same year, Pepper acquired the Kant garages . He became known for the construction of the Berlin Europe Center right next to the Berlin Memorial Church , which was built from 1963 to 1967.

Pepper succeeded in setting up the Europa Center with a construction volume of 71 million D-Marks with relatively little own funds by attracting numerous other investors with favorable depreciation options and by taking advantage of the special funding for Berlin; In 1964, Der Spiegel called this a "gold digger calculation".

Karl Heinz Pepper died in 2003 at the age of 93. His grave is in the Dahlem cemetery (field 009-44). The former Governing Mayor Klaus Schütz , the architect Dietrich Garski and the museum director and politician Christoph Stölzl took part in the funeral in Berlin-Dahlem .

family

Pepper had a son, Christian Pepper, and a grandson, Patrick Pepper, who took over the real estate company.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Karl Heinz Pepper  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Peppers pepper. In: Der Spiegel. April 15, 1964 ( online ).
  • Ulrich Paul: The Europa-Center fulfilled a dream. In: Berliner Zeitung. from October 4, 2011 ( online ).
  • Europa-Center Berlin (Hrsg.): CV of Karl Heinz Pepper. ( PDF file ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peppers. In: Der Spiegel. April 15, 1964 ( online ).
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 772.
  3. ^ As farewell, an Ave Maria Karl Heinz Pepper, the father of the Europa-Center, is buried. In: Der Tagesspiegel. from October 25, 2003 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Pepper, Karl Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and investor
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 2003
Place of death Berlin