Kurt Krieger (entrepreneur)
Kurt Krieger (born April 2, 1948 in Berlin-Schöneberg ) is a German entrepreneur .
After graduating from high school in 1967 at Ranke-Gymnasium in Berlin-Wedding , Krieger completed a bank internship and began studying business administration at the TU Berlin , which he completed in 1975 after several interruptions.
Parallel to this warrior had in 1967 at the Pankstraße the furniture store Hoffner re-established; he had acquired the rights to the name for 25,000 marks . After German reunification in 1990, he began to expand the company to East Germany. Since 2002, Krieger has also been the majority shareholder of the Hessian chain Möbel Walther . At the beginning of 2004, he joined the family company Möbel Kraft due to the impending bankruptcy of his furniture store chain . At the end of 2018 he took over the Finke Group based in Paderborn .
On his 60th birthday, the community of Schönefeld awarded him honorary citizenship for his services.
In 2010, Krieger Grundstück GmbH (KGG) acquired around 40 hectares of land in Berlin-Pankow between Berliner Straße and Prenzlauer Promenade in order to build a new residential area (“Pankower Tor”) with schools, a furniture store and a shopping center.
Krieger is married with two daughters and one son.
Web links
- Stefan Strauss: Krieger is building a monument for himself . Pankower Tor project. In: Berliner Zeitung . 3rd October 2012.
- Thomas Loy: Güterbahnhof Berlin-Pankow: Furniture contractor builds social housing . A new district with 750 apartments and two schools is to be built in Berlin-Pankow. The client is the boss of the furniture store chain Höffner, Kurt Krieger. The Senate made an extraordinary deal with him. In: Der Tagesspiegel . 17th December 2013.
Individual evidence
- ^ Honorary citizenship for Kurt Krieger on his 60th birthday
- ^ The project → Pankower Tor. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 15, 2018 ; accessed on March 5, 2018 . 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.
- ^ Project "Pankower Tor" on the dump. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Warrior, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin-Schöneberg |