Zick furniture world

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The furniture world Zick was an East German store chain headquartered in Triebischtal at Meissen in Saxony . Before it went bankrupt in 1998, the group of companies was the largest furniture retailer in Saxony, and according to some media even in all of Eastern Germany. Zick had several dozen locations, achieved an average annual turnover of around 179 million euros (at that time around 300 million D-Marks ) and employed up to 1,250, most recently 1,100, people.

structure

According to the Manager Magazin, the group of companies comprised the three main business areas of furniture world (full-range stores , 7 locations; according to the Sächsische Zeitung , 18 full-range companies), upholstery world (10 locations) and kitchen world (51 locations) in 15 individual companies . There was also the tile world, bathroom world, electrical world and office world. According to the insolvency administrator, there were around 100 houses in total. There were branches not only in Saxony, but also in Berlin, Brandenburg, Thuringia and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

history

The owner of the group was Ulrich Zick, who came from southern Germany and was a former sales representative for the Bavarian upholstered furniture manufacturer himolla . Shortly after the political change , he came to the new federal states in September 1990 and built up the market-leading Zick Group from a five-man company in just a few years. The first upholstery world opened in 1990 in the cultural hall of the former Taubenheim LPG near Meißen, and in 1993 even cattle stalls were converted into sales halls.

The flagship of the group was a hall, completed in 1997, with sales area of ​​18,000 square meters on three floors in the industrial area of ​​Triebischtal-Taubenheim, one of the largest full-range furniture stores in Saxony. The hall was not the zig-group, but is still one (2012) of the property Cologne real estate investment company E + P (Ebertz & Partner, Dorint hotels ) that the location of a real estate fund developed and the hall of zig leased .

When the expansion of the chain stalled due to the waning of the East German consumer euphoria in the post-reunification period and sales prices came under pressure, Zick ran into economic difficulties and had to apply for full enforcement in 1998 (insolvency proceedings in the post-reunification period).

After the Zick bankruptcy, the Brandenburg chain Mega-Möbel, which also went bankrupt in 2003, occupied the building until 2004. Since then, the hall has been empty, and plans for other permanent uses have failed. Up until 2004, a Hamburg industrial exploiter carried out more than a dozen auctions in the hall. In 2009 she wanted to use an organizer for large parties, which, however, was not approved at short notice by the owner for reasons of fire protection. In 2011 Ronny Melkus, the son of the well-known GDR racing driver Ulli Melkus , wanted to set up a kart track there. Most recently, the building was affected by vandalism and theft of building services.

In spring 2002, the former owner Ulrich Zick was sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment by the Dresden Regional Court for total enforcement abduction and breach of trust in ten cases totaling around 920,000 euros. The court gave the house bank ( Commerzbank ) and other lending banks (including the Hamburgische Landesbank ) complicity in the damage. The Federal Court of Justice rejected an appeal . Zick's sons were also convicted by the local court in November 2002, among other things for aiding and abetting infidelity: the younger Peter Zick to 15 months, Martin Zick to seven months imprisonment.

Around 7500 customers lost at least some of the prepayment they had made for furniture, often several thousand euros, a total of 25 million euros, which they did not receive or only received after further payments. In the kitchen world alone, the creditors registered claims of almost 130 million DM.

The administration building was removed from the bankruptcy estate and returned to Ulrich Zick. Since countless documents with sensitive employee, supplier and customer data had been lying around unsecured for years since the bankruptcy, the state data protection officer intervened in 2011.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Möbelwelt Zick before the end - consumer advocates and warn again of excessive down payments ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2015 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. , ConsumerNews.de, accessed on August 27, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.konsumernews.de
  2. ↑ Ulrich Zick: Ost-Möbelkönig has to go to jail , manager-magazin.de , May 3, 2002
  3. ↑ Information on the website of the insolvency administrator ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2012 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. , accessed on August 28, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hww.eu
  4. ↑ Ulrich Zick: Ost-Möbelkönig has to go to jail , manager-magazin.de , May 3, 2002
  5. ↑ The collapse of the furniture giant Zick damaged many customers
  6. ↑ Information on the website of the insolvency administrator ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2012 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. , accessed on August 28, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hww.eu
  7. ↑ The collapse of the furniture giant Zick damaged many customers , Sächsische Zeitung
  8. ↑ Ebertz & Partner Group ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ebertz.de
  9. ↑ Mega-Möbel GmbH: Also closes the last shop , moebelkultur.de, June 13, 2003, accessed on August 27, 2012
  10. ^ Dresden Nightlife , accessed on August 27, 2012
  11. ↑ Karts could roll in the Zick furniture hall , Sächsische Zeitung online, October 12, 2011
  12. ↑ That used to be Saxony's largest furniture store , Sächsische Zeitung online, April 14, 2012
  13. ↑ Ulrich Zick: Ost-Möbelkönig has to go to jail , manager-magazin.de , May 3, 2002
  14. ^ Radio Dresden, September 4, 2003
  15. ^ Radio Dresden , November 15, 2002
  16. ↑ The collapse of the furniture giant Zick damaged many customers , Sächsische Zeitung
  17. ↑ Ultimatum for Mr. Zick , Sächsische Zeitung online Meißen, 2011, February 9, 2011