Maren Kern

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Maren Kern, before 2014

Maren Kern (born December 7, 1957 in Osnabrück ) is a lawyer and member of the board of the BBU Association of Berlin-Brandenburg Housing Companies . In addition, she is chairwoman of the board of the BBA - Akademie der Immobilienwirtschaft Berlin .

Life and work

After completing a double degree in law and architecture, Maren Kern worked as a lawyer for a Berlin law firm from 1987 to 1990 with a focus on private and public building law.

In October 1990 she was appointed legal advisor at the BBU Association of Berlin-Brandenburg Housing Companies and in 1993 she was appointed representative of the BBU board. At the end of 1998 she took over the management of the BBU subsidiary Domus Consult Wirtschaftsberatungsgesellschaft mbH. The company advises housing companies and municipalities.

Maren Kern has been a board member at BBU since August 1, 2009. She is the successor to Ludwig Burkardt , who has held the board seat since 1989, and represents the interests of 350 municipal, cooperative, church and private housing companies that are united in the BBU in relation to politics, administration and the public. Almost 50 percent of all rental apartments in the state of Berlin-Brandenburg and around 43 percent of rental apartments in the city of Berlin are managed by the BBU . (Status: 2020)

In addition, she is u. a. Chairwoman of the board of the BBA - Akademie der Immobilienwirtschaft Berlin eV, member of the Berlin Climate Protection Council, active in the alliance for living in the state of Brandenburg, member of the advisory board of the Federal Foundation for Building Culture and other organizations and committees in the housing and real estate industry.

Positions

In 2019, Maren Kern spoke out against expropriations as well as against a statutory rent cap . In her opinion, expropriating large housing companies is the wrong way to solve the problem of rising rents and a lack of apartments in Berlin. It only helps new construction.

Publications

  • Digitization in the housing industry - Smart City in the neighborhood. In: Etezadzadeh, Chirine (ed.): Smart City - Made in Germany , Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden 2020, ISBN 978-3-658-27231-9 , pp. 425-433
  • Challenges to housing construction . In: Harald Bodenschatz, Klaus Brake (Ed.): 100 Years of Greater Berlin , Volume 1: Housing Issues and Urban Development , Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN ISBN 978-3-86732-290-4 , pp. 192–202

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. According to information from Lukas Verlag
  2. Maren Kern, short biography of the authors in: Etezadzadeh, Chirine (ed.): Smart City - Made in Germany , Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden 2020, ISBN 978-3-658-27231-9 . P. 432
  3. ↑ Vacant apartments far from Berlin continue to increase , RBB 24, broadcast: Brandenburg aktuell, July 14, 2020
  4. member of the Climate Council Accessed on August 7, 2020
    Alliance for Living in Brandenburg Retrieved on August 7, 2020
    Member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Foundation for Building Culture Retrieved on August 7, 2020
    Member of the Board of Investment Bank Berlin IBB , press release from the Senate Department for Economy, Energy and Establishments. Retrieved August 7, 2020
  5. The growing city needs more apartments , guest article by Maren Kern in: Berliner Zeitung, February 20, 2019
  6. Hildburg Bruns: Left misses expropriation opponent Muzzle , BZ, November 24, 2019
  7. Silke Kersting, Matthias Streit: Landlords outraged about draft rent cover - real estate industry speaks of expropriation , Handelsblatt, August 26, 2019
  8. Housing - Berlin. Much criticism of petitions for expropriations in Berlin , Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 5, 2019