Roland Ernst

Roland Ernst (born November 11, 1936 in Heidelberg ) is a German real estate entrepreneur and project developer .

Life

He grew up in a family of furniture manufacturers in Eschelbronn, graduated from high school and studied business administration and law for a few semesters. In 1959 he built up a furniture distribution business with his father's inventory. At the same time he was active in the real estate business and in 1969 founded the company Roland Ernst Planning and Financing of Commercial Properties , which was relocated to Heidelberg in 1986. With him he built halls, warehouses and department stores, first in Germany, later in Sydney , Tokyo and Florida .

After reunification, Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl brought him together with the head of the Treuhandanstalt Detlev Rohwedder in Berlin and expressed the wish that “1000 construction cranes should soar into the sky there”. Ernst agreed to the project. For most projects he set up joint ventures with partners and tried to sell them on as quickly as possible. He took up a private residence in the Hackesche Höfe , which he had renovated himself . He also carried out major construction projects in Leipzig and Dresden. In 1997 Ernst was sentenced to a fine of 630,000 marks for a sham deal with Sachsenmilch over 38 million marks. At the end of the 1990s he owned over 160 companies, employed around 2,000 people and had a turnover of around ten billion German marks. In autumn 1999 his building empire was taken over by Adler Real Estate AG . In March 2000 he was arrested for suspicion of fraud, sat four days remand and was for a multi-year process to finally 1.5 years in prison for embezzlement and bribery sentenced to probation. In May 2000 he filed for bankruptcy due to impending insolvency. Subsequently, the insolvency proceedings against his assets were opened at the District Court of Heidelberg - Insolvency Court - (Az .: K 51 IN 86/00). The insolvency proceedings were canceled by a resolution dated January 7, 2016 after the insolvency plan had been finally confirmed.

Today Roland Ernst lives in Heidelberg again. He is the managing director of Roland-Ernst-Projektentwicklung , which is developing a controversial extension of the Marriott Hotel in Vangerowstrasse at Pentapark.

Projects

Part of the entrance building of the Hackesche Höfe in Berlin

• Techno Terrain Teltow industrial park in Teltow , 1990 ff
• The Oberbaumcity , Berlin-Friedrichshain , 1993-2000, along with the HypoVereinsbank
• The Hackeschen Höfe , Berlin, Spandauer Vorstadt , 1994–1997
• Galeries Lafayette , Berlin 1996
• Bahnhofspassagen Potsdam , 1997
• Development opposite the German Cathedral on Gendarmenmarkt , Berlin 1994
• The Treptowers , Berlin Alt-Treptow , 1998
• The New Kranzler-Eck on Kurfürstendamm , Berlin 2000
• Park Kolonnaden at Potsdamer Platz , Berlin 2000–2002

Sources and literature

• Berliner Zeitung : Real estate is the most important pillar of the Roland Ernst Group. A Heidelberg man invests billions in the east , Berlin, November 19, 1994 [1]
• WeltN24 : "It's finally his turn" , Berlin, March 29, 2000
• Gerd Nowakowski: Roland Ernst, King of the Building Lions , Der Tagesspiegel , Berlin, April 15, 2016 [2]
• Roland Wolf: Roland Ernst: On the luck and misfortune of a building lion , Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , Heidelberg, August 10, 2016 [3]

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rhein Neckar-Zeitung of August 10, 2016
2. ↑ WeltN24, Berlin, March 29, 2000
3. ↑ public announcement. Retrieved May 18, 2018 . 
4. ^ The Heidelberg city editors: “Penta-Park belongs to us anyway….” - Interview with the project developer Roland Ernst, Heidelberg, November 19, 2015.
5. ^ Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung: Heidelberg City Council gives the green light for the new Marriott building, Heidelberg, November 4, 2016