Sven-Erik Hitzer

Sven-Erik Hitzer at the Leuchtenburg

Sven-Erik Hitzer (born October 7, 1962 in Cottbus ) is a Saxon-Thuringian entrepreneur and founder of the Leuchtenburg Foundation.

Live and act

After attending school in Cottbus superheater dedicated to the profession of landscape gardener and later took on the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art Hall , a design study on.

After the fall of the Wall, he founded the travel and event agency Neuland Zeitreisen with a focus on staging medieval experiences. Since 1990 he has been running the castle gastronomy on the Leuchtenburg in Thuringia as a tenant and, at the same time, since 1995 the restoration of the Königstein Fortress . From 1993 he devoted himself to the tourist revitalization of Saxon Switzerland in the border village Schmilka with the expansion of the place into a bio and national park refuge . As managing director of Albergo GmbH, he runs an organic hotel, several guest houses, an organic brewery and an organic bakery. In December 2019, Sven-Erik Hitzer was elected deputy president of the European interest group Bio Hotels based in Nassereith .

Sven-Erik Hitzer is married and has one son.

Leuchtenburg Foundation

On March 9, 2007, Sven-Erik Hitzer set up the charitable foundation Leuchtenburg to give the Leuchtenburg, which was then put up for public auction, a perspective. From now on, Hitzer is the board of the foundation. The purpose of the foundation is to promote the Leuchtenburg monument in Seitenroda, to support its restoration and to revitalize the castle culturally. On October 4, 2007, the foundation acquired the Leuchtenburg from the Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft Thuringia and was able to significantly implement the foundation's goals in a multi-year renovation complex with the Porzellanwelten Leuchtenburg project.

successes

Sven-Erik Hitzer has received several awards for his commitment. In particular, his efforts in the field of monument protection (e.g. renovation of the Biedermann mausoleum and for the voluntary work at the Leuchtenburg Foundation) were recognized in the expert group. His touristic successes have received multiple awards: In 2012, the Leuchtenburg was a place in the Land of Ideas , followed in 2013 by the Dresden Tourism Prize for the concept of the Advent market in front of the Frauenkirche . In 2014 Sven-Erik Hitzer received the Thuringian Tourism Prize for the Porzellanwelten Leuchtenburg , followed in 2015 by the Thuringian Energy Efficiency Prize and the MarketingAward “Lighthouse of the Tourism Industry”. In 2016, Hitzer was nominated for the European Museum Award 2016 in Tolosa with Porzellanwelten Leuchtenburg .

In 2018 the MarketingAward “Lighthouse of the Tourism Industry” for the state of Saxony went to Sven-Erik Hitzer again. His tourist pilot project to revitalize the off-season with the winter village Schmilka was honored. In the competition for the Thuringian Tourism Prize 2018, Sven-Erik Hitzer received first place in the Marketing and Cooperations category for his idea for the Thuringian Porcelain Day . For the new interior design of the Porcelain Church in Leuchtenburg in collaboration with Michael J. Brown from the NAU2 office, Sven-Erik Hitzer was awarded the Thuringian State Prize for Architecture and Urban Development in 2018. In the Iconic Award | Interior Architecture 2018 also received a high-level award for the design of the porcelain church. In 2019, the Leuchtenburg Foundation received the Chinese Tourists Welcome Award in Shanghai .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article in Der Spiegel, 26/1996. Retrieved October 2, 2017 . 
2. ^ Website of Neuland Zeitreisen. Retrieved October 2, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Contribution to the Bio and National Park Refuge on the website We are elsewhere. Retrieved October 1, 2017 . 
4. ↑ The BIO visionary, Sven-Erik Hitzer on FAZ.net. Retrieved October 4, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Birgit Grimm, Der Rastlose, in: Sächsische Zeitung from August 2, 2016. Accessed October 1, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Board elections Bio Hotels on December 3, 2019. Accessed on December 11, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Entry on the Leuchtenburg Foundation in the Thuringian Foundation Directory No. 230. Retrieved on October 4, 2017 . 
8. ↑ LEG Thuringia press release from October 4, 2007. Accessed October 4, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Foundation anniversary: ​​Millions in investment planned for Leuchtenburg. In: Thüringen24. March 8, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2017 . 
10. ^ Quote from the State Office for Monument Preservation, Ralf Pinkwart. Retrieved October 2, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Prize Winner Land of Ideas. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 6, 2017 ; accessed on October 4, 2017 . 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.  
12. ↑ Dresden Tourism Prize. Retrieved October 2, 2017 . 
13. ^ Regine Eberlein, Advent on the Neumarkt won the tourism prize, in: Wochenkurier from December 16, 2013. Accessed on October 1, 2017 . 
14. ↑ Presentation of the energy winners on the website of the Free State of Thuringia. Retrieved October 1, 2017 . 
15. ↑ Press release on the beacons of the tourism industry from March 5, 2015. Accessed on October 4, 2017 . 
16. ↑ European Museum Forum - EMYA 2016. (Not available online.) Archived from the original on 23 September 2017 ; accessed on October 3, 2017 . 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.  
17. ↑ Press release on the lighthouses of the tourism industry from March 8, 2018. Accessed on March 10, 2018 . 
18. ↑ Thuringian Tourism Prize 2018. Accessed on September 8, 2018 . 
19. ^ Thuringian State Prize for Architecture and Urban Development 2018. September 6, 2018, accessed on September 8, 2018 . 
20. ↑ Iconic Award Innovative Architecture - Porcelain Church in Leuchtenburg. Retrieved September 8, 2018 . 
21. ↑ Chinese Tourists Welcome Award 2019. Accessed October 6, 2019 .