Central building (Leuphana)

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Central building
Rear view of the central building

Rear view of the central building

Data
place Luneburg
architect Daniel Libeskind
Construction year 2017
height 38 m
Coordinates 53 ° 13 '42.4 "  N , 10 ° 24' 16.8"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 13 '42.4 "  N , 10 ° 24' 16.8"  E
Central building (Lower Saxony)
Central building

The central building of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg is a building completed in 2017 on the central campus of the university in Lüneburg . The building was designed by the architect Daniel Libeskind .

Audimax within the central building

On December 19, 2007, the university management and the Lower Saxony Minister of Science Lutz Stratmann (CDU) presented the project and gave the go-ahead for further planning work. In addition to an auditorium , rooms for a research center, student workplaces and seminar rooms as well as a cafeteria were created. The central building on the university campus was designed by Daniel Libeskind . According to the original plans, it was supposed to cost 57.7 million euros (as of 2011), first rose to 64.7 million euros (August 2012), then to 72.7 million euros (August 2013) and, according to the regional finance directorate, could cost up to 91 Million euros (as of February 2014).

History of origin

Initially, by the end of 2014, the building in the typical Daniel Libeskind style with a height of 38 meters and space for 1200 people was to become the university's hallmark. The completion of the Audimax part of the building was planned for January 2013, but was delayed. The overall completion was initially delayed (as of May 2013) on August 31, 2015, later to autumn 2015 (as of August 2013) and further to the end of 2016 (as of April 2016). Commissioning took place in the first quarter of 2017. On March 11, the entire building, not just the Audimax, was inaugurated with an opening ceremony.

Since the first planning by the university management led by President Sascha Spoun and Vice President Holm Keller , the project has been controversial in terms of its necessity, dimensions, financing and use. Above all, the university management and the foundation board were accused of a lack of transparency in the planning and costs of the project. This led to investigations by the EU anti-corruption agency EU OLAF in 2013 and the intervention of the Ministry of Science and Culture after audits by the State Audit Office and the Regional Finance Directorate.

Planning, private-public partnership and audit report

With the election of the University President Spoun in 2006, a change was initiated in the content orientation and self-presentation of the University of Lüneburg. In this context, the question of the development of the various university locations in Lüneburg and Suderburg also arose . In the summer of 2007 Daniel Libeskind accepted the position as a part- time professor at Leuphana University. His activity was not limited to a pure teaching activity, but also presented the first draft of a new central building in this context. This draft was - according to the presentation of the university - further developed in cooperation with students and lecturers of the university. Also in the summer of 2007, the university began to hold talks with all departments about future space requirements. The news magazine Der Spiegel called the building a 2012 “prestige project” by President Sascha Spoun and his deputy Holm Keller . The university sees the building as threatened in 2009 to build on the "core of the campus development for the Lüneburg model university." Animal welfare to fail: ornithologists discovered on campus two crested larks -Pärchen, an acutely from extinction threatened species. However, these are peripheral areas of the actual distribution area of ​​this bird species. The university plans to protect the crested lark population through sufficient green roofs on existing buildings and lecture halls on campus.

In September 2009, Landeskrankenhilfe Niedersachsen , which has a plot of land nearby, turned against the building: the main auditorium was too high, there was no parking space concept and the protection against air pollution was insufficient. The objections were rejected in a ruling by the Lüneburg Administrative Court.

In 2010, the university announced that it would build the building itself - without private partners, without a hotel and without a parking lot. At that time, the university management specified the financing: the state of Lower Saxony provided 18.6 million euros, the European Union 14 million, the city of Lüneburg and the district of Lüneburg together seven million and the Federal Ministry of Economics more than two million euros. There are also smaller donors, such as the churches.

In July 2011 the State Audit Office completed a confidential report examining the financing of the controversial Audimax. The paper from the State Audit Office was available to the media in August 2011. It complained of competition violations in the construction of the central building. The State Audit Office made serious allegations against the management of Leuphana University. In addition to the competition violations, the auditors also saw possible violations of the anti-corruption guidelines of the state of Lower Saxony. The report made it clear that the central building would be partly built free of charge by the company Rheinzink GmbH from Datteln as part of a sponsorship agreement . There was a “close private-sector connection” (Court of Auditors) between the architect Libeskind, Rheinzink and the university vice-president Holm Keller . In 2009, the taz assumed that Keller, who is responsible for the construction and financing of the central building at the university, had influenced the tender in 2009 to the benefit of business friends. Keller was a founding partner of Proportion GmbH from Berlin. This company had marketed the architect's design villas on behalf of Libeskind. Rheinzink builds the elaborate facades for these villas. A Rheinzink marketing video from 2009 shows Libeskind and Keller at the topping-out ceremony for one of the villas.

The Court of Auditors criticized the fact that this would undermine competition and that suppliers other than Rheinzink had been "switched off". The Architectural Association had about the lack of mandatory tender laments for the Audimaxentwurf. The then Minister of Science, Johanna Wanka , later said that it was “completely correct” to involve Libeskind as “local competence” without a tender. Libeskind lives with his family in Berlin and New York City , but works as a part-time professor at Leuphana University.

The then Lower Saxony Minister of Science Johanna Wanka (CDU) had to explain herself to these allegations of nepotism and corruption in the building contract in a question time in the Lower Saxony state parliament. Wanka's ministry oversees the construction and its development and partly finances it. In 2011, Wanka categorically rejected all allegations. She stated that the opposition was "defamatory and denunciating" and that all operations in the construction of the central building had been carried out "completely correctly". The report of the State Audit Office, on which the opposition relied, does not exist, Wanka explained several times, as the report was a preliminary draft.

Re-evaluation from 2013 and OLAF investigation

With the new state government from 2013 , the political approach and the assessment of the processes around the new central building in Lüneburg also changed. The Ministry of Science re-examined the funding and included the OLAF report in its assessment. According to HAZ, the new Minister of Science Gabriele Heinen-Kljajic (Greens) distanced herself from the plans of the university top in August 2013. The increased costs had an unusually early impact, said Heinen-Kljajic. According to HAZ, she had expressed doubts that the EU would approve the changes to the construction concept. Nevertheless, the country does not want to withdraw from the financing. The university vice president Keller emphasized that the university had made “sufficient provisions” to cover the additional costs, but did not say how. A new financial concept for the university should be available to the Hanoverian Ministry of Science by the end of September 2013, which should then be reviewed by the regional finance department and the state audit office by mid-November 2013.

New financing and usage concept and transparent project management from 2014

In mid-August 2013 it became known that the Leuphana University of Lüneburg is planning a complete reorganization of its "event management". The new central building is affected on the one hand, and the Vamos Kulturhalle belonging to the university property on the other (the lessee is the outsourced association “Campus eV” or its Campus Management GmbH ). A corresponding Europe-wide tender was prepared in mid-August 2013. It aims at a concept that is as closed as possible from a single source. The university is thus building on plans for private-public partnership solutions that were rejected in 2010 after public criticism.

This concept initially envisages the search for an operator for the canteen and cafeteria as well as for cleaning services for the new central building. The university's canteen today is operated by the Braunschweig student union. The cafete in the lecture hall building was given to a private tenant a few years ago. The operation of the so-called “multifunctional areas” of the new central building for performances, parties or concerts should also be in the hands of a new private partner, according to the University management Spoun und Keller. The university intends to reassign the operation of the Vamos Kulturhalle as part of the tender and ideally to integrate it into the new concept. An essential requirement in the process will be the submission of a concept that examines the integration of the event management of the central building and the cultural hall and offers an economical solution for the university. An extension of the lease with the Vamos operator Campus Management GmbH had already been ruled out in 2012. The lease expires on December 31, 2015. The new event management is scheduled to start on January 1, 2016.

The joint operation of all event areas, according to the university, in conjunction with the new central building, could lead to considerable synergies. The university had commissioned a market survey in advance of the Europe-wide tender, which confirmed this expectation.

In mid-October 2013 the university announced that the need for refinancing for the central building would amount to additional costs of 7.5 million euros net compared to the original plan. An amount for which the university has made a risk provision. The need for refinancing resulted, among other things, from a construction cost index that had risen compared to the planning date . To cover these additional costs, the university wants to save money in the context of property management through PPP (Europe-wide tender for building management). The financing concept prepared by an auditor should be submitted to the competent authorities in the state.

The result, the audit report from the regional finance directorate (OFD) on the construction costs of the central building, was submitted to the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture (MWK) at the beginning of February 2014. “Unfortunately, the concerns expressed by critics of the project have been confirmed,” said Minister Gabriele Heinen-Kljajić about the result. After examining the additional costs, the OFD came to the conclusion that the construction costs of just under 58 million euros specified in 2011 were unrealistic from the outset. Of the 18 million euros increase in construction costs granted by the university in 2013, eleven million euros are due to a so - called underestimation . This means that the costs were set too low from the start. (MWK press release)

In addition to the current construction cost estimate of 76 million euros, OFD carried out a risk assessment. The OFD stated the risks at around 15 million euros. These possible risks include, for example, still unknown planning weaknesses or cost increases in the shell construction . The total costs for the central building could therefore rise to 91 million euros.

"We create the necessary clarity, make the risks transparent and thus, for the first time, develop a realistic basis for decision-making," said Heinen-Kljajić. Risks should be minimized through requirements. The MWK asked the Leuphana Presidium to commission professional project management . The Board of Trustees should exercise its supervisory duties more than before. For this purpose, a “Controlling Advisory Board” was set up on the Foundation Council of the University of Lüneburg. The ministry said it and the OFD will continue to attend the construction meetings. All potential savings would have to be tapped. Further requirements could arise after the exams have been completed.

Heinen-Kljajić said: "The waiver of project management in 2011 and the lack of controlling were serious mistakes".

Resignation request to the presidium

24 former students of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg demanded immediate resignation or deselection of the presidium in an open letter. All of the signatories to the letter have held positions in university politics, were spokespersons for the AStA or student senators. According to NDR, the signatories wanted the increasingly expensive construction of the university's central building to have consequences. In the three-page letter, they accused Spoun and Keller of technical incompetence and excessive demands. With the most recent cost estimates of around 91 million euros for the construction and the resulting additional costs of around 33 million euros, a resignation by Spoun and Keller is now inevitable.

The criticism of the Board of Trustees was confirmed at the same time by the former Lüneburg professor Matthias von Saldern . For years he himself was a member of the committee responsible for important decisions. He left the university in March 2014. In an e-mail to colleagues, he wrote: "From my personal point of view, the committee has disempowered itself by being too close to the Presidium, which is also one of the reasons for the problems the university is facing today."

The ten-month investigation into suspicion of breach of trust and corruption against Holm Keller by the Stade public prosecutor was discontinued in April 2014 because the suspicions had not been substantiated. Sascha Spoun took this as an indication that the actions of the university management were good and error-free. He told the state newspaper: “The final clarification of all the allegations made in connection with the new central building has led to the expected result that our approach is legally unobjectionable. This means that all accusations that have been raised again and again are off the table. The witch hunt is over. "

EU anti-fraud investigations OLAF

Chronology of the investigation

The European Anti-Fraud Office ( Office Européen de Lutte Anti-Fraude - OLAF) as the authority of the European Commission first examined the correct use of EU grants on site in November 2011 . However, what exactly was the cause of the investigation, OLAF representatives did not say with reference to the ongoing investigation.

In March 2012, OLAF asked Hermann Dinkla, President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament , to look into the confidential minutes of the meetings of the State Parliament's Science Committee. Outsiders are actually not entitled to this. MdL Victor Perli (Die Linke) advocated "comprehensive access rights" for OLAF's EU auditors.

The Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung assumed that the OLAF officials examined three points in particular: Daniel Libeskind as the architect of the building did not get his contract through a tender, but through his capacity as professor at Leuphana. This could be a circumvention of regulations. It was certainly also a question of whether the award of contracts to companies was going well. In addition, OLAF is examining whether the projects of the so-called “ innovation incubator ” (with which the EU is promoting a project to interlink business and science in Lüneburg), as these are too cloudy and not specific enough.

In autumn 2011, the Verden public prosecutor investigated irregularities relating to the Libeskind building. But in the absence of sufficient suspicion , no preliminary investigation was initiated, a spokesman for the public prosecutor told the Weserkurier.

In June 2012, the university management denied the "permanent rumors of a connection between the professional and private interests of the full-time Vice President Holm Keller" . They lacked "any basis" . With the start of operations in 2008, Keller gave up his role as managing director of proportion. His secondary activities had been checked and approved by the foundation board of the university and the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and were within the legally prescribed framework. They are in no way related to his work as a full-time Vice President.

At the end of June 2013, the Verden Public Prosecutor's Central Office for Corruption Criminal Matters started investigations into allegations of breach of trust against Holm Keller. Corresponding proceedings against the Vice President were initiated and passed on to the responsible central economic office of the Stade Public Prosecutor's Office for further processing. If necessary, indications of subsidy fraud will also be investigated there.

OLAF investigation report

In spring 2013, OLAF completed its investigation report. The possible violations in the use of the funds were uncovered by the EU auditors, but also affect the larger financial share of the state and federal funds.

OLAF's final report was discussed in the Lower Saxony state parliament on May 30, 2013. In the report, the auditors list four specific violations of EU allocation and funding guidelines:

  1. According to OLAF, Leuphana University violated its obligation to tender in the planning phase for the Audimax .
  2. The university has not complied with the rules of a proper award procedure.
  3. She has broken up orders inappropriately.
  4. Other assignments were given by hand.

For these violations, the office classifies 192,397.50 euros in estimated EU funds as "ineligible" .

The Brussels authority also doubts the total grant from Brussels of 10.4 million euros. The report states: "The cost of building the new central building may not be fully covered and the construction may not meet the criteria of economy and economy". In addition, they complain about different area specifications in the various documents. OLAF called for an investigation into other departments of the EU Commission. At the time of publication, neither Leuphana University nor Science Minister Gabriele Heinen-Kljajic (Greens) commented on the report.

OLAF is going to court in detail with the construction of the appointment of the New York “star architect” Daniel Libeskind as Leuphana professor. According to OLAF, a draft of the central building had already existed before his appointment in June 2007; The university had "tailored" the teaching position specifically and with the approval of the then CDU-led Ministry of Science under the later Federal Minister of Education Wanka to Daniel Libeskind, in order to be able to realize his plans later without tendering and to be able to disguise his architectural work as a "personal contribution" of the university . Here "a clear bypass character can be seen". A seminar for Lüneburg students in New York in 2007 appears strange to OLAF in the report . They were "led to believe" that they could still come up with ideas for the new building that had actually already been planned. This means that their own students were also deceived by the university management.

There were further uncertainties regarding the remuneration of Libeskind: he earned 90,000 euros annually for his part-time W-3 professorship . He only taught six to ten courses per year. In addition, Leuphana signed a contract with Libeskind for 200,000 euros for “architectural accompaniment”, although this should have been covered by the teaching activity. OLAF sees in the confession <?> Also indications "that there may have been attempts to direct payments to Daniel Libeskind via detours", for example through participating and friendly architects' offices. Because of these processes of employment and "sporadic teaching activity", "indications of a possible gain in office or of infidelity could arise," the authority concludes. OLAF itself has no legal hand, but transmitted the relevant aspects to the responsible German judicial authority, the Verden public prosecutor's office , which had already followed up on initial information in 2011 but had not initiated an investigation.

OLAF clearly describes Holm Keller's earlier connections with the Rheinzink company , which intends to provide the outer shell of the new central building as a sponsorship service. In addition, Keller’s business connections with Libeskind take up a large part of the report. The university vice president and the star architect then jointly planned the sale of luxury prefabricated villas in the Libeskind style. The company "proportion" was dissolved at the end of 2011. For the EU auditors, however, as with Rheinzink, there were "conflicts of interest" .

In May 2013, the financing of the construction was the subject of an inquiry in the Lower Saxony state parliament. An SPD inquiry wanted to know who is assuming the financing risks, how effective financial controlling, EU-law-compliant tenders and effective corruption prevention are ensured. And it calls for more transparency and communication between the university and the country. The Green Science Minister, who has been in office since 2013, was already receiving the report from the OLAF agency, which, according to the state newspaper, states: “The costs for the construction of the new central building may not be fully covered and the construction may not meet the criteria of economy and economy . “ The OLAF report deals in detail not only with funding and the award of contracts, but also with the role of University Vice-President Holm Keller , with relations with architect Libeskind and sponsors. OLAF speaks here of conflicts of interest.

Response of the university management

According to an audit report at the beginning of May 2013, the Lower Saxony State Audit Office was unable to understand many aspects of consulting contracts. According to an internal audit report, the State Audit Office examined 21 contracts totaling 1.2 million euros. The university management of Leuphana University rejected these allegations from the audit notification. In a statement, she said: "The contracts (by the foundation) are factually justified and have been carried out correctly in terms of both the award and the processing in accordance with the applicable regulations."

The university management under its President Sascha Spoun complained after the discussion about the OLAF report in the state parliament that although a preliminary draft of the report had been made available to the media, it was not. The university management denied that Professor Daniel Libeskind received an annual fee of 90,000 euros. In fact, Daniel Libeskind never received personal professors' salaries of more than 50,000 euros gross per year. The then CDU-led Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture supported the professorship at times with 90,000 euros per year. Of this, however, around 40,000 euros would have been used for equipment and human resources.

On June 7, 2013, the press office of the University of Lüneburg announced that the management would apply to the Lower Saxony state government for an eight-month extension of the implementation period for the construction of the new central building. This was decided by the foundation board of the university at its ordinary meeting in 2013. In addition, the supervisory board determined that the provisions made for the building in view of increased construction costs were sufficient and that a coherent financing concept was in place. The Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Volker Meyer-Guckel, rated this as an important step towards securing the central building project.

implementation

Central building from the outside

The building will have eight floors and a total floor space of around 13,000 square meters. 110,000 cubic meters of enclosed space are to be created on an area of ​​4,700 m². The university will take up half of the building: 2,800 square meters are planned for the student center with a seminar wing and an auditorium .

The foundation stone for the building was laid on May 8, 2011. At the celebration, the architect Libeskind said that the building was a symbol of change for youth, education and humanity. The building opens up "new ways of interplay between disciplines, scholars, social spaces, presentation rooms and levels of contemplation". Excavation work for the building began in spring 2012. First, the earth was dug up to seven meters deep on an area of ​​5500 square meters. Then followed the foundation, which was an average of 60 centimeters thick.

In 2011, parallel to the construction work for the Audimax, a two-story parking garage was built on campus to relieve the parking situation. In this construction there were serious construction defects, u. a. several cracks appeared in the ceiling. In March 2012 it could not be used.

On July 3, 2012, following a Europe-wide tendering process, the university signed the contract for the shell of the central building worth more than 15 million euros with a bidding consortium from Lower Saxony. Work on the foundation for the auditorium component started in August 2012. The structural work should be completed by autumn 2013.

The topping-out ceremony for the “Audimax” part of the building was scheduled for January 11, 2013. The new central building should initially be completed by Easter 2014, according to later plans by the end of 2014. The topping-out ceremony for the entire central building was on January 19, 2015. The commissioning took place in the first quarter of 2017. On March 11, it was inaugurated with an opening ceremony. Further kick-off events were planned for the opening phase from March to October 2017. A separate opening ceremony was held for the Room of Silence on June 2, 2017. Representatives of Christian religions, Judaism and Islam as well as a representative of the Baha'i were invited.

Costs and financing

The cost of the building was given in July 2012 at 57.7 million euros. At this point, the original funding model was as follows:

  • As of 2012, the state of Lower Saxony provided 21 million euros
  • the European Union 14 million,
  • the city of Lüneburg and the district of Lüneburg together seven million,
  • the Federal Ministry of Economics two million.

In addition, the Hanover Monastery Chamber , the Catholic and Evangelical Churches and the Jewish communities have agreed to help finance the building. A “ room of silence ” in the Audimax is intended to serve members of world religions for worship, meetings and contemplation.

In some cases, Lower Saxony state politicians consider the building to be a castle in the air because the financing is not secured. In 2010, a spokesman for the university told Spiegel that the financing of the construction was secured.

In May 2013, it turned out that the Audimax would be around seven million more expensive at this point in time and would therefore be more than ten percent of the planned construction cost to 64.7 million euros. In August 2013, according to NDR, it was assumed that completion would be postponed from October 2014 to August 2015 and that the building could be up to 15 million euros more expensive. This would put the construction costs at 72.7 million euros.

In a joint framework agreement with the city of Lüneburg and the district of Lüneburg on April 19, 2007, the university decided as a first measure that "the number of ... students enrolled in Lüneburg should grow significantly in the medium term - after short-term consolidation" . Part of this agreement was also a conditional financial commitment of up to 7 million euros to finance the Audimax. University President Sascha Spoun said in an interview with the Lüneburger Landeszeitung for the Lüneburger Heide in 2012 that he considered the current number of 6000 to 7000 students (2012) at the university to be “absolutely sensible”, while 10,000 was “fatal”. Parts of regional politics see a breach of contract and thus criticize the subsidies from the city and district treasury.

Karlheinz Fahrenwaldt, leader of the Left Party in the Lüneburg district council, said in this context: “Nobody needs the Audimax! The university should invest in people, not in concrete! "

During a visit to the central building on November 29, 2017, Lower Saxony's new science minister Björn Thümler said about the financing: “When the office was handed over to [Thümler] , there was agreement that this [assumption of costs for the financing of the central building] will be financed by the Ministry of Finance and the university . "

use

The maximum auditorium with space for up to 1200 people will be used by the university - for example for the “general studies” events at Leuphana College. At the same time, the building is used by the city as an event hall.

The central building will also house a research, student and seminar center.

criticism

The Libeskind building is criticized by student representatives, parts of the professors and state politics.

  • Student representatives described the building as "unsuitable". Despite the nationwide increase in the number of applicants, the university management has since 2006 reduced the number of students from approx. 9500 to almost 7000 today in order to achieve a better supervisory ratio and to underpin the university’s elite standards. At the same time an auditorium for a maximum of 1200 students will be built.
  • The plans originally envisaged building a hotel and parking spaces on campus together with partners from the private sector ( public-private partnership , PPP). Student representatives and the Greens in Lower Saxony's state parliament viewed a private investor with rights of use on the university premises critically. In 2010 the university management said goodbye to plans of the PPP.
  • Since the university has to contribute its own money for the Libeskind building, it sold land and buildings. This should bring together around nine million euros. The sales included a new and an old building, which until then had housed Faculty III for Technology, which had been incorporated into the Faculty of Economics shortly before the sale. Faculty III included the courses in computer science, production and automation technology.
  • The utilization of the building is being questioned from various sides. The Vamos culture hall has so far offered enough space for concerts in the dimensions of Lüneburg .
  • Critics noted that the board of trustees, which controls the university's finances, largely supports the policy of the university management and is therefore not an independent supervisory body. The Ministry of Science of the State of Lower Saxony, which is also responsible for monitoring the university, is co-financing the building and, under Minister Wanka, rejected any doubts about the formal and content-related components of the project. At the start of construction there would have been no independent auditing body other than the State Audit Office for the use of public funds. The public sector finances this project with a total of 30 million euros from tax money.

Web links

Commons : Leuphana Universität Lüneburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Press

Politically

Individual evidence

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