Sigrid Kressmann-Zschach
Sigrid Kress man - Zschach ( born July 27, 1929 in Leipzig, † October 28, 1990 in Berlin) was a German architect and building contractor. In Berlin they built the Kurfürstendamm - square and the Steglitzer roundabout.
Life
She was born as the daughter of the Leipzig architect Friedrich Zschach, studied architecture in Leipzig and completed an exam as a graduate engineer. In the 1950s she moved to West Berlin.
After her marriage to the Kreuzberg district mayor Willy Kress man (SPD ) in 1960, she was part of the Berlin Society and decreed always one of the first on information about construction of the Berlin state government. Two years later divorce. In the coming years, she was with about 300 employees for the successful building contractor the city and was respected even by their political opponents. They moved into a villa on Lake Halen and a penthouse in Schöneberg. In the tabloids she made with alternating Society - lovers headlines that she commented with snappy sayings: "Men, houses and money you can never have enough ."
Several major projects were linked Berlin with her name. In the sub-center on the lock in Steglitz she built from 1968 to 1974 to Centrifugal Steglitz, a shopping center with car park, metro and bus station and a 30 - storey office tower. In the center of Berlin on the Kurfürstendamm she built from 1969 to 1974 the Kurfürstendamm - square, a shopping arcade with two theaters ( Theater am Kurfürstendamm, Comedy ), a car park and a 20 - storey office building.
1972 came Kress man - Zschachs property development company Avalon GmbH & Co. KG because of rising construction costs and lack of tenants for the gyro into financial difficulties. In 1973, she was insolvent and was forced to declare bankruptcy in April 1974. The Berlin state government stuck for a guarantee of 42 million DM Also the Kurfürstendamm - square did not expect to. The Berlin Senate acquired it shortly after its completion in 1974 of 22.7 million DM Then put the Berlin House of Representatives a committee of inquiry to the intricacies of the construction and financial management in the centrifugal affair a. This identified a " negligent breach of duty " on the part of Bausenators Rolf Schwedler (SPD). Furthermore, the head of the Regional Finance Office Berlin Klaus Arlt, the Kress man - Zschach professionally and helped her in private was close, was suspended by the Office.
Kress man - Zschach was married his first wife, from 1960 to 1962 with the district mayor of Berlin- Kreuzberg Willy Kress man, in a second marriage with the artist and businessman Angelo D. Losito and had a daughter from his first marriage. As a supporting member of the Bauhaus Archive, the Friends of the National Gallery, the Cultural Committee German industry and the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Berlin Museum, she donated a large part of their assets for charitable purposes.
She received an honorary grave in the forest cemetery Zehlendorf, in the district Berlin- Nikolassee.
Works
- Jerusalem and New Church, Linden Street, Berlin- Kreuzberg, 1968
- Steglitzer roundabout, Castle Street, Berlin- Steglitz, 1968
- Kurfürstendamm - square, Kurfürstendamm, Berlin- Charlottenburg, 1969
- Dormitory, Potsdamer Strasse, Berlin- Schöneberg, 1969
- Office and residential complex, Keithstr. / Lützowufer / Landgrafenstr. / Wichmannstr. , Berlin -Tiergarten