Udo Haase, mayor of Schönefeld from 1990-2019, seems to have known deportation investor Jürgen B. Harder and his wife Franziska von Almsick since at least the opening of the Schönefeld swimming pool in 2010, as pictures from the Schönefeld municipal newspaper show. After all, the couple, who want to earn several million from the deportation centre at BER Airport in the future, enjoyed themselves at Udo Haase’s farewell party in 2019. Haase posted a photo of the three of them hugging each other on his private Facebook account.
Harder’s construction company will be building the deportation centre at BER Airport, which will then be rented by state authorities. This construction project was never put out to public tender. Instead, research by Frag den Staat suggests that Harder may have been informed about the construction project in secret and then secured the option to purchase the relevant areas from 2019 onwards. Who tipped him off?
Udo Haase was already considered a “business-friendly mayor” during his time in office and opened a management consultancy “with which he wanted to help companies to settle in the airport region” immediately after leaving office. After his consultancy work was initially banned by the courts due to his insider knowledge from his time as mayor, Udo Haase has been allowed to support companies relocating to Schönefeld and beyond since December 2022.
By the way: Harder & Partner has already been operating two other construction projects in Schönefeld for several years: the technical centre of airberlin technik GmbH and a hangar of Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Services.
With or without Harder – no deportation centre at BER Airport!