This is the first use of a law passed in 2015 that allows for property to be seized to be used for refugees: “In Hamburg, property can be expropriated,” translated from “In Hamburg kann enteignet werden,” by Steffen Richter, Zeit Online, October 1, 2015: “The city of Hamburg has decided to seize commercial real estate. This is to ensure the accommodation of newly arriving refugees.”
And now it has happened. Merkel’s Germany is showing a clear preference for Muslim migrants over the rights of its own citizens. And apparently most Germans are too cowed by the prospect of charges of “racism” and “Islamophobia” to utter a murmur of dissent.
“Mitte District is for the first time forcibly leasing,” translated from “Bezirk Mitte führt erstmals Zwangsvermietung durch,” Hamburger Abendblatt, May 2, 2017:
Hamburg. The district of Hamburg-Mitte is now doing what it said it would do: for the first time, empty living space has been taken from its owner and forcibly rented. In accord with this, a trustee is currently renovating six long-term lease apartments on the Ohlendorffstrasse in Hamm. This year, they are to be restored and handed over to their owner, said Sorina Weiland, a spokeswoman for the district. The renovation costs in the middle five-digit range will be billed to him.
As the Abendblatt reported in November, in the fight against the housing shortage, the district had for the first time taken the utmost advantage: expropriation. Since the Hamburg Housing Protection Act became more stringent in 2013, long-term unused apartments can be refurbished and forcibly rented by the trustee, who is commissioned by the District Office. In a first for the district, Mitte now has taken six out of eight residential units at Ohlendorffstrasse 15 in Hamm. After the threat of expropriation, the owner was promised that he would be allowed to rent his apartments again. However, this remains only a verbal promise.
The apartments in Hamm have been empty since 2012. Despite previous foreclosures of 18,000 euros, the landlord had refused to bring the apartments back to the market. Therefore the key power over the residential units was handed over to a trustee on 1 March.
Once sanitation requirements have been identified, heating, flooring, plumbing and walls are being renewed. An apartment can even be rented again depending upon its condition, said Sorina Weiland. But the district will only vote for a precise plan this week. Once all six apartments have been renovated and refurbished, they will be returned to the owner.
Until now, the forced lease as a final use of the housing protection law had not been implemented in any Hamburg district. According to the law, an apartment must have been empty for at least four months without noticeable renovation work to be reported to the Office. Only after this can the owner be forced to make a move….
Monty says
Ms Merkel may as well adopt Sharia and convert to Islam now. It will save some bother later. Then she will have to resign because Islam will not permit women to hold positions of authority. In view of Ms Merkel’s total capitulation to Islam, maybe the Muslims have a point. Except that the male leaders of the nations are little better.
andra says
This is Germany 2017. The resumption of private proberty is a long running aim of German politics (by bending the law of tenancy more and more to the disadvantage of the landlord) and the “refugee crisis” is a great means for speeding up this process.
The Germans must face that they have run into communism ever since the reunion in 1989 without realizing what´s going on, because the politics word for resumption and comunism is “social equitiy” which in fact is a synonymon for taking from those who work for their living and giving to those who don´t.
Philo sophy says
No shock no surprised. Socialized German was closed to Islamized German. The process of total Islamization will take only five years. Western Civilization, as Hitler had predicted is at the end or at death bed. I think Ayn Rand has wrote on book ….Ominous Parallel; the end of Freedom in Western World.
Jaladhi says
Oh, wow – once a fascist always a fascist! Are Germans going back to their fascist roots or they never left it!!
RichardL says
that’s not Fascist, that is Statist. German’s had Nazism, which is different from Fascism – it is arguably much worse.
tom says
Mr. jaladi- most thoughtful people have no use for a ‘religion” founded by a pedophile, that endorses murder, theft and raping and beating of helpless females. It’s all in the ‘holy” book. Oh, they have a ‘magic” weel too
RichardL says
it pains me to say that Sweden is worse than Germany and so is the UK. In Sweden a teacher pointed with his finger at a pupil and the fine for that egregious act was 10000 kronor.
The housing situation in Hamburg is awful. I lived there and hated it. Expropriating a guy who has six apartments that are empty is bad but the questions why didn’t the owner rent out the 6 apartments?
Having said that, Sweden will start it and Germany will quickly follow and impose a tax on wealth to finance the replacement of the indigenous population by islamic invaders.
andra says
It is easy to explain that in Germany some landlords don´t rent their houses.
1. possibiliy: They don´t have the Money for renovation. And if they are autochtone Germans of middle age or more (which are most landlords) they don´t get any credit from the banks for renovations.
2. They have had rental nomads in their house so that the Apartments are not ready to live in. Dependant on the area the house is located in they can hardly expect to get “normal” tenants so that it is a waste of Money to renovate at all as you do not get back a cent from a tenant.
Troybeam says
What nobody is talking about with refugees are the diseases brought into a nation by these people. Islam does not vaccinate, anti-islamic, therefore we who have been vaccinated also face a new strain of diseases like Malaria, Typhoid, Rabies, Mers, Measles, Yellow fever, Hepatitis B, Tuberculosis, Diphtheria, Small Pox (also a bio-weapon), Sand Flies disease, some of the above in some form can come from illegals from Mexico, Central and South America as well. Let’s not forget about Sexually Transmitted Diseases as well, Islam permits sex with animals, known facts Muslim men from Middle East have relations with animals, what are they bringing in and giving to women and children they rape? What do the wives of these men carry as well? All the above is a good reason to keep them out of any nation that is not Islamic. Fuel for thought, will current vaccines work on new strains of diseases that have been eradicated?
Anne Smith says
TB is on the increase in Britain thanks to the immigrants bringing in a disease that we had eradicated.
Westman says
“..an apartment must have been empty for at least four months without noticeable renovation work to be reported..”
The local Imam wouldn’t think of suggesting that the Ummah “report” any “empty” housing so the state, which, with its high efficiency and frugal means, would renovate and turn over the housing to people who won’t pay the rent; then send the renovation bill to the hapless owner?
“You have to take care of me, Merkel said so”, seems to be true. They expected the government to have the power of a dictator and will not be disappointed.
The elite-industrial-complex thinks its getting more workers for the industrial machine when it’s actually tossing sand into the gears while the petrol mysteriously disappears.
Vyx says
The German people voted for the people who put this law into action.
In Berlin, there is supposedly legislation bandied around that would enable police and government offices to come into your home without a warrant and decide if you have room to house and immigrant.
On the positive side, when Mohammad rapes Gunther’s six year old daughter, he will probably make her his second, third or fourth wife, and will live with Gunther for life.
Alexander Gofen says
The last time the West hardly stopped islamic invasion at the gates of Vienna took place just some 300 years ago. However now, islamic colonizers are there only because the West’s own suicide wish – the deliberate plan of Eurabia elaborated (by the NWO) about 50 years ago (*).
This plan sets the goal so monstrous that it had never been even fathomed in human history before:
To do away with the very concept of the national identity of every Western nation!
At that the Western citizenry became so coward that they seriously fear to be called racists or bigots (**) for their wish reassert the national identity of their own nation!
Therefore the first thing on the way of salvation of the West is to get back to the ages long formula: Nation X belongs exclusively to people X.
Reclaim your national identity – and rid of islam! Rid of islamic piranhas in your aquarium whichever it takes.
(*) http://judeochristianamerica.org/IdiotGuideOnCivic.htm
(**) http://judeochristianamerica.org/Terminology.htm
marina says
Germany is sinking fast.
steve brown says
The New Nazi Party has seized control of ; Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, The UK, Italy, Scotland, Ireland , and these same Nazis have infiltrated America and Canada. All hell is going to break lose very soon.
steve brown says
The New Nazi Party has seized control of ; Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, The UK, Italy, Scotland, Ireland , and these same Nazis have infiltrated America and Canada. All hell is going to break lose very soon.https://www.google.com/search?q=Hitler+and++Islam&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWjaO63fLTAhUIQiYKHXSCDh0Q_AUIBigB&biw=1440&bih=728#imgrc=F6fhPP8ZquuiaM:
Dan Page says
Without a breadth left of Christianity or any civilized religion after the ever-short years of the Third Reich where it was decimated 70 years ago, the Germans have no natural defense against the Islamic invaders. They became an easy target after the dissolution of Communism and the so-called “renunification” circa 1989. Even outside Westerner observers knew the prize of taking over Germany by Islamification was ripe in the minds of the Middle-Eastern Islamofascists going back at least 3 decades. Germany’s sacrafice at the alter of Satanic Islam is almost complete. And now I know why my Grandfather vowed never to even utter anything regarding Germany since he fought there and saw the raw evil and carnage, it has become the birthplace of evil and ruin with historic legendary death and destruction. It’s only about to come again full circle, with certain fate and doom under the new Fascist Islamist who have been given the full submission of the German People under their false lies and deception.
Anne Smith says
The UK newspapers are full of articles about how Merkel is going to win the elections. If that happens I can only assume most Germans are in total agreement with her mad policies and welcome the invading hordes.
The only way one can change things is to vote the politicians out, but the UK newspapers report that AfD, the party which is against the invasion of Islamic hordes, is losing ground – why on earth is that happening?
bernard ross says
sounds to me like the gov financed the renovation of a slum and gave it back to the owner with subsidized gov guaranteed rent, like what HUD does in the USA
Infidel says
Hmm.. A violent ideology needs “Lebensraum” and takes it by force, while the people stand by and watch.. Where have I seen this before?
solange silverman says
This is an excuse to take private property, similar to that which was used by the Nazis.
The Black Hand says
How come that we are now from the outrage of seizing private property to accommodate the delusions of government filth in Berlin at the monkey court proceedings in Nuremberg?
Who and in what context said there to just have followed orders”?
I do hope that a great many of the current “leaders” will have to justify their criminal lives before a tribunal that will be modeled at the monkey court at Nuremberg:
I.e., hearsay to prove the assertions of the court, court-selected documentation only, hindered defense, sentence already determined at the outset of the court proceedings, and only mortal enemies of the people in the dock will be the judges.
Schrödinger says
It wasn’t only the refrain of those on trial at Nuremberg in 1945 that they were “just following orders”; it was the excuse of a majority of the German population. A nation given to making excuses for some of the worst crimes humanity ever perpetrated.
Many Nazis fled to Argentina where they were given willing sanctuary. Others were granted honourable refuge by several Arab countries — some placing themselves “completely in the hands of the local Mufti”. Most just lived normal lives in Germany, pretending nothing had ever happened.
Pegida and AfD are wonderful, better and braver than most comparable counter jihad and patriot organisations in other Western nations. But they’re a minority. A majority of present day Germans are willing to experiment with some kind of pan Islamic/Germanic future. Some will even embrace it. However there’ll be no pretending once that future is increasingly realised. Where will the remainder seek to flee to once they realise, too late of course, that Islam Macht Frei? Russia? Syria? Saudi Arabia?
Dr. Joseph Adam Pearson says
Poorly written. (Not written clearly.)