Bettina Stefaninis voice sounds composed, but sad. On Friday morning, she lost her father, she was with him when he died. Their feelings were up and down, she says on the phone. Bruno Stefanini had already been on a long time seriously ill.
With Stefaninis death was now to be transferred a large part of his extensive real estate portfolio in and around Winterthur in the care of his Foundation and to his daughter and his son. Her father, Bettina Stefanini, ‘ve always wanted, that all his property should belong, together with the buildings after his death his Foundation for art, culture and history. Already today a part of the profits of the real estate flows in the Foundation. This also has the Sulzer highrise in Winterthur and Stefaninis castles, including that in Salenstein in the Canton of Thurgau and the castle of Grandson on lake neuchâtel.
Whether the assets will actually go to the Foundation, in the coming days. The properties belong to joint-stock companies of Bruno Stefanini, many of them are also in his private possession. To whom and how he has inherited, it will only bring up his last will and Testament certainty.
“the Patron of the old school”
to play An important role in the company Terresta AG, headquartered in Winterthur, Switzerland. It belongs to the deceased, manages and maintains homes. Currently, the fate of the Terresta AG Markus Brunner determine Umit stem and Dora Bösiger. With the two men and the Familiar of Bruno Stefanini, the family has been involved Stefanini up last summer in a bitter dispute with the Foundation. Even today, the relationship is tense.
Terresta-business Manager Markus Brunner does not like to speak of the day of Stefaninis death to ask. In a Mail, he asks for understanding and describes Stefanini as a “Patron of the old school, which was for the Welfare of his employees at heart.” Brunner wants Stefaninis company will continue to be managed in his mind. For him personally, Stefanini was far more than a Patron, he writes, “because we were allowed to build up over the years, the cooperation is a relationship of mutual trust”.
is Old and cheap
The real estate Empire Stefaninis large. According to information provided by the Terresta AG earlier, is several Thousand apartments in 280 buildings. To real estate in Winterthur, the centre, including the old town, such as stone mountain lane. But also to a series of residential blocks, as in the upper field headquarters in Wülflingen.
In the city of Stefanini properties have long been the epitome for renovation of needy homes, where you can have affordable housing. Only in the last few years, the Terresta AG has started to renovate some of the buildings.
Several residents worry that their houses renovated now and for Rent to be massively more expensive. You have done so in a community of interest together, to get the affordable housing.
So shortly after the death of her father, it is for Bettina Stefanini is still too early to say more about a possible strategy. “First, we need to know how to do it,” she says. It also Winterthur’s mayor Michael Künzle has officially (CVP). He is with Stefaninis environment in contact.
(Tages-Anzeiger)
Created: 14.12.2018, 21:49 PM
