But has not loved Dietmar Kurch it has always been to swim with the current. To do his own thing. Time offending. What you can afford but only if you do what you do, really good. To cover roofs, for example.

In the PGH Up was Dietmar Kurch the times of the GDR quickly to the youth Brigadier has become. "To Berlin, we were on the road. We have brought in to showcase objects for the cooperative the chestnuts out of the fire“, looks Kurch back to a time in which the roofer, the everlasting material shortages due to special skills had to compensate for.

"In Köthen, there is almost no roof, we would not have been as a Brigade at the time,"

"In Köthen," says Kurch, "there is almost no roof, we would not have been as a Brigade at the time." At least none of the large public buildings: Kurch has worked on the roof of the town hall as well as at the Jacob's Church, the then Council of the circle (today the Lutz hospital), the houses of the College, and and and. Dietmar Kurch had been encouraged in his time as the Brigadier again and again to get to the master form. "For ten years I have defended myself successfully against it," he says. "I was happy on the site."

After the turn of were mixed the cards. And relatively quickly had to Kurch register that, for him, more to come in the PGH or its Successor not was given. "Were on the descending Branch," says the roofer laconically. Kurch pulled the ripcord. Also worked for two other companies. And quickly realized: "you alone do better." As A Self-Employed.

The personnel Dietmar Kurch has become a larger Worry than in the past

Kurch school pushed now but in order to earn the necessary Master's certificate, "in hall, this was the hardest school in the GDR and shortly after the turn of the was still so". And Dietmar Kurch built at the same time with a companion from Bernburg, the exit later, his company. Quite in great style: "I took part with my colleagues. At the beginning we were ten, twelve people in the company.“

Later, it was in the top 30. The staff prepares Kurch today larger Worry than in the past - there is a lack of specialists; roofers, the experts for wood, and rainscreen facades. "We are desperately seeking. In the last few years, getting worse and worse. Although even newcomers get 13,60 Euro hourly wage.“

the launch went into his own business in 1995, almost friction free, so Kurch, is also due to the fact that he's had through the years on construction sites, numerous Compounds, many customers from the times of the GDR knew. "And who knew me."

installation of special facades, among other things, also for Xavier Naidoo

Nevertheless, it remained out that the company's ship after the post-reunification Boom came in heavier water. Where there is also more and more difficult, the payments on time to enforce, even if the acted the public Hand, as the Client was not identified. "But I have to operate always in a way that I couldn't even get through low times."

firstly, by extending the radius of action more - up to Hamburg, Dresden or Mannheim. Second, Kurch has early expanded its range. The company lives not only of the roof cover, but has specialized in the installation of ventilated sector of curtain-type facades. For example, the house of Xavier Naidoo in Mannheim you have equipped or the state archive in Magdeburg.

Many of the special sites in the past few decades,

Not only these two sites have remained Kurch in the memory. Also at the Rhino house in the Leipzig Zoo, his people were blazed, and later at the South plant. The building of Red Bull Arena is in the annals of the company, as well as the Nikolai Church in Berlin or the Gymnasium in Wittenberg, with 1,600 square meters of slate roofing.

To each object and Dietmar tell Kurch anecdotes. And every day, new jokes come alone, currently more than a dozen sites are operated by the company, "and we need to set not only because of Corona".

And from time to time, Dietmar Kurch, has the 60 already going up, even on the roof. Because it still applies: happiness is on the site. (mz)

This article was written by Matthias Bartl

*The contribution of "Between two anniversaries: Dietmar Kurchs roofing company for 25 years," will be published by the mitteldeutsche Zeitung. Contact with the executives here.

Central German newspaper

Date Of Update: 30 May 2020, 08:27