KfW cut building subsidies almost overnight.

You are the managing director of a social organization in Essen with 900 employees and more than 50 facilities.

What impact does the funding freeze have on you?

Gustave parts

Business correspondent in Stuttgart.

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We have two projects, we submitted one in mid-January and we wanted to submit one on Monday.

We applied for EUR 504,000 from KfW for a day care center in a problem area in Essen's Nordstadt district.

The other is a hospice with apartments suitable for the elderly.

We wanted to apply for 1.5 million euros.

In total, we are missing 2 million euros.

How did you find out about the funding freeze?

We had arranged a meeting with our energy consultant for Monday afternoon.

At 7:45 a.m. on Monday it was still in the portal, at 8:15 a.m. the portal was down.

Only a few documents were missing.

The energy consultant called: Mr. Bierod, we have a problem.

It's just completely unclear how to proceed.

Does this put the projects at risk?

No, but we have to see how we can get alternative financing.

In Essen, the money is not lying on the street.

Maybe we have to pass the money on to future tenants.

Rents for seniors could rise as a result.

And the daycare?

We don't have any other good ideas right now.

Do we have to adjust the energy standards again?

We do not know that, yet.

There are two options: Either we build to a higher standard in order to get funding for it.

Or to a lower standard.

That depends on the follow-up program.

The longer it takes for that to happen, the more will say: Okay, then we just don't build well enough.

We only made certain structural measures to achieve the standard.

You can also build other cheaper.

The lower standard KfW 75 is not forbidden.

I don't know if that makes ecological sense.

are you angry

I'm disappointed.

This is problematic from the point of view of legal certainty.

In November it was announced that the funding would expire in January.

You can plan with it.

Sure, then there is a run.

If you then see that this is rising sharply, you can close the promotion earlier.

But not immediately.

This is not good administrative action and is at the expense of citizens and charitable organizations like ours.

Do you check legal means?

We are checking whether we have legal options.

We have to look at the funding guideline.

If it says that you reserve the right to close it early, the legal options are limited.

I have not yet received a reply from our lawyer.

Do you think this step is politically correct?

I don't want to rule out that the step is understandable in the long term.

But he's just badly organized.

It's about management, not political direction.

Is the bad management down to the Greens?

I hope that our ministries are in a good position, independent of any party, to see the impact of such a step.