This drawing came at a time when the so-called Schill party together with the CDU turned the Hamburg Senate. During the reign of these two parties was induced in Hamburg, a trailer-settlement aufzulösen. Es gab zu dieser Zeit in Hamburg mehrere solcher Bauwagensiedlungen, in denen hauptsächlich durch junge Menschen recht informell gelebt wurde. Diese Siedlungen erinnerten an die Armutsgebiete in den Großstädten Lateinamerikas und anderswo. Es wurde ein Ultimatum gestellt. Wenn bis dahin die Bauwagensiedler ihre Siedlung nicht selbst auflösen, werde geräumt. Ein alternativer Standort wurde den Bauwagenbewohnern natürlich nicht angeboten. So kam es also zur Räumung und die Bauwagensiedler irrten mit ihren Fahrzeugen durch das Stadtgebiet, um einen neuen Ort zu finden, wo sie geduldet werden.
Ich hatte dem Bausenator Mettbach damals vorgeschlagen, die Siedler auf einem Grounds to settle on which were in earlier times, the so-called emigrant halls. These had been torn down long ago, but on a part of the site was a scrap yard, next to empty space. Only one of the old emigrant halls had survived, but was marred by alterations and become unusable, as repair. If the senator decided to introduce the trailer settlers here, it would be an uprising in the district Veddel, my calculus.
course, defended the inhabitants of the Veddel, yet very strong, the idea to be using, that the emigrants' halls should be reconstructed in part, to a Museum to accommodate the information on these emigrations that took place from Hamburg. And exactly what I was after. For now, as a resistance to the idea of placing the trailer residents here could, in the political arena, the idea will be made effective to set the Emigrant Museum. Now, it had been so hesitant. And, no surprise to me, exactly what happened as a countermeasure, as I had imagined. Now three emigrant halls are reconstructed.
As an alternative to the site Veddel I had sent the senator at that time the idea of place to the left of the Hamburg City Hall, on the canals and the Inner Alster lake, a glass to build homes tower. It should be a simple steel frame architecture, which is glazed with large windows, so that any properly established the trailer that stood as a sleeping space in the stacked glass-enclosed spaces above the other, could see the town hall square. Would have been built something, Hamburg would have to be right next to highlight the decision-making center on the question of what we do with the trailer settlers. Since they were already through the policies of then-Senate at the heart of Hamburg public, this focus had now found all over next to the town hall. The design of a glass-steel tower to the trailer in the floors would be the purest expression the politics of the conservative Senate, was to put the trailer question at the heart of the public.
responsible senator decided then to refer the trailer settlers to the area in the Veddel, so the historic site of the emigrant halls. It should be settled. However, the resistance on the Veddel was so great that the idea could gain in reality, to realize the emigration museum by reconstruction of the emigrants' halls. This has occurred. My calculations went on so. For the trailer settlers was soon a new place to settle.
KL