Budde-Haus

In 1927 Karl Mende, a wholesaler for industrial glass based at the Eutritzscher Freiladebahnhof, bought the property and used it as a residence for his family, which necessitated various modifications to the buildings.

In 1956 the property was transferred to the successor company of the Bleichert-Werke, the VEB Verlade- und Transportanlagen Leipzig, for cultural use.

Following a "Save the Budde-Haus" campaign by the citizens of Gohlis, the city of Leipzig bought the property for DM 2.4 million and donated the entire site to the newly founded Heinrich-Budde-Haus e. V., which reopened the building as a socio-cultural center.

Despite lively cultural activities and major renovations, the city of Leipzig repeatedly made plans to sell the building.

After various training and further education courses, he was employed from April to August 1909 as a technician at the Adolf Bleichert & Co. factory in Leipzig.

During the global economic crisis he became unemployed, and was later hired by the Leipzig company Mannesmann-Rohrleitungs A.G.[2] During an air raid watch at Mannesmann in 1943, Heinrich Budde was heard railing against the Nazi regime and reported by colleagues to the Gestapo.

He was arrested and accused of hate speech, plotting a communist coup and attempting to manipulate the will of the German people.