[4] In May 1928, Burghardt had to follow demands from the Saxon Ministry of the Interior and had to revise his first draft, under the guidance of Wilhelm Kreis (1873–1955), in which the taller tower was in an axial corner position.

Hereby, the facade of the office and commercial building got a significantly simplified form with a vertical structure running between the windows.

[10] The publishing house was owned by the family of Bernhard von Limburger, who won the German championship three times from 1921 to 1925.

[11] In 1965, Frieder Gebhard and Hans-Joachim Dreßler carried out a reconstruction in the style of the 1960s, with the upper end being significantly altered.

The official EU information center Europe Direct for the Leipzig / West Saxony region is also located there and not at Augustusplatz.