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  An Analysis Of The Shadow Side Of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann - by Daniel Mackler
Through replication she was still unconsciously appeasing her family system through being the masochistic point person all those decades later.) But in a family where speaking out honestly was a psychic crime, which I will explore next, this was an impossibility.
And since Adolf Reichmann, Frieda’s supposedly weak father, rarely stood up for his children, Frieda and her sisters were essentially left at the mercy of Klara’s whims.
Clearly parts of her own family were severely troubled, and she knew how to relate comfortably and function satisfactorily in that type of system – or in spite of it.
www.iraresoul.com /ffr.html   (6612 words)

  
  Paul Reichmann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reichmann was born in Vienna in 1930 to Samuel Reichmann, a wealthy egg merchant and his wife René.
The family escaped the Nazi occupation of Austria by sheer chance, as they happened to leave the country on the day of Anschluss, to visit Paul's grandfather in Hungary who had suffered a stroke.
The Reichmann family fled when France fell to the Germans, eventually making their way to the neutral city of Tangier.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Reichmann   (757 words)

  
 Reichmann family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Reichmann family is a family best known for controlling the Olympia and York business empire.
The Reichmann's were originally from the small shtetl of Beled, Hungary but the ambitious Samuel Reichmann moved them to Vienna in 1928 where he became a successful merchant.
The younger generation of Reichmann's has increasingly been playing a major role, with Ralph's son Samuel Reichmann seen as the heir apparent.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reichmann_family   (400 words)

  
 adamcorelli.com | On Olympia & York Developments Ltd.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Their debts are believed to be enormous and only family insiders truly know whether the rents they are collecting are sufficient to cover interest costs.
Beyond the turmoil in their real estate holdings, 61-year-old Paul Reichmann and his brothers, Albert, 63, and Ralph, 59, have watched the value of their stock portfolio fall during the past 18 months to about $5-billion from $6.6-billion 18 months ago.
The Reichmanns are not pleased with the performance of their public companies.
www.adamcorelli.com /html/o_y.html   (1617 words)

  
 Saly of O&Y Properties, REIT could top $2-billion
Reichmann is the chief executive officer of both O&Y Real Estate Investment Trust, and its parent company, O&Y Properties Corp., which counts the Reichmann family as its largest shareholder.
Reichmann and his partner and family member Frank Hauer, who is president of the REIT and O&Y Properties, revived the O&Y name in the mid-1990s.
Reichmann figures they have taken holdings worth $250-million and built them into an operation that could now fetch more than $2-billion from a willing buyer, making it what he describes as the biggest real estate deal in Canada.
www.realestatenewstoronto.com /news/fullnews.php?id=43   (825 words)

  
 Erie County Works - County Executive
Abraham Reichmann, of the renowned Reichmann family of Toronto.
Reichmann's family is known for building one of the top real-estate development companies in the world.
Notable projects by the Reichmann family include the multi-billion-dollar Canary Wharf project in London, England; Battery Park City/World Financial Center in New York City; and First Canadian Place in Toronto, Canada.
www.erie.gov /executive041503.phtml   (758 words)

  
 CJNews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Reichmanns, who are known to shun publicity, spoke about their mega-project to 800 members of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal, sharing the spotlight with a wise-cracking robot of gleaming chrome.
Later, the younger Reichmann, who is president and chief operating officer of Heathmount A.E. Corp., said the company made a "firm offer" in June to the federal government, and that he hopes to receive a response in the next few weeks.
Abraham Reichmann, the 36-year-old son of Ralph Reichmann, has been working on a project of this type for 10 years and has looked at locations abroad, he said.
www.cjnews.com /pastissues/99/dec9-99/front4.htm   (678 words)

  
 MC Journal: the Journal of Academic Media Librarianship. Audiovisual Reviews.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Seeking new opportunities, the Reichmann family moved to Canada seeing Montreal, and then Toronto as centers with Jewish populations and financial possibilities.
The family launched the very successful Olympia Floor and Tile Company and then the Olympia and Park real estate firm from which Paul and his brother Albert masterminded immense expensive building projects in Canada, New York, and London.
The London footage is particularly notable as it chronicles Reichmann’s close alliance with Thatcher but environmental opposition from Prince Charles in developing the large scale controversial Canary Wharf project.
wings.buffalo.edu /mcjreview/991421127.html   (440 words)

  
 Sky-high Hopes
Reichmann, after all, was the only man brave enough to build an office tower in downtown Toronto in the past decade.
Reichmann heads for the sidelines, rumours are swirling that the long lull in downtown office construction is about to end.
Philip Reichmann's father Albert and uncle Paul were two of those players who lost First Canadian Place and the rest of their properties because of crushing debt.
www.navona.ca /News/ArticlesE/0502SkyHigh.html   (999 words)

  
 CBC News:Reichmann to bid for Canary Wharf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
LONDON - Paul Reichmann said Wednesday he is temporarily stepping down as chairman of Canary Wharf so he can lead a consortium planning to make a bid to take over the London business development.
Reichmann said Wednesday his consortium, which is reported to include Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, will make an offer to Canary Wharf shareholders "at a level in excess of that reflected in the offers received so far."
It was the Reichmann family's Olympia and York property development company that transformed the run-down docklands area into a huge commercial office and retail complex.
www.cbc.ca /stories/2003/11/12/reichmann121103   (361 words)

  
 adamcorelli.com | On O&Y debt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The family that was often depicted as careful and conservative as it redeveloped much of the urban landscape of Toronto, New York and London was, in fact, not much different than some of the other stunning business empires of the 1980s: they grew by the brilliant use of debt.
It suggests that the Reichmanns' were much less conservative than their reputation has long held.
In a way a building was like a bond, What we are seeing in not only the Reichmanns' portfolio but in many other cases is that the income stream has declined.
www.adamcorelli.com /html/debt.html   (1360 words)

  
 Reichman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Paul Moshe Reichmann was born in Vienna in 1930.
The Reichmanns were one of the ten wealthiest families in the world, ranking just below the British Royal family in the 1980s.
Paul Reichmann has been at the same time one of the most resourceful and resilient enterpreneurs of the 20th century and also a strict observant Jew, leading a rigorously devout, modest private life.
www.shemayisrael.co.il /orgs/ozar/reichman.htm   (315 words)

  
 Too Big to Fail: Olympia & York: The Story Behind the Headlines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The astonishing story of the rise, fall, and revival of the Reichmann family fortunes.
This is the amazing account of the Reichmann family who escaped from Nazi-occupied Hungary in World War II to become listed in Fortune magazine in 1991 as the fourth richest in the world.
In 1991, the Reichmann family of Toronto was listed in Fortune magazine as the fourth richest on earth, with a combined wealth of $12.8 billion.
www.beardbooks.com /too_big_to_fail.html   (426 words)

  
 Faith and Fortune
Although ultra-Orthodox, the Reichmann's became one of the dozen wealthiest families in the world, their property holdings constituting the greatest real estate empire the world had ever seen.
It was there in the International Zone with its utter absence of commercial restraints, among the Nazi agents and allied spies, that the modern family's patriarch, Samuel Reichmann, built a fortune as a currency trader.
As the Reichmann story unfolds the documentary examines the tensions between the family's ultra-Orthodox religious beliefs and their huge ambitions in the business world.
www.frif.com /new2001/fai.html   (481 words)

  
 SkyscraperCity Forums - Reichmann Hopes to Buy Back First Canadian Place
Paul Reichmann wants to buy back First Canadian Place, the giant Toronto office tower he helped build 30 years ago and which today still stands as one of the most valuable properties in the country.
The main problem for Paul Reichmann's team is the other bidder is Brascan Corp. Brascan is teaming up with the powerful CPP Investment Board, still trying to fill a self-imposed mandate to acquire $8-billion in real estate, and Alberta Treasury Branches.
First Canadian Place has a special spot in Reichmann family history: it was the first tower built by Olympia and York, the company founded by Paul, Albert and brother Ralph.
www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=212097   (2236 words)

  
 Everest Broadband 5-8-01
Steven Reichmann points out that Everest's stringent business model was further validated with the recent third round of financing of $50M from lead investor Exelon Capital Partners and seed shareholders, Pequot Capital Management and SOFTBANK Venture Capital.
He added that Paul Reichmann also invested in that round of financing, in trust for the beneficiary of Paul Reichmann's family, while he increased his investment.
According to Reichmann, the benefits to multi-tenant unit small and medium-sized business customers are significant as MESA is a highly cost-effective technology platform that brings new economies of scale to metropolitan area broadband service delivery, customer support and billing.
www.rebuz.com /retech/0501retech/everestbroadband50801.htm   (905 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Reichmanns : Family, Faith, Fortune, and the Empire of Olympia & York: Books: Anthony Bianco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Interviews with various family members enable the author to plumb personalities as well as profit motives; their decision to cooperate is justified by his careful fairness.
The book, "The Reichmanns; Family, Faith, Fortune and The Empire of Olympia & York" by Anthony Bianco is a 668 page mind boggling tale of a family dynasty that came from nowhere and rose to one of the most wealthy families in the world in one generation.
As renowned as the Reichmanns have been there are still followers of scrappy success stories that do not know much about what this family, with brother and son Paul at the helm, contributed to New York City's skyline.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812921402?v=glance   (1637 words)

  
 Canadian Business Rich 100 | 2003-2004 edition
Canary Wharf founder Paul Reichmann, who currently has a 7.7% stake in the company, was forced to give it up in 1992 when its large vacancies and excessive leverage sparked the downfall of his $40-billion Olympia and York real estate empire.
Bowing to environmental concerns, on Nov. 21 DeGasperis agreed to limit development on the moraine to 5,700 homes, in exchange for lands of “equivalent value” in the Seaton area of Pickering, Ont. A deal is expected to be signed in the spring.
As for the Greenberg family, their Minto Developments will be starting construction on the MintoMidtown condo development in Toronto in May 2004.
www.canadianbusiness.com /rich100/sector7.htm   (532 words)

  
 University of Alberta Libraries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Elementary Structures of the Family Firm: An Anthropological Perspective / Andrew M Jones.
Entrepreneurship and Family Business in a Hostile Environment: The Case of Lithuania / W Gibb Dyer Jr, Svetlana Panicheva Mortensen.
Family Business Web Site : This site is provided by Family Business Publishing Company and its associates.
www.library.ualberta.ca /subject/business/family/index.cfm   (2443 words)

  
 Real Estate
Towers of Debt: The Rise and Fall of the Reichmanns: The Olympia and York Story.
Bronfman family; Reichmann family; Edper Investments--History; Olympia and York Developments Ltd.--History; Edper Investments--Reorganization; Consolidation and merger of corporations--Canada--History.
The Reichmanns: Family, Faith, Fortune, and the Empire of Olympia and York.
www.kipnotes.com /RealEstate.htm   (2496 words)

  
 Sault Ste. Marie News and Weather: Full Story on SooToday.com
Olympia and York began in the 1950s as a tile-importing house founded by Canada's devout Reichmann family, who masterminded the art of contrarian real estate development.
He'd started with the family company as a commercial leasing representative in 1978 and had also played a role in the development of New York's World Financial Center.
To see Philip Reichmann with Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman four years ago at the groundbreaking ceremony for that City's Maritime Life Tower development (the first new office tower in downtown Toronto in almost a decade), please click here.
www.sootoday.com /content/news/full_story.asp?StoryNumber=6439   (1107 words)

  
 CNN.com - Canary Wharf to buy back stock - Jun. 14, 2001
Canary Wharf, which was saved from bankruptcy in the 1990s by the Reichmann family and Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, was floated on the London stock exchange in June 1999.
The stock hit a peak of 574.25 pence in October but came under pressure as Alwaleed sold 4 percent of his 6 percent holding.
Reichmann's family, the high-flying Canadian developers of the 1980s, currently own about 6.5 percent of Canary Warf.
edition.cnn.com /2001/BUSINESS/06/14/canary   (300 words)

  
 Recorder Home Page: Original Recorders, Makers & Collections
His practice was to assume in principle that all recorders considered by him were pitched in either F or C except voice flutes in d' and those recorders that would end up in pitches beyond the range of two semitones above or below these nominal pitches.
Robinson, A. Families of recorders in the late 17th and 18th centuries; the Denner orders and other evidence.
Robinson, A. Families of recorders in the late 17th and 18th centuries; the Denner orders and other evidence: Part 1.
www.recorderhomepage.net /original.html   (5444 words)

  
 hist
All in the Family, Inc.: Insights from the Corporate Bedrooms and Kitchen Tables of Canadian Family Businesses.
The Eaton’s: the Rise and Fall of Canada’s Royal Family.
Driving Force: The McLaughlin Family and the Age of the Car.
www.ucs.mun.ca /~rsexty/biblio/hist.htm   (870 words)

  
 Kentuckians For Nursing Home Reform - 2007
Gray-market hiring, fraught with risks, is a solution that middle-class families are turning to as they face the crushing burden of indefinite home-care expenses.
But it is hardly the only one, as businesses rush to meet the needs of these families, the fastest-growing segment of the marketplace, who are intent on keeping their loved ones out of nursing homes.
On Wednesday, the jury awarded the family of Cheatum Myers $4.1 million in pain and suffering and other damages after finding that NHC and two related entities were guilty of medical malpractice and negligence over care Myers received as a resident of NHC McMinnville LLC.
www.kynursinghomereform.org   (974 words)

  
 Transworld Snowboarding.com | Snowbiz | Buffalo To Get Indoor Halfpipe
TORONTO--April 15, 2003--Abraham Reichmann, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Syata Group LLC, has signed a letter of intent to develop a unique US$100-million indoor, year-round entertainment, sports and themed-shopping destination in Buffalo, New York.
The letter of intent, which has been signed in collaboration with the County of Erie, the State of New York, the City of Buffalo, the Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency, and the Niagara Frontier Transportation Agency, a state agency, designates Syata as the developer of this project.
Syata Group LLC is a Reichmann family owned company controlled by Abraham Reichmann.
transworldsnowboarding.com /snow/article/print/0,16916,445198,00.html   (270 words)

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 96024847
Publisher description for The Reichmanns : family, faith, fortune, and the empire of Olympia & York / Anthony Bianco.
The epic rise and spectacular fall of the devoutly religious and secretive family that was one of the ten richest of the world.
The Reichmanns is filled with fascinating characters, epic scope, and an illuminating look at the world of the ultra-orthodox.
www.loc.gov /catdir/description/random0410/96024847.html   (115 words)

  
 Kroll's Notable Cases
Kroll was appointed to monitor the divestiture of the Gambino family's trucking companies in New York's garment industry and to ensure that their successors did not indulge in similar criminal practices.
Kroll’s investigation of the Reichmann family’s activities during World War II disproved allegations by a Toronto magazine that the family had collaborated with the Nazis and instead showed that it had taken heroic steps to help other Jews escape.
Kroll determined that a shooting on a Pacific Southwest flight, which led to a crash in which 43 people died, was not the vengeful act of a disgruntled employee, but was instead a suicide insurance scheme.
www.kroll.com /about/history/notable   (1546 words)

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