The road had to fight with economic problems and was put up for compulsory auction in the end of 1894.

All Slite's ships were sold by compulsory auction after the bankruptcy.

"I've had officials of the restitution commission ask me, 'Why didn't your client come back to Germany to pay his debts and avert a compulsory auction?' "

The deficiency movements demanded the state to take more effective measures to help the small peasants to avoid the shameful compulsory auctions of the debt-driven small farms.

The sales contract was however revoked in February 1976 because the money for the purchase had not been paid and the building returned to its original owner, but since Otto Schnitzenbaumer also had financial problems, the tower was put up for compulsory auction in 1979 at a guide price of 35 million Deutschmark by order of the court.