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Germany’s family office market concentrates heavily around Frankfurt and Hamburg, where multi-generational Mittelstand, pharmaceutical, and industrial fortunes have transitioned into structured investment vehicles.
The 10 family offices below collectively manage more than $103 billion in disclosed assets, spanning private equity, real estate, venture capital, and direct co-investment strategies.
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Top 10 Family Offices in Germany
$78.73B | Frankfurt
FERI Family Office was started more than 30 years ago by FERI’s founding family, with the idea of providing solutions as unique as each family’s values, goals, and needs. It acts as a central point of contact coordinating everything from strategic structuring to investment and succession planning, built on deep capital markets expertise and a holistic view of how finances, legal considerations, business interests, and personal relationships interact.
Investment Focus: Strategy consulting on wealth architecture, implementation through defined investment policies and manager selection, and ongoing reporting, controlling, and risk management across liquid and illiquid assets.
What They Look For: Managers and service providers that fit a family’s investment policy and long-term value-preservation goals, backed by FERI’s independence, transparency, and access to its Cognitive Finance Institute and SDG Office.
~$48.6B (€45B) | Berlin
Wermuth Asset Management (WAM) was incubated as a family office in 1999 and has evolved into a BaFin-regulated asset manager pursuing high risk-adjusted financial returns alongside positive environmental impact. Co-founded by Jochen Wermuth, it grew out of a family with long-standing roots in a Black Forest forestry and sawmill business. The firm is positioned around what it calls the “green industrial revolution,” and a co-managed earlier fund delivered a 13x gross return.
Investment Focus: Growth-stage private equity in European green growth companies through its Green Growth Fund 2 (GGF2), impact investing across all asset classes through the Climate Endowment Group (which WAM co-founded), and listed investment strategies, with forestry as a historical specialty.
What They Look For: Disruptive, climate-aligned technology companies and long-term alternative investments where financial returns and environmental impact reinforce each other.
$31.36B | Frankfurt
The Family Office der Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft is the only nationwide multi-family office within the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe, providing independent advisory services to entrepreneurial families from its Frankfurt base. It is part of the Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft Group, the private bank of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe, founded in 1899 and built on the promise of being “a touch more personal” (Eine Spur persönlicher).
Investment Focus: Generational wealth preservation and holistic asset-management strategy across liquid holdings, real estate, and operating companies, supported by a secure data-room platform and reporting tools such as Addepar and Landytech Sesame One.
What They Look For: Strategies that fit a family’s risk capacity and ESG preferences, aligned with the group’s conservative “Stability for Your Assets” philosophy of security, realistic targets, and transparency.
4. Athos KG
$30B | Munich
Athos KG is the family office of the Strüngmann family, managing the family’s wealth and long-term investments. The firm describes its approach as investing “entrepreneurially and value-based” with a focus on pharma and life science, building sustainable value through scientific innovation and technology-driven companies.
Investment Focus: Healthcare, life sciences, and related technology, through private equity and venture capital, with notable holdings including BioNTech and Blue Elephant Energy AG, plus renewable energy and infrastructure.
What They Look For: Scientific and technology-driven companies that benefit from patient capital and strategic guidance, with the firm’s pharma and life science focus as the main filter.
$20.06B | Frankfurt
Harald Quandt Family Office pools the investment asset management of the descendants of Harald Quandt, who died in 1967. The family holds a sole stake in HQ Trust and minority stakes in HQ Capital and CP Capital, financial service providers whose core competencies are global investment strategies and deep expertise in alternative asset classes.
Investment Focus: Alternatives and global portfolio strategies through its affiliates, including HQ Capital (private equity and real estate), HQ Trust (one of Germany’s oldest and largest independent multi-family offices, serving private clients, families, foundations, and institutions), and CP Capital (US multifamily rental real estate).
What They Look For: Alternative investment strategies, particularly private equity and real estate, that fit a global, diversified approach to long-term family wealth.
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$16.2B | Hamburg
Kontora is a multi-family office supporting entrepreneurial families, single family offices, and foundations with the strategic advice and management of complex wealth, from strategic investment advisory and implementation through to succession planning. Led by Co-CEOs Stephan Buchwald and Dr. Patrick Maurenbrecher, it has been part of the international wealth platform AlTi Tiedemann Global since 2025.
Investment Focus: Strategic asset allocation, portfolio construction, manager selection, and private markets access across liquid and illiquid assets, supported by consolidated reporting, controlling, governance, and liquidity planning, through an independent, fee-only model free of product commissions.
What They Look For: Managers and strategies that fit a client’s specific portfolio gap, with a long-term, multi-generational lens across private equity, private credit, real estate, and infrastructure, including recent offerings such as the Seraya Partners Fund II in Asia-Pacific infrastructure.
$11.58B | Düsseldorf
Deutsche Oppenheim Family Office is a multi-family office that grew out of historic Oppenheim family-office predecessors, serving large private and foundation wealth under the banner “A future for your total wealth.” It develops tailored wealth strategies, takes over day-to-day administration with consolidated reporting and controlling, and advises on succession planning, foundation setup, and asset protection.
Investment Focus: Strategic asset allocation and manager selection across active and passive implementation, plus advisory on real estate and equity stakes, with access to partners in private equity, infrastructure, and impact investments, and a sustainability framework tailored to each family.
What They Look For: Partners and managers that fit a family’s individual wealth strategy and values, particularly in private equity, infrastructure, impact investing, and real estate.
8. Palatina Multi Family Office
$10B | Frankfurt
Palatina Multi Family Office is an independent multi-family office managed by Jörg Lilla, who previously ran the family office function of a major bank from 2000 to 2012. The firm focuses on tailored wealth oversight and long-term planning for entrepreneurial families and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, with a platform built as a bespoke ecosystem for customized advisory, independent structuring, and strategic wealth coordination.
Investment Focus: Customized advisory and investment decision support aligned with each family’s long-term objectives, across liquid and illiquid strategies.
What They Look For: Opportunities that fit a family’s long-term wealth plan, with an emphasis on consistency across market cycles and clear, institutional-quality reporting.
~$9.0B (€8.34B) | Berlin
AP Capital is an entrepreneurial family office founded in 2011 and run by Arthur Reiter and Pirmin Gellner, focused on real estate and specializing in corporate investments. It invests counter-cyclically with a long-term horizon, both from its own capital and as an operating partner for private equity firms and institutional investors, with 450+ employees across 12 holdings and 14 investment professionals.
Investment Focus: Real estate repositioning of cash-flowing residential and commercial properties, plus corporate holdings across property services, asset management, security technology, IT and software, lifestyle, and wood industry.
What They Look For: Residential assets from €3M and portfolios from €10M (key regions: Berlin, Saxony, Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt), specialist retail portfolios from €40M, and owner-operated DACH companies with at least €5M in annual revenue, mainly through majority stakes.
$7.0B | Frankfurt
SKion is the holding company founded by entrepreneur Dr. h. c. Susanne Klatten, who builds industrial wealth across economic, industry, and technology cycles under the conviction that “wealth is an entrepreneurial task.” Its portfolio includes ALTANA (specialty chemicals, 100%), SGL Carbon (significant minority), SKion Water (water technology, 100%), AVISTA OIL, and BMZ Battery Solutions, with a long-term horizon of “a decade and beyond.”
Investment Focus: Significant minority stakes (over 25% of voting rights) and some majority holdings in companies with €50M to €500M in revenue, concentrated in industrial goods and services, electrical engineering, optics, renewable energy and closed material cycles, IT and digitalization, medical technology, and water technology.
What They Look For: German and European companies (primarily DACH, the Netherlands, the UK, and Scandinavia) with durable competitive advantages, proven management, and strong leadership culture, especially for growth financing and succession solutions, with co-investment alongside like-minded entrepreneurial families welcome.
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