Key Takeaways
- • Dakota Marketplace's 2026 guide ranks the top 10 family offices in Germany, which together manage more than $103 billion in disclosed assets, concentrated around Frankfurt and Hamburg.
- • FERI Family Office, listed at $78.73B in Frankfurt, leads the ranking, followed by Wermuth Asset Management (~$48.6B / €45B, Berlin) and the Family Office der Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft ($31.36B, Frankfurt).
- • The list spans private equity, real estate, venture capital, and direct co-investment, with several offices focused on green growth, pharma and life sciences, and industrial holdings.
- • Athos KG (Strüngmann family, $30B, Munich) and SKion GmbH (Susanne Klatten, $7.0B, Frankfurt) represent the pharma/life-science and industrial-holding models respectively.
- • The AUM figures are publisher-disclosed estimates and the ranking is promotional in nature, with the article directing readers to Dakota Marketplace for filtering and demo access.
Summary
Dakota Marketplace has published a 2026 guide listing the ten largest family offices in Germany by disclosed assets, which the publisher says collectively manage more than $103 billion. The市场 is concentrated around Frankfurt and Hamburg, where multi-generational Mittelstand, pharmaceutical, and industrial fortunes have moved into structured investment vehicles. The publisher notes that its database covers smaller and emerging offices beyond this list.
FERI Family Office, founded more than 30 years ago by the FERI founding family and based in Frankfurt, is listed at $78.73 billion. It acts as a central coordinator for structuring, investment, and succession planning, with manager selection and risk management across liquid and illiquid assets. Wermuth Asset Management, a BaFin-regulated asset manager incubated as a family office in 1999 and co-founded by Jochen Wermuth, is listed at roughly $48.6 billion (€45 billion) and focuses on growth-stage private equity in European green growth companies through its Green Growth Fund 2, according to the article. The article notes that an earlier co-managed fund delivered a 13x gross return.
The Family Office der Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft ($31.36 billion) is described as the only nationwide multi-family office within the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe. Athos KG, the Strüngmann family office in Munich at $30 billion, invests in healthcare, life sciences, and technology through private equity and venture capital, with holdings including BioNTech and Blue Elephant Energy AG. Harald Quandt Family Office ($20.06 billion, Frankfurt) pools investments for descendants of Harald Quandt and holds stakes in HQ Trust, HQ Capital, and CP Capital, focusing on alternatives and global portfolios.
The remaining entries include Kontora ($16.2 billion, Hamburg), which has been part of AlTi Tiedemann Global since 2025 and is led by Co-CEOs Stephan Buchwald and Dr. Patrick Maurenbrecher; Deutsche Oppenheim Family Office AG ($11.58 billion, Düsseldorf); Palatina Multi Family Office ($10 billion, Frankfurt), managed by Jörg Lilla; AP Capital (~$9.0 billion / €8.34 billion, Berlin), a real estate-focused family office run by Arthur Reiter and Pirmin Gellner; and SKion GmbH ($7.0 billion, Frankfurt), the holding company of Dr. h. c. Susanne Klatten, with portfolio companies including ALTANA and SGL Carbon.
AUM figures are as presented by the publisher and are not independently verified in the article. The piece closes with promotional calls to filter Dakota Marketplace by AUM and investment focus and to book a demo.
FERI Family Office, founded more than 30 years ago by the FERI founding family and based in Frankfurt, is listed at $78.73 billion. It acts as a central coordinator for structuring, investment, and succession planning, with manager selection and risk management across liquid and illiquid assets. Wermuth Asset Management, a BaFin-regulated asset manager incubated as a family office in 1999 and co-founded by Jochen Wermuth, is listed at roughly $48.6 billion (€45 billion) and focuses on growth-stage private equity in European green growth companies through its Green Growth Fund 2, according to the article. The article notes that an earlier co-managed fund delivered a 13x gross return.
The Family Office der Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft ($31.36 billion) is described as the only nationwide multi-family office within the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe. Athos KG, the Strüngmann family office in Munich at $30 billion, invests in healthcare, life sciences, and technology through private equity and venture capital, with holdings including BioNTech and Blue Elephant Energy AG. Harald Quandt Family Office ($20.06 billion, Frankfurt) pools investments for descendants of Harald Quandt and holds stakes in HQ Trust, HQ Capital, and CP Capital, focusing on alternatives and global portfolios.
The remaining entries include Kontora ($16.2 billion, Hamburg), which has been part of AlTi Tiedemann Global since 2025 and is led by Co-CEOs Stephan Buchwald and Dr. Patrick Maurenbrecher; Deutsche Oppenheim Family Office AG ($11.58 billion, Düsseldorf); Palatina Multi Family Office ($10 billion, Frankfurt), managed by Jörg Lilla; AP Capital (~$9.0 billion / €8.34 billion, Berlin), a real estate-focused family office run by Arthur Reiter and Pirmin Gellner; and SKion GmbH ($7.0 billion, Frankfurt), the holding company of Dr. h. c. Susanne Klatten, with portfolio companies including ALTANA and SGL Carbon.
AUM figures are as presented by the publisher and are not independently verified in the article. The piece closes with promotional calls to filter Dakota Marketplace by AUM and investment focus and to book a demo.
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