City of OTTO
Politically incorrect or alive?


HSH "User" Alexander OTTO
HSH Nordbank, HSH Real Estate, Bürgerschaft, Hochbahn and book banishing.. The ECE was founded in 1965 by mail order pioneer Professor Werner Otto and is owned by the Otto family. Since 2000 the company is run by Alexander Otto and has become European market leader in the sector of inner city shopping centers! The ECE Group enters many projects as a self investor and keeps them in the portfolio for many years. Preferred credit givers appear to be the HSH, HIH (HSH subsidiary), M.M.Warburg, Donner (Signal Iduna).
Alexander Otto can be found on the boards of the OTTO Group, the HSH Nordbank AG, the British American Tobacco Deutschland, the DES Deutsche EuroShop AG and the Hamburg-Mannheimer Versicherungs-AG he is also a member of the advisory council of Peek&Cloppenburg KG Düsseldorf .
Apart from that he belongs to the executive committee of the ZIA - Zentraler Immobilienausschuss e.V.
HSH board member A. Otto and his chairman...
ULI Germany awards leaders of Germanys real estate economy! Ex authorized signatory of the Otto family holding Cura; Wolfgang Peiner!
Helmut Koprian aka Mr. ECE (ECE Projektmanagment - Chief Operations Officer Centermanagement / Hochbahn supervisory board) „The future of Germanys sales development will be a soft evolution of the ECE concept!“
Employed parlamentary friends:
Small HSH loans
The HSH Nordbank AG supplies a financing of 205 Million Euros for the acquisition and modification of the Hamburger Straße shopping mall (Peiner-Stuhlmann Primo Deal) in Hamburg-Barmbek, a joint venture of the ECE-Group and Hermann Friedrich Bruhn-Group!
“Revitalizing this center will open attractive potentials, because of the great site, accessibility, and the high degree of prominence!”, explains Peter Axmann, vice manager of the HSHs real estate customers division! “We estimate a positive outcome for this project because two very successful investors are engaged in the realisation! The ECE is European market leader when it comes to inner city shopping centers, it´s one of the most renowned companies in this segment!”
Further HSH supervisory deals and ECE hundred million credits of HSH supervisor Alexander Otto. More HSH Real Estate supervision by Andreas Mattner!
ECE/OTTO adviser Dr. Marcus M. Bechtel and the HSH Real Estate/HGA.
The HSH Group constantly views and analyses relevant asset markets, identifies new investments and promising investment property for HSH funds! (Deutschland1) Always up front, the well known M.M.Warburg and ECE/OTTO adviser Dr. Marcus M. Bechtel (and his economic Siamese twin Dr. Wolfgang Mosch) Watson, Farley & Williams (for example: Pacific Core ) HGA Capital has turned out several closed funds in cooperation with Alexander Ottos ECE (HGA/CITY-FONDS HANNOVER)(Mitteleuropa III Galeria Krakowska)(Mitteleuropa II Galerie Vaňkovka Brünn) and many other!
Discreet orchestration of architecture
Blacked out criticism

ECE tries to bar 60 passages in court
Politics of subsidiaries


City of OTTO
Dr. Michael Otto,
Chairman of the supervisory board Otto (GmbH & Co KG), Hamburg
FORUM Grundstücksgesellschaft mbH
(Chairman of the advisory council)
Robert Bosch Industrie Treuhand KG, Gerlingen (Shareholder)
Springer AG (Member of the supervisory board)
Deutsche Bank (Member of the supervisory board)
Gerling Versicherung (Member of the supervisory board)
OTTO Warenverteilcenter GmbH, Otto Operativ Beteiligungs- Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, Otto International GmbH, OTTO Office GmbH & Co KG, OTTO AUSTRIA Grundstücksverwaltungs GmbH, OTTO-ASIA Beteiligungs-Verwaltungs GmbH, OTTO Office Beteiligungsverwaltungs-GmbH, OTTO-CHEER Beteiligungs-Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, Otto Designhouse GmbH, OTTO Software Partner GmbH, Otto Finanzplus GmbH Versicherungsvermittlung, JUNGSTIL Handelsgesellschaft mbH, Otto Personal Systeme GmbH, Grundstücks-Verwaltungsgesellschaft OTTO CENTER mbH,
OTTO Grundstücksbeteiligungsgesellschaft m.b.H., FORUM Grundstücksgesellschaft m.b.H., GSV Grundstücksbeteiligungsgesellschaft m.b.H.
KVH Kreditverwaltungsgesellschaft Hamburg mbH, Schwab, Witt, Heine, Sport-Scheck, Alba Moda, Baur, Fegro & Selgros, Hermes
Hanseatic Bank , Baur Versand, Cofidis usw. usw.
Donor and honorary citizen
Dr. Michael Otto, Vizepresident of Hamburgs Chamber of Commerce
“Not only the managers, everyone was to greedy!“
It appears to be pretty easy to critisize when you´re in power and able to take over anything you want! After all, Otto junior has supervised the HSH since the beginning, the saving of the bank was naturally more system relevant than the saving of Karstadt-Quelle whose cadaver is now being fleddered by the Otto Group!
Regional sovereign
Representational mission with Mayor von Beust in Sweden
OTTO "Staff"
Hamburgs Senate has called Professor Peer Witten as chairman of the board of trustees of Hamburgs logistics offensive in 2005! Witten is also Chairman of the supervisory board of Hamburgs HHLA! After his doctorate he began his career 1976 with the Otto Group. Since 1984 Witten belonged to the Otto Groups board of directors! 2005 he was called to the supervisory board of the Group! Since 1990 he also belongs to Germanys federal logistics association, first as a member of the advisory council, since 1999 as CEO!
Thomas Armbrust
ECE now renamed to Panta (over 80 "companies")
AROSA [17 KB]
DES Directors’ Dealings
Bravo-Alpha [16 KB] , Juliett-Alpha [17 KB] and Charlie Fox
Mr. Thomas Armbrust is member of the board on the following companies:
C.J. Vogel Aktiengesellschaft [34 KB] für Beteiligungen, Hamburg, (Chairman)
TransConnect Unternehmensberatungs- und Beteiligungs AG , München (Chairman)
Verwaltungsgesellschaft Otto [20 KB] mbH, Hamburg
Platinum AG, Hamburg (Chairman)
Apart from these mandates Mr. Armbrust also belongs to the supervisory boards of:
ECE Projektmanagement G.m.b.H. & Co. KG, Hamburg (vice chairman)
LBBW Equity Partners GmbH & Co. KG, München
LBBW Equity Partners Verwaltungs GmbH, München
Management KG CURA Vermögensverwaltung G.m.b.H.
























