E.R. Capital Holding

E.R. Capital Holding

E.R. Capital Holding was established in Hamburg in 1992 to steward the wealth accumulated over five generations of the Rickmers family's shipping empire. Founder Erck Rickmers, a former Hamburg State Parliament member, anchors the office within a lineage that includes his brother Bertram Rickmers, who headed the separate Rickmers Group. The family's patronage extends to an art collection and the Humanities and Social Change International Foundation. The office deploys capital across real estate, energy transition assets, maritime holdings and a direct venture portfolio — a spread that maps the infrastructure of global commerce. Confirmed real estate holdings include Hindenburghaus and the Warburg Ensemble in Hamburg, as well as Frankfurt's RAW Stephensonstraße site. On the startup side, E.R. Capital holds interests in healthcare services, industrial tech and climate tech, with a stage focus from Seed through Series A. The portfolio spans European companies, and the firm uses direct co-investments, SPVs and private equity vehicles rather than operating as a fund-of-funds. Friedrich Lass-Hennemann serves as CEO, overseeing a management team that includes Managing Directors Jacob Isenberg, Jochen Klösges and Martin Görge. Former CEO Nicholas Teller now chairs the Advisory Board and has served on the board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany. The office operates exclusively from Hamburg, with no additional locations disclosed. A notable recent operational signal is the visible consolidation of family roots: the Rickmers Family Art Collection remains a named holding, and Erck Rickmers' wife Cristina Sartori edits GG Magazine, a luxury publication. Structurally, E.R. Capital differs from a pure investment office by running Nordcapital, an asset-management platform that opens certain deals to external capital while the family retains active-ownership control. This hybrid model lets the family align its own balance sheet with institutional co-investors — extracting shipping-derived alpha and redeploying it across tangible assets and venture-stage companies that The New Institute, a Hamburg-based foundation Erck Rickmers supports, might study but the family office funds directly.