H&W Family Office

H&W Family Office

H&W Family Office was established in 2016 by Gerhard Haßfurther and Matthias Wenske to consolidate the residential real-estate holdings built by their families over decades of development in Bavaria. Based in Bamberg, the office functions as a permanent capital vehicle, managing property transactions, asset management, and succession planning for the Haßfurther and Wenske families. The firm does not publicly disclose its total assets or deployment figures. The office pursues a concentrated, direct-investment strategy in residential real estate across Germany. It acquires wohnwirtschaftlich genutzte Liegenschaften — residential properties — and maintains them on a long-term, generation-spanning basis. After acquisition, the firm conducts a thorough structural assessment and develops an energy-focused modernization plan to lift yields and building value. Confirmed holdings include a residential ensemble in Rosenheim, the Bamberg Residential Portfolio, Dresden Residential Holdings and specific assets at Derfflingerstraße 22 in Berlin. The office also holds a collection of nautical instruments dating from 1680 to 1910. The firm is managed by co-founders Gerhard Haßfurther and Matthias Wenske, with a small operating team that includes legal counsel Klaus Wenske, Berlin-focused real-estate lead Thomas Ulsamer, and digital property management lead Janusz J. Kwasniak. Adjacent entities include WIB Wohn-Immobilien Bayern and a Berlin-focused real-estate vehicle. H&W does not maintain disclosed philanthropic structures or co-investor clubs. The family office’s structural distinctiveness lies in its complete absence of external capital and its strictly permanent-hold, residential-only mandate. Unlike most German family offices that diversify across multiple asset classes, H&W channels multi-decade development wealth into a single, durable-use sector — German rental apartments — governed by a non-institutional, founder-led management structure that prioritizes short decision paths over growth in personnel or geographic breadth.