HAL REIM establishes platform for investments in German data centres and appoints Peter Pohlschröder as Managing Director

16. April 2025

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HAL launches Data Centre Development Platform for Germany – opens Investment Opportunities for international investors
Platform supports data centre developments from land acquisition to the operational phase
Peter Pohlschröder takes over the management together with Patrick Brinker and Piet Wienke

Frankfurt am Main, 16.04.2024 – One year after acquiring the first data centre for its in-house fund ‘HAL Digitale Infrastruktur Deutschland I’, the Real Estate Investment Management of Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe Privatbank (HAL REIM) has now founded a platform for the development of data centres in Germany: HAL Data Center Development GmbH (HAL DCD). The new platform is designed to provide international investors with streamlined access to the German market. The range of services covers the full development cycle – from site acquisition, planning, zoning and permitting, to development, structuring financing and construction and leasing the completed data centre capacities. HAL Data Centre Development GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe Privatbank.

In addition to existing properties for the fund, HAL DCD focuses primarily on the development of turnkey data centres with an IT capacity of 10 megawatts or more. Investors are thus offered investment approaches ranging from property development and construction to stabilised assets according to individual risk-return profiles - whether smaller colocation data centres, hyperscalers or large-scale property developments for AI and cloud industry campuses. In addition to the traditional investment business, joint venture structures are also possible.

"Data centres are the core infrastructure of our digital fututre. They form the basis for the technologies and thus also for the business models of tomorrow. In order to strengthen the competitiveness of Germany as a business location, it is important to accelerate the expansion of the digital infrastructure. With our new platform, we offer international investors a unique opportunity to engage in this dynamic growth sector and achieve strong returns."

Michael Bentlage, Chairman of the Management Board of Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe Privatbank

Peter Pohlschröder, one of the most renowned experts in the data centre sector, has been recruited for the position of Managing Director of HAL DCD and Co-Head of Digital Infrastructure at Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe Privatbank. He has over 20 years of experience in the property sector, ranging from portfolio and asset management of mixed-use commercial properties to project development of critical infrastructure. Most recently, as a member of the management board of GARBE Industrial Real Estate, he was responsible for building up the data centre business of the subsidiary NDC-GARBE Data Centers Europe for over six years. Since the beginning of 2021, he has also been involved as Deputy Chairman of the German Data Centre Association e. V. In addition to Peter Pohlschröder, Patrick Brinker, Head of HAL REIM, and Piet Wienke, Co-Head of Digital Infrastructure Investment at HAL REIM, will take over the management of HAL Data Center Development GmbH.

„The newly founded platform combines data centre expertise with asset management, structuring experience, access to operators, access to various sources of capital and project development experience. We are delighted that in Peter Pohlschröder we have gained a proven expert for this promising task. We are certain that he will contribute significantly to the success of HAL DCD with his profound knowledge and his network of all relevant stakeholders. The aim is to bring together all stakeholders such as landowners, operators, authorities, electricity and grid operators, financiers and investors as an operating partner. We are closing this gap."

Patrick Brinker, Head of Real Estate Investment Management at Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe

HAL REIM has been involved in the financing of data centres for five years and launched ‘HAL Digitale Infrastruktur Deutschland 1’ at the end of 2023, the only special AIF for investments in German digital infrastructure to date. „The new platform enables investors to get involved in our data centre projects much earlier and participate in the opportunities offered by property development,“ said Peter Pohlschröder. „In addition to traditional fund investments, investors have access to attractive opportunities for direct investments and joint venture structures in this exciting asset class.“

About Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe Privatbank AG

HAUCK AUFHÄUSER LAMPE can look back on around 230 years of tradition. The bank emerged from the merger of three long-established private banks: Georg Hauck & Sohn Bankiers in Frankfurt am Main, founded in 1796, Bankhaus Lampe, founded in Bielefeld in 1852, and Bankhaus H. Aufhäuser, on the market in Munich since 1870. The two banks Georg Hauck and Bankhaus H. Aufhäuser merged in 1998, with Bankhaus Lampe joining in 2021. The bank's Management Board consists of the Chairman of the Management Board Michael Bentlage and the members of the Management Board Oliver Plaack, Madeleine Sander, Dr Holger Sepp and Gordan Torbica. HAUCK AUFHÄUSER LAMPE sees itself as a traditional yet modern private bank.

The private bank focusses on the four core business areas of private and corporate banking, asset management, asset servicing and investment banking. Its business activities centre on comprehensive advice and asset management for private and corporate clients, asset management for institutional investors, comprehensive fund services for financial and real assets in Germany, Luxembourg and Ireland as well as cooperation with independent asset managers. In addition, Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe offers research, sales and trading activities specialising in small and mid-cap companies in German-speaking countries as well as individual services for IPOs and capital increases.