Christopher Brune

The new generation of the real estate group

Walter Brune

Architect and founder of the real estate group

Continuing passionate and responsible growth

Founded as the architecture office of Walter Brune in 1950, Brune Immobilien Gruppe has since developed into one of the most renowned companies for urban planning, project development and asset management in the Düsseldorf conurbation. The group has seen decades of successful growth, primarily due to the strong passion and wire-spread competences of internationally renowned architect Walter Brune. The group of companies wants to continue to inspire its customers a new time and time again with sustainable management of commercial, residential and hotel properties and customised office solutions for companies of any size.

Christopher Brune – innovative power from the cradle

After his father successfully continued the family's tradition in the fifth generation, Christopher Brune also took the logical step to enter the real estate business. Infected by his father's passion, he studied architecture and business management in Zürich and Vienna.

After learning the ropes in several renowned project development companies and architecture offices, he took over Brune Real Estate Management AG at a young age and thus a great deal of responsibility in the family-owned company. Today, Christopher Brune is on the board of directors of the group. He represents the values of his father and at the same time develops his own plans for the future. In the meantime, a substantial part of the real estate group is based on innovations he introduced.

Biography

2006 – Completion of the International School of Düsseldorf
2006 – Internship at Ingenhoven Architects Düsseldorf
2007 – Internship at GLL Real Estate Partners Munich
2007-2009 Studies of International Business SBS Zürich
2008 – Internship at HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt Düsseldorf
2009 – 2012 Studies of architecture at the TU Vienna
2012 – 2014 Studies of International Management at the Webster University Vienna
2014 – Internship at Concepta Projektentwicklung Düsseldorf
Since 2015 – operative member of the board of Brune Real Estate AG & Co. KG
2019 – Transfer of the operational management
2021 – Election as chairman of the board

Walter Brune – Architect and urban planner of global renown

After two years of practising with Professor Munzer, the 24-year-old engineer laid the foundations for Brune Immobilien Gruppe in 1950. He spent two decades developing not only large projects for many well-known persons from industry, but also their representative personal homes. Publications of his spectacular designs in architects' journals quickly brought him to fame.

Satellite offices in New York, Tehran, Kabul and Amsterdam were established to follow his international clients. In one exemplary project, he cooperated with Marcel Breuer in planning development projects for the World Bank.

Walter Brune invested the capital he acquired and his comprehensive knowledge as an architect in his own properties as well. He started building on them and developing them as far back as in 1960, in parallel with growing his architect's office. Since the early 1980s, he eventually became known as an architect, development and operator of inner-city shopping centres. In addition to the Kö-Galerie and Schadow Arkaden in Düsseldorf, he also designed the Neumarkt Galerie in Cologne and the Heuvel Galerie in Eindhoven. At the moment, he is applying the same passion as a planner, builder and "urban warrior" for sustainable further development of our urban centres that are worth preserving.

Biography and awards

Born in Bremen in 1926
1947 Diplom-Ingenieur Architekt, TH Bremen
1948 Architect under Prof. G. A. Munzer
1950 Founding of his own architecture office
1951-1954 Large coal mine facility for Franz Haniel, Bottrop
1956 Completion of Haus Horten, Düsseldorf
1958-1959 Karstadt-Warenhaus, Bremerhaven
1959-1962 Karstadt-Warenhaus, Hamburg-Harburg
1959-1962 Karstadt-Warenhaus, Hamburg-Wandsbeck
1960 1st prize from the Bund Deutscher Architekten
1963-1964 Office building Uhlandstraße, Düsseldorf
1964-1965 Karstadt-Warenhaus, Celle
1964-1965 Investment casting plant Carp und Hones, Moers
1965 Office building Heinrich-Heine-Allee, Düsseldorf
1966 BDA-award of the Bund Deutscher Architekten for construction of an investment casting plants
1967-1968 Main administration building of Karstadt, Essen
1970-1975 Münsterpark, Düsseldorf
1971-1973 Rhein-Ruhr-Zentrum, Mühlheim a.d.R.
1976-1978 Karstadt-Warenhaus, Goslar
1977-1979 Bürocenter Nord 1. CP, Düsseldorf
1980 Founding of a shared office with Marcel Breuer in New York
1981 Completion of the residential park Mörsenbroich, Düsseldorf
1984-1986 District centre Klemensviertel, Düsseldorf
1983-1986 Kö-Galerie, Düsseldorf
1987 Kö-Galerie becomes "Shopping Center of the Year 1986" at the ICSC in New York
1987-1991 Completion of the Bürocenter Nord, Düsseldorf
1989 Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande (Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
1990-1992 Heuvel-Galerie, Eindhoven
1990-1994 Schadow Arkaden, Düsseldorf
1991 Heuvel Galerie receives an award from the Bowforum in the Netherlands
1992 Project development of Heuvel Galerie receives the "commendation for excellence" at the ICSN in Eindhoven
1993-1995 Königs-Galerie, Kassel
1994 Re-design of the Rhein-Ruhr-Zentrum receives the "European Shopping Center Award" at the ICSC
1994-1999 Ruhr-Business Park, Essen
1995 The Schadow Arkaden receive the "European Shopping-Center Award" at the ICSC
1995 Kö-Karree, Düsseldorf
1997-98 Neumarkt-Galerie, Köln
1999-2000 Stadtgalerie, Langenfeld
1999-2000 Re-design of the Opern Passagen, Cologne
2000-2001 Expansion of the Kö-Galerie, Düsseldorf
2000-2001 Post Galerie, Karlsruhe
2001 Completion of the Prinzenpark, Düsseldorf
2002-2004 Construction of the Arcadia Parc 1. CP, Düsseldorf
2005 Urbanicom award for his life's work as an architect, planned, builder, ambassador of culture and media warrior for the city
2006-2007 Take-Off 1. CP, Düsseldorf-Flughafen
2008 Completion of Gut Klostermühle, Briesen/Alt Madlitz
2008-2010 Office and business building Königsallee, Düsseldorf
2017 Completion of Triangulum, Ratingen
2018 Construction of the Arcadia Parc 2.+3. CP (Arcadia Stern) commences, Düsseldorf
2019 Construction of the Arcadia Höfe commences, Düsseldorf

Custom solutions increasingly inspire customers

All employees of Brune Immobilien Gruppe share the one goal to keep inspiring their customers with their tailor-made solutions. No matter if the projects comprise office areas, shops or flats: all rental areas are to be optimised to match the customers' needs. The experienced specialists ensure competent, straightforward service in all phases of tenant support. The building-technical implementation follows as reliably as it is efficient. The "property as a precisely fitting tailor-made suit" has thus become the unique trademark of Brune Immobilien Gruppe.

Victor Alexander Rink

Brune Immobilien GmbH
Managing Director

Robert Grunow

Brune Immobilien GmbH
Head of Facility Management

Peter Krautheim

Brune Immobilien GmbH
Building Management

Daniela Heidenheim

Brune Real Estate Management AG
Head of Marketing

Friderike Lang-Hütig

Brune Real Estate Management AG
Assistant

Magdalena Kurkowski-Niermann

Brune Bau GmbH
Architecture Management

Norbert Schmitz

Brune Immobilien GmbH
Managing Director

Felix Götze

Brune Immobilien GmbH
Building Management

Bettina Meyn

Brune Real Estate Management AG
Legal Department

Kirsten von Lom

Brune Immobilien GmbH
Reception assistant

Philip Pepperhoff

Brune Bau GmbH
Construction Management

Kontaktbild Silke Stöcker Assistenz Geschäftsleitung Brune Immobilien GmbH

Silke Jakowski

Brune Immobilien GmbH
Management's assistant

Bettina Preißner-Langemann

Brune Immobilien GmbH
Letting

Karsten Wilmes

Brune Real Estate Management AG
Controlling

Benjamin Fahning

Brune Immobilien GmbH
Head of Conference Area

Gudrun Uflacker

Brune Bau GmbH
Construction Department's assistant

Ursula Sahlfeld

Brune Immobilien GmbH
Management's assistant

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Phillip Gensler Letting Brune Immobilien GmbH

Philipp Gensler

Brune Immobilien GmbH
Letting

Oskar Zobel

Brune Real Estate Management AG
Project Management

Kontaktbild Peter Agnieska Slobodecki Buchhaltung Brune Immobilien GmbH

Agnieszka Slobodecki

Brune Immobilien GmbH
Accounting

Bundled competences, clear structures

Tasks are clearly divided between service and investment companies among more than 50 employees under the umbrella of an owner-managed public company. Brune Immobilien GmbH is an independent company responsible for operative management and marketing of all objects of Brune Real Estate AG & Co. KG. The Brune Bau GmbH is, in turn, responsible for all project developments and tenant developments.

Brune Bau GmbH

Managing Director: Frederic Brune

Architecture Management
Magdalena Kurkowski - Niermann

Construction Management
Philip Pepperhoff

Assistance
Gudrun Uflacker

Brune Real Estate Management AG

Board: Christopher Brune, Benedikt Bösel

Controlling
Karsten Wilmes

Project Management
Oskar Zobel

Marketing
Daniela Heidenheim

Legal department
Bettina Meyn

Assistance
Friderike Lang-Hütig

Brune Immobilien GmbH

Managing Director: Frederic Brune, Norbert Schmitz, Victor Alexander Rink

Letting
Victor Alexander Rink

Building Management
Norbert Schmitz

Facility Management
Robert Grunow

Assistance
Ursula Sahlfeld

Book title 'From Department Store to Stadtgalerie'

Specialist literature from three decades

As an architect and urban planner, Walter Brune has always represented clear positions and stood in for them publicly. Not only his properties, districts and quarters reflect his outstanding ideas, but so do the remarkable works he has contributed to specialist literature.

Expand literature list

Die Stadtgalerie – Ein Beitrag zur Wiederbelebung der Innenstädte
published 1996, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York
ISBN 3-593-35479-9

Angriff auf die City
published 2006, Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf
ISBN 3-7700-1264-X

Der erweiterte Lebensraum – Bungalows von Walter Brune
published 2008, JOVIS Verlag, Berlin
ISBN 978-3-86859-009-8

Centro Oberhausen – Die verschobene Stadtmitte
published 2009, 2015, IZ Immobilien Zeitung Verlagsgesellschaft, Wiesbaden
ISBN 978-3-94021-909-1

Vom Kaufhaus zur Stadtgalerie
published 2011, JOVIS Verlag, Berlin
ISBN 978-3-86859-093-7

From Department Store to 'Stadtgalerie'
published 2011, JOVIS Verlag, Berlin
ISBN 978-3-86859-105-7

Arbeitswelten
published 2014, IZ Immobilien Zeitung Verlagsgesellschaft, Wiesbaden
ISBN 978-3-940219-22-0

Factory Outlet Center – Ein neuer Angriff auf die City
published 2014, IZ Immobilien Zeitung Verlagsgesellschaft, Wiesbaden
ISBN 978-3-940219-24-4

Wohnungsbauten
published 2017, IZ Immobilien Zeitung Verlagsgesellschaft, Wiesbaden
ISBN 978-3-940219-40-4

Stoppt die Verödung unserer Städte durch Shopping und Outlet Center vor den Stadtgrenzen
published 2018, IZ Immobilien Zeitung Verlagsgesellschaft, Wiesbaden
ISBN 978-3-940219-46-6

Do you have any questions about the real estate group?

Please contact me to request further information about Brune Immobilien Gruppe or if you want to make a personal appointment with a board member or employee.

Silke Stöcker
Brune Immobilien GmbH
Management's assistant
Tel. +49 211 90497-0
info@brune-gruppe.com