Porsche takes over two Eduard-Winter dealerships in Berlin
Stuttgart. On September 1, 2007, Porsche Deutschland
GmbH of Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany, purchased a pair of Berlin-based
Porsche Centers from the Eduard-Winter Group. The sale sees the
Eduard-Winter Group withdraw completely from the automobile industry,
having already sold its 19 VW-Audi dealerships at the end of 2005.“Over the last 15 years, Berlin, the capital, has been transformed at a breathtaking pace into the country’s political and cultural hub. We want to do justice to this city’s special significance and build up a presence with our own subsidiaries on the ground,” said Bernhard Maier, Managing Director of Porsche Deutschland GmbH.
The 80 employees
from the two
dealerships have been kept on by Porsche Deutschland GmbH. “We still
see enormous potential in the greater Berlin and Potsdam area and
intend to expand further”, confirmed Maier. Maier also announced a
location shift: since the Berlin-Süd Porsche Center on Goerzallee
no longer meets the sports-car manufacturer’s requirements, Porsche has
purchased a site for a new build in the Dreilinden part of town –
between Berlin-Zehlendorf and Potsdam. The Managing Director of the new
Porsche Center is Detlef Splinter, head of the Porsche Center in
Franklinstraße, in the centre of Berlin, since 2003. On September
1, 2007, Otmar Westerfellhaus, who has been Managing Director of the
Porsche subsidiary in Mannheim for the last four years, took the helm
in central Berlin.