He became a hotelier by chance, when without any experience, he decided to run his first hotel the debt securities of which he had assumed. He owed the fact that he became a famous hotelier to wise capital allocation, his own management ideas, courage in modernizing historical buildings and his ability to skillfully merge history and tradition with modern comfort. This allowed him to create one of the biggest hotel groups in Germany, making the name Steigenberger a symbol of top-class hotel services.

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