One of the most important posts in Munich’s real estate business has been filled: 68-year-old Andreas Lehner will become head of the municipal housing association Gewofag on October 1. After the merger with the second municipal company GWG, scheduled for January 1, 2024, he will also manage the newly formed company “Münchner Wohnen”. Lehner will not only be responsible for the letting of 68,000 apartments, he is to curb skyrocketing rents through increased new construction and renovate the existing building according to ecological criteria.
The supervisory board decided on the personnel on Wednesday, wrote the head of the supervisory board and mayor Verena Dietl (SPD) in a statement. The city was able to hire “an excellent specialist with many years of experience in the real estate industry”. Lehner, who comes from Lemgo (North Rhine-Westphalia), was trained as an industrial engineer at the Munich University of Applied Sciences and as a business graduate at the LMU Munich.
Most recently, Lehner was an independent partner of Hohlbein and Cie. and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Investment Kapitalverwaltung AG in Berlin, the statement said. Before that, he managed the “Deutsche Wohnen” group in Berlin until 2007. It is “a major task that needs to be tackled,” said Lehner. It is not just about building and renovating apartments, but also “forming a new, powerful company out of two proud companies with a long history”.