Jan Dietrich Hempel

Jan Dietrich Hempel is CEO of GARBE Industrial Real Estate GmbH. Previously, Jan Dietrich Hempel held senior positions with leading, internationally active logistics companies including Bax Global and Hermes Warehousing Solutions (now Hermes Fulfilment). Jan Dietrich Hempel completed his MBA at Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom and studied at the Export and Transport Academy in Bremen.

Garbe Industrial Real Estate GmbH, based in Hamburg, is one of Germany’s leading providers and managers of logistics, corporate and technology real estate. For more than 30 years the company has been counted among the most important independent cooperation partners for transport and logistics providers, trade companies and the production industry. Garbe Industrial Real Estate GmbH develops, buys and sells, rents, manages and finances high-end re-rentable commercial properties at attractive national and international transport and industry locations. With around 5.8 million square metres of rented space and a project development pipeline of around 2.6 million square metres in Germany and Europe, Garbe currently manages real estate and fund assets worth around 10.2 billion euros (as of December 31, 2022).