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.

Based in Hamburg, GARBE Industrial Real Estate GmbH (“GARBE”) is one of Germany’s leading companies selling and managing logistics, light industrial and technology real estate. For over 30 years, the company has counted among the most important collaboration partners for transport and logistics service providers, the trade sector, and the manufacturing industry. GARBE develops, buys or sells, lets, manages and finances high-end commercial properties in attractive transport nodes and industrial locations inside and outside Germany.
At the moment, GARBE has approximately 6.5 million square metres of lettable area and a property development pipeline of around 1,9 million square metres in Germany and elsewhere in Europe under management that represent property and fund assets in a combined value of c. 10 billion euros (as of 31 December 2023).