Our Company

The A. C. Büsch & Co. group of companies can look back

on over a century of operation. Its predecessors,

Staunau & Jacobi and Kratzmann & Ellerbrock, have enjoyed

the confidence of Hamburg's property-owning families since

the end of the 19th century. During the following century,

the group – under the guidance of Christoph Wilhelm Büsch

– emerged as a major authority on the Hamburg real estate

market. In 2000, Busch senior – himself a lay commercial judge

and sworn property assessor – handed control of the company

to his son, the qualified property fiduciary Anselm Büsch.

In 2006, Anselm Büsch amalgamated these two companies to

form A. C. Büsch & Co.

The Büsch family originally migrated to Hamburg from the city of

Lüneburg during the 17th century. Since then it has spawned

numerous merchants and individuals who have served their

home city in key capacities. These include two city senators bea-

ring the name Georg Hinrich Büsch (1746-1766 & 1842-1860),

the latter of whom – in his capacity as president – officially opened

Hamburg's Stock Exchange in 1841 and was one of the

founders of HAPAG shipping line in 1847. The current managing

director Anselm Christoph Haldor Büsch is a direct descendent

of the Hamburg scholar Johann Georg Büsch (1728-1800), an

enthusiastic founder of the Hamburgische Gesellschaft

("Hamburg Society"). Today this organization campaigns for

Hamburg's interests under its new name, Patriotische

Gesellschaft ("Patriotic Society"). In 1768, Johann Georg

Büsch also established the Hamburg Academy of Commerce,

one of the world's earliest vocational school systems.

And in Anselm Büsch the family once again has a prominent

representative in the Hamburg business world.

The property professional is following in his family's footsteps

by supporting an array of projects aimed at fostering

commerce in Hamburg – some within the framework of the

Patriotic Society, the "Harmonie von 1789" society

("1789 Harmony Society") and the internationally active

"Überseeclub" ("Overseas Club").