Interview in Kranmagazin

Company handover at Dornseiff: Insights into a successful generational change

The Dornseiff Group took a decisive step into the future at the beginning of 2024: The long-established group of companies was taken over by the DID Group. In an interview with Kranmagazin, Wolfgang Dornseiff, former Managing Partner, and Frank Scheidt, Managing Director of the DID Group, speak openly about the background, the intensive process of succession planning and the synergy effects that arise from this transaction for both sides.

Frank Scheidt

Frank Scheidt

“The Dornseiff Group is a really great group of companies. Its business activities are in attractive segments: with a focus on crane rental, aerial work platform rental, special transportation and assembly activities, it is excellently positioned.”

Managing Director/CEO of the DID Group

Wolfgang Dornseiff

Wolfgang Dornseiff

“From the outset, our successor attached great importance to retaining our corporate DNA, i.e. everything that makes us successful.”

Former managing partner of Dornseiff Autokrane GmbH