- Designated managing director sees sustainability and digitalization as fields of the future
- Predecessor Dr. Christoph Halstrick retires after 12 years in the position
News ReleasesMarkus Eismann becomes Managing Director of Commerz Real Mobilienleasing
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Markus Eismann (52) will take over as Chairman of the Management Board of Commerz Real Mobilienleasing GmbH on 1 April 2024. He succeeds Dr. Christoph Halstrick (65), who will retire at the end of this year. Until then, Halstrick of Commerz Real Mobilienleasing will remain as a strategic consultant and will ensure a comprehensive handover to Markus Eismann.
I would like to thank Christoph Halstrick for his many years of exceptional commitment. He spent twelve years on the management board of Commerz Real Mobilienleasing, the last six years as Chairman. In these moving times, we have positioned ourselves sustainably and successfully as a leading manufacturer-independent leasing provider and consistent partner for German SMEs in the market and in the Commerzbank Group, and significantly expanded our business both in the structured transaction area and in the standardised small ticket segment.
The appointed Managing Director Markus Eismann brings with him extensive experience on both the market and the market follow-up side. He has been working in the leasing industry for more than 20 years, most recently as General Manager Market and member of the Management Board of MMV Bank GmbH/MMV Leasing GmbH. Other professional positions included leading positions in the PEAC Finance Group and at UniCredit Leasing.
I am very much looking forward to working with Commerz Real on the further development of the successful leasing business that has grown over the years. Sustainability, digitalisation and artificial intelligence are changing business models and generating new potential and specific financing needs for our customers. At the same time, they offer opportunities for innovations in our own customer and product offering. We want to make active use of this.
The management of Commerz Real Mobilienleasing will thus consist of Markus Eismann, Jochen Welling and Oliver Golder. Commerz Real Mobilienleasing is part of the Commerzbank Group and is one of the largest manufacturer-independent leasing providers in Germany. The company finances machines, commercial vehicles and other fixed assets primarily for corporate customers of Commerzbank and manages leasing contracts with a total volume of around 5 billion euros.
About Commerz Real
Commerz Real AG is the asset manager of the Commerzbank Group and has 50 years of international market experience. The company combines extensive know-how in asset management with broad structuring expertise and uses this expertise to develop tangible asset-oriented fund products and individual investment solutions in the real estate and infrastructure sectors. As a leasing service provider of Commerzbank, Commerz Real Mobilienleasing also offers needs-based leasing concepts.
Since 2025, the Commerzbank Group’s asset management holdings have been bundled with Commerz Real AG. In addition to Commerz Real’s brands and products, these include the Aquila Capital investment company with a focus on sustainable tangible asset investments in the area of energy infrastructure and Yellowfin as a boutique for liquid investment strategies. Under the umbrella of Commerz Real AG, a total of around 1,000 employees manage assets of around EUR 55 billion at around 20 locations.