Klaus Runzer

Klaus Runzer worked as an Investment Manager and authorized signatory (Prokurist) at Haspa Beteiligungsgesellschaft für den Mittelstand mbH ("Haspa BGM") and its investment vehicle Haspa BGM Invest GmbH in Hamburg. In addition to his signatory role at the parent firm, he served as managing director (Geschäftsführer) of numerous single-deal holding companies through which Haspa BGM structures its stakes — for example Helmers Beteiligungs GmbH, HMP Beteiligungen GmbH, HTP Hansa Beteiligungs GmbH, RFB Fachkräfte Beteiligungs GmbH, and several "TFO Invest" entities. This portfolio of directorships is typical of a deal-lead / investment manager who both originates transactions and oversees the special-purpose holding structures for individual portfolio companies.

Haspa BGM is a fully owned subsidiary of Haspa Finanzholding, the parent of Hamburger Sparkasse (Germany's largest savings bank). Founded in the late 1990s (1998) by Carsten Röhrs, the firm invests the bank's own long-term capital, which lets it hold companies without the fixed fund life typical of standard PE funds. It manages on the order of €200 million and around 20 active mid-market holdings, focusing on growth financing and business-succession solutions for profitable, owner-led German-speaking companies.

Public company-registry records (Handelsregister, via Northdata) show Klaus Runzer being removed from his managing-director and authorized-signatory positions across the Haspa BGM group of companies over late 2024 and early 2025 (e.g. no longer Prokurist at Haspa BGM and Haspa BGM Invest GmbH in January 2025; managing-director roles at the deal-holding entities ended between December 2024 and April 2025). This pattern is consistent with a departure or handover from the firm. It coincides with a broader generational transition at Haspa BGM, in which founder Carsten Röhrs stepped down from operational management (moving to board chair) and Sven Bode and Dr. Florian Franke were elevated to co-management alongside Maximilian Schilling.

No public biographical detail (education, prior employers, age) was found in the available sources; his profile is documented primarily through the German commercial register and the firm's corporate footprint.

• Stage & deal type: Established SMEs, not startups — the firm's own criteria target companies with roughly €10m–€300m in revenue, engaging via growth financing, succession arrangements, and management buy-outs.
• Structure flexibility: Haspa BGM takes either open or silent participations, and either majority or minority stakes, structured individually per deal — a key selling point for owners wary of ceding control.
• Long-term hold, patient capital: Because it invests Hamburger Sparkasse's own balance-sheet capital, the firm positions itself as a long-horizon partner "for and with" a company rather than a fixed-life fund seeking a quick exit.
• What makes them say yes: A profitable, resilient business model with good development prospects, and an experienced, committed management team to run it.
• Hands-on partnership: The firm describes itself (paraphrasing its Profil page) as an "entrepreneurially thinking partner" that stays engaged strategically — on market positioning, competitive assessment and M&A — even in challenging situations.
• Sector-agnostic: No single vertical; the portfolio spans manufacturing, industrial engineering, logistics, technical/building services, software and medtech.