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Matthias Roesler joined the Brueder Schlau Group in February 2023 and is now responsible for nine Hammer Speciality Stores in north-eastern Germany, including the new store in Rendsburg, which opened in 2024.

After completing his training as a wholesale and foreign trade merchant, Matthias Roesler studied business administration in Hamburg and then went on to work in various companies.

Kimberly Büsching has been part of the Brueder Schlau Group since 2019. She had already completed her training as a wholesale and foreign trade management assistant at the headquarters in Porta Westfalica and was subsequently taken on

in the Legal & Compliance department. She is now Team Leader of Compliance and continues to develop this still relatively new department together with her colleagues.

Carmen Schwarzenberg has been the Inbound Team Leader in our Group’s Customer Service team since 1 November 2022. As a talented coordinator,

she is responsible for ensuring that day-to-day operations run smoothly and that colleagues have ideal working conditions.

Ivonne Brodkorb has been with us since January 2023. As a construction manager in the Real Estate Department, she deals with the new openings and re-openings of the Hammer Speciality Stores and

Schlau Crafts Markets as well as being the first point of contact for the conversion work there and for all architectural matters.

Heinrich Bredemeier is a trainee at the Group of Companies headquarters. In addition to his apprenticeship as a merchant in wholesale and foreign trade management,

he is an active player in the U23 squad of the Bundesliga team GWD Minden.

Kai-Kristian Gericke is the office manager at Schlau Crafts Market in Bielefeld and has been part of the Group of Companies for 15 years. In addition to administrative and organisational tasks

such as duty roster preparation and inventory control, customer contact and the training of new junior staff are also part of his “daily bread”.

For the past ten years, Jennifer Auf dem Kampe has been an integral part of our Group of Companies, beginning her career with us as a trainee for warehouse logistics in Porta Westfalica.

The former customer quickly became a motivated employee, later store manager and now district manager.

Michael Rosen has been working as a warehouse logistics specialist at the Porta Westfalica warehouse location for 28 years. Back then, he applied to the Brueder Schlau Group because he wanted to switch careers and try out a different line of work.

Today, he is not only responsible for warehouse organisation, but has also taken on two other important posts.

Anja Spilker heads the payroll team. Together with her nine colleagues, she is responsible for the employees’ concerns regarding wages and salaries, as well as communication with the pension fund, the tax authorities and health insurance companies.

She has been with the Brueder Schlau Group her entire professional life.

Marian Flessa is a district manager at Hammer and is responsible for eight specialist stores around Worms in Rhineland-Palatinate. After a temporary job during his business studies, he decided to join the Brueder Schlau Group family.

The former customer quickly became a motivated employee, later store manager and now district manager.