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We at the HOS Group have been commercially active in the textile, renewable energy and property sectors for seven generations. We are delighted at your interest in our company!
The Management
Dirk Otto
Managing Director
T +49 7024 946-240
dirk.otto@hos-gruppe.de
Frank Reiner
Financial and Administration Management
T +49 7024 946-174
freiner@hos-gruppe.de
Andreas Decker
Head of project development
T +49 7024 946-110
andreas.decker@hos-gruppe.de
Peter Fix
Architect, Facility Management
T +49 7024 946-181
fix@hos-gruppe.de
Our Roots
The HOS Group can look back across 200 years of company history. In 1816, Immanuel Friedrich Otto founded a Turkish red dyeing factory in Nürtingen am Neckar.
Immanuel Friedrich Otto was a cosmopolitan figure fascinated by new technology and romantic literature. He commissioned a clockmaker in Paris to build a spinning machine using construction plans from England. This was a visionary step at a time when the conservative King Wilhelm I of Württemberg still saw the future in agriculture, and also initiated the expansion of a company with one of the richest traditions in Southern Germany’s industrial history.
The family was operating nine textile production sites between Neckartenzlingen and Reichenbach an der Fils as the second and third generations saw the business flourish. They also attempted to grow cotton on their own plantation in German East Africa (modern-day Tanzania) at the beginning of the 19th Century.