Artur Caesar Behrendt

Real estate & property management

Appreciation and trust are extremely important to us, which is why we have worked with our customers and business partners for years and even decades.

More than 3 billion transaction volume

Over 134 years of experience

Company history of over 6 generations

How it all started

Just like him, many people came to the young metropolis to find happiness. But this young man was not one of the innumerable nameless people. It was the store owner and horse dealer from Stubent in West Prussia!

Caesar Behrendt was enterprising. As enterprising as the city of Berlin, which at the time, was bursting at the seams.

Constructions were going on everywhere, as the housing shortage was great. The industry grew explosively and the need for land was barely satisfactory.

Rathenau had the first electricity plant built: AEG. And on the house at Lothringer Strasse 16, next to the entrance, there was a new sign with the inscription: Caesar Behrendt, realtor.

Company foundation

Caesar´s son, worked in his father’s company. It was only after 8 years that the real estate company Artur Caesar Behrendt Real Estate was founded on April 21, 1888. Today we can proudly look back on more than 133 years of history.

After the death of Kaiser Wilhelm I in 1888 – the “three emperor year” – an era came to an end. Emperor Friedrich III died after only 99 days of reign and the young emperor, Wilhelm II was crowned that same year. Bismarck’s term of office was only to last two years. Meanwhile, Lilienthal was tinkering with his flying machines in the noble villa colony of Lichterfelde, the Berlin postmen protested against their 14-hour working hours, cooks only wanted to go into service for “rule with water pipes” and the route network of the world’s first electric tram was opened for the second time.

Growth

On the one hand flourishing cultural life – on the other hand technical progress: While Josef Kainz and Eleonore Duse delighted the Berlin citizens with their appearances at the German Theatre, the city’s first automobile was also registered.

But soon there was not enough space in the company´s office in Berlin-Mitte and the company moved to the finer „west side”.

In 1890 the new office was opened at Grollmannstrasse 15 and Mr. Behrendt became a member of the “Association of Young Merchants in Berlin”.

Seriousness and reliability

in 5th generation

His father, Wolfgang A. C. Behrendt, who remained managing director alongside him, was still a commercial judge at the Berlin Regional Court, 1st chairman of the Berliner Immobilien-Börse e.V. association and an honorary appraiser for the appraisal committee for property values ​​in Berlin. When the 100th anniversary was celebrated on October 1st, 1988, the father had already been running the company for 42 years.

Due to the fire on December 16, 1989 in the company’s office at Kurfürstendamm 185, we were forced to look for another domicile. We found it at Landshuter Strasse 1 in Berlin-Schöneberg.

The fact that all business documents and many memories of the company’s long history were destroyed in the fire was not easy at all for the senior boss. A few months after the fire, on April 2nd, 1990, he had passed away. Despite the pain of his death, the family business continues with full motivation. Alexander Caesar Behrendt was only 28 years old at the time and was following his father’s footsteps. Alexander Caesar Behrendt is also a member of the RDM.

His association membership was confirmed 1982 by an official certificate. He is a member of the board of directors and worked in the competition committee for a long time.

He now runs the business and sees maintaining the company’s special reputation as one of the most important investments in the future. In a fast-moving time with many changes, large construction projects and international companies are pushing their way to Berlin. There are still many tasks for an experienced and serious real estate company.

We will face them according to the motto:

Committed by tradition for the future!

Family-owned in 6th generation

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