Dorsten, 01. September 2025. It is with deep sorrow and great sadness that we say goodbye to our husband, father, founder, and managing director of the NIG Naumann Real Estate Group, Lars Naumann, who passed away unexpectedly and far too soon three weeks ago after a short, serious illness. His death has affected us deeply and hit us hard.
Over 30 years ago, he laid the foundation for the Naumann Real Estate Group—a family business that he built with great dedication, expertise, and vision. Under his leadership, the group developed into a reliable partner in the real estate industry, characterized by trust, consistency, and personal relationships.
We are proud of what he has built and grateful for the foundation he has left us. Today, the Naumann Real Estate Group combines the areas of transaction consulting, investment, project development, and real estate consulting. Our off-market business continues to be particularly influential, focusing on confidentiality, exclusivity, and personal contact with selected investor circles—values that Lars cultivated and passed on over decades.
With his extensive network of institutional investors, real estate funds, project developers, insurance companies, pension funds, family offices, and other partners, he has supported significant transactions throughout Germany. In doing so, he has repeatedly tackled a wide variety of problems and successfully solved them with his many years of expertise, high level of determination, and great optimism. He consciously and confidently handed this network over to us—his sons and employees—from the very beginning. We want to continue working on this basis and carry it responsibly into the future.
In addition to his entrepreneurial achievements, we will remember Lars above all as a person, husband, and father: inspiring, appreciative, warm, and optimistic. We carry within us the values he exemplified—reliability, integrity, responsibility, courage, and confidence. They will guide us in our actions and in the further development of our company.
We – Luis and Timon Naumann – together with Fabian Büttner, who has played a decisive role in shaping the Naumann Real Estate Group together with us in recent years, will continue to run the company in his spirit and with pride.
Finally, we would like to express our heartfelt thanks to everyone who accompanied Lars on his journey.