GFA HISTORY
Klaus Altemeier and Christoph Schaefer-Kehnert retire as CEOs from GFA Holding AG and GFA Consulting Group GmbH and hand over to Anja Desai and Ilona Schadl.
GFA Consulting Group GmbH becomes a signatory of the UN Global Compact.
GFA Consulting Group GmbH signs the letter of intent to officially become a member of the Make IT Alliance, an initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
GFA Climate & Infrastructure (Pty.) Limited in Cape Town, South Africa, is founded.
Jonathan First and Daniel Wahby are its Managing Directors.
GFA Holding AG sells its shares in GFA Public GmbH to the managing directors of the company.
GFA Certification GmbH is founded in Hamburg, Carsten Huljus is Managing Director. Jörn Ackermann takes over the management of the company in 2016.
The GFA Campus in Hamburg-Volksdorf expands again with a newly built office block.
GFAM GmbH (Global Forest Asset Management), a joint-venture with Montan Alternative Investment, is founded. Managing Directors are Nils von Schmidt und Eckbrecht von Grone.
Günter Schmidt retires as Managing Director of GFA Holding AG and GFA Consulting Group GmbH and hands over to Heiko Weißleder.
Founder Johannes Lagemann withdraws from day-to-day business.
Klaus Altemeier, Christoph Schaefer-Kehnert and Heiko Weißleder form the Management Board at GFA Holding AG and GFA Consulting Group GmbH.
As part of a management buy-out the HASPA BGM becomes shareholder in the GFA Beteiligungs GmbH.
GFA Consulting Group GmbH moves its Bonn office to Berlin.
GFA Public GmbH is founded in Berlin, Managing Directors are Friedemann Christ und Florian Niedlich.
GFA Envest GmbH is founded. Managing Directors are Joachim Schnurr, joined by Jasper Lauert in 2009.
GFA Terra Systems GmbH, GFA Management GmbH and GFA Medica GmbH are merged into GFA Consulting Group GmbH. Managing Directors are Klaus Altemeier, Johannes Lagemann, Christoph Schaefer-Kehnert and Günter Schmidt.
Thalys Conseil S.A.R.L. is founded in Rabat, Morocco, with Mehdi Zirari and from 2012 Daniel Wahby as its Managing Directors.
GFA Holding AG withdraws from GFA Infrastruktur und Umweltschutz GmbH. The remaining shareholders rename the company GFI Umwelt GmbH.
GFA LUB GmbH becomes GFA Holding GmbH which becomes GFA Holding AG in the following year with Johannes Lagemann as director.
GFA Medica International Health Consulting GmbH is founded in Munich (later GFA Medica GmbH) with Christoph Heuschkel and Johannes Lagemann at the Management Board.
Johannes Lagemann hands over to Heiko Weißleder in 2003.
The employees of GFA Agrar GmbH found the GFA Mitarbeiter-Beteiligungsgesellschaft GbR and acquire 10% shares in GFA Agrar GmbH. All managing directors are required to hold an equity stake in the company, thereby becoming shareholders and assuming shared risk. Senior managers may also participate, and many long-serving employees do so through the employee investment scheme. In 1998 GFA Mitarbeiter-Beteiligungsgesellschaft GbR becomes a shareholder of GFA Holding AG.
Klaus Altemeier joyns the Managing Board of GFA International Management Consulting GmbH.
GFA Agrar GmbH is mandated by the German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry (BML) as General Agent for its technical cooperation programme in the agricultural sectors in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). For this mandate GFA Agrar GmbH opens an office in Bonn. Subsequently GFA Agrar GmbH was also awarded to organise and manage the international "East-West Agrarforum" at the Grüne Woche in Berlin for more then 10 Years.
GFA Infrastruktur und Umweltschutz GmbH is founded in Bonn.
The Managing Directors are Rolf G. Niemeyer and Klaus-Peter Gilles.
First long-term contract in South-East Asia in the Social Forestry Development Project (SFDP) in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. It continues until 2002 (Ernst Küster, Team Leder).
GFA LUB GmbH (Landwirtschaftliche Unternehmensberatung GmbH) is founded to provide consulting services in the privatisation process of state-owned companies in the new federal states of Germany.
GFA Agritec GmbH, formally GFA-Agroindustrie und Technik Consulting GmbH, is founded in Frankfurt with Peter Munzinger as Managing Director (closed 2004).
GFA International Management Consulting GmbH is founded in Hamburg (later GFA Management GmbH) with Johannes Lageman as Managing Director.
GFA Agrar GmbH’s shortens its official name to “Gesellschaft für Agrarprojekte GmbH”.
GFA Agrar GmbH moves to new offices in Hamburg-Volksdorf.
Bernhard Riggers becomes Head of Finance.
First contracts for long-term projects for the European Union in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in Mauritania and Senegal in cooperation with Agroprogess Kienbaum International GmbH.
29th July – Johannes Lagemann and Hans Jahnke establish the Gesellschaft für Agrarprojekte in Übersee mbH (GFA Agrar GmbH) with its first office in Hamburg-Duvenstedt.