Rennbahn Hoppegarten GmbH & Co. KG

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Rennbahn Hoppegarten GmbH & Co. KG operates the Hoppegarten racecourse, a historic European thoroughbred racing venue with a history dating back to 1868. The site has hosted major races such as the Henckel-Rennen, Schwarzgold-Rennen, Preis der Diana, Goldene Peitsche, and the Große Preis von Berlin, and historically supported a large training operation (in its early period more than 40 stables and over 800 horses). In the postwar era and in East Germany, the operation was managed as VE Rennbetriebe until 1974 and later by VEB Vollblutrennbahnen, with about 22 race days annually and eight editions of the Internationale Meeting der sozialistischen Länder. Privatization occurred when, in 2008, the racecourse was purchased by a private investor under a contract with Treuhand-Nachfolgegesellschaft, making Hoppegarten Germany’s first privately invested racecourse and enabling ongoing investments and renovations; prior to this, the property operated under arrangements including a long-term Erbbaurechtsvertrag and ownership by BVVG via Rennbahn Hoppegarten GmbH & Co. KG.