Crew
Trust, reliability, and clear responsibilities are crucial for managing a foundation. Behind StiftungsHafen are experienced professionals who combine financial, legal, and organizational expertise and assume responsibility for long-term management. Founders entrust us with their assets, ideas, and long-term goals. This requires not only professional competence but also continuity, transparency, and a shared understanding of responsibility. Our team combines decades of experience in banking, asset management, succession planning, and foundation management.
Michael Lürßen
Michael Lürßen has more than forty years of professional experience in banking and has specialized in financial and succession planning over the past fifteen years. During this time, the establishment of or participation in foundations has been a recurring element in advising his clients.
Driven by his interest in the charitable sector, Michael Lürßen has taken on responsibility in several foundations, including serving as a board member of the Bernd Artin Wessel Cancer Foundation in Bremen. In addition, both during his clients’ lifetimes and in estate cases, he has designed, established, and supported several trust foundations over many years. For him, the focus is always on the appropriate implementation of the founders’ wishes and translating them into effective funding projects.
Alongside his advisory work, Michael Lürßen has built a network of specialized lawyers and tax advisors and served for four years as a board member of Stiftungshaus Bremen e. V. Specialized academic programs in foundation management, financial and succession planning, and estate administration complement his practical experience and form the basis for the professional support of the foundations managed at StiftungsHafen.
Dirk Bengen
Dirk Bengen is the Managing Director of StiftungsHafen Treuhandgesellschaft mbH and has been active in the financial sector for more than two decades. After 26 years working in various banks, including in the support of foundations, he specialized as an independent financial and succession planner as well as a foundation manager, focusing on the structured guidance of high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurial families, and foundation founders.
Based on his studies in financial economics and his qualification as a Certified Estate and Foundation Planner (CFEP), Dirk Bengen combines financial, legal, and tax perspectives to develop sustainable solutions. One of his key areas of focus is the development and implementation of foundation models within the context of succession planning. He understands the challenges founders face and places particular importance on structuring assets so they can create long-term impact for the public good.
Responsibility, transparency, and long-term thinking define his work. Dirk Bengen views foundations as instruments for sustainable social engagement—built on clear structures, reliable management, and communication that creates trust and endures across generations.
Jörg Grotheer
Jörg Grotheer is Managing Director of StiftungsHafen Treuhandgesellschaft mbH and a banking specialist with many years of experience in the private banking sector. In various banking institutions, he has advised high-net-worth private clients and entrepreneurial families, specializing in structured asset management. Since 2019, he has been working as an asset manager, responsible for managing securities portfolios and specialized mandates— increasingly with a focus on the requirements of charitable foundations.
At StiftungsHafen, Jörg Grotheer contributes his expertise in capital markets and structural planning. He ensures that investment guidelines, risk profiles, and time horizons align with the purpose, statutes, and long-term objectives of each foundation. In collaboration with banks, asset managers, and tax advisors, he ensures that investment decisions are clearly documented and made in accordance with the legal requirements for charitable organizations.
Reliability, transparency, and a careful approach to risk characterize his work. Jörg Grotheer combines a Hanseatic understanding of commercial solidity with the goal of structuring foundation assets so they can create long-term impact—serving both the founders and the projects they support.
A Conversation Is the Beginning of Clarity
In a personal exchange, we gain a clear understanding of your goals and outline a suitable foundation structure — discreetly, thoughtfully, and without obligation.