Big construction is currently underway at the Geltendorf train station.
Investor Nicolas Stoetter explains the background to the project.
Geltendorf
- When people start a conversation with Nicolas Stoetter, they are often surprised - that he is a nice, approachable, completely normal guy.
Not a bit arrogant or aloof.
Then he hears sentences like "You are not an investment rambo" - and has to smile.
The 33-year-old has such conversations particularly often at the Geltendorf train station, which he has bought and wants to redesign.
Of course, the project should bear fruit, but not just for him, but for all users.
Business ethics was a topic that interested him particularly during his business studies.
Earning money and doing something good shouldn't be mutually exclusive in Stoetter's eyes.
New construction should be based on the wishes of the citizens
In order to develop his concept for the train station not bypassing the needs of the users, he conducted a survey.
Result: Most people expressed realistic, comprehensible wishes - for a waiting room, a café, toilets, an ATM and magazine sales.
Stoetter would like to accommodate all of this on the ground floor of a three-story new building.
He has already had a dilapidated outbuilding partially demolished for this purpose.
In addition to the offers mentioned, he would also like to have a bike shop here and a doctor's practice and boarding house on the upper floors.
“I see a real chance that you can make something great out of the train station,” says the 33-year-old.
He has applied to the Federal Railway Authority for the necessary exemption from railway operations.
Since there is a six-month processing period there, he expects an answer in early 2021.
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Three floors: This is how the new station building should look.
© Visualization: Architects Maas
There is also scope for design in the main station building.
Here Stoetter would like to create a co-working space on around 250 square meters, i.e. shared offices in which the self-employed can rent.
A DHL packing station - also a request from rail commuters - has already been implemented.
And finally you have cell phone reception in the former radio hole that used to be the train station.
Stoetter showed business acumen at a young age
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The investor: Nicolas Stoetter.
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Stoetter, son of a doctor couple in Landshut, showed business acumen at a very young age.
He was still in elementary school when he told his parents that he didn't want pocket money, he wanted to earn something.
From then on he took over gardening at home and in the neighborhood, grew vegetables in his own greenhouse and sold them to friends.
When he was 13 he had saved 1,000 marks, which he - no joke - invested in the stock market.
His father provided the necessary signatures, but the investment decisions were made by the young investor himself. The money would increase and two years later be enough for a moped.
What followed was a complete disaster.
Stoetter lost his savings in the dot-com bubble, the crash of the New Economy in 2000. “That was bitter, but it didn't demotivate me,” the 33-year-old recalls.
"However, at the time I decided that the stock market was not for me."
His start-up was named the best start-up company
His next foray into business was far more successful.
At 15 he went to a Swiss boarding school and was soon responsible for the finances of a student company that brought a ski harness onto the market.
The start-up had a turnover of 100,000 euros and won a Europe-wide competition for the best young company.
“That was a cool experience,” recalls the father of a six-year-old daughter.
"Such a success is a bit addicting."
After studying business administration in St. Gallen and Chicago, Stoetter initially worked for a large management consultancy, but the question of meaning quickly arose.
"That was all too abstract for me."
He liked the work better as a consultant and project manager for a social business in Bangladesh (“by far the poorest, most densely populated and most chaotic country - on the other hand India is like Switzerland”).
Back in Germany, it was time for the next start-up - a razor blade subscription service that soon made millions in sales and has now been sold.
Today Nicolas Stoetter, who will become a father for the second time in December, lives with his family in Andechs and works as managing director of the digitization division in a private clinic group.
As an “impatient, restless ghost” he is constantly looking for new challenges and has now found one in the form of the Geltendorf train station.
His wife is also happy about that.
"She says that since I bought the train station, I've been much more relaxed."
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