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The Tempton Group, based in Essen, has taken over the skilled personnel division (Sparte Fachpersonal) of the KÖNIG Group in Moringen near Göttingen with effect from 1 October 2026, Gerloff Liebler Rechtsanwälte announced. The self-administration proceedings for KÖNIG Fachpersonal GmbH & Co. KG are conducted by managing directors Christian Stoffler of Gerloff Liebler Rechtsanwälte as CRO and Fredrik Ljungman (Ljungman CRO GmbH).
According to the announcement, Tempton will take over all but five of the currently around 800 employees and continue all of the division’s locations in Germany. A separate solution is still being negotiated for the three Austrian locations, operated through a separate company with around 360 further employees. Tempton is an owner-managed group with more than 250 branches and more than 13,000 employees and ranks among the five largest personnel service providers in Germany.
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Both the creditors’ committee and Markus Kohlstedt (ECKERT Rechtsanwälte, Hannover), the court-appointed custodian (Sachwalter), approved the transaction. The self-administration proceedings for KÖNIG Fachpersonal GmbH & Co. KG, applied for in mid-August, were opened on 1 October 2026.
Christian Stoffler, restructuring managing director of the KÖNIG Group, said that the structured investor process for KÖNIG Fachpersonal had attracted great interest from several well-known parties, and that the agreement with Tempton had created clarity for almost all employees just six weeks after the start of the proceedings.
For detailed information, as well as the picture copyright, please see the law firm’s original article here: https://gl-law.de/2026/10/17/tempton-group-uebernimmt-sparte-fachpersonal-der-koenig-gruppe/
