Change in the Management Board of Deutsche Leasing for savings bank and SME business

Bad Homburg, 18.12.2024

The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Leasing has appointed David Gerstner to the Management Board with effect from 1 December 2025. David Gerstner, currently Deputy Chairman of Sparkasse Hochrhein, will take over the department focussing on savings bank and SME business. He will succeed Rainer Weis, who will retire on 30 November 2025 after 15 years on the Management Board of Deutsche Leasing.
 

‘With David Gerstner, Deutsche Leasing is gaining an experienced savings bank expert. He has extensive expertise in the successful management and strategic development of financial institutions,’ says Alexander Wüerst, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Leasing.

David Gerstner is currently Deputy Chairman of Sparkasse Hochrhein. He previously worked for several years at Kreissparkasse Esslingen-Nürtingen in management positions, most recently as Head of Key Account & Corporate Finance and Deputy Member of the Management Board. Following an apprenticeship at Dresdner Bank and a degree in business administration, he began his career at Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, where he worked as an Authorised Signatory and Senior Project Manager in the corporate loans department.

‘We are delighted to have found an orderly succession plan at such an early stage,’ says Kai Ostermann, CEO of Deutsche Leasing. ‘We would like to thank Rainer Weis for his great commitment over many years – especially in the successful intensification of intra-Group business with the savings banks. With David Gerstner, we are gaining a colleague who is very experienced in corporate customer business and in the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe.’
 

About Deutsche Leasing

The Deutsche Leasing Group is the solution-oriented asset finance partner for the German SME sector. The company provides support for investment projects in Germany and other countries and offers a wide range of financing solutions (asset finance) and supplementary services (asset services) for current and non-current assets. The company helps its customers to finance change and innovation when it comes to the key transformative issues of our time – in the areas of decarbonisation, digitalisation and forward-looking infrastructure. As a central and international group partner, the Deutsche Leasing Group is Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe’s centre of excellence for leasing, factoring as well as other alternative forms of financing. Within this group, the savings banks in Germany are able to meet their corporate and company customers’ individual needs and offer them advice as well as financing products tailored to their specific investment projects. In its international business segment, Deutsche Leasing supports its German customers’ activities in over 20 countries, including their core European export markets as well as China, the USA, Canada and Brazil. For over 60 years, Deutsche Leasing has helped its small and medium-sized customers from industry, commerce, the service sector and the public sector to invest in innovation and transformation.