Always welcoming. We know time is valuable!

Along with outstanding cuisine, the association's partner hotels have created a wide range of tailor-made leisure, sports and wellness offers that are adapted to the needs of each individual guest. All seven member hotels enjoy international renown for their compelling synthesis of tradition and modernity. And there's a special focus on the precious asset of time. That's why the wellbeing of guests of all generations is right at the heart of what we do.

About us

The vision

With passion and a common marketing vision, three German grand hotels came together in 1987 to found the Selection of German Luxury Hotels: the Nassauer Hof in Wiesbaden, the Hamburg Vier Jahreszeiten, and the Breidenbacher Hof in Düsseldorf. Among the association’s aims were a resolve to face global competition together, to declare their faith in the domestic luxury hotel industry, and to develop it ever further.

Global appeal

The seven members of the Selection of German Luxury Hotels are all internationally renowned oases of luxury and exceptional hospitality. Over the past few decades, they have decisively shaped the international image of the high-end German hotel industry with their devotion to quality and their focus on the precious asset of time.

Strong together

Member hotels don’t just benefit from the partnership in the area of sales & marketing. Synergies are consciously created in an extensive employee and trainee support network. Joint education, training and exchange programmes are developed together. Since 2014, the association has awarded an annual scholarship in collaboration with the IST-Studieninstitut Düsseldorf. The close cooperation between the association's HR managers is founded on an awareness that training in Germany has an outstanding tradition, but should be designed in a contemporary way.

Support is a management matter

Ingo C. Peters, association chairman and General Manager and Regional Vice President Europe of the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten, sees it as one of his most important tasks to encourage new partners to seize the benefits of Selection status and join the alliance. In 2009 he took over the chairmanship of the Selection of German Luxury Hotels, succeeding his friend and colleague Karl Nüser, managing partner at Nassauer Hof Wiesbaden, after 20 years as chairman.

Successful connection

In 2022 the Selection of German Luxury Hotels celebrated its 35th anniversary.

The best thing about the Selection is – its partners!

Sylt

Heiligendamm

Hamburg

Düsseldorf

Cologne

Baden Baden

Fuschlsee Salzburg

Christian Siegling

Managing Director
Severin*s Resort & Spa
Sylt

It’s with great passion that I run and host the wonderful Severin*s Resort & Spa. For myself and my staff, the art of high-end hospitality is to be found in a perfect balance between professionalism, the highest standards, and lightness of touch - so that our guests can enjoy laid-back modern luxury throughout their stay.

Mathias Gerds

General Manager
Grand Hotel Heiligendamm

The happy faces of our guests and satisfied colleagues are the daily measure of my work. Georg Hegel once said that nothing great in the world was ever achieved without passion, and it is precisely this passion and willingness to serve that makes a hotel and its employees special. The passion and the joy of serving the guest, every day.

Ingo C. Peters

General Manager & Regional Vice President
Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten
Hamburg

For 125 years we've been making history at the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten. Offering guests from all around the world first-class service in a lakeside setting of timeless elegance in the heart of the Hanseatic city of Hamburg.

Cyrus Heydarian

Managing Director & Owner
Breidenbacher Hof
Düsseldorf

We are individual but not inflexible. Unique but not eccentric. Attentive but not intrusive. Honest but not abrupt. Exclusive but not arrogant. Healthy but not austere. Experience-oriented but not overloaded. Happy but not fake. Pleasure-loving but not trend-obsessed. Experts but not bores. Düsseldorfers but cosmopolitan.

Georg Plesser

Managing Director
Excelsior Hotel Ernst
Cologne

The Excelsior Hotel Ernst has been a grand hotel and place of culinary surprises since 1863. Located right beside world-famous Cologne Cathedral in the heart of the Old Town, we love to welcome guests who bring not only luggage with them but high expectations. You'll find genuine hospitality, a big personality, and profound respect for our guests’ wishes. Service that we interpret warmly, in the Cologne way. Because after all, we are a grand hotel heart and soul.

Henning Matthiesen

Managing Director
Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa
Baden Baden

The member hotels of the Selection of German Luxury Hotels are oases of luxury with a worldwide reputation. With its strong commitment to quality and service, our association has shaped the image of the high-end German hotel industry over the past decades.