Overview
- A court in Göttingen granted preliminary insolvency in self‑administration for the König holding and its two operating units, placing a provisional custodian and restructuring managers alongside existing management.
- Day‑to‑day operations continue across more than 15 German sites and Austrian subsidiaries while the court‑supervised team works to stabilise the group.
- About 1,000 employees are affected and will receive insolvency pay from the Federal Employment Agency for three months, with roughly 900 of those staff working as temporary-assignment specialists.
- Restructuring advisers say the group’s troubles stem from low utilisation, rising price and margin pressure, and internal structural problems that weakened profitability.
- A structured investor process has begun to seek either a group‑wide buyer or sales and continuation of individual units, with the stated target of finding viable solutions by the end of the year.