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Foundation

A helping hand for your business idea

Starting a business means turning dreams into reality. Whether you have a brilliant idea or simply want to be your own boss at last. We’ll support you right from the start: with personalised advice, valuable networks and the necessary know-how.

Don’t go it alone – start with us. 

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Company

Businesses thrive with strong partners

We support entrepreneurs in the Steinfurt district with advice, funding programmes and valuable networks – for greater success, more innovation and more opportunities. We focus particularly on the topics of AI and business succession.

Support for businesses of all sizes.

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skilled workers

Recruiting skilled workers with WESt

We help companies, schools and other institutions find potential skilled workers – simply and sustainably.

Together with us.

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Location

Living and working well in the Steinfurt district

We want to maintain and further develop our region as a strong business location. We are driving forward the roll-out of fibre-optic broadband across the district and act as points of contact for commercial sites and properties of all kinds.

For the 24 towns and parishes in the Steinfurt district.

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Shareholder

Wirtschaftsförderungs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft Steinfurt mbH (WESt) was founded in 2000. Its sole shareholder is Beteiligungsgesellschaft des Kreises Steinfurt mbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the District of Steinfurt.

The governing bodies of WESt are the management board and the shareholders’ meeting.

Chairman:
Dr Martin Sommer

Deputy Chairman:
Rudolf Diekmann

Management:
Christian Holterhues

Members

MemberDeputy
Dr Martin Sommer, District AdministratorChristian Termathe
Robert EverwandDr André Böing
Karl KöstersWilfried Grunendahl
Lars LammeringAnnegret Raffel
Rudolf DiekmannReinhard Brüning
Markus GerwelerRalf Siemering
Gundula GromméFrank Sundermann
Kai BreheMirko Bamming
Laura GraslerChristine Bendschneider
Josua KümperGerrit Bresch
Dr Ekkehard GrütznerAlbert Üffing

Our Annual Report

Every year, the Annual Report provides a concise and transparent overview of how we support and strengthen the economy in the Steinfurt district – featuring facts, developments and projects from our wide-ranging remit.

Annual Report 2024

Newsletter

Stay up to date: our monthly newsletter provides information on upcoming events, funding opportunities, projects and other topics relating to business, start-ups, skilled workers and regional development in the Steinfurt district. You can find the latest issues of our newsletter here. 

Interested? You can sign up for the newsletter at the very bottom of this page!

 

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"Wirtschaft Münsterland" magazine

The magazine *Wirtschaft Münsterland* is published four times a year and provides information on companies, economic developments and exciting projects in the Steinfurt district and the Münsterland region. WESt is a co-publisher of the magazine. It focuses on company profiles, interviews, specialist topics and articles on training, science and securing a skilled workforce.

Click here for the latest issue:

April 2026