SPIRIT

As part of the reor­gan­i­sa­tion of the Rapp Group into Rapp AG, the man­age­ment team of Schaf­frin­na, Riedel, Brossok and Fis­ch­er decid­ed to found SOLTIC AG. Most of the pre­vi­ous col­leagues fol­lowed suit, so that work began in sum­mer 2022 with a team of 25 employ­ees in the St. Jakob­turm in Basel.

With the Rapp Group’s new brand iden­ti­ty, Rapp OTB AG rebrand­ed as Rapp Indus­trieplan­er AG in 2014. Fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of Philippe Mat­ter in sum­mer 2014, Alexan­der Schaf­frin­na was appoint­ed as his suc­ces­sor. In the years that fol­lowed, the man­age­ment team of Schaf­frin­na, Riedel, Brossok and Fis­ch­er accel­er­at­ed the devel­op­ment of Rapp Indus­trieplan­er AG. 

OTB AG was acquired by Rapp in 2012. As a result, the com­pa­ny was renamed and inte­grat­ed into the Rapp Group as Rapp OTB AG. Dan­ny Riedel and Alexan­der Schaf­frin­na took over the man­age­ment of two new­ly cre­at­ed depart­ments. 

In 2009, the man­age­ment of OTB AG decid­ed to strength­en its col­lab­o­ra­tion with well-known clients for gen­er­al plan­ning projects by acquir­ing a minor­i­ty stake in Rapp. This was done in order to secure the future of the indus­tri­al plan­ning team.  

Fol­low­ing the bank­rupt­cy of Suter+Suter, the indus­tri­al plan­ners became inde­pen­dent in 1995 under the man­age­ment of Philippe Mat­ter. Even then, Beat Fis­ch­er and Klaus Brossok were part of the high­ly moti­vat­ed team. OTB AG grew, and in 2002 Alexan­der Schaf­frin­na and Dan­ny Riedel joined as young engi­neers.