Overview
- Schussenrieder Brauerei Ott had a preliminary insolvency opened by the Ravensburg court on June 12 and is running under a court‑appointed provisional administrator who has secured bank accounts and blocked unilateral asset moves.
- The Aktienbrauerei Kaufbeuren applied for insolvency in self‑administration and received court approval to continue production while a restructuring team and a provisional trustee take charge of the rescue process.
- Both breweries are keeping operations and deliveries going and workers’ pay is covered short term by state insolvency wage support that typically lasts about three months.
- Company advisers and local lawyers point to the same causes: a sharp drop in beer sales, rising energy and raw‑material costs, and weaker consumer spending that left margins too tight for some smaller, family and regional brewers.
- The cases feed a wider trend of brewery distress in Germany since 2023 and will be decided by either investor takeovers, court‑led restructurings or, if those fail, liquidation, with jobs and local supply the immediate stakes to watch.