Clemens von Merveldt (born 1961) has a degree in agricultural engineering and a "master" in horsemanship. Along with managing and organizing the whole operation, he also looks after the apprentices, shows horses and markets young dressage horses.
Andrea von Merveldt (born 1962) has a degree in business administration and was a successful rider in eventing all the way up to the German Championships for juniors. Along with bookkeeping and housekeeping, she was also active in the saddle and responsible for training young horses and riders.
Patricia Seddig (born 1990, nee v. Merveldt): Our daughter Patricia is now married to Alex Seddig but lives with her family on our farm. She was very successful as a junior rider and finished her studies in Business economics in Münster/Westfalia. She trains and shows our horses through the levels from riding horse classes up to advanced level. She has won the OL-Championship for 4 year old horses in Rastede with "Highlight OLD in 2022, competed several times at the Bundeschampionate in Warendorf and World Championships at Ermelo 2024 and Verden 2025. She was successful up to Grand Prix level not only with Floriscount but also with her self bred gelding Damons Hope. In addition she helps to manage our guesthouses.
Sebastian von Merveldt (born 1993): our son will take over the business at Gut Füchtel from October 2025. He has made several degrees in agriculure as well as a greenkeeper for our Golf yard. We are very proud that he is now starting to take the responsibility for the whole business at our farm. He will develope our work in the future with his proven experiences in business economist and agriculture.
Wibke Hammermann is our "stable manager". With her profund and deep experience in breeding and management her focus is the organisation of the stable work as well as vets, ferriers and all treatments of the horses. She cares about the broodmares with foaling as well as inseminations and is also open to answer all questions from clients about their horses boarded at Gut Füchtel.
Louise Norgaard Jensen is responsible for training and development of our young dressage horses. With her profund experiences in riding and training up tp Grand Prix, she takes care, that all our horses are trained in a horse friendly and careful way through the levels.
Mira Kaufmann is our trainee as a "Pferdewirtin", what means they are specialized in horse business and service!. As a future professional rider she will learn everthing around horse business as well as training of young and older dressage prospects. We try to give her a wide schedule of practice for her future career as real "horse specialists"!
Tobias Bothe is here with us more than 10 years now and a helpful hand all over the farm. He bring in straw and cleans the stables, feeds horses, takes care of the whole area to be clean and manages the tack rooms.
Markus Torbecke has a degree in agriculture [Landwirtschaftsmeister] and is responsible for the whole farming operation since more than 25 years now as well as for all machines to keep on working.
We cooperate closely with well-known clinics and specialized veterinarians in the region like the Horse Clinic at Muehlen (Drs Steinmann, Harland and Görgens) or the Lüsche Horse Clinic at Essen/Ol.