Who We Are
Behind Scholz Capital Holding are Oliver and Sandra Scholz. Together, they combine municipal project development, strategic business structuring, practical experience, and a clear understanding of the challenges facing municipalities, companies, investors, and private clients.
Oliver Scholz is a project developer specializing in municipal infrastructure, Managing Partner of Scholz Capital Holding GmbH, and shareholder of VIDA WORLD. After ten years as Managing Director of VIDA WORLD, he is now applying his experience more broadly: to municipal projects, business initiatives, investment models, and private construction clients who require clear structures, reliable cost frameworks, and professional project development.
Through his direct work with cities, municipalities, and public institutions, Oliver Scholz identifies infrastructure needs at an early stage. He has repeatedly seen that worthwhile projects rarely fail because there is no demand. Instead, they fail because of insufficient project management, uncontrolled cost development, weak financial structuring, poorly coordinated interfaces, or decisions made too late in the process.
This experience also forms the foundation of SCHOLZ BAUKONZEPTE’s work on private and commercial construction projects. The objective is to help clients, investors, and business owners avoid unnecessary costs, identify planning risks early, and establish a sound project structure from the very beginning. Clear processes, reliable decision-making frameworks, and transparent cost management create confidence not only for the client, but also for financing banks and capital partners.
Oliver and Sandra Scholz personally support their clients throughout the process. The focus is always on the actual assignment: What solution is genuinely needed? How can it be implemented in an economically sound way? And what structure will remain viable over the long term?
Through Scholz Capital Holding, Oliver and Sandra Scholz invest in companies, concepts, and product developments that contribute to the future of municipalities, private clients, and businesses. Their focus is on sustainable, economically sound, and community-oriented solutions that work in practice and create measurable value.
SCHOLZ BAUKONZEPTE stands for disciplined quality management and an above-average standard of quality in planning, development, coordination, and execution. Every project is approached with the expectation that details must be reliable, decisions must be economically justified, and results must meet a high long-term standard.
Our principle: clear structures, viable solutions, exceptional quality, and lasting value.
Our Home: Freiburg, Germany
Freiburg im Breisgau is located in south-west Germany, between the Rhine plain and the slopes of the Black Forest, close to France and Switzerland. The city combines a historic urban identity, a strong university and research environment and an exceptional commitment to quality of life. Internationally, Freiburg is widely recognised as a “Green City” and as a place where sustainability has been developed through practical projects rather than through abstract promises.
For us, Freiburg represents the idea that environmental responsibility, economic strength and an attractive urban environment do not have to contradict one another. Sustainability can improve architecture, mobility, public spaces, energy security and the everyday experience of citizens when it is planned intelligently and implemented with a clear understanding of local needs.
A City That Turns Sustainability into Practice
Freiburg’s approach extends far beyond individual solar installations or isolated environmental projects. The city connects energy and climate protection, sustainable construction, urban development, mobility, water management, biodiversity, green spaces, education and citizen participation within a broader municipal strategy.
Districts such as Vauban and Rieselfeld demonstrate how housing, public transport, green spaces, social infrastructure and public areas can be developed as parts of one coordinated neighbourhood concept. These districts have become internationally recognised examples of sustainable urban development and continue to attract professional visitors from around the world.
Freiburg is not a completed model and not every solution can simply be transferred to another municipality. Its real strength lies in its willingness to test new ideas, evaluate results and continuously improve the relationship between buildings, infrastructure, mobility, nature and community life.
Solar Energy and Research
Solar energy has played a defining role in Freiburg’s development. The city is home to the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, one of the world’s largest solar research institutes. The institute develops practical technologies for photovoltaics, energy systems and the transition towards a secure and economically viable renewable energy supply.
This expertise is visible throughout the city. Photovoltaic systems are integrated into residential buildings, public facilities, commercial properties and municipal projects. Freiburg’s town hall in Stühlinger was designed as a plus-energy building whose solar systems generate more energy than the building requires in operation.
The close connection between research, local businesses, skilled trades, planners and municipal institutions has created a strong regional network for renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainable construction.
Sustainable Buildings and Liveable Neighbourhoods
Freiburg shows that sustainable construction must be considered as part of an entire neighbourhood. Energy-efficient buildings are combined with public transport, pedestrian routes, cycle connections, green spaces, rainwater systems, social facilities and places where people can meet.
The objective is not to create technology-dominated environments. The human being remains at the centre. Buildings and infrastructure should support daily life, reduce long-term operating costs and create surroundings in which people feel comfortable. Freiburg’s sustainable urban development therefore combines ecological responsibility with architecture, social cohesion and high-quality public spaces.
What Freiburg Means to Scholz Baukonzepte
Freiburg has shaped the way we think about municipal and private project development. We believe that buildings should never be planned in isolation. Energy, water, mobility, public spaces, social infrastructure, long-term operating costs and the needs of residents must be considered together.
We do not copy Freiburg’s solutions. Every municipality has its own identity, financial capacity and local requirements. However, we apply the principles that have made Freiburg internationally respected: integrated planning, responsible use of resources, high-quality architecture, practical innovation and a consistent focus on the people who will live, work and spend time within the completed development.
Freiburg is more than our home. It is an environment that has shaped our understanding of responsible and future-oriented project development.
