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With 50 years of experience in the automotive industry, we have used our own positive progress as a classical medium-sized car rental company to strengthen and develop affiliated mobility entrepreneurs and established a mobility service provider for mobility service providers with EUROPA SERVICE Mobility Partners.

We see ourselves as a reliable partner who operates in the background and enables its partners to act competitively and professionally on the end customer market. Therefore, our business is the mobility of our mobility partners, whose needs shape, guide and determine our service.

Our mission is to bridge the gap between big corporations and medium-sized mobility providers, so that both sides can make individual mobility solutions accessible to their customers in a sustainable and economical way. At the same time, it is a major concern for us to maintain the mobility middle class and enable innovative players access to the German mobility market.

Our mission statement is determined by our collaborative attitude. Instead of competing, we work together with the various players in the mobility industry. This creates a holistic portfolio of offers, which – irrespective of the company size – makes it attractive to be or become a mobility service provider.

Your mobility is our business

Individual solutions

Cooperation on an equal footing

Mobility Partner Overview

Mobility network of our mobility partners

More than 850 locations in Germany and abroad

Our purchasing volume of up to 26,000 vehicles per year covers the vehicle requirements of more than 250 mobility partners. Furthermore, it offers our high-quality network with more than 850 locations at home and abroad a comprehensive service, system and product portfolio via closed cooperation agreements. Therefore, EUROPA SERVICE Mobility Partners enables Mobility SMEs to establish their own competitive mobility business confidently and sustainably in the market.

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Since the merger of STARCAR and EUROPA SERVICE Autovermietung at the end of 2018, STARCAR EUROPA SERVICE GROUP AG is a highly effective unit of mobility experts with over 1,500 locations in Germany and Europe.

With more than 50 years of experience in the market, the Group pools the competencies of all business segments and thus positions itself as a future-oriented, holistic mobility provider.

Our Story

Looking ahead and with both feet on the ground, our products and services cover the entire range of mobility.

1965

Pioneers in car rental

Heinz Detjen founds “ES” Autovermietung GmbH in a small circle in Bremen as a pioneer for Germany’s largest association of independent car rental companies, now EUROPA SERVICE.

1988

Now there’s movement

In addition to “ES”, (Union Rent) UNIX-Rent GmbH & Co. KG is founded.

Founding members:
Otto Dornseifer
(O/D Leihwagen-Dienst Otto Dornseifer)
Herbert Meyer
(Autohaus Meyer GmbH)
Manfred Arndt
(Autovermietung Arndt GmbH)
Jürgen Mattern
(Werner Mattern GmbH Autovermietung)
Klaus Grezius
(Autoverleih Klaus Grezius)
Olaf Gernecke
(Zentrum Autovermietung GmbH)
Karl Max Siemon
(Carmax Karl Max Autovermietung GmbH)

1994

A new milestone



“ES” and “UNIX-Rent” want to go on their new path together and establish RC-Rental Cooperation GmbH & Co. Autovermietung KG. This is the first time they are operating as a united buyer in the automotive industry. The resulting high purchase quantities lead to much improved purchasing conditions for the affiliated licensees.

1995

Founders elect their managing director

Jens Erik Hilgerloh becomes Managing Director of UNIX-Rent and, in addition to Ralf Katzur, second Managing Director of the rental cooperation.

1996

The team continues to take shape

Markus Hoff, who will later join the Executive Board of UNIX-Rent as an Executive Assistant, is recruited.

1997

With the public limited company comes financial strength

RC Rental Cooperation GmbH & Co. Autovermietung KG becomes a public limited company, containing UNIX-Rent as well as EUROPA SERVICE. This new company is rebranded as EUROPA SERVICE Autovermietung AG. This will reinforce the densest network of locations in Germany with a financially strong umbrella organisation, which is by now much more than a purchasing group. At that time, STARCAR was already part of the car rental group.

2000

Entering the European arena

Detlef Kehler, who will later become Chief Financial Officer at EUROPA SERVICE, is recruited.

In the same year, EUROPA SERVICE Holding B.V. in Holland is founded, whereby the company also targets the rest of Europe little by little with its own locations and partnerships.

2006

Pioneers in the future megatrend of car sharing

Even before Apple changed the mobile world with the first iPhone, Drive-Carsharing GmbH is established as one of the first carsharing companies in Germany. It begins working on this concept for the future at an early stage and to supplement it with alternative forms of propulsion such as battery-electric mobility.

2008

A sense of the future & ES International

It is recognised early on that car manufacturers and their dealers must integrate vertically in order to meet the needs of customers in the future. For this reason, it is attractive to become involved in Auto-Rent Systems GmbH, which already operates such a system, to offer the automotive industry further development to become mobility service providers through plug-n-play concepts. In addition, foreign subsidiaries in Italy, Hungary and Turkey are established.

2018

The merger as an enabler of the future & ES Rent a Car

EUROPA SERVICE Holding AG acquires a majority stake in STAR CAR GmbH. The companies thus combine their expertise in the B2B and B2C sector and, as mobility experts from the outset, together cover almost the entire value chain of the modern world of mobility. The new group will be encased in the umbrella brand “STARCAR EUROPA SERVICE GROUP AG” and the associated, strong end-user brand “STARCAR”.

In addition, Europa Service rent a car is established in Spain.

2020

Opening of Rent a Car dealership in Monheim

Opening of the first B2C car dealership in Monheim under Rent a car GmbH, which has already operated in the B2B vehicle trade nationally and internationally.

2022

Branding Refresh

With a focus on our core competence as a B2B mobility service providerand our understanding of values for partnership, down-to-earth quality, practice and service orientation, the brand identity was updated. In this context, the new company name EUROPA SERVICE Mobility Partners AG emphasises the network of numerous mobility partners,who operate together on an equal footing and position themselves as a strong unit in the world of mobility.

Germany

Stefanie Lehmann Stefanie Lehmann

Agencies and franchises STARCAR

Licence holder EUROPA SERVICE

Netherlands

Managing Director EUROPA SERVICE Fleet BV

Italy

Managing Director EUROPA SERVICE Italia

France

Jannis Hilgerloh Jannis Hilgerloh

Managing Director ES rent a car

Poland

Jannis Hilgerloh Jannis Hilgerloh

Managing Director ES rent a car

Turkey

Süleyman Uyulan Süleyman Uyulan

Süleyman Uyulan

Managing Director EUROPA SERVICE Otomotiv Ltd. Sirketi

Sweden

Jannis Hilgerloh Jannis Hilgerloh

Managing Director ES rent a car

Spain & Balearics

Jannis Hilgerloh Jannis Hilgerloh

Managing Director ES rent a car

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Location

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42699 Solingen

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