CLIENTE / PACKED FOR: Gepack fur Helmut Horten GMBH – Dusseldorf Horten AG (Aktiengesellschaft) was a German department store chain founded by Helmut Horten in 1936 and headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany. With up to 80 stores throughout Germany, Horten ranked fourth-largest among German department store chains, after Karstadt, Kaufhof and Hertie. Helmut Horten (January 8, 1909, Bonn – November 30, 1987, Croglio, Switzerland) was a German entrepreneur who built up and owned the fourth-largest chain of department stores in Germany – the Horten AG.