our story

In 1927, Oscar and George Greiff started Greiff Brothers Garage in Perham, Minnesota. What started as a small auto repair shop grew to a regional car service center and dealership when Walter Matz joined the company in 1938. Matz & Greiff was a succesfull Plymouth Chrysler car dealership for over 60 years. The company has always focused on customer service and became a well known brand in the local area. However, it remained a small town business located in the heart of lakes country in West Central Minnesota until Dirk Ockhardt purchased the company’s building including business rights and brand name in 2017.

Dirk transformed MATZ & GREIFF into a multi-business company all out of its original historic building in minnesota. His passion for advertising and publishing allowed him to grow a successful local lifestyle magazine, podcast and regional trade-show. His sense for opportunity led him to buy, grow, and re-sell the most known real estate company for recreational properties in the area. He became an active real-estate developer and started to manufacture and sell goods internationally. 

In 2023 he reconciled most of his business activities to focus on investing and trading. MATZ & GREIFF is investing in startups, scale ups as well as established businesses and always looking to find new opportunities. Trading goods is in the company DNA which remains our core activity. We are specialized in rare objects including art, watches, classic cars or other collectibles which we help to locate or assist selling for our clients.
We both buy or act as brokers.