Deutsche Telekom AG
Company Description
Deutsche Telekom AG is a German stock corporation (Aktiengesellschaft) registered in the commercial register (Handelsregister) at the Amtsgericht Bonn under number HRB 6794, with its registered address at Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 140, 53113 Bonn. Commercial-register-linked sources place the company’s constitution as a stock corporation in early January 1995, when it emerged as the successor to Deutsche Bundespost TELEKOM under the second postal reform (Postreform II). Zavia’s internal record currently shows an incorporation date of 1 January 1994, which could not be independently confirmed from the sources reviewed and should be treated as approximate pending direct Handelsregister verification. The registry records the company’s status as active.
Deutsche Telekom AG is the German parent operating company of one of the world’s largest integrated telecommunications and information-technology groups. In Germany, its principal market, the group provides fixed-line and mobile telecommunications, broadband internet, television and information and communications technology (ICT) services to residential and business customers, primarily through its operating business Telekom Deutschland. Internationally, the group operates in the United States under the T-Mobile brand, in a number of European countries through national and regional operators, and through T-Systems, its enterprise IT and digital-services business, and GD Towers, a telecommunications-tower infrastructure business.
Deutsche Telekom AG shares are listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Frankfurter Wertpapierborse) under the ticker DTE, ISIN DE0005557508, and are a constituent of Germany’s blue-chip DAX index. As a listed issuer, the company is subject to the disclosure and reporting obligations administered by Germany’s federal financial supervisory authority, BaFin, including notification of voting-rights and major-shareholding changes under the German Securities Trading Act (Wertpapierhandelsgesetz, WpHG).
For the 2025 financial year, Deutsche Telekom reported consolidated Group net revenue of approximately €119.1 billion, up 2.9% year-on-year, and adjusted EBITDA after leases (EBITDA AL) of approximately €44.2 billion, with earnings per share of €1.97. These are consolidated Group-level figures covering all reporting segments and should not be read as the results of Deutsche Telekom AG as a standalone legal entity; the Group reported a broadly stable headcount of approximately 199,000 employees worldwide at the end of the reporting period. In an October 2025 update reiterated through 2026, Deutsche Telekom confirmed it holds 52.8% of the capital of T-Mobile US, Inc. and stated it has no plans to sell T-Mobile US shares during 2026, while continuing to review options to increase that stake further.
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Shareholders
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Shareholders of Deutsche Telekom AG
Deutsche Telekom AG is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (DAX), so its disclosed shareholder base under German rules is limited to holders whose voting rights cross statutory WpHG notification thresholds, not a complete shareholder register. According to Deutsche Telekom’s own investor relations disclosure, as of 30 June 2026 the Federal Republic of Germany held a direct stake of 14.22% (689,601,413 shares) and KfW, the German state development bank, held 14.37% (696,778,706 shares), together representing a combined government-linked position of 28.59% of share capital. The remaining 71.41% is held in free float, predominantly by domestic and international institutional investors, with no other single investor publicly reported at a notifiable stake above the government position.
Zavia’s internal shareholder dataset for this company holds 5 stored records out of 18 total indexed for the company, including Boston Common Asset Management LLC, Capital Income Builder, a Boston Common ESG Impact International fund, Gabelli Multimedia Trust Inc. and Paradigm Asset Management Company LLC. The percentage figures attached to these records reflect each holder’s share of this partial, five-record sample rather than a verified percentage of Deutsche Telekom AG’s total issued share capital, and should not be relied upon as ownership percentages of the company; they indicate only that Zavia’s underlying provider dataset holds fund/asset-manager level records for this issuer, separate from the verified government position described above.
Ultimate beneficial ownership
No single natural person qualifies as an ultimate beneficial owner of Deutsche Telekom AG under standard control thresholds. The only holders reported at a level relevant to control are the Federal Republic of Germany (14.22% direct, as of 30 June 2026) and KfW (14.37%), a state-owned promotional bank wholly owned by the Federal Republic of Germany and the federal states. Because KfW’s own ownership sits with the German state, its Deutsche Telekom holding and the Bund’s direct holding are commonly discussed together as a combined government position of 28.59% (as of 30 June 2026). This is disclosed as a shareholding position under WpHG voting-rights rules, not as a formal UBO declaration, and sits below the 30% threshold that would trigger German takeover-bid rules. No ownership chain to a specific natural person can be calculated from the public disclosures reviewed.
Data availability
Major shareholders only: public filings identify holders crossing WpHG notification thresholds, not the full shareholder register, and individual free-float holdings are not attributed. Zavia’s internal shareholder file for this company is a partial, unrepresentative sample (5 of 18 records) and its percentage field does not reflect verified ownership of total share capital.
Sources
- Deutsche Telekom AG, Shareholder structure – https://www.telekom.com/en/investor-relations/share/shareholder-structure (data as of 30 June 2026; retrieved 25 September 2026)
Registry feed — rows exactly as filed with Handelsregister (Commercial Register), including entries the profile above does not cover.
| Shareholder | Type | Holding | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professionally Mnged PORT.s-Boston Common ESG Impact Intl Fd. | 5% | Handelsregister (Commercial Register) | |
| Capital Income Builder | 4.5% | Handelsregister (Commercial Register) | |
| Gabelli Multimedia Trust Inc. | 1.8% | Handelsregister (Commercial Register) | |
| Boston Common Asset Management, LLC | 0.4% | Handelsregister (Commercial Register) | |
| Paradigm Asset Management Company, LLC | 0.1% | Handelsregister (Commercial Register) |
Officers
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Directors and officers of Deutsche Telekom AG
As a listed German Aktiengesellschaft, Deutsche Telekom AG operates a two-tier governance structure comprising a Board of Management (Vorstand), responsible for day-to-day management, and a Supervisory Board (Aufsichtsrat), responsible for oversight and for appointing the Board of Management. According to the company’s own governance disclosures, the Board of Management (as of September 2026) has seven members chaired by Timotheus Hottges (Chairman), with members responsible for Germany, Europe, the United States and corporate development, T-Systems, finance/product/technology, and human resources and labor relations. The Supervisory Board has 20 members, chaired by Dr. Frank Appel since 7 April 2022, with Christoph Schmitz-Dethlefsen as deputy chairman since 1 January 2024; consistent with German co-determination law (Mitbestimmungsgesetz), the board includes both shareholder representatives and employee representatives.
Zavia’s internal officer dataset for this company holds 402 individual records spanning multiple decades, of which 60 are recorded as active (work_status ACTIVE) and 342 as resigned; the dataset does not assign specific legal roles to most records (348 of 402 carry only the generic label “Officer”) and is best treated as a long-run historical appointment log rather than a current board listing. Names recorded as active in this dataset that plausibly correspond to current Deutsche Telekom AG leadership – including Timotheus Hottges, Christian Illek, Birgit Bohle, Rodrigo Diehl and Dominique Leroy – are consistent with the company’s own published Board of Management, supporting the reliability of the underlying registry feed, though the dataset should not be treated as a complete or current officer register on its own. Nationality is not disclosed for any individual in the sources reviewed and is reported here as “Not disclosed”; country fields in the internal dataset reflect a correspondence/registry address only, not residence or nationality.
Recent officer changes
Rodrigo Diehl assumed responsibility for the German business on the Board of Management effective 1 March 2025, succeeding Dr. Abdurazak (Abdu) Mudesir in that portfolio. Jan Hofmeyr has been announced to join the Board of Management for Product and Technology effective 1 November 2026. Source: Deutsche Telekom newsroom (January 2025 and 2026 announcements).
Data availability
Officer information for Deutsche Telekom AG is partial at the internal-dataset level (historical, largely undifferentiated role labels) but current via the company’s own investor-relations governance pages, which are used here as the primary source for board composition.
Sources
- Deutsche Telekom AG, Board of Management – https://www.telekom.com/en/investor-relations/management-and-corporate-governance/board-of-management (retrieved 25 September 2026)
- Deutsche Telekom AG, Supervisory Board – https://www.telekom.com/en/company/management-and-corporate-governance/supervisory-board (retrieved 25 September 2026)
- Deutsche Telekom AG, “Vorstand: Deutsche Telekom setzt auf Kontinuitat und frischen Wind” – https://www.telekom.com/de/newsroom/aktuelles/medieninformationen/2025/01/wechsel-im-vorstand (January 2025; retrieved 25 September 2026)
Registry feed — rows exactly as filed with Handelsregister (Commercial Register), including entries the profile above does not cover.
Group Structure
Group structure of Deutsche Telekom AG
Deutsche Telekom AG is the top German holding and operating company of a large, multinational telecommunications and ICT group; no parent company was identified and the company is not a subsidiary of another entity in the sources reviewed. Zavia’s internal corporate-linkage dataset for this company records a tree of 475 linked entities (including Deutsche Telekom AG itself) across at least 49 countries, with the largest concentrations in the United States (193 entities, largely legacy VoiceStream/T-Mobile holding vehicles beneath T-Mobile US, Inc.) and Germany (87 entities), and smaller clusters in the United Kingdom, Austria, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe. This reflects the scale of a global group rather than a fully current or exhaustive legal-entity map, and individual holding percentages within this internal tree are not independently verified here.
Major verified group segments, based on Deutsche Telekom’s own public disclosures, include: the German market, operated mainly through Telekom Deutschland; the United States, where Deutsche Telekom holds 52.8% of the capital of T-Mobile US, Inc. (as of the last reported change, 29 October 2025, reaffirmed through 2026) with additional voting influence reported via a proxy arrangement; T-Systems International, the group’s enterprise ICT and digital-services business; and GD Towers, the group’s former wholly owned telecommunications-tower business, in which Deutsche Telekom retained a 49% minority stake after selling a 51% majority interest to a DigitalBridge/Brookfield consortium in a transaction completed 1 February 2023. The group has also historically included majority stakes in national European operators such as Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A. (OTE) in Greece, though a current verified percentage was not confirmed in the sources reviewed for this update.
Verified corporate relationships
| Entity | Country | Relationship | Ownership | Status | Information date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T-Mobile US, Inc. | US | Direct subsidiary (majority-owned, separately listed) | 52.8% of capital | Active | 29 Oct 2025 / reaffirmed 2026 |
| GD Towers (Deutsche Funkturm / GD Towers Germany & Austria) | DE | Direct subsidiary (minority-owned since 2023 restructuring) | 49% (DigitalBridge/Brookfield hold 51%) | Active | 1 Feb 2023 |
| Telekom Deutschland | DE | Direct subsidiary | Ownership percentage not disclosed in reviewed sources | Active | 2026 |
| T-Systems International | DE | Direct subsidiary | Ownership percentage not disclosed in reviewed sources | Active | 2026 |
| Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A. (OTE) | GR | Historically majority-owned subsidiary | Ownership percentage not disclosed in reviewed sources | Historical / not reverified as current | 2026 |
Recent structural changes
Deutsche Telekom completed the sale of a 51% majority stake in GD Towers to a DigitalBridge/Brookfield consortium on 1 February 2023, retaining a 49% minority interest. In 2026, the company publicly confirmed it was reviewing options to further increase its majority stake in T-Mobile US and stated it had no plans to sell T-Mobile US shares during the year; press reporting in April 2026 referenced a potential full combination with T-Mobile US, without confirmation in the sources reviewed that any such transaction had been agreed or completed.
Data availability
Group-structure information for Deutsche Telekom AG is partial: the scale and major segments of the group are well documented by the company itself, but a fully verified, percentage-by-percentage legal-entity ownership chain for every entity in Zavia’s internal linkage dataset (475 entities) is not independently confirmed here and should not be treated as a current, complete corporate tree.
Sources
- Deutsche Telekom AG, media information on T-Mobile US – https://www.telekom.com/en/media/media-information/archive/t-mobile-us-1102078 (retrieved 25 September 2026)
- Deutsche Telekom AG, GD Towers transaction completion – https://www.telekom.com/en/media/media-information/archive/deutsche-telekom-completes-tower-transaction-1025420 (retrieved 25 September 2026)
- Deutsche Telekom AG, Annual Report 2025 – https://report.telekom.com/annual-report-2025/_assets/downloads/entire-dtag-ar25.pdf (retrieved 25 September 2026)
Registry feed — rows exactly as filed with Handelsregister (Commercial Register), including entries the profile above does not cover.
Deutsche Telekom AG
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does Deutsche Telekom AG do?
Deutsche Telekom AG is a German telecommunications and ICT group headquartered in Bonn (HRB 6794), providing fixed and mobile telecoms, broadband, TV and enterprise IT services in Germany and internationally, including under the T-Mobile brand in the United States and via T-Systems.
Who owns Deutsche Telekom AG?
Disclosed major shareholders (as of 30 June 2026) are the Federal Republic of Germany (14.22% direct) and KfW (14.37%), together 28.59%; the remaining 71.41% is free float. Full individual shareholder registers are not published for listed issuers.
Who is Deutsche Telekom AG's UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Owner)?
No natural person is identified as UBO. The German government controls a combined 28.59% via direct federal holding (14.22%) plus KfW (14.37%), as of 30 June 2026, disclosed under WpHG voting-rights rules rather than as a formal UBO filing.
What is Deutsche Telekom AG's company registration number?
Deutsche Telekom AG's registration number is HRB 6794 Bonn, filed with Handelsregister (Commercial Register) in Germany. Its current status on the register is active.
Is Deutsche Telekom AG still an active company?
Deutsche Telekom AG's status on Handelsregister (Commercial Register) is listed as active.
What is Deutsche Telekom AG's registered address?
The registered address on file for Deutsche Telekom AG is Bonn, Germany.
What is Deutsche Telekom AG's revenue?
For FY2025, Deutsche Telekom reported consolidated Group net revenue of approximately €119.1 billion (+2.9% year-on-year) and adjusted EBITDA AL of approximately €44.2 billion; these are Group-level, not standalone-entity, figures.
Is Deutsche Telekom AG listed on a stock exchange?
Deutsche Telekom AG is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under ticker DTE (ISIN DE0005557508) and is a constituent of the DAX index.
Who are the officers/directors of Deutsche Telekom AG?
Deutsche Telekom AG has a 7-member Board of Management chaired by Timotheus Hottges and a 20-member Supervisory Board chaired by Dr. Frank Appel, per the company's own governance disclosures as of September 2026.
Does Deutsche Telekom AG have a parent company or subsidiaries?
Deutsche Telekom AG has no identified parent. It holds 52.8% of T-Mobile US, Inc. (US), a 49% minority stake in GD Towers (DE, since 2023), and operates T-Systems International (DE) and Telekom Deutschland (DE) as direct subsidiaries, among a much larger global group.
Can Zavia monitor changes to Deutsche Telekom AG's ownership over time?
This profile reflects a point-in-time snapshot from Handelsregister (Commercial Register). Zavia's monitoring API can track changes to Deutsche Telekom AG's registered shareholders, officers, and group structure going forward, flagging updates as they're filed rather than requiring a manual recheck.
Can I access Deutsche Telekom AG's data through an API?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including Germany, so records like Deutsche Telekom AG's registration, shareholder, UBO, and group-structure data can be queried programmatically instead of viewed one page at a time.
Where does this company information come from, and how current is it?
This record is sourced directly from Handelsregister (Commercial Register) and was last synced on 8 September 2026.