Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH
About Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH
Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH is a German charitable limited liability company (gemeinnützige Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) registered with the commercial register of the Amtsgericht Köln under HRB 26997. Its registered office is Erna-Scheffler-Straße 2, 51103 Köln, and its VAT identification number is DE 813 42 33 58, as stated in the company’s own Impressum retrieved on 28 September 2026. The register record reviewed for this profile shows the company as active. The Malteser annual report published in 2025 gives 1995 as the company’s year of foundation.
Within the Malteser organisation in Germany, this company carries the paid, fee-financed social-enterprise services, as distinct from the volunteer-led civil-protection, first-aid-training, hospice and youth activities carried on under the Malteser name by other legal entities. The annual report describes the gGmbH’s services as delivered by employed staff, funded through charges for services rendered and operating in competition with other providers. Its reported service lines are emergency medical services (Rettungsdienst) and patient transport, transport services for people with disabilities, outpatient nursing care (ambulante Pflege), the nationwide Malteser Hausnotruf personal emergency-call service and the Menüservice meal-delivery service. Operations are run at district (Bezirk) level within six regions; the report attributes 41 Bezirksgeschäftsstellen to the gGmbH for 2024, alongside between 38 and 57 gGmbH Dienststellen in each of the six regions.
For the 2024 financial year the same report gives Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH a Betriebsleistung (operating output) of EUR 873 million, 22,005 staff and 759 apprentices. These are stated for the gGmbH itself and are not consolidated Malteser-network figures. Network-wide 2024 activity figures on service lines the report assigns to this company include approximately 1,291,000 emergency-service and patient-transport deployments and 4.27 million meals delivered through the Menüservice; those cover the Malteser in Germany as a whole rather than this entity alone.
The Bundesanzeiger publication index lists annual financial statements (Jahresabschlüsse) for the company for financial years 2006 to 2021, the most recent published on 2 February 2023, together with a consolidated Konzernabschluss for financial year 2016 published on 10 January 2018. The documents themselves are not retrievable without registered access, so no figure from a filed account is quoted here. Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH is not listed on any stock exchange.
Two fields in the underlying record are not supported by these sources. The stored incorporation date of 1 January 2011 is a year-level placeholder and is contradicted by the 1995 foundation year in the annual report, by register-derived officer appointments running back to 15 June 2001 and by filed accounts from financial year 2006. The stored legal form "Private limited company (Ltd.)" is a generic label; the entity is a German gemeinnützige GmbH recognised as charitable under the Abgabenordnung, not a UK-style private limited company.
Sources
- Malteser Hilfsdienst gGmbH, Impressum, www.malteser-assistance.de/kontakt-und-service/impressum.html, retrieved 28 September 2026
- Malteser Hilfsdienst gGmbH, Impressum of the Malteser Kommende Nellinghof site, www.malteser-nellinghof.de/kontakt-und-service/impressum.html, retrieved 28 September 2026
- Malteser in Deutschland, Malteser Jahresbericht 2025, pages 38–46, www.malteser.de/fileadmin/Files_sites/malteser_de_Relaunch/Presse_Medien/Publikationen/Malteser_Jahresbericht_2025.pdf, published 2025, retrieved 28 September 2026
- Bundesanzeiger, publication search for "Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH", www.bundesanzeiger.de, index retrieved 28 September 2026
- Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V., Impressum, www.malteser.de/impressum.html, retrieved 28 September 2026
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Shareholders
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Shareholders of Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH
Two shareholders are disclosed, and the disclosure is complete: the stored register-derived extract holds two rows against a stated total of two. Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V. holds 194,740 ordinary shares of EUR 1 — 74.9% — and Malteser Deutschland gemeinnützige GmbH holds 65,260 ordinary shares of EUR 1 — 25.1%. Both interests are direct and are held in the same class. The quantities sum to EUR 260,000 of Stammkapital, and each percentage reconciles exactly with that total. The extract carries a verification date of 4 September 2026.
The split is independently confirmed by the organisation’s own Malteser Jahresbericht 2025, which states the company’s shareholders as "Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V. (74,9 %), Malteser Deutschland gGmbH (25,1 %)". Two independent sources therefore agree on who owns Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH and in what proportion.
One field in the stored record is wrong. Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V. is typed as a natural person. It is not: an eingetragener Verein is a registered association and a legal person, recorded in the Vereinsregister of the Amtsgericht Köln under VR 4726.
Ultimate beneficial ownership
No natural-person ultimate beneficial owner of Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH could be identified from any source reviewed. The ownership chain consists only of legal persons. The Malteser Jahresbericht 2025 organisation chart shows the 25.1% shareholder, Malteser Deutschland gemeinnützige GmbH, as held 92.5% by Deutsche Assoziation des Souveränen Malteser Ritterordens e. V. and 7.5% by Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V.
Multiplying through that chain gives:
- Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V. — 76.8% calculated effective interest (74.9% direct plus 7.5% × 25.1% indirect)
- Deutsche Assoziation des Souveränen Malteser Ritterordens e. V. — 23.2% calculated effective indirect interest (92.5% × 25.1%)
Both are calculated effective ownership percentages derived from published percentages at the same reporting date, not figures reported as such in any filing.
German money-laundering law treats a company’s managing directors as fiktive wirtschaftlich Berechtigte where no natural person meets the ownership or control criteria. That is a statutory fallback rather than a finding of beneficial ownership, and no individual is named here as a beneficial owner of this company on that basis.
Data availability
Direct shareholder information is Full: both shareholders, both percentages and both shareholdings in shares are disclosed and are corroborated by the organisation’s own annual report. Beneficial-ownership information is Restricted: Germany’s Transparenzregister is not openly accessible to the general public, so any entry filed for this company could not be inspected, and the ultimate controlling bodies in the chain are associations whose members are not published.
Sources
- Provider register extract stored on this profile (Handelsregister-sourced), verification date 4 September 2026
- Malteser in Deutschland, Malteser Jahresbericht 2025, pages 41 and 46, www.malteser.de/fileadmin/Files_sites/malteser_de_Relaunch/Presse_Medien/Publikationen/Malteser_Jahresbericht_2025.pdf, published 2025, retrieved 28 September 2026
- Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V., Impressum (Vereinsregister Amtsgericht Köln VR 4726), www.malteser.de/impressum.html, retrieved 28 September 2026
| Shareholder | Type | Holding | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V. | 74.9% | Handelsregister (Commercial Register) | |
| Malteser Deutschland gemeinnützige GmbH | 25.1% | Handelsregister (Commercial Register) |
Officers
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Directors and officers of Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH
The stored record holds 34 officer rows against a stated total of 34, so the list is complete as to row count but is a register-derived extract of unknown currency. Eleven rows are marked active and 23 resigned. Four active rows carry the role Managing Director (Geschäftsführer): Dr. Elmar Pankau, Thomas Kleinert, Ulf Reermann and Frank Weber. That is exactly the Geschäftsführung named in the company’s own Impressum retrieved on 28 September 2026 and in the Malteser Jahresbericht 2025, which also records Dr. Elmar Pankau as chair of the management board. The current management of Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH can therefore be treated as confirmed.
The other seven active rows carry only the provider’s generic label Officer with no German role. The Handelsregister distinguishes Geschäftsführer from Prokuristen, and the stored data does not, so the legal position of those seven cannot be established from it; none of them appears among the four Geschäftsführer in the company’s own Impressum. Occupations are not recorded for any officer.
The oldest appointments in the record are six dated 15 June 2001 — a single bulk date rather than six separate events — which is one reason the stored incorporation date of 1 January 2011 cannot stand.
Recent officer changes
Dates below are taken from the stored register-derived record; the current composition, but not the dates themselves, is corroborated by the company’s own Impressum and by the Malteser Jahresbericht 2025.
- Thomas Kleinert — recorded as appointed Geschäftsführer on 9 May 2022; serving as at 28 September 2026.
- Verena Hölken — recorded as ceasing to be a Geschäftsführerin on 28 January 2022, having been appointed on 22 May 2013.
- Frank Weber — recorded as appointed Geschäftsführer on 25 January 2021; serving as at 28 September 2026.
Data availability
Officer information for Germany is Partial. The Handelsregister publishes names, roles and the dates on which appointments and terminations were recorded, but nationality is not published for Geschäftsführer, so nationality is Not disclosed for every officer of this company, and none is asserted here. Country of residence is likewise not disclosed; the stored rows carry only an address_country of DE with no address, which is a country field and not evidence of residence.
Several defects in the stored officer data should be noted rather than repeated:
- The same individuals appear twice under variant name forms with contradictory statuses — "Elmar Johannes Heinz Pankau" is marked resigned while "Elmar Pankau" is marked active; the same pattern affects Ulf Reermann and Daniel Linzbauer.
- Douglas Graf von Saurma-Jeltsch is marked active. A second stored row records him ceasing to be a Geschäftsführer of this company on 25 January 2021, and the Malteser Jahresbericht 2025 places him on the board of Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V., a different legal entity. He is not one of the four Geschäftsführer named in this company’s Impressum.
- One row for Florian Pohl carries a termination date of 6 January 2022 and the status ACTIVE at the same time.
Sources
- Malteser Hilfsdienst gGmbH, Impressum, www.malteser-assistance.de/kontakt-und-service/impressum.html, retrieved 28 September 2026
- Malteser in Deutschland, Malteser Jahresbericht 2025, pages 41 and 46, www.malteser.de/fileadmin/Files_sites/malteser_de_Relaunch/Presse_Medien/Publikationen/Malteser_Jahresbericht_2025.pdf, published 2025, retrieved 28 September 2026
- Provider officer extract stored on this profile (Handelsregister-sourced), synchronised 8 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 Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH
Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH is not independent. It sits inside the Malteser organisation in Germany, and its place in that structure is set out in the organisation’s own Malteser Jahresbericht 2025. Its immediate majority shareholder is Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V. (74.9%), with Malteser Deutschland gemeinnützige GmbH holding the remaining 25.1%. Above that, the report’s organisation chart shows Malteser Deutschland gemeinnützige GmbH held 92.5% by Deutsche Assoziation des Souveränen Malteser Ritterordens e. V. and 7.5% by Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V., making the Deutsche Assoziation the highest identifiable body in the chain. All verified entities in the structure are German and seated in Köln.
The company also heads a sub-group of its own. The Bundesanzeiger publication index records a consolidated Konzernabschluss for financial year 2016 filed by Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH — a document a company files only where it controls subsidiaries. The identity of those subsidiaries could not be confirmed from a primary source, so none is stated as verified below.
Verified corporate relationships
| Entity | Country | Registration number | Relationship | Ownership | Status | Information date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V. | DE | Amtsgericht Köln VR 4726 | Immediate majority shareholder | 74.9% of share capital, direct | Current | 4 Sep 2026 / report 2025 |
| Malteser Deutschland gemeinnützige GmbH | DE | Amtsgericht Köln; HRB number not obtained from a primary source | Minority shareholder | 25.1% of share capital, direct | Current | 4 Sep 2026 / report 2025 |
| Deutsche Assoziation des Souveränen Malteser Ritterordens e. V. | DE | Not obtained | Ultimate identifiable controlling body | 23.2% calculated effective indirect (92.5% × 25.1%) | Current | Report 2025 |
| Malteser Werke gemeinnützige GmbH | DE | Amtsgericht Köln HRB 31629 | Affiliate — wholly owned by the 25.1% shareholder | No direct or indirect interest in this company | Current | Report 2025 / Impressum 28 Sep 2026 |
| Malteser Wohnen & Pflegen gemeinnützige GmbH | DE | Not obtained | Affiliate — wholly owned by the 25.1% shareholder | No direct or indirect interest in this company | Current | Report 2025 |
Data availability
Corporate-linkage information is Partial. Ownership above this company is fully published by the organisation itself with percentages, but the company’s own subsidiaries are not: Germany’s Handelsregister does not publish a shareholding list, the filed accounts that would carry one are not freely retrievable, and the Transparenzregister is not openly accessible. The absence of a verified subsidiary list below is a gap in the available sources, not evidence that the company has none — the 2016 Konzernabschluss shows the opposite.
The stored group tree on this profile should be treated with caution. Its identifiers are genuine — the root node’s DE 50670V4726 is the Vereinsregister number of Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V. at the Amtsgericht Köln, and the selected node’s DE 50670B26997 is this company’s HRB 26997 Köln — but the tree omits Malteser Deutschland gemeinnützige GmbH, the 25.1% shareholder, entirely; it attaches three further entities directly to the association with no percentages and no stated relationship type; and it shows two companies as subsidiaries of Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH that could not be confirmed from any primary source. None of those links is published here as verified.
Sources
- Malteser in Deutschland, Malteser Jahresbericht 2025, organisation chart page 46 and entity pages 41–44, www.malteser.de/fileadmin/Files_sites/malteser_de_Relaunch/Presse_Medien/Publikationen/Malteser_Jahresbericht_2025.pdf, published 2025, retrieved 28 September 2026
- Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V., Impressum (Vereinsregister Amtsgericht Köln VR 4726), www.malteser.de/impressum.html, retrieved 28 September 2026
- Malteser Werke gemeinnützige GmbH, Impressum (Amtsgericht Köln HRB 31629), www.malteser-werke.de/impressum.html, retrieved 28 September 2026
- Bundesanzeiger, publication search for "Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH" (Konzernabschluss for FY2016, published 10 January 2018), www.bundesanzeiger.de, retrieved 28 September 2026
- Provider register extract and group tree stored on this profile, synchronised 8 September 2026
Registry feed — rows exactly as filed with Handelsregister (Commercial Register), including entries the profile above does not cover.
Malteser Hilfsdienst e.V.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH do?
Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH (HRB 26997, Amtsgericht Köln) is the German charitable limited liability company through which the Malteser organisation provides its paid, fee-financed social-enterprise services: emergency medical services (Rettungsdienst) and patient transport, transport for people with disabilities, outpatient nursing care, the nationwide Malteser Hausnotruf personal emergency-call service and the Menüservice meal-delivery service. Operations are run at district level within six regions, with 41 Bezirksgeschäftsstellen attributed to the company for 2024. Volunteer-led Malteser activities such as civil protection, first-aid training and youth work are carried on by other legal entities.
Who owns Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH?
Two shareholders are disclosed and the disclosure is complete. Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V. holds 194,740 ordinary shares of EUR 1 (74.9%) and Malteser Deutschland gemeinnützige GmbH holds 65,260 ordinary shares of EUR 1 (25.1%), together EUR 260,000 of Stammkapital. Both interests are direct, the percentages reconcile exactly with the share quantities, and the same 74.9/25.1 split is published independently in the Malteser Jahresbericht 2025. The extract carries a verification date of 4 September 2026. Note that the stored record wrongly types Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V. as a natural person; an eingetragener Verein is a registered association (Vereinsregister Amtsgericht Köln VR 4726).
Who is Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH's UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Owner)?
No natural-person ultimate beneficial owner of Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH could be identified from any source reviewed, and none is asserted here. The ownership chain consists only of legal persons: the 25.1% shareholder, Malteser Deutschland gemeinnützige GmbH, is itself held 92.5% by Deutsche Assoziation des Souveränen Malteser Ritterordens e. V. and 7.5% by Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V. Calculated effective interests are 76.8% for Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V. and 23.2% for the Deutsche Assoziation. German money-laundering law treats a company's managing directors as fictitious beneficial owners where no natural person qualifies, but that is a statutory fallback rather than a finding of ownership, and Germany's Transparenzregister is not openly accessible to the public, so no filed beneficial-ownership entry could be inspected.
What is Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH's company registration number?
Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH's registration number is HRB 26997 Köln, filed with Handelsregister (Commercial Register) in Germany. Its current status on the register is active.
Is Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH still an active company?
Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH's status on Handelsregister (Commercial Register) is listed as active.
What is Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH's registered address?
The registered address on file for Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH is Köln, Germany.
What is Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH's revenue?
The Malteser Jahresbericht 2025 gives Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH a Betriebsleistung (operating output) of EUR 873 million for the 2024 financial year, with 22,005 staff and 759 apprentices. These figures are published for this company itself, not for the wider Malteser network. Statutory accounts are a separate matter: the Bundesanzeiger index lists Jahresabschlüsse for financial years 2006 to 2021 and a consolidated Konzernabschluss for financial year 2016, but the documents are not freely retrievable, so no audited entity-level revenue figure is quoted here.
Is Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH listed on a stock exchange?
Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH is not listed on any stock exchange and has no ticker. It is a privately held gemeinnützige GmbH whose share capital of EUR 260,000 is held by two charitable bodies, so its shares are not publicly traded.
Who are the officers/directors of Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH?
The company's Geschäftsführung consists of four managing directors: Dr. Elmar Pankau (chair), Thomas Kleinert, Ulf Reermann and Frank Weber. This is confirmed both by the company's own Impressum retrieved on 28 September 2026 and by the Malteser Jahresbericht 2025, and it matches the four active Managing Director rows in the stored register extract. Seven further active rows carry only a generic Officer label with no German role, so it cannot be determined from the data whether they are Geschäftsführer or Prokuristen; none appears in the company's own Impressum. Nationality is not published for German Geschäftsführer and is Not disclosed for every officer of this company. The stored list also marks Douglas Graf von Saurma-Jeltsch active although a second row records him ceasing to be a managing director on 25 January 2021.
Does Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH have a parent company or subsidiaries?
Malteser Hilfsdienst gemeinnützige GmbH is part of the Malteser organisation in Germany. Its immediate majority shareholder is Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V. (74.9%, Vereinsregister Amtsgericht Köln VR 4726) and the balance of 25.1% is held by Malteser Deutschland gemeinnützige GmbH, which the Malteser Jahresbericht 2025 shows as held 92.5% by Deutsche Assoziation des Souveränen Malteser Ritterordens e. V. and 7.5% by Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V. The company also heads a sub-group of its own: the Bundesanzeiger index records a consolidated Konzernabschluss for financial year 2016, which is filed only by a company that controls subsidiaries. The identity of those subsidiaries could not be confirmed from a primary source, and the two subsidiaries shown in the stored group tree are not published here as verified.
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Where does this company information come from, and how current is it?
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