Deutsche Telekom

partially privatized German telecommunications company
Organization public_company Q9396
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Deutsche Telekom was founded in 1995[1] and is headquartered in Bonn[2]. The company is an Aktiengesellschaft, which is its legal form[2].

Deutsche Telekom operates in the telecommunications and mobile phone industry[2], providing various products to its customers. One of its products is the landline telephone.

The company has a large workforce, with 218k employees as of 2016[2][3]. This significant number of employees indicates the scale of Deutsche Telekom's operations.

Deutsche Telekom continues to be a major player in its industry, with its headquarters remaining in Bonn[2] and its legal form as an Aktiengesellschaft[2].

Key Facts

  • Award received: BigBrotherAwards[3]
  • Member of: European Movement Germany[4], Linux Foundation[5], World Wide Web Consortium[6], DENIC[7], Wi-Fi Alliance[8], Verband der Bayerischen Metall- und Elektro-Industrie[9], Bundesnetzwerk Bürgerschaftliches Engagement[10], Open Source Business Alliance[11], Stiftung Bildungspakt Bayern[12], OpenID Foundation[13], ICC Germany[14], VAUNET - Verband Privater Medien e. V.[15], Wirtschaftsforum der SPD[16], American Chamber of Commerce in Germany[17]
  • Country: Germany[18], DE[19]
  • Instance of: business[20], telecommunication company[21], internet service provider[22], mobile network operator[23]
  • Owned by: Germany[24], KfW[25], BlackRock[26], Government Pension Fund Global[27], SoftBank Group[28]
  • Headquarters location: Bonn[29]
  • Chief executive officer: Timotheus Höttges[30]
  • Child organization or unit: T-Mobile US[31], Slovak Telekom[32], T-Mobile Polska[33], T-Mobile Austria[34], BT Group[35], One Albania[36], Telekom Romania Mobile[37], T-Systems International GmbH[38], T-Online[39], T-Mobile UK[40], Detecon[41], Magyar Telekom[42], T-Mobile Macedonia[43], Deutsche Telekom (United Kingdom)[44]
  • Part of: DAX[45], EURO STOXX 50[46], TecDAX[47], DivDAX[48], CDAX[49]
  • Commons category: Deutsche Telekom[50]
  • Stock exchange: Frankfurt Stock Exchange[51], New York Stock Exchange[52], London Stock Exchange[53], Italian Stock Exchange[54]
  • Industry: telecommunications[55], mobile phone industry[56]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300V9QSIG4WX4GJ96[57]

  • Registered legal name: Deutsche Telekom AG[58]

  • Legal jurisdiction: DE[59]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[60]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): 6QQB[61]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[62]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[63]

  • Entity created: 1995-01-02[64]

  • LEI first registered: 2013-04-09[65]

  • LEI last updated: 2025-10-28[66]

  • LEI next renewal: 2026-12-12[67]

  • Managing LOU: 5299000J2N45DDNE4Y28[68]

  • Registration authority: RA000220[69]

  • Authority entity ID: HRB 6794[70]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[71]

Why It Matters

Deutsche Telekom has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[72] It is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[73]

FAQs

What awards did Deutsche Telekom receive?

Honors received include BigBrotherAwards[3].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [18] ↑ . annualreport.telekom.com. annualreport.telekom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . annualreport.telekom.com. annualreport.telekom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [22] ↑ . annualreport.telekom.com. annualreport.telekom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [24] ↑ . annualreport.telekom.com. Retrieved . annualreport.telekom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [25] ↑ . annualreport.telekom.com. Retrieved . annualreport.telekom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [26] ↑ . en.m.wikipedia.org. en.m.wikipedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [27] ↑ . nbim.no. nbim.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [28] ↑ . telekom.com. telekom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [29] ↑ . annualreport.telekom.com. annualreport.telekom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [3] ↑ . bigbrotherawards.de. bigbrotherawards.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [31] ↑ . annualreport.telekom.com. annualreport.telekom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [32] ↑ . annualreport.telekom.com. annualreport.telekom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [33] ↑ . annualreport.telekom.com. annualreport.telekom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [34] ↑ . annualreport.telekom.com. annualreport.telekom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [35] ↑ . 4-traders.com. 4-traders.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  23. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  27. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [46] ↑ . annualreport.telekom.com. annualreport.telekom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  31. [47] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [48] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [49] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [50] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [51] ↑ . annualreport.telekom.com. Retrieved . annualreport.telekom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  36. [52] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [53] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [54] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [55] ↑ . annualreport.telekom.com. annualreport.telekom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  40. [56] ↑ . annualreport.telekom.com. annualreport.telekom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  41. [4] ↑ . Bundestag Lobby Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  42. [5] ↑ . linuxfoundation.org. Retrieved . linuxfoundation.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  43. [6] ↑ . w3.org. Retrieved . w3.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  44. [7] ↑ . denic.de. Retrieved . denic.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  45. [8] ↑ . wi-fi.org. Retrieved . wi-fi.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  46. [9] ↑ . vbw-bayern.de. Retrieved . vbw-bayern.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  47. [10] ↑ . Bundestag Lobby Register. Retrieved . b-b-e.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  48. [11] ↑ . osb-alliance.de. Retrieved . osb-alliance.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  49. [12] ↑ . bildungspakt-bayern.de. Retrieved . bildungspakt-bayern.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  50. [13] ↑ . openid.net. Retrieved . openid.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  51. [14] ↑ . Bundestag Lobby Register. Retrieved . iccgermany.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  52. [15] ↑ . Bundestag Lobby Register. Retrieved . vau.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  53. [16] ↑ . Bundestag Lobby Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  54. [17] ↑ . Bundestag Lobby Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [57] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [58] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [59] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [60] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [61] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [62] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [63] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [64] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [65] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [66] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [67] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [68] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [69] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [70] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [71] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [72] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [73] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 7CC9-9BD1-5CCC-7FF8-7BC4
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  2. 10w ago · Printstream · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14715 → Q9396
    Child organization or unit → T-Mobile US, Slovak Telekom, T-Mobile Polska +21
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  3. 17w ago · Kolja21 · 2026-06-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Net profit → —
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    Inception → +1995-00-00T00:00:00Z, 1995-01-02
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