Deutsche Bahn

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Deutsche Bahn AG
Type	Private Company
Founded	1 January 1994
Headquarters	Berlin, Germany
Key people	Hartmut Mehdorn, chairman of the board
Industry	Rail transport
Products	Rail transport, Cargo transport, Services, more...
Revenue	€ 25.1 billion (2006)[1]
Operating income	€ ? billion (2005)
Net income	€ 1.35 billion (2006)[2]
Employees	229,000 (2006)[3] 59,000 civil servants
Subsidiaries	DB Fernverkehr DB Regio Railion Schenker BAX Global DB Station&Service ...
Slogan	Mobility Networks Logistics
Website	DB - Corporate web site Tickets - Timetable

Deutsche Bahn AG (Deutsche Bahn Holding; abbreviated DB AG, DBAG or simply DB) is the successor of the former state railways of Germany: the Deutsche Bundesbahn of West Germany, the Deutsche Reichsbahn of the German Democratic Republic and the West Berlin VdeR. The Deutsche Bahn AG was founded on January 1, 1994 and, contrary to its predecessors, is a public limited company. As of 2007, all of its shares are still held by the Federal Republic of Germany, though privatisation is planned. The legacy of the former state railways (like civil servants formerly working for one of the state railways) is held by the Bundeseisenbahnvermögen. The group is the largest German railway enterprise and one of the largest transport corporations in the world. About two billion passengers are served each year.

The company has taken over the abbreviation and logo DB from the West German state railway Deutsche Bundesbahn, although it has modernised the logo, which is occasionally called "Dürrkeks" (after Heinz Dürr, the first chairman of the DB AG), a play on words meaning "meagre biscuit", referring to its shape and the sans-serif font, especially when compared to the older, more rounded Bundesbahn logo.

Originally, the DB Holding was headquartered in Frankfurt am Main but has moved to Potsdamer Platz in central Berlin in 1996, where it currently is located in a 26-storey office tower built by Helmut Jahn, which is located at the eastern end of the Sony Center and appropriately named BahnTower. As the rental agreement is to expire in 2010, however, the DB has announced plans to relocate its head offices to Berlin Hauptbahnhof. A move to Hamburg was briefly considered in 2005, but these plans were abandoned after political pressure.^[4]

Contents 1 Corporate subdivisions 2 Members of the board 3 Codeshare with airlines 4 Rolling stock 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Corporate subdivisions

The DB group is divided into three main operations groups which consist of a number of subsidaries. All these subsidaries are companies in their own right, although most of them are 100% owned by the Holding.

• Mobility Passenger travel (among others DB Regio, DB Fernverkehr (formerly DB Reise&Touristik), DB AutoZug, DB Stadtverkehr, DB Vertrieb [formerly Service Center Vertrieb], Autokraft, DB Dialog)

• Networks Infrastructure and services (DB Netz, DB Services, DB Fahrzeuginstandhaltung, DB Telematik, DB Systems, DB Energie, DB Fuhrpark, DB Sicherheit, DB Kommunikationstechnik, DB ProjektBau, DB Station&Service)

• Logistics Transport and logistics (Stinnes AG, with subsidaries Schenker, BAX Global and Railion, formerly DB Cargo)

Further, less notable subsidaries exist, sometimes jointly owned by DB and local government.

[edit] Members of the board

• Hartmut Mehdorn (Chairman since December 16, 1999) (worked in aeronautics from 1966-1995, i.e. Focke-Wulf, Airbus and DASA)
• Diethelm Sack (Finance & Controlling)
• Margret Suckale (Human resources) (formerly Mobil Oil)
• Dr. Otto Wiesheu (Economy and politics) (Bavarian minister for economy and transport 1993-2005)
• Roland Heinisch (Railway interconnection)
• Dr. Karl-Friedrich Rausch (Passenger traffic) (Chairman of the board at Lufthansa 1985-2000)
• Dr. Norbert Bensel (Transport and logistics) (ex-Daimler-Benz Aerospace)
• Stefan Garber (Infrastructure and services)

Dr. Werner Müller is the current director of the supervisory board (also at Degussa and Ruhrkohle AG).

Historic chairmen of the board are

• Heinz Dürr, 1994 to 1997, became director of the supervisory board afterwards.
• Johannes Ludewig, July 9 1997 to September 30 1999

[edit] Codeshare with airlines

In conjunction with American Airlines, Emirates, and Lufthansa, Deutsche Bahn operates rail services (AiRail Service) between Frankfurt International Airport and Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Freiburg, Hamburg, Hanover, Mannheim, Munich, Nuremberg, and Stuttgart. Deutsche Bahn has the IATA designator 2A.

[edit] Rolling stock

[edit] See also

• DB Fernverkehr
• DB Regio
• DB NachtZug

• Transport in Germany
• Rail transport in Germany
• History of rail transport in Germany
• German steam locomotive classification
• Numbering scheme of the German railways

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• DB corporate home page
• DB travel portal
• DB timetable information