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Deutsche Bahn
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| Deutsche Bahn AG | |
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| 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 (abbr. 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.
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The Deutsche Bahn AG was founded on January 1, 1994 and, contrary to its predecessors, is a public limited company. The founding of DB AG was seen as the first step of the so called Bahnreform (administrative railway reform) and should not be confused with the planned privatisation. As of 2007, all of its shares are still held by the Federal Republic of Germany, though privatisation is planned.
The second step of the Bahnreform was carried out in 1999, with DB AG forming the holding. All rolling track, personnel and real assets were divided among the holding and the five prinicipal subsidiaries: DB Reise & Touristik AG (long distance passenger service, later renamed to DB Fernverkehr AG), DB Regio AG (regional passenger services, in the course of the reform under charge of the federal states), DB Cargo AG (freight services, later changed to Railion AG), DB Netz AG (operating the railway system), and DB Station & Service AG (operating the stations). This new organisational scheme was not least introduced to implement the European Community directive 91/440/EWG that demands access to railway system free of discrimination. Important parts of the legacy of the former state railways (like civil servants formerly working for one of the state railways) are formally 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.
DB AG 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 moved to Potsdamer Platz in central Berlin in 1996, where it currently is located in a 26-storey office tower designed 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]
The DB group today is divided into three main operations groups which consist of a number of subsidiaries. All these subsidiaries 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 subsidiaries Schenker AG, BAX Global and Railion, formerly DB Cargo)
Further, less notable subsidiaries exist, sometimes jointly owned by DB and local government.
- 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
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.
The planned privatization is subject of a highly controversial political discussion in Germany. Whereas the government claims the need for fresh capital and efficiency improvements in favor of the privatization, the opponents fear a deterioration of service in many less economic sectors. Major issue is the question whether privatization should be carried out with the railway system (integrated model) or without (split model). Currently a political trade-off is likely, with the split model as basis, but DB AG having the right to operate the railway system for 15 years. An open issue is the question of compenastion for investments into the system during this time.
The Social-Democrat Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee was to present a law project before the council of ministers which envisioned to sell 25% of the Deutsche Bahn beginning of 2008. At term, the state should retain control of the company by owning a 51% stake. German railways are evaluated at €20 billion [5].
As of October 2007, the railroad engineer's strike is another problem for the privatization plans. The engineers' union GDL has refused to accept the labor contracts between DB AG and other unions, claiming a 31% pay rise for its members. A strike is the first nationwide railway strike since 1992 [6].
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| BR number | 101 • 103 • 104 • 109 • 110 • 111 • 112 • 112 alt • 113 • 114 • 114 alt • 115 • 116 • 117 • 118 • 119 • 120 • 127 • 128 • 132 • 139 • 140 • 141 • 142 • 143 • 144 • 145 (DB) • 145 (DB AG) • 146 • 150 • 151 • 152 • 152 (DB) • 155 • 156 • 160 • 163 • 169 • 171 • 175 • 180 • 181 • 182 • 182 alt • 183 • 183 alt • 184 • 185 • 186 • 188 • 189 • 190 • 191 • 193 • 194 |  |
| Older, pre-1968 classes |
E 03 • E 04 • E 05 • E 10 • E 10.12 • E 15 • E 16 • E 17 • E 18 • E 19 • E 21 • E 32 • E 36 • E 40 • E 41 • E 44 • E 50 • E 52 • E 60 • E 61 • E 62 • E 63 • E 69 • E 70.2 • E 71 • E 72 • E 73 • E 75 • E 77 • E 80 • E 91 • E 913 • E 92 • E 93 • E 94 • E 95 • E 244 • E 310 • E 320 • E 344 • E 410 | |
| Classes of the GDR Reichsbahn |
204 • 211 • 212 • 218 • 230 • 242 • 243 • 244 • 250 • 251 • 252 • 254 | |
| Older DR classes | E 04 • E 05 • E 11 • E 17 • E 18 • E 21 • E 42 • E 44 • E 77 • E 94 • E 95 • E 251 | |
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BR number: 401 | 402 | 403 | 403 alt | 406 | 410 | 411 | 415 | 420 | 421 | 422 | 423 | 424 | 425 | 425 alt | 426 | 426 alt | 427 | 427 alt | 428 | 440 | 450 | 465 | 485 alt | 490 | 491 Battery railcars: 515 | 517 | ETA 150 | ETA 176 | ETA 178 | ETA 179 S-Bahn EMUs: Hamburg: 470 | 471 | 472 | 473 | 474 | ET 99 | ET 170 | ET 171 |
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| Class number: 201, 202, 204; 210, 215-218, 219 old; 211-213; 219, 229; 220; 223; 220 old, 221; 230 - 234, 241; 246; 253; 259; 260 - 265; 266; 285; 290 - 296; 290 - 296 |
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VT 04.0 | VT 04.1 | VT 04.5 | VT 06 | VT 07.5 | VT 08.5 | VT 10.5 | VT 11.5 | VT 12.5 | VT 23.5 | VT 24 | VT 25.5 | VT 30 | VT 32 | VT 33 | VT 36.5 | VT 38 | VT 45.5 | VT 46.5 | VT 50 | VT 51 | VT 60.5 | VT 62 | VT 63 | VT 66 | VT 69 | VT 70 | VT 72 | VT 75 | VT 78 | VT 79 | VT 86 | VT 88 | VT 89 | VT 90.5 | VT 92.5 | VT 95 | VT 97 | VT 98 |
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| Special trains |
Fliegender Hamburger | ICE TD | Integral | Schienenbus | TEE |
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- Transport in Germany
- Rail transport in Germany
- History of rail transport in Germany
- German steam locomotive classification
- Numbering scheme of the German railways
- ^ Deutsche Bahn AG. Daten und Fakten zum Geschäftsbericht 2005. Retrieved on 2006-12-17.
- ^ Deutsche Bahn AG. Daten und Fakten zum Geschäftsbericht 2005. Retrieved on 2006-12-17.
- ^ Deutsche Bahn AG. Daten und Fakten zum Geschäftsbericht 2005. Retrieved on 2006-12-17.
- ^ Staff writer. "Bahn-Zentrale bleibt in Berlin", Handelsblatt, 2006-01-12. Retrieved on 2006-12-17.
- ^ L'Allemagne s'apprête à vendre 25 % de la Deutsche Bahn, Le Monde, 24 July 2007 (French)
- ^ German court blocks train strike, BBC, 8 August 2007 (English)
