PD Shareholders

What Makes PD Special

PD is organized as a private-law entity (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, GmbH) and is 100 % publicly owned. PD shareholders — that is, PD clients — include the federal government, federal states, municipalities, public-law corporations and institutions, as well as other public organizations and two shareholders’ associations. They exercise control over PD through their voting rights and cooperation responsibilities.

This ownership structure allows PD to act directly on behalf of its shareholders.

PD is the in-house consultancy for the public sector.

An Overview of PD Shareholders

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PD shareholders are divided into different groups. What they all have in common is that they are contracting authorities as defined in Section 99 of the Competition Act (Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen, GWB). PD shareholders represent all levels of government.

Contracting authorities wishing to become PD shareholders may acquire shares directly from PD. Interested state, and particularly municipalities, along with a range of other public institutions, can easily become shareholders and benefit from the services provided by PD.

One exception applies to shareholders’ associations: they must acquire additional shares directly from the federal government.

Because the number of shares is limited and demand regularly exceeds availability, PD conducts an internal selection process to determine new shareholders.

The PD's shareholder structure comprises 275 public-sector shareholders.

Current PD Shareholder Structure

The main PD shareholder is the Federal Government of Germany, holding 40 percent of the voting shares. The PD shareholder structure comprises the shareholder groups federal government, federal states, municipalities, public corporations, institutions under public law as well as other public organisations, institutions and PD shareholders‘ associations.

As of July 2025, the PD shareholder structure is as follows:

Federal Government

Federal States

Baden-Wuerttemberg, Berlin, Brandenburg, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Hither Pomerania, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia

Municipalities

Top Municipal Associations:

Association of Counties in Schleswig-Holstein, Association of German Cities, German Association of Towns and Municipalities, German County Association

Cities:

Aachen, Augsburg, Bad Hersfeld, Barsinghausen, Bebra, Bergheim an der Erft, Bergisch Gladbach, Bergkamen, Bochum, Boizenburg (Elbe), Bonn, Brake (Unterweser), Braunschweig, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Buedingen, Buxtehude, Castrop-Rauxel, Coburg, Cologne, Darmstadt, Delmenhorst, Dillenburg, Dinslaken, Dormagen, Dreieich, Duisburg, Eltville (Rhein), Ennepetal, Erkrath, Espelkamp, Essen, Esslingen, Flensburg, Frankenthal (Pfalz), Frankfurt (Main), Frechen, Freiburg i.Br., Geldern, Gelnhausen, Gelsenkirchen, Halle (Westf.), Hamminkeln, Heiligenhaus, Helmstedt, Herne, Heusenstamm, Huenfeld, Huerth, Idstein, Iserlohn, Jena, Kempen, Kerpen, Koenigs Wusterhausen, Krefeld, Langenfeld, Leipzig, Lengerich (Westf.), Leverkusen, Lindau (Bodensee), Loehne, Luckau, Ludwigshafen (Rhein), Lueneburg, Mainz, Mannheim, Mengen, Mettmann, Moenchengladbach, Monheim (Rhein), Munich, Neumuenster, Neuss, Nuernberg, Oberhausen, Offenbach, Olpe, Paderborn, Papenburg, Pattensen, Pforzheim, Pirmasens, Potsdam, Pulheim (Aller), Ratingen, Recklinghausen, Regensburg, Remscheid, Rhede, Rheinberg, Rotenburg (Fulda), Saarbruecken, Salzgitter, Schwarzenbek, Sehnde, Solingen, Straelen, Taunusstein, Troisdorf, Uetersen, Unna, Verden (Aller), Waren (Mueritz), Wedel, Wesseling, Wetzlar, Wiesbaden, Wittingen, Wuelfrath, Wuerselen, Wuppertal,

Municipalities:

Freigericht, Ganderkesee, Grasleben, Groebenzell, Heeseberg, Holzkirchen, Kernen, Lachendorf, Langerwehe, Leopoldshoehe, Lilienthal, Marpingen, Merzenich, Metelen, Michendorf, Neubiberg, Noervenich, Nohfelden, Oberthal, Ritterhude, Scharbeutz, Schoenefeld, Seeheim-Jugenheim, Stuhr, Taufkirchen, Tholey, Uetze, Windeck, Zoellnitz

Districts and Counties:

Bautzen, Burgenlandkreis, Celle, Dachau, Dahme-Spreewald, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Erding, Euskirchen, Freising, Goerlitz, Goslar, Groß-Gerau, Helmstedt, Herzogtum Lauenburg, Hochsauerlandkreis, Hochtaunuskreis, Lichtenfels, Maerkischer Kreis, Main-Kinzig-Kreis, Main-Taunus-Kreis, Mettmann, Nienburg (Weser), Olpe, Ostholstein, Paderborn, Pinneberg, Ploen, Potsdam-Mittelmark, Prignitz, Ravensburg, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Rhein-Hunsrueck-Kreis, Segeberg, Sigmaringen, Steinburg, Trier-Saarburg, Uckermark

Public Corporations

AKDB (Anstalt fuer Kommunale Datenverarbeitung in Bayern), BRW (Bergisch Rheinischer Wasserverband), BTU (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg), Dataport, Deutsche Bundesbank, DGUV e.V. (Deutsche Gesetzliche Unfallversicherung), DRV (Deutsche Rentenversicherung) Bund, DRV Hessen, DRV Rheinland, ebwo (Entsorgungs- und Baubetrieb Worms), Federal Employment Agency, FITKO (Foederale IT-Kooperation), Goethe University Frankfurt a. M., hannIT (Hannoversche Information Technologies), Institute for Federal Real Estate (Bundesanstalt fuer Immobilienaufgaben, BImA), JLU (Justus Liebig University) Giessen, Komm.ONE, KommunalBIT (Kommunaler Betrieb fuer Informationstechnik), Kommunaler Zweckverband ITK Rheinland, LWL (Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe), PD shareholder association „Forschung und Medizin“ e.V. (members: MHH Hospital, University Hospitals Aachen, Frankfurt a. M., Freiburg, Halle, Heidelberg, Cologne, Magdeburg, Saarland, Schleswig-Holstein, Tuebingen und Ulm, University of Siegen, University Medical Centers Goettingen and Mainz), Regionalverband Großraum Braunschweig, Saechsische Aufbaubank – Foerderbank, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Suedwestfalen-IT, Unfallkasse NRW, University of Bonn, University of Cologne, University of Duisburg-Essen, Versorgungsanstalt des Bundes und der Laender, Westfaelische Hochschule, Zweckverband der Berufsbildenden Schulen Opladen, Zweckverband eGo-Saar

Institutions under public law as well as other public organisations, institutions and PD shareholders‘ associations

BBB Infrastruktur GmbH & Co.KG, Berlinovo Immobilien GmbH, BWI GmbH, ENO (Entwicklungsgesellschaft Niederschlesische Oberlausitz), GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer internationale Zusammenarbeit) GmbH, GmbH, govdigital eG, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Klinikum Worms gGmbH, Leibniz Institut fuer Bildungsverlaeufe e.V., LMBV (Lausitzer und Mitteldeutsche Bergbau-Verwaltungsgesellschaft) GmbH, Metropolregion Bremen-Oldenburg im Nordwesten e. V., , PD shareholders‘ associations ,,Kommunale Großkrankenhaeuser“ e.V. (members: Staedtisches Klinikum Braunschweig gGmbH, Carl-Thiem-Klinikum Cottbus gGmbH, Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH, Klinikum Dortmund gGmbH, Klinikum Fulda gAG, Kliniken der Stadt Koeln gGmbH, Maerkische Kliniken GmbH, RKH Enzkreis-Kliniken gGmbH, RKH Kliniken des Landkreises Karlsruhe gGmbH, RKH Kliniken Ludwigsburg-Bietigheim gGmbH, RKH Orthopaedische Klinik Markgroeningen gGmbH, Vivantes Netzwerk fuer Gesundheit GmbH), regio iT gesellschaft fuer informationstechnologie mbH, Republic of Cyprus, RKiSH (Rettungsdienst-Kooperation in Schleswig-Holstein) gGmbH, STADT UND LAND Wohnbauten-GmbH, Stadtwerke Heiligenhaus GmbH, votegroup GmbH, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fuer Sozialforschung gGmbH, ZuZe (Zukunftszentrum fuer Deutsche Einheit und Europaeische Transformation) gGmbH