List of Cleaning Companies in Germany

Last updated 21 October 2026

There are 75,673 cleaning companies in Germany, one in every 90 German companies. Most of them are small: seven in ten work as sole traders, and only 2,143 firms employ 50 people or more. One in seven cleaning firms is based in Berlin, Hamburg, München, Köln and Frankfurt am Main. Below you find the largest cleaning firms in Germany, the cities where they cluster, how many started this year and which are the oldest. The full list with addresses, phone numbers and email is in our German company database or through the Handelsregister API.

75,673 companies indexed · Data counted on 21 October 2026

Companies75,6731 in90 German companiesCities6,846Largest cityBerlin 3,885Sole traders71%Employees1-4 (89%)Revenue$100-500K (55%)Email45%Phone54%Website56%

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	Company Name	Country	City	Address 1	State/Province	Postal Code	Website	Founding Year	Yearly Revenue in U.S. Dollars	Employees Total	Business Legal Type - Description	Number of Companies in Group	Company Registration Number
1	Tu Gebäudeservice GMBH	Germany	Zeitz	Am Herrmannschacht 5	Burgenlandkreis	06712	xn--t-zeitz-n2a.*****	1998	$7,964,940,000	269	Corporation	N/A	39576B212026
2	Dussmann Stiftung & CO. KG Auf Aktien	Germany	Berlin	Friedrichstr. 90	Berlin, Stadt	10117	dussmanngroup.*****	2010	$3,472,681,487	67,867	Corporation	872	10623B78064B
3	Strabag Property And Facility Services GMBH	Germany	Frankfurt am Main	Europa-allee 50	Frankfurt am Main, Stadt	60327	strabag-pfs.*****	2017	$1,952,525,392	5,635	Corporation	1556	60313B118350
4	Piepenbrock Unternehmensgruppe GMBH + CO. KG	Germany	Berlin	Flottenstr. 14-20	Berlin, Stadt	13407	piepenbrock.*****	1985	$1,220,947,260	27,066	Corporation	257	10623A20524B
5	Spie Efficient Facilities GMBH	Germany	Düsseldorf	Euref-campus 1	Düsseldorf, Stadt	40472	spie.*****	2025	$739,153,935	4,025	Corporation	816	40227B80676
6	Dussmann Service Deutschland GMBH	Germany	Berlin	Friedrichstr. 90	Berlin, Stadt	10117	ursprung-berlin.*****	2011	$714,364,067	21,962	Corporation	872	10623B127152B
7	Fresenius Health Services Deutschland GMBH	Germany	Berlin	Am Bahnhof Westend 9-11	Berlin, Stadt	14059	fresenius-health-services.*****	2025	$315,318,402	1,986	Corporation	1075	10623B146735B
8	Charite Cfm Facility Management GMBH	Germany	Berlin	Chariteplatz 1	Berlin, Stadt	10117	cfm-charite.*****	2019	$268,663,828	3,286	Corporation	29	10623B99582B
9	Cbre Gws Ifm Industrie GMBH	Germany	Essen (oldenburg)	Wittekindstr. 1a	Essen, Stadt	45131	cbre.*****	2019	$227,019,289	921	Corporation	2458	45130B26068
10	Isd Immobilien Service Deutschland GMBH & CO. KG	Germany	Lüdenscheid	Freisenbergstr. 31	Märkischer Kreis	58513	isd-service.*****	1983	$224,006,363	6,916	Corporation	54	58636A5206
11	Apleona Sudwest GMBH	Germany	Neu-isenburg	An der Gehespitz 50	Offenbach	63263	hsg.*****	2019	$182,030,145	1,250	Corporation	363	63065B43777
12	Dorfner GMBH & CO. KG	Germany	Nürnberg	Willstätterstr. 71	Nürnberg	90449	dorfner-gruppe.*****	2022	$180,706,439	4,076	Corporation	46	90402A1017
13	Rational Gebäudereinigung GMBH & CO. KG	Germany	Delmenhorst	Sulinger Str. 97/	Delmenhorst, Stadt	27751	rdg-rational.*****	1967	$176,442,903	1,329	Corporation	7	26135A140430
14	Söffge Buro-Gebäude-Treppenhausreinigung GMBH & CO. KG	Germany	Bremen	Holzweide 2	Bremen, Stadt	28307	soeffge.*****	1995	$167,582,338	2,630	Corporation	6	28195A20961HB
15	Kfe Klinik Facility-Managment Eppendorf GMBH	Germany	Hamburg	Martinistr. 52	Hamburg, Freie Und Hansestadt	20251	uke.*****	2016	$167,403,991	207	Corporation	1022	20355B90900
16	Schulz Gebäudeservice GMBH & CO. KG	Germany	Espelkamp	Dr.-max-ilgner-str. 17	Minden-lübbecke	32339	sgbs.*****	1982	$162,033,852	2,190	Corporation	9	32545A5902
17	Artur Stoll GMBH	Germany	Steinhagen	Bergstr. 24-26	Gütersloh	33803	stoll-gebaeudeservice.*****	1954	$159,298,800	1,385	Corporation	13	33330B4648
18	Paul Schulten GMBH & CO. KG	Germany	Remscheid	Nordstr. 38	Remscheid, Stadt	42853	schulten.*****	2016	$157,705,812	2,560	Corporation	8	42103A17894
19	Hugo Lenzen GMBH & CO. KG	Germany	Faid	Am Kreisel West 8	Cochem-zell	56814	hlenzen.*****	1992	$136,621,898	2,075	Corporation	3	56068A4780
20	Nils Bogdol GMBH	Germany	Holdorf	Bahnhofsallee 1	Vechta	49451	ray.*****	2014	$133,874,712	1,887	Corporation	32	26135B111144
21	Eugen Kieffer Gebäudereinigung GMBH & Co.kg	Germany	Steinheim am Albuch	Kappelstr. 55	Heidenheim	89555	kieffer.*****	1954	$128,933,816	1,953	Corporation	10	89073A660376
22	Tgs Teegen Gebäudedienstleistungen GMBH	Germany	Fellbach	Max-eyth-str. 32	Rems-murr-kreis	70736	tgs.*****	1978	$127,574,472	1,723	Corporation	2	70190B260998
23	Spiegelblank Reinigungsunternehmen Heinz Kuhnert GMBH & CO KG	Germany	Kiel	Seekoppelweg 9	Kiel, Landeshauptstadt	24113	spiegelblank.*****	1947	$127,449,660	2,010	Corporation	11	24114A692KI
24	3b Dienstleistung Deutschland GMBH	Germany	Berlin	Wolfensteindamm 11	Berlin, Stadt	12165	drei-b.*****	2009	$127,439,040	2,000	Corporation	9	10623B19678B
25	Vebego Facility Services B.V. & CO. KG	Germany	Wuppertal	Konsumstr. 45	Wuppertal, Stadt	42285	vebego.*****	1974	$125,262,250	4,744	Corporation	40	42103A15322

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Cleaning firms in Berlin

Berlin has 3,885 cleaning companies and cleaning firms, 1.1% of all 360,869 Berlin companies and 3% below the national share. Four in five Berlin firms have fewer than five people; 109 have 50 or more. 110 new firms were entered in 2026, 103 date from before 1990.

Size

1-4 staff: 3,193 · 84%
5-9: 154 · 4%
10-19: 196 · 5%
20-49: 147 · 4%
50+: 109 · 3%

Legal form

Sole traders: 1,958 · 50%
Partnerships: 77 · 2%
GmbH and AG: 1,685 · 43%
Other or none: 165 · 4%

Of the German total: 5.1%
Of all Berlin companies: 1.1%
Against the national share: 1.0×

New

Entered 2026 so far: 110
Entered 2025: 234
Of Germany's 2026 entries: 8.8%

Old

Before 1990: 103 · 3%
1990 or later: 3,782 · 97%
Of Germany's pre-1990 firms: 5.0%

Reachable

Email: 1,641 · 42%
Phone: 1,853 · 48%
Website: 1,981 · 51%

Revenue (USD)

Under $100K: 987 · 26%
$100K-$500K: 2,377 · 64%
$500K-$1M: 159 · 4%
$1M and more: 210 · 6%

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Largest cleaning firms in Germany

The biggest firms by staff and by revenue, the largest in Berlin, the biggest newcomers of 2026 and the oldest firms. Click a name for the record.

Dussmann Service Deutschland is the largest cleaning firm in Germany by headcount. 2,143 firms employ 50 people or more; 1,335 employ 100 or more.

1Berlin21,962 staff
2Lüdenscheid6,916 staff
3Waldbreitbach6,171 staff
4Frankfurt am Main5,635 staff
5Wuppertal4,744 staff
6Essen4,485 staff
7Nürnberg4,076 staff
8Düsseldorf4,025 staff
9Laatzen4,000 staff
10Berlin3,286 staff

By employee size · 74,061 firms with a known headcount

Employees	Firms	%
1-4	66,144	89%
5-9	1,711	2%
10-19	2,343	3%
20-49	1,720	2%
50-99	808	1%
100-199	597	0.8%
200-499	482	0.7%
500-999	159	0.2%
1,000+	97	0.1%

89% have 1 to 4 people; 1,720 have 20 to 49; 2,143 have 50 or more.

By yearly revenue (USD)

Revenue	Firms	%
< $100K	27,876	38%
$100K-$500K	40,172	55%
$500K-$1M	1,826	3%
$1M-$5M	1,802	2%
$5M-$10M	523	0.7%
$10M-$50M	511	0.7%
$50M-$100M	90	0.1%
$100M-$500M	30	<0.1%
$500M+	6	<0.1%

55% between $100,000 and $500,000; 1,802 between $1M and $5M; 1,160 above $5M.

How many cleaning companies are there in Germany?

Cleaning companies and cleaning firms in Germany

75,673

21 October 2026

There are 75,673 cleaning companies and cleaning firms in Germany in our data (21 October 2026). That is one in every 90 German companies. About 6 new firms are entered in the register every working day this year (1,257 so far in 2026).

Structure

Single-site firms: 71,295 94%
Head offices: 1,596
Branch offices: 2,782

Classification

WZ 2008 codes 8121, 8122 and 8129, identical to NACE Rev. 2 8121, 8122 and 8129. Our platform filter is SIC 7349, 7217.

17,067 of the 75,673 are GmbH and AG (23%); 53,502 are sole traders. They come from the Handelsregister and our German register data, through the Handelsregister API.

Where in Germany?

Berlin has the most cleaning companies in Germany (3,885), ahead of Hamburg (2,414), München (1,806), Köln (1,190) and Frankfurt am Main (961). Together the five hold one in seven of them. Relative to their size, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Offenbach am Main and Oberhausen have the most: 1.6 to 2.1 times the national share.

Cities by number of firms

6,846 German cities have at least one cleaning firm; 1,464 have ten or more; 1,890 have exactly one. Click a city to set the lens.

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Where they cluster

Cleaning firms per 100 companies, in cities with at least 100 of them. The national share is 1.11. Ludwigshafen am Rhein has 2.1 times the national share.

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By district 315 districts

District	Firms	%
München	2,486	3%
Region Hannover	1,141	2%
Karlsruhe	728	1.0%
Stuttgart	647	0.9%
Rhein-Sieg-Kreis	643	0.8%
Nürnberg	619	0.8%
Mettmann	575	0.8%
Offenbach	567	0.7%
Augsburg	551	0.7%
Rhein-Neckar-Kreis	547	0.7%

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Firm sizes in Germany

Of the 74,061 German cleaning firms with a known headcount, 66,144 (89%) have one to four people, 1,711 have five to nine, 4,063 have ten to 49 and 2,143 have 50 or more. Most firms turn over between $100,000 and $500,000 a year (40,172, 55%).

EU size bands · the grey line shows all German companies

Micro under 1067,855 92%
Small 10 to 494,063 5%
Medium 50 to 2491,887 3%
Large 250+256 0.3%

Grey line: the share among all German companies (92% have under ten staff).

1,160

firms turn over more than $5 million a year; 637 more than $10 million.

1,257

firms were entered in 2026.

How reachable are they?

Cleaning firms are harder to reach than the average German company: 54% list a phone number and 56% a website.

Email34,166 45%
Phone40,664 54%
Website42,115 56%

Grey line: all German companies (email 52%, phone 63%, website 61%).

The full list with these fields is in our German company database.

Sole traders or GmbH: how they are organised

Seven in ten German cleaning firms work as sole traders, against 46% of all German companies. Only one firm in four is a GmbH or AG.

Sole traders (Einzelunternehmen)53,50271%
Partnerships (OHG and KG)2,1403%
GmbH and AG17,06723%
No form on record or other2,9644%

Single-site: 94%
Head offices: 1,596
Branches: 2,782

All German companies: 46% sole traders, 6% partnerships, 29% GmbH and AG.

Newcomers in Germany in 2026

1,257 cleaning firms were entered in the German register so far in 2026, about 6 a working day, after 2,491 in 2025. Germany as a whole saw 121,844 new companies in 2026, so this industry takes 1.0% of the inflow.

3,4212022
1,9102023
2,3192024
2,4912025
1,2572026 so far

993 of this year's 1,257 are GmbH and AG.

The biggest newcomers of 2026

The year is the register entry; an established firm that changes legal form appears as new.

1Saarbrücken944 staff
2Saarbrücken851 staff
3Lüdenscheid715 staff
4Tönisvorst700 staff
5Aldingen641 staff

The oldest firms in Germany

Our data holds 29 German cleaning firms from before 1900, 146 from before 1950 and 2,073 from before 1990.

1833
1. Hilter am Teutoburger Wald
1836
1. Hagen am Teutoburger Wald
1850
1. Höchst im Odenwald
1853
1. Hannover
1855
1. Velbert
1857
1. Burgau

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German cleaning firms date from before 1990

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How they compare

Next to related industries

There are 87 cleaning firms for every one of the safety companies in Germany.

Industry	Firms	Website	1-4 staff
Cleaning Companies	75,673	56%	87%
Software Companies	61,072	67%	73%
Rental Companies	36,105	67%	82%
Security Companies	11,971	64%	63%
Translation Companies	5,940	84%	95%
Safety Companies	868	97%	74%

In other countries

Only the USA, India and Australia have more cleaning firms than Germany.

Country	Firms	Per 1,000 cos.
The USA	307,907	4.8
India	126,038	3.3
Australia	75,813	8.8
Germany	75,673	11.1
Ukraine	72,638	42.1

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Frequently asked questions

How many cleaning companies are there in Germany?

There are 75,673 cleaning companies and cleaning firms in Germany in our data, counted on 21 October 2026. That is one in every 90 German companies.

Which is the largest cleaning firm in Germany?

Dussmann Service Deutschland in Berlin, with 21,962 staff. By revenue Dussmann Stiftung & Co. KGaA in Berlin leads with $3.5 billion a year.

Which German city has the most cleaning companies?

Berlin, with 3,885, ahead of Hamburg (2,414), München (1,806), Köln (1,190) and Frankfurt am Main (961). Relative to its size, Ludwigshafen am Rhein has the most: 2.1 times the national share.

How many cleaning firms are there in Berlin?

3,885, which is 1.1% of all 360,869 Berlin companies and 3% below the national share.

How big is a typical cleaning firm?

Small. 89% of the 74,061 firms with a known headcount have one to four people; 2,143 have 50 or more. Most turn over between $100,000 and $500,000 a year.

Are German cleaning companies sole traders or companies?

Seven in ten (53,502) are sole traders, 3% are partnerships and 23% (17,067) are GmbH and AG.

How many cleaning firms started in 2026?

1,257 were entered in the German register so far in 2026, after 2,491 in 2025. 993 of them are GmbH and AG.

What is the oldest cleaning firm in Germany?

Frank Wehrkamp-Lemke in Hilter am Teutoburger Wald, 1833, followed by Josef Clausing in Hagen am Teutoburger Wald (1836) and Rainer Hofferberth in Höchst im Odenwald (1850). 29 firms date from before 1900.

Which industry code covers cleaning companies?

German cleaning companies are classified under WZ 2008 codes 8121, 8122 and 8129, identical to NACE Rev. 2 codes 8121, 8122 and 8129. Our platform filters them on SIC 7349 (building cleaning and maintenance services, not elsewhere) and 7217 (carpet and upholstery cleaning).

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