List of Manufacturing Companies in Germany

Last updated 21 October 2026

There are 284,337 manufacturing companies in Germany, one in every 24 German companies. Most of them are small: three in five have one to four people, and only 20,274 firms employ 50 people or more. One in ten manufacturing firms is based in Berlin, Hamburg, München, Köln and Düsseldorf. Below you find the largest manufacturing 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.

284,337 companies indexed · Data counted on 21 October 2026

Companies284,3371 in24 German companiesCities8,835Largest cityBerlin 11,258Sole traders32%Employees1-4 (59%)Revenue$100-500K (50%)Email70%Phone74%Website78%

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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	Volkswagen AG	Germany	Wolfsburg	Berliner Ring 2	Wolfsburg, Stadt	38440	*****.de	1937	$373,138,371,864	588,754	Corporation	4281	38100B100484
2	Bayerische Motoren Werke AG	Germany	München	Petuelring 130	München	80809	*****.com	1916	$154,689,108,984	156,305	Corporation	614	80333B42243
3	Mercedes-Benz Group AG	Germany	Stuttgart	Mercedesstr. 120	Stuttgart	70372	*****.com	1926	$153,252,949,392	169,240	Corporation	970	70190B19360
4	Robert Bosch Gesellschaft Mit Beschränkter Haftung	Germany	Gerlingen	Robert-bosch-platz 1	Ludwigsburg	70839	*****.com	2021	$95,540,560,260	424,665	Corporation	2208	70190B14000
5	Siemens AG	Germany	München	Werner-von-siemens-str. 1	München	80333	*****.com	1847	$91,845,400,438	316,000	Corporation	3670	80333B6684
6	Audi AG	Germany	Ingolstadt	Auto-union-str. 1	Ingolstadt	85057	*****.de	2016	$71,157,238,500	90,337	Corporation	4281	85049B1
7	Basf SE	Germany	Ludwigshafen am Rhein	Carl-bosch-str. 38	Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Kreisfreie Stadt	67056	*****.com	1865	$69,150,099,096	110,440	Corporation	1137	67061B6000
8	Kuka Systems GMBH	Germany	Augsburg	Blucherstr. 144	Augsburg	86165	*****.com	2025	$55,160,650,000	300	Corporation	833	86150B7921
9	Bayer AG	Germany	Leverkusen	Kaiser-wilhelm-allee 1	Leverkusen, Stadt	51373	*****.de	1863	$52,827,258,600	90,859	Corporation	1321	50670B48248
10	Zf Friedrichshafen AG	Germany	Friedrichshafen	Löwentaler Str. 20	Bodenseekreis	88046	*****.com	2009	$44,985,757,680	157,568	Corporation	1157	89073B630206
11	Fihumin-Gmbh	Germany	Ammersbek	Georg-sasse-str. 43	Stormarn	22949	*****.de	1935	$44,128,520,000	41	Corporation	3	23568B4095AH
12	Sap SE	Germany	Walldorf	Dietmar-hopp-allee 16	Rhein-neckar-kreis	69190	*****.com	1972	$42,655,910,400	109,211	Corporation	554	68159B719915
13	DR. ING. H.C. F. Porsche AG	Germany	Stuttgart	Porscheplatz 1	Stuttgart	70435	*****.com	2023	$42,043,890,816	42,066	Corporation	4281	70190B730623
14	Dirk Abrahams GMBH	Germany	Zetel	Collsteder Damm 3	Friesland	26340	*****.de	1990	$33,983,744,000	86	Corporation	N/A	26135B130847
15	Adidas AG	Germany	Herzogenaurach	Adi-dassler-str. 1	Erlangen-höchstadt	91074	*****.com	1920	$28,759,124,808	61,952	Corporation	978	90762B3868
16	Shell Deutschland GMBH	Germany	Hamburg	New-orleans-str. 4	Hamburg, Freie Und Hansestadt	20457	*****.de	2023	$28,723,228,539	3,378	Corporation	5522	20355B82190
17	C.H. Boehringer Sohn AG & CO. KG	Germany	Ingelheim am Rhein	Binger Str. 173	Mainz-bingen	55216	*****.com	1885	$28,336,984,368	54,543	Corporation	370	55116A21732
18	Schaeffler AG	Germany	Herzogenaurach	Industriestr. 1-3	Erlangen-höchstadt	91074	*****.com	2024	$27,230,234,976	112,332	Corporation	503	90762B14738
19	Siemens Healthineers AG	Germany	Forchheim	Siemensstr. 3	Forchheim	91301	*****.com	2025	$27,205,391,125	73,000	Corporation	3670	80333B237558
20	Fresenius SE & CO. Kgaa	Germany	Bad Homburg Vor der Höhe	Else-kröner-str. 1	Hochtaunuskreis	61352	*****.com	1912	$26,512,734,744	178,583	Corporation	1070	61352B11852
21	Heidelberg Materials AG	Germany	Heidelberg	Berliner Str. 6	Heidelberg	69120	*****.com	1889	$24,875,118,706	50,499	Corporation	3287	68159B330082
22	Merck KG Auf Aktien	Germany	Darmstadt	Frankfurter Str. 250	Darmstadt, Wissenschaftsstadt	64293	*****.de	1668	$24,459,919,056	62,636	Corporation	728	64283B6164
23	Henkel AG & CO. Kgaa	Germany	Düsseldorf	Henkelstr. 67	Düsseldorf, Stadt	40589	*****.de	1876	$23,756,328,360	47,300	Corporation	467	40227B4724
24	Das Teppichwerk GMBH & CO. KG	Germany	Hameln	Kuhlmannstr. 11	Hameln-pyrmont	31785	*****.de	2020	$23,167,473,000	307	Corporation	5	30175A205484
25	Continental AG	Germany	Hannover	Continental-plaza 1	Region Hannover	30175	*****.com	1871	$22,807,002,528	65,414	Corporation	1110	30175B3527

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Largest manufacturing 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.

Daimler Truck is the largest manufacturing firm in Germany by headcount. 20,274 firms employ 50 people or more; 10,826 employ 100 or more.

1Echterdingen80,155 staff
2Duisburg19,270 staff
3Köln17,365 staff
4Hamburg14,626 staff
5München13,855 staff
6Mannheim12,746 staff
7Essen12,431 staff
8Zwickau11,725 staff
9Berlin10,114 staff
10Ingolstadt10,000 staff

By employee size · 259,607 firms with a known headcount

Employees	Firms	%
1-4	153,235	59%
5-9	37,550	14%
10-19	24,965	10%
20-49	23,583	9%
50-99	9,448	4%
100-199	5,760	2%
200-499	3,578	1%
500-999	966	0.4%
1,000+	522	0.2%

59% have 1 to 4 people; 23,583 have 20 to 49; 20,274 have 50 or more.

By yearly revenue (USD)

Revenue	Firms	%
< $100K	4,058	2%
$100K-$500K	121,525	50%
$500K-$1M	42,676	18%
$1M-$5M	45,309	19%
$5M-$10M	9,994	4%
$10M-$50M	11,310	5%
$50M-$100M	2,659	1%
$100M-$500M	2,472	1%
$500M+	709	0.3%

50% between $100,000 and $500,000; 45,309 between $1M and $5M; 27,144 above $5M.

Manufacturing firms in Berlin

Berlin has 11,258 manufacturing companies and manufacturing firms, 3.1% of all 360,869 Berlin companies and 26% below the national share. Two in three Berlin firms have fewer than five people; 369 have 50 or more. 300 new firms were entered in 2026, 822 date from before 1990.

Size

1-4 staff: 6,910 · 67%
5-9: 1,541 · 15%
10-19: 847 · 8%
20-49: 699 · 7%
50+: 369 · 4%

Legal form

Sole traders: 2,945 · 26%
Partnerships: 368 · 3%
GmbH and AG: 6,210 · 55%
Other or none: 1,735 · 15%

Of the German total: 4.0%
Of all Berlin companies: 3.1%
Against the national share: 0.7×

New

Entered 2026 so far: 300
Entered 2025: 569
Of Germany's 2026 entries: 6.4%

Old

Before 1990: 822 · 7%
1990 or later: 10,436 · 93%
Of Germany's pre-1990 firms: 2.0%

Reachable

Email: 6,747 · 60%
Phone: 6,639 · 59%
Website: 7,803 · 69%

Revenue (USD)

Under $100K: 178 · 2%
$100K-$500K: 5,421 · 57%
$500K-$1M: 1,955 · 20%
$1M and more: 2,029 · 21%

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Firm sizes in Germany

Of the 259,607 German manufacturing firms with a known headcount, 153,235 (59%) have one to four people, 37,550 have five to nine, 48,548 have ten to 49 and 20,274 have 50 or more. Most firms turn over between $100,000 and $500,000 a year (121,525, 50%).

EU size bands · the grey line shows all German companies

Micro under 10190,785 73%
Small 10 to 4948,548 19%
Medium 50 to 24918,786 7%
Large 250+1,488 0.6%

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

27,144

firms turn over more than $5 million a year; 17,150 more than $10 million.

4,662

firms were entered in 2026.

Where in Germany?

Berlin has the most manufacturing companies in Germany (11,258), ahead of Hamburg (6,647), München (5,534), Köln (3,499) and Düsseldorf (2,535). Together the five hold one in ten of them. Relative to their size, Lüdenscheid, Velbert and Solingen have the most: 1.9 to 2.1 times the national share.

Cities by number of firms

8,835 German cities have at least one manufacturing firm; 4,361 have ten or more; 1,132 have exactly one. Click a city to set the lens.

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Where they cluster

Manufacturing firms per 100 companies, in cities with at least 100 of them. The national share is 4.19. Lüdenscheid has 2.1 times the national share.

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Dashed line: the national share. A filled dot is twice the national share or more.

By district 316 districts

District	Firms	%
München	7,939	3%
Region Hannover	3,135	1%
Karlsruhe	2,842	1.0%
Esslingen	2,399	0.8%
Mettmann	2,393	0.8%
Märkischer Kreis	2,339	0.8%
Ludwigsburg	2,120	0.7%
Rems-Murr-Kreis	2,052	0.7%
Heilbronn	2,024	0.7%
Ortenaukreis	2,021	0.7%

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How many manufacturing companies are there in Germany?

Manufacturing companies and manufacturing firms in Germany

284,337

21 October 2026

There are 284,337 manufacturing companies and manufacturing firms in Germany in our data (21 October 2026). That is one in every 24 German companies. About 22 new firms are entered in the register every working day this year (4,662 so far in 2026).

Structure

Single-site firms: 212,068 75%
Head offices: 28,829
Branch offices: 43,440

Classification

WZ 2008 codes 10, 20, 25, 28, 29 and 30, identical to NACE Rev. 2 10, 20, 25, 28, 29 and 30. Our platform filter is SIC division D.

139,514 of the 284,337 are GmbH and AG (49%); 91,119 are sole traders. They come from the Handelsregister and our German register data, through the Handelsregister API.

The oldest firms in Germany

Our data holds 3,029 German manufacturing firms from before 1900, 10,901 from before 1950 and 41,993 from before 1990.

1820
1. Regensburg
1820
1. Elmshorn
1822
1. Weingarten
1824
1. Meschede
1825
1. Bräunlingen
1826
1. Colditz

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41,993

German manufacturing firms date from before 1990

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were entered in 1990

How they compare

In other countries

Country	Firms	Per 1,000 cos.
India	10,859,579	280.3
Brazil	2,128,446	73.8
The USA	1,473,782	23.1
Italy	565,902	80.6
The Czech Republic	380,530	108.1
Germany	284,337	41.9

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How reachable are they?

Manufacturing firms are easier to reach than the average German company: 74% list a phone number and 78% a website.

Email198,223 70%
Phone209,118 74%
Website220,771 78%

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

One in three German manufacturing firms work as sole traders, against 46% of all German companies. Half are GmbH and AG.

Sole traders (Einzelunternehmen)91,11932%
Partnerships (OHG and KG)8,8883%
GmbH and AG139,51449%
No form on record or other44,81616%

Single-site: 75%
Head offices: 28,829
Branches: 43,440

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

Newcomers in Germany in 2026

4,662 manufacturing firms were entered in the German register so far in 2026, about 22 a working day, after 8,475 in 2025. Germany as a whole saw 121,844 new companies in 2026, so this industry takes 3.8% of the inflow.

8,3102022
6,8132023
7,1722024
8,4752025
4,6622026 so far

4,221 of this year's 4,662 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.

1Böblingen921 staff
2Wiesbaden894 staff
3Korbach870 staff
4Königsberg in Bayern802 staff

Frequently asked questions

How many manufacturing companies are there in Germany?

There are 284,337 manufacturing companies and manufacturing firms in Germany in our data, counted on 21 October 2026. That is one in every 24 German companies.

Which is the largest manufacturing firm in Germany?

Daimler Truck in Echterdingen, with 80,155 staff. By revenue Volkswagen in Wolfsburg leads with $373.1 billion a year.

Which German city has the most manufacturing companies?

Berlin, with 11,258, ahead of Hamburg (6,647), München (5,534), Köln (3,499) and Düsseldorf (2,535). Relative to its size, Lüdenscheid has the most: 2.1 times the national share.

How many manufacturing firms are there in Berlin?

11,258, which is 3.1% of all 360,869 Berlin companies and 26% below the national share.

How big is a typical manufacturing firm?

Small. 59% of the 259,607 firms with a known headcount have one to four people; 20,274 have 50 or more. Most turn over between $100,000 and $500,000 a year.

Are German manufacturing companies sole traders or companies?

One in three (91,119) are sole traders, 3% are partnerships and 49% (139,514) are GmbH and AG.

How many manufacturing firms started in 2026?

4,662 were entered in the German register so far in 2026, after 8,475 in 2025. 4,221 of them are GmbH and AG.

What is the oldest manufacturing firm in Germany?

Friedrich Pustet GmbH & Co. KG in Regensburg, 1820, followed by Peter Kölln GmbH & Co. KGaA in Elmshorn (1820) and Franz Habisreutinger GmbH & Co. KG in Weingarten (1822). 3,029 firms date from before 1900.

Which industry code covers manufacturing companies?

German manufacturing companies are classified under WZ 2008 codes 10, 20, 25 and 3 more, identical to NACE Rev. 2 codes 10, 20, 25 and 3 more. Our platform filters them on SIC division D (manufacturing).

Can I download the full list?

Yes. All 284,337 firms with address, phone, email, legal form, employees, revenue and founding year, as Excel, CSV or through the API.

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