Private company

Dekabank Deutsche Girozentrale

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Asset manager of the German Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe

DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale is a German financial institution. It is registered in both Frankfurt and Berlin, with main operational headquarters in Frankfurt. It traces its origins to the Deutsche Girozentrale, established in 1918 as a hub for payments within the German savings banks system.² Its chief executive is Michael Rüdiger.¹ It employed 5,727 people in 2024.¹ It is part of Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband.¹ Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1918Founded¹

Industryfinancial service activities, except insurance and pension funding, financial services¹
HeadquartersFrankfurt¹
Websitewww.deka.de/deka-gruppe
Legal formpublic-law institution¹
Kind of organizationPublic body¹
LEI0W2PZJM8XOY22M4GG883³
StatusActive³
LEI statusIssued and current³
Registered addressGroße Gallusstraße 14, 60315 Frankfurt am Main, Germany³
Registered withLocal Court Frankfurt am Main, HRA 16068³

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Corporate structure

Dekabank Deutsche Girozentrale is part of a group headed by Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband. 1,028 entities, 3 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband Berlin, Germany
- Dekabank Deutsche Girozentrale Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  - S Broker AG & Co. KG Wiesbaden, Germany
  - bevestor GmbH Subsidiary · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  - Deka Beteiligungs GmbH Subsidiary · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  - Deka International S.A. Subsidiary · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka Alternative Investments - Teilfonds A-HN AI Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - DEKA ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS - TEILFONDS DIRECT LENDING Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka Alternative Investments - Teilfonds ELB PM Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka Alternative Investments - Teilfonds Kinzigtal AI Lux Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka Alternative Investments - Teilfonds Quadrum AI Lux Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka Alternative Investments - Teilfonds VW RA BB Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka Alternative Investments – Teilfonds A-DOR AI Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka Infrastruktur Selektion FCP-FIS - Teilfonds 1 Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka-ConvergenceAktien II Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka-ESG Renten Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka-Euroland Protect 2031 Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka-Europa Aktien Spezial Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka-EuropaGarant 90 Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka-Europäische Souveränität Aktien Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka-Europäische Souveränität Renten Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka-Globale Aktien Value Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka-Infrastruktur Aktien Fund · Luxembourg-Findel, Luxembourg
    - Deka-Lifestyle Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka-MSCI Europe Protect Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka-MultiFactor Emerging Markets Corporates Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka-MultiFactor US Corporates Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka-RohstoffStrategie Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka-Security and Defense Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka-StBV-NW-AI II Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - Deka-US Aktien Core Fund · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
    - and 141 more
  - Deka Investment GmbH Subsidiary · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - 1854-Spezialfonds Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - A-Perspektive Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - A-SDN-Fonds Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - A-VSA-FONDS LCR Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Altersvorsorge Fonds Plus Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - BAMBERG INVEST Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - BBE2026 Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - BIA-Strategiefonds Nr. 8 Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - DDF 9 Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Deka District Treasure Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Deka Euro Corporates 0-3 Liquid UCITS ETF Acc Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Deka Future Energy ESG UCITS ETF Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Deka iBoxx MSCI ESG EUR Corporates Green Bond UCITS ETF Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Deka Nasdaq-100® UCITS ETF Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Deka STOXX Future Water ESG UCITS ETF Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Deka V Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Deka-FlexFonds 35 Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Deka-RentSpezial Ausgewogen 9/2032 Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Deka-RentSpezial CorporateBond 9/2028 Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Deka-RentSpezial HighYield 9/2029 Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Deka-RentSpezial HighYield 9/2031 Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Deka-RentSpezial Plus 9/2030 Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Freya-Fonds 1 Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Hoffnungsfonds Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - I-Jade Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - and 626 more
  - Deka Vermogensmanagement GmbH (Deka Vermögensmanagement GmbH) Subsidiary · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Astralos Global Balanced Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Barbarossa: AktienFonds Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Connect Aktien Komfort Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Connect-Aktien Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Connect-Aktien Gesundheit Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Connect-Aktien Globale Trends Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Connect-ESG Aktien Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Connect-ESG Aktien Gesundheit) Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Connect-ESG Aktien Globale Trends Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Connect-ESG Aktien Komfort Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Connect-ESG Aktien Technologie Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Connect-ESG Renten Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Connect-Renten Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - ES-Zukunftsstrategie Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Haspa Anleihen Ausschüttung Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Kreissparkasse Heilbronn: Select Global Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Kreissparkasse Heilbronn: Substanz und Dividende Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - KSK Dynamik Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - KSK Selektion Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - KSK Stiftungen Zins Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Mittelbayern Portfolio Chance Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Mittelbayern Portfolio Ertrag Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Oberland WeltInvest Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Offensivportfolio Ulm Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - Premium Invest Chance Ausschüttungsfokus ESG Fund · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    - and 170 more
  - Deka Verwaltungsgesellschaft Luxembourg S.A. Subsidiary · Senningerberg, Luxembourg
  - DEKABANK DEUTSCHE GIROZENTRALE PARIS BRANCH Branch · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  - Luxemburgische Zweigniederlassungen von DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale Branch · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Kreissparkasse Walsrode Subsidiary · Walsrode, Germany
- Girozentrale Sachsen - Öffentliche Bankanstalt Subsidiary · Germany
- Sparkassen- und Giroverband Wartheland Subsidiary · Poland
- Sparkassenverband Bayern Subsidiary · Germany
- Westfälischer Sparkassen- und Giroverband Subsidiary · Germany
- Württembergischer Sparkassen- und Giroverband Subsidiary · Germany

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

Johann Christian Eberle established the first giro association involving German savings banks, the Giroverband Sächsischer Gemeinden (lit. 'giro association of Saxon municipalities'), which was founded on 1908-10-05 with 151 members and started giro operations on 1909-01-02. Several other regional giro associations (German: Giroverbände) were subsequently created. On 1916-10-26 during World War I, the Deutscher Zentral-Giroverband (lit. 'German Central Giro Association') was established in Berlin to coordinate the activities of the Giroverbände.

From Wikipedia’s article on DekaBank, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.⁵

Leadership

Who has led Dekabank Deutsche Girozentrale, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Chief executive officerMichael Rüdiger¹

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband

Owners

Savings Banks Association Baden-Württemberg 15.8%
Sparkassenverband Bayern 14.7%
Rheinischer Sparkassen- und Giroverband 14.2%
Sparkassen- und Giroverband Hessen-Thüringen 11.3%
Sparkassenverband Westfalen-Lippe 9.9%
Ostdeutscher Sparkassenverband 9.8%
Sparkassenverband Niedersachsen 8.5%
Savings Banks Association Rhineland-Palatinate 5.1%
Sparkassen- und Giroverband für Schleswig-Holstein 3.3%
Sparkassenverband Saar 1.8%

Subsidiaries

S Broker AG & Co. KG

From Wikidata.¹

Acquisitions

On 1999-01-01, DGZ and DekaBank merged to form DGZ-DekaBank Deutsche Kommunalbank, which was renamed DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale in 2002.

In April 2011, DSGV became the sole owner of DekaBank by purchasing the 50 percent stake owned until then by the Landesbanks.

In November 2014, DekaBank came under the prudential supervisory authority of the European Central Bank as a consequence of European banking union.

In 2015, Deka joined Lloyds Bank and Qatar National Bank in a £705 million senior loan which financed the Qatar Investment Authority's acquisition of 8 Canada Square in Canary Wharf. That same year, Helaba's leadership proposed a merger with Deka. In May 2019, both entered into exploratory talks on a merger. Later that year, Deka's supervisory board instructed management to explore "deeper cooperation" with the bank from January 2020.

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In 2016, Deka was one of Germany's main issuers of credit-linked notes.

In 2017, amid the Volkswagen emissions scandal, a German court named Deka as lead plaintiff for 1,470 damages claims against Volkswagen totaling 1.9 billion euros ($2 billion).

From Wikipedia’s article on DekaBank, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.⁵

Employees over time

20245,727¹
20164,556¹

Revenue over time

As stated on Wikidata, in the currency reported.

Net income

201772.3M EUR¹

Timeline

1918Founded Founded¹

Sources

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WikidataDekabank Deutsche Girozentrale on Wikidata
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WikipediaDekabank Deutsche Girozentrale on Wikipedia
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GLEIFDekabank Deutsche Girozentrale LEI record (0W2PZJM8XOY22M4GG883)
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Wikimedia CommonsDekabank Deutsche Girozentrale logo by Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
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WikipediaDekabank Deutsche Girozentrale on Wikipedia (revision used)
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Wikimedia CommonsDekabank Deutsche Girozentrale photo by Thomas Wolf ( Der Wolf im Wald ), CC BY-SA 3.0