Private company

Vodafone Germany

Logo: Vodafone Group, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

German telecommunications provider

Vodafone GmbH is a telecommunications operator in Germany owned by Vodafone Group Plc and headquartered in Düsseldorf. It provides mobile phone, LTE, 5G, cable internet, landlines, cable TV, and IPTV services. As of the first quarter of 2024, Vodafone GmbH has more than 30 million mobile customers in Germany, making it the third-largest provider of mobile phone services in Germany.2 Its chief executive is Marcel de Groot (since 2024).1 It employed about 16,000 people in 2022.1 Its revenue was €11.6 billion in 2022.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1990Founded1
  • Industrytelecommunications, telecommunications industry1
  • HeadquartersVodafone-Campus1
  • Websitewww.vodafone.de
  • Legal formGesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung1

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Vodafone-Campus Düsseldorf
Photo: Solches, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

Vodafone GmbH is a telecommunications operator in Germany owned by Vodafone Group Plc and headquartered in Düsseldorf. It provides mobile phone, LTE, 5G, cable internet, landlines, cable TV, and IPTV services. As of the first quarter of 2024, Vodafone GmbH has more than 30 million mobile customers in Germany, making it the third-largest provider of mobile phone services in Germany. The company's headquarters are in the suburb of Heerdt in Düsseldorf, with regional offices throughout Germany. Vodafone Germany's main competitors are 1&1 Mobilfunk, Telekom Deutschland (Deutsche Telekom's German private customer unit) and Telefónica Germany.2

Corporate structure

Vodafone Germany is part of a group headed by Vodafone. 126 entities, 31 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

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.

What it owns

What Vodafone Germany reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

The company in its present form resulted from Vodafone's takeover of the German engineering group Mannesmann GmbH in 2000. On 8 December 1989, the West German Federal Ministry for Posts and Telecommunications (Bundesministerium für Post und Telekommunikation; one of several predecessors of the present-day Bundesnetzagentur) awarded the second digital GSM-900 (also known as D-Netz (D-Netz; D-Network in Germany) network in Germany to Mannesmann, as the first private company in Germany to break the monopoly of the telecommunications services operated by Deutsche Bundespost (now Deutsche Telekom). This licence was subsequently expanded to cover the former East Germany after German reunification in 1991. Mannesmann subsequently began operations of its mobile network on 30 June 1992. It was rebranded Vodafone D2 in 2002.

In February 2011, Vodafone Germany started providing IPTV via DSL and VDSL connections. In April 2011, Vodafone Germany started to distribute Disney content via IPTV.

Following Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone Germany started selling the Apple iPhone 4S in September 2011.

As of 2014, the company owns around 75% of Kabel Deutschland and in 2019 Unitymedia was merged with Vodafone.

In February 2020, the Unitymedia brand was phased out from market, by Vodafone Germany.

From Wikipedia’s article on Vodafone Germany, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Leadership

Who has led Vodafone Germany, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Chief executive

  1. Marcel de Groot2024–now
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Products and brands

  • prepaid mobile phone

Listed on Wikidata.1

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Owners

Subsidiaries

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. Aug 1, 2019Acquired Unitymedia1

Employees over time

  • 202216,0001

Revenue over time

As stated on Wikidata, in the currency reported.

Revenue

  • 202211.6B EUR1

Timeline

  1. Apr 1, 2024New chief executive Marcel de Groot becomes CEO1
  2. 1990Founded Founded1

Sources

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