Group structure

Bundesdruckerei Gruppe GmbH is a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of the German federal government. As a government IT security company, it assumes social responsibility and is particularly committed to Germany’s digital sovereignty. The Group’s subsidiaries offer products and solutions for secure identities, secure data and secure infrastructure for the public sector and for particularly sensitive areas of society and the enterprise sector. Bundesdruckerei Gruppe GmbH acts as the parent company for the subsidiaries and is also responsible for management of the Group’s minority interests.

Subsidiaries

Bundesdruckerei GmbH is a leading German high-tech security company based in Berlin and a subsidiary of Bundesdruckerei Gruppe GmbH. With innovative solutions, products and technologies ‘Made in Germany’, the company protects identities and data. By creating trust and legal certainty in the digital society, Bundesdruckerei GmbH enables governments, companies and citizens to act with confidence in both the analog and the digital world. With more than 250 years of experience under our belt, the company is paving the way for a secure digital age. Maurer Electronics GmbH is a subsidiary of Bundesdruckerei GmbH and develops ID systems and system components for its parent company. Maurer Electronics develops hardware and software for the capture, personalization and verification of ID documents. It also integrates these components into complete system solutions and offers services for the integrated hardware and software solutions. Maurer Electronics has its registered office in Munich and branch offices in Hamburg and Hanover. The company also has a subsidiary in Split (Croatia), Maurer Electronics Split d.o.o.

Berlin-based D-Trust GmbH is a company of the Bundesdruckerei Group. With its technologically mature solutions, it is a veritable pioneer in secure digital identities. In this way, the company is strengthening confidence in digitalization. As an independent and qualified trust service provider, D TRUST has been listed with the Federal Network Agency since 2016 within the framework of the eIDAS Regulation. The company translates trust into concrete products by supplying legally secure and certified trust services, such as digital certificates and electronic signatures. These products meet the highest security standards of state-of-the-art infrastructures and enable secure digital identities for companies, public authorities and for private use.

Based in Kirchheim near Munich, genua GmbH is a company of the Bundesdruckerei Group. The company is committed to paving the way for the digital transformation. With its high-security, scalable cybersecurity solutions, it protects sensitive IT networks in the public and enterprise sector, at KRITIS organizations and in industries obliged to secrecy. genua’s focus is on comprehensive protection for networks, on communications and internal network security for IT and OT. The company’s portfolio includes firewalls and gateways, VPNs, remote maintenance systems, internal network security and cloud security, right through to remote access solutions for mobile employees and home offices.

iNCO Spółka z o.o. based in Gorzów Wielkopolski in Poland is a company of the Bundesdruckerei Group. The company provides with its call center support for the products and services of the Bundesdruckerei Group. iNCO also supplies scanning services, OCR recognition and data capture.     

Shareholdings

Veridos GmbH with its headquarters in Berlin is operated jointly by Bundesdruckerei Gruppe GmbH and Giesecke+Devrient. In this joint venture, the partners have bundled their international business with solutions for secure identification, such as passport and ID card systems for governments. Bundesdruckerei Gruppe GmbH holds a 40-percent interest in this joint venture.

With a share of 22.4 percent, Bundesdruckerei Gruppe GmbH is a shareholder of Hamburg-based DERMALOG Identification Systems GmbH. DERMALOG is Germany's largest biometrics manufacturer and one of the world's leading companies in biometric identification. One of the company's key products is automated fingerprint identification systems (AFIS). 

Bundesdruckerei Gruppe GmbH holds a 35.1-percent interest in cv cryptovision GmbH. The company with its registered office in Gelsenkirchen is an expert in highly efficient, secure encryption methods. It offers innovative cryptography along with electronic identity solutions.

Bundesdruckerei Gruppe GmbH holds a 5.9% stake in Verimi GmbH based in Berlin. This alliance between several German companies aims to create the most secure and user-friendly trust platform for identity services and payments in Europe. Using a type of ‘master key’ for online services and public authorities, logging on to websites is to be made much easier thanks to a single sign-on, making Internet use more secure. Besides Bundesdruckerei Gruppe GmbH, Allianz, Axel Springer, Daimler, Deutsche Bank/Postbank, Deutsche Lufthansa, Deutsche Telekom, Core as well as Here Technologies and Giesecke+Devrient are involved in this sector-spanning data platform.

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Bundesdruckerei Organisational chart 2020

The Bundesdruckerei Group is made up of subsidiairies and shareholdings in Germany and abroad. They all have one goal in common: to protect identities.

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