List of the 400 Largest Construction Companies in Germany [2023]

List of the 5 largest construction companies in Germany

Germany has been experiencing a lively construction industry for about ten years. It is fuelled by the continuing real estate boom. For German construction companies, this means good times. Here are the TOP 5:

1st place: HOCHTIEF Aktiengesellschaft, Essen: EUR 24 billion

HOCHTIEF, with 36,000 employees, is a globally operating construction group that began in 1873 as the construction company of the Helfmann brothers in Frankfurt/Main. Since 2011, the Spanish construction group ACS has held a slim majority of shares (June 2021: 50.4 percent). HOCHTIEF generates the vast majority of its sales (95 percent) abroad. The numerous Group subsidiaries are assigned to the three divisions HOCHTIEF Americas (including the US subgroup Turner Construction), HOCHTIEF Asia Pacific (including the Australian Cimic Group) and HOCHTIEF Europe.

2nd place: Ed. Züblin AG, Stuttgart: EUR 4.0 billion

Ed. Züblin traces its roots back to an engineering firm founded in 1898 by Eduard Züblin. Since 1919, the company has been headquartered in Stuttgart. Today, Züblin belongs to the Austrian construction group STRABAG. Züblin’s business is divided into three areas: turnkey construction, civil engineering, and plants and special areas. Geographically, the focus is on Germany and the Benelux countries. Züblin has over 13,000 employees. Prominent Züblin buildings include the ECB building in Frankfurt, the Opernturm and the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart.

Update 2023: In a joint venture with Gilbane, ZÜBLIN is building the US hospital in Weilerbach. The major project for the US military will be the largest US hospital outside the USA and in January 2023 the first floor slab was concreted. By the end of the year, the majority of the shell is to be completed.

3rd place: STRABAG AG, Cologne: 3.1 billion euros in traffic route construction services

STRABAG AG bundles the German activities and holdings of the Austrian STRABAG – one of the largest European construction groups. The most important subsidiary is Ed. Züblin AG, Stuttgart, as the group company for building construction and civil engineering. Other subsidiaries of STRABAG AG include STRABAG Property and Facility Services GmbH (facility management services), STRABAG Real Estate GmbH (project development), TPA Gesellschaft für Qualitätssicherung und Innovation GmbH (building materials competence centre). STRABAG AG itself, with over 13,000 employees, concentrates on traffic route construction.

4th place: Max Bögl Bauservice GmbH & Co. KG, Sengenthal (Bavaria): 2.0 billion euros turnover

The Max Bögl group of companies started in 1929 as a bricklaying business in the Bavarian Upper Palatinate. Today, it has grown into an internationally operating group of companies with approx. 6,500 employees, covering a wide range of construction and construction-related services. In addition to the construction of buildings, the company is also active in road and sewer construction. Apart from Germany, the Max Bögl Group is also active in the rest of the DACH region, in Central and Eastern Europe and in the Far East.

5th place: LEONHARD WEISS GmbH & Co. KG, Göppingen/Satteldorf: 1.3 billion euros turnover

LEONHARD WEISS was founded in 1900 as a track construction company and is still involved in this business today. However, the range of services has been significantly expanded over time – to include road construction and civil engineering, turnkey construction and civil engineering. LEONHARD WEISS is also active as a general contractor for power line and grid construction. The group has about 6,000 employees and, in addition to the two main sites, about two dozen other locations, preferably in southwest Germany. It also has two branches in Stockholm and Oslo.

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• Company name
• General contact data (address incl. state, e-mail, telephone, URL)
• Revenues (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015) and number of employees
• Names of the executives

Directory contains companies from the building construction, civil engineering, structural engineering etc.

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