State-owned enterprises of Germany

After the 2008 financial crisis, Germany's stock of gross financial assets increased significantly, turning it into the second largest stock among OECD countries after the US. Yet research has shown that the more that the government owns of an enterprise, the more extreme the level of tax avoidance.

List

Further government ownerships

a range of competing Landesbanken, regionally organised by the Länder, function predominantly to provide wholesale banking, part of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe
the Sparkassen, also part of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe with more than 400 German SOEs holding more than 40% of bank assets in Germany
Germany owns an approximate 4% stake in British Telecom as 12% of the stake of British Telecom was sold to T-Mobile in early 2015.

Note that many smaller State owned enterprises are owned by individual states of Germany such as TransnetBW and Rothaus.
On a local and regional level, public transport is often operated by SOE, such as BVB, Hochbahn or LVB. Power generation, water and gas supply were until the 1990s often publicly owned - the picture is much more diverse today, involving often forms of PPP, but with the local governments still exercising considerable control.