Deutsche Bundespost

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Deutsche Bundespost

Logo with post horn and stylized lightning, used since the early 1980s
Formerly	Deutsche Post (1947–1950)
Company type	Sondervermögen des Bundes (state-owned enterprise, until 1995) Privatised in 1995
Industry	Telephony Information technology Logistics
Predecessors	Deutsche Reichspost Deutsche Bundespost Berlin Deutsche Post der DDR
Founded	1947; 77 years ago (1947) as Deutsche Post 1950; 74 years ago (1950) as Deutsche Bundespost
Defunct	1 January 1995 (1995-01-01) (privatised)
Successors	Deutsche Post AG Deutsche Telekom AG Deutsche Postbank AG
Headquarters	Bonn, Germany
Number of employees	~544,000 (1985)
Parent	Bundesministerium für Post und Telekommunikation (Federal Ministry of Post and Telecommunications)
Website	No website

The Deutsche Bundespost (German pronunciation: [ˌdɔʏtʃə ˈbʊndəsˌpɔst], lit. 'German Federal Post') was a German state-run postal service and telecommunications business founded in 1947. It was initially the second largest federal employer during its time. After staff reductions in the 1980s, the staff was reduced to roughly 543,200 employees in 1985. The corporation was dissolved in 1995 under two rounds of postal reforms that took place in the German Post Office in 1989 and 1995, respectively.^[1][2] Following the reforms, the former Deutsche Bundespost was broken into three publicly traded corporations: Deutsche Post AG (German Post), Deutsche Telekom (German Telecom), and Deutsche Postbank AG (German Post Bank).^[3]