DEGES


The Deutsche Einheit Fernstraßenplanungs- und -bau GmbH is a state-owned project management institution founded on October 7, 1991, about one year after the German reunification. The intention was to support the New Länder in the planning and preparation of necessary construction work on their old a new Autobahn highways.

Organisation

Participators and owners of DEGES are the Federal Republic of Germany as well as the federal states Brandenburg, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia with 8,16% each. The company resides in Berlin, there are branches in every capital of the participating federal states. As of 2006, the company employs approximately 250 people.

Order size

The company is responsible for the improvement or construction of 1200 km of Autobahn in the New Länder, as well as the City-Tunnel in Leipzig, with a total investment of approximately 9.6 billion €,