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Degeto Film

Logo: Degeto Film GmbH, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

German film production company

Degeto Film GmbH (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ton und Bild) is a film rights trader and production company of the ARD, based in Frankfurt am Main. Its shareholders are the regional broadcasting corporations of ARD or their advertising subsidiaries. ARD Degeto acquires fictional programs for ARD's flagship national television channel Das Erste, the so called "Third Programmes" (TV channels) of the regional broadcasting corporations (BR, HR, MDR, NDR, Radio Bremen, RBB, SR, SWR, WDR), 3sat, Arte, One and the other ARD channels.2 Its chief executive is Thomas Schreiber (since 2021).1 Its revenue was €14.8 million in 2016.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1928Founded1
  • Industryentertainment industry1
  • HeadquartersFrankfurt1
  • Websitewww.degeto.de
  • Legal formGesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung1

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Degeto Film GmbH (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ton und Bild) is a film rights trader and production company of the ARD, based in Frankfurt am Main. Its shareholders are the regional broadcasting corporations of ARD or their advertising subsidiaries.2

The story

The company was founded in 1928 as Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ton und Film e. V. and produced and distributed propaganda films for Hitler's Reich government in the 1930s and 1940s. It operated under the name Degeto – Kulturfilm G.m.b.H. from 1937, and from 1942 as Degeto Film GmbH. After reactivation in 1952 by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), the company was initially owned by Werbung im Rundfunk GmbH, a subsidiary of HR, from 1954 and was jointly taken over by the ARD broadcasters in 1959.

From Wikipedia’s article on Degeto Film, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Leadership

Who has led Degeto Film, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Chief executive

  1. Thomas Schreiber2021–now

Chair

  1. Patricia Schlesinger2019–2022
  2. Florian Hager2022–now
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Board members and other officers (1)

Revenue over time

As stated on Wikidata, in the currency reported.

Revenue

  • 201614.8M EUR1

Timeline

  1. May 1, 2021New chief executive Thomas Schreiber becomes CEO1
  2. 1928Founded Founded1

Sources

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