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SozialBank

Logo: SozialBank AG, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

German financial institution

The SozialBank AG is a specialized commercial bank for companies, institutions and organizations from the areas of health, social services (support for the elderly and disabled people, child and youth services) and education which is located in Cologne, Germany. SozialBank is owned by the holding company "BFS SozialFinanz AG".2 It employed 482 people in 2018.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1923Founded1
  • Industryfinancial services1
  • HeadquartersCologne1
  • Websitewww.sozialbank.de
  • Legal formAktiengesellschaft1
  • LEI529900PJZOM38SU0KJ893
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered addressKonrad-Adenauer-Ufer 85, 50668 Köln, Germany3
  • Registered withLocal Court Köln, HRB 1134183

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The SozialBank AG is a specialized commercial bank for companies, institutions and organizations from the areas of health, social services (support for the elderly and disabled people, child and youth services) and education which is located in Cologne, Germany.2

Corporate structure

SozialBank is part of a group headed by BFS SozialFinanz AG. 2 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Products and brands

Business mission

The SozialBank offers all services and products of a universal bank. However, it is a specialized commercial bank in regards to its limited range of customers. The consulting is focused on the traditional business and includes not only banking specific aspects but also financing terms and conditions of health and social management. Those are especially shaped by social insurances and social legislation. In addition, the bank offers branch specific products such as social economic mezzanine fonds, online-factoring and services for donation-based organizations.

Services like production site and competitor analysis for care homes, feasibility studies, collateral value assessments and valuation reports, a wide-ranging seminar program as well as publications and presentations on the latest legal and economic issues in the health and social management sector are also on offer at SozialBank.

SozialBank operates in 16 locations in Germany (Berlin, Dresden, Erfurt, Essen, Hamburg, Hanover, Karlsruhe, Kassel, Cologne, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Mainz, Munich, Nuremberg, Rostock, Stuttgart) and runs a European office in Brussels.

BFS Service GmbH

BFS Service GmbH was founded in 1989 as a subsidiary of the Bank for Social Economy. It is based in Cologne's Rheinauhafen. The purchase of receivables (factoring) is the main business area of BFS Service GmbH. Customers include outpatient nursing services, rescue services, patient transport, hospitals and rehabilitation clinics that pre-finance their services through BFS Service GmbH. In addition, the company has specialized in the areas of consulting and analysis as well as the preparation of reports (mortgage value reports, traffic and market value reports) for the health and social economy.

From Wikipedia’s article on SozialBank, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

From Wikidata.1

Employees over time

  • 20184821
  • 20164371

Timeline

  1. 2024Renamed Name changed to SozialBank AG1
  2. 1970Renamed Name changed to Bank für Sozialwirtschaft Aktiengesellschaft1
  3. 1923Founded Founded1

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