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Verband kommunaler Unternehmen

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German association of municipal economic enterprises based in Berlin, founded in 19491

Verband kommunaler Unternehmen, stands for the German Association of Local Public Utilities and is the national association of municipally-owned infrastructure undertakings in Germany. As an advocacy group, it represents the interests of its members towards legislators on state- federal- and European level. Its member companies are active in the fields of energy- and water supply, wastewater treatment, telecommunications, waste management and street cleaning.2 Its chief executive is Ingbert Liebing (since 2020).1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1949Founded1
  • Industrylocal energy services, municipal waste management, telecommunications industry, wastewater sector, water collection, treatment and supply1
  • HeadquartersBerlin, Germany1
  • Founded inRüdesheim am Rhein1
  • Websitewww.vku.de
  • Legal formRegistered association (eingetragener Verein)1
  • Kind of organizationNonprofit organization1
  • LEI967600AHWNMQ0VI0EL883
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered addressInvalidenstr. 91, 10115 Berlin, Germany3
  • Registered withLocal Court Berlin-Charlottenburg, VR 27941 B3

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Verband kommunaler Unternehmen, stands for the German Association of Local Public Utilities and is the national association of municipally-owned infrastructure undertakings in Germany. As an advocacy group, it represents the interests of its members towards legislators on state- federal- and European level. Its member companies are active in the fields of energy- and water supply, wastewater treatment, telecommunications, waste management and street cleaning.2

Corporate structure

Verband kommunaler Unternehmen sits at the top of its group. 2 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Berlin, Germany
    • Verband kommunaler Unternehmen, Abfallwirtschaft und Stadtsauberkeit VKS Subsidiary · Germany

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.

The story

The VKU was founded in 1949 in Rüdesheim am Rhein. After the Second World War, the VKU supported municipal enterprises in their restructuring efforts. After the collapse of the GDR in 1989, the VKU aided local and regional authorities in Eastern Germany in reconstructing municipal energy and water supply infrastructure. In 2011 the formerly independent association for waste management and city cleaning (VKS – Verband kommunale Abfallwirtschaft und Stadtreinigung) became a department of VKU.

From Wikipedia’s article on Verband kommunaler Unternehmen, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Leadership

Who has led Verband kommunaler Unternehmen, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Chief executive

  1. Hermann Brügelmann1949–1956
  2. Werner Jacobi1956–1970
  3. Karl Ahrens1970–1989
  4. Felix Zimmermann1989–1999
  5. Hans-Joachim Reck2007–2015
  6. Katherina Reiche2015–2019
  7. Ingbert Liebing2020–now

Chair

  1. Otto Ziebill1949–1950
  2. Walther Hensel1950–1955
  3. Max Adenauer1956–1965
  4. Arnulf Klett1966–1974
  5. Hans Koschnick1975–1978
  6. Manfred Rommel1979–1996
  7. Gerhard Widder1996–2007
  8. Stephan Weil2007–2012
  9. Ivo Gönner2012–2016
  10. Michael Ebling2016–2022
  11. Ulf Kämpfer2022–now
197019801990200020102020

Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

  • Verband kommunaler Unternehmen, Abfallwirtschaft und Stadtsauberkeit VKS since 2003

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. 2003Acquired Verband kommunaler Unternehmen, Abfallwirtschaft und Stadtsauberkeit VKS1

Timeline

  1. Apr 2020New chief executive Ingbert Liebing becomes CEO1
  2. 2015New chief executive Katherina Reiche becomes CEO1
  3. 2007New chief executive Hans-Joachim Reck becomes CEO1
  4. 1989New chief executive Felix Zimmermann becomes CEO1
  5. 1970New chief executive Karl Ahrens becomes CEO1
  6. 1956New chief executive Werner Jacobi becomes CEO1
  7. 1949New chief executive Hermann Brügelmann becomes CEO1
  8. 1949Founded Founded in Rüdesheim am Rhein1

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