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Commerzbank Headquarters & offices · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Commerzbank · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
A 259-metre tower by Norman Foster with nine four-storey sky gardens, where every office has daylight and a window you can open.
The Commerzbank Tower, the benefits and the people programs — then 155 years of head offices from Hamburg to Berlin, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt. Every number from Commerzbank's own website, press releases and the architect's project text.
- 259 mGermany's tallest office building
- 9sky gardens, each four storeys high
- ≈ 2,600people work in the tower
- 39,867employees (FTE), end of 2025
Sources: Commerzbank press release “20 Jahre Commerzbank im neuen Hochhaus” (May 15, 2017) · Foster + Partners project text “Commerzbank” · commerzbank.de Facts and figures (Aug 6, 2026)
Companies / Germany / Banking / Commerzbank
THE HEADQUARTERS · COMMERZBANK TOWER · 1997
A tower that breathes: nine gardens and windows that open
Foster + Partners designed the 53-storey tower to rely on natural light and ventilation. Every office is daylit and has openable windows, so the people inside control their own environment. Nine themed gardens with different plants each rise through four storeys, and Foster says the building uses about half the energy of a conventional office tower.
- ≈ 85,000 m² (≈ 915,000 sq ft)
- 259 m tall
- 9 sky gardens, 4 storeys each
- Openable windows in every office
- Design: Foster + Partners
- Moved in: May 16, 1997
Inside the tower
Foster + Partners designed the 53-storey tower so that every office is daylit and has windows that open, with nine themed gardens each rising through four storeys.
The tower in the Frankfurt skyline
At 259 m, the Commerzbank Tower is Germany's tallest office building.
From the street
The tower stands at Kaiserplatz in Frankfurt's city centre, built from 1994 to 1997.
Seen from Main Tower
The 259 m height includes the antenna mast on top of the 53-storey tower.
Facts: Commerzbank press release, May 15, 2017 · Foster + Partners project text “Commerzbank” (Archinect). Photos are added later with credit on each photo.
The Commerzbank Tower
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Commerzbank Tower (headquarters) | Kaiserplatz, 60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| Haus der Commerzbank (Berlin) | Pariser Platz 1, Berlin, Germany |
Source: Commerzbank Imprint (office premises) · commerzbank.de History (Haus der Commerzbank, opened 1998) · See them on the map ↓
Source: Commerzbank press release, May 15, 2017 · Foster + Partners project text and credits “Commerzbank” (Archinect)
Benefits (Germany)
Mobile work from more than 20 countries for up to 20 working days a year; no fixed office quotas — teams agree with their manager.
Sabbaticals lasting from one to twelve months.
Every employee may use up to 8 working hours per quarter to learn; the cliX platform has 450,000+ videos and 20,000+ online courses in 20+ languages.
Free holiday and emergency childcare through pme family service, 20 days a year per child, plus a subsidy for childcare costs.
BVV pension with contributions shared by bank and employee, plus a direct-commitment plan financed exclusively by Commerzbank.
Special employee terms for accounts, cards and trading, with a yearly refund up to the tax-free limit (currently €1,080); relatives also get the terms.
Tax- and social-security-free, so the Germany-wide transit ticket costs at most €43; bike and e-bike leasing too.
Paid gross each month into a savings plan of the employee's choice.
Source: commerzbank.de Careers “Our Benefits” · Sustainability “Benefits” (pension and insurance)
Why people stay: what Commerzbank itself describes
Launched in Germany and international locations in Q4 2025; it is planned to continue in 2026.
More than 6,000 members play over 50 sports across Germany and hold their own tournaments.
“Management Experience” lets employees take on a management role for a limited time; managers can also share one role as equals (joint leadership).
“Courage” women's network (1998), the Arco Pride network (2002, about 450 members), Focus Fathers (2004) and Cross Culture (2013).
An Employee Assistance Programme with psychosocial experts every day of the year, plus a burnout and addiction peer-support network.
Parents can work part-time during the first year after a child's birth to stay connected before returning.
Source: commerzbank.de Careers “Our Benefits” · Sustainability “Diversity & Inclusion” · 2025 annual results press release (Feb 11, 2026)
Who works here
employees (FTE incl. junior staff), end of 2025
target share of women in management by 2030
of employees are people with disabilities
employees use the in-house chatbot cobaGPT
Source: commerzbank.de Facts and figures (Aug 6, 2026) · Sustainability “Diversity & Inclusion” · 2025 annual results press release
Office history: from the Ness in Hamburg to Frankfurt's Kaiserplatz
- 1870 Founded by Hamburg merchants
On February 26, 1870, merchants, merchant bankers and private bankers — among them M. M. Warburg & Co., Conrad Hinrich Donner and C. Woermann — founded the Commerz- und Disconto-Bank in Hamburg. It opened for business on April 25.
Source: commerzbank.de History, 1870 to 1923
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1874 Its own building on the Ness, Hamburg
A new head office designed by Martin Haller opened in April 1874 on the street Ness in Hamburg's old town.
Source: commerzbank.de History, 1870 to 1923 (photo caption)
Commerz- und Disconto-Bank, Hamburg, c. 1885 · Commerzbank AG / CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia Commons - 1905 Head office moves to Berlin
After taking over Berliner Bank, the former Berliner Bank premises on the corner of Behrenstrasse 46 and Charlottenstrasse 47 became the bank's new headquarters. By the First World War it had 44 deposit branches in Berlin.
Source: commerzbank.de History, 1870 to 1923
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1945 Back to Hamburg at the end of the war
The headquarters moved to Hamburg before the war ended; the 93 outlets in East Berlin and the Soviet zone were expropriated without compensation.
Source: commerzbank.de History, 1924 to 1945
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1958 Reunited in Düsseldorf
The three post-war successor banks were merged on June 30, 1958 into Commerzbank AG, with its headquarters in Düsseldorf.
Source: commerzbank.de History, 1946 to 1969
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1974 A first tower in Frankfurt
Centralising the head office in Frankfurt am Main began in 1970. A new headquarters building designed by Richard Heil was completed in 1974; the legal domicile followed from Düsseldorf in 1990.
Source: commerzbank.de History, 1970 to 1989 and 1990 to the present
The first Frankfurt tower by Richard Heil, 1970s · © Commerzbank - 1997 Foster's tower at the Kaiserplatz
Built from 1994 to 1997 for about €300 million, the 259 m tower designed by Norman Foster was first occupied on May 16, 1997 and officially opened that May.
Source: Commerzbank press release, May 15, 2017 · commerzbank.de History
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2017 Sold, but still home
In 2016 Commerzbank decided to sell the tower to Samsung SRA Asset Management and signed a 15-year lease as its sole tenant.
Source: Commerzbank press release, May 15, 2017
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
Map: how the headquarters moved
From the Ness in Hamburg to Berlin's banking quarter, then — after stops in Hamburg and Düsseldorf — to Frankfurt, where the head office has been centralised since 1970. Only addresses Commerzbank itself names are on the map.
- 1 · 1874Ness, Hamburg — Martin Haller's building, opened April 1874
- 2 · 1905Behrenstrasse 46 / Charlottenstrasse 47, Berlin — Former Berliner Bank premises, headquarters until 1945
- 3 · 1997Kaiserplatz, Frankfurt am Main — Commerzbank Tower — headquarters today
Addresses: commerzbank.de History · Commerzbank Imprint. The 1945 Hamburg, 1958 Düsseldorf and 1974 Frankfurt buildings are not mapped because Commerzbank does not give their street addresses.
What Commerzbank does
Commerzbank was founded in 1870 to finance trade, and it still handles about 30% of Germany's foreign trade financing. Today it is a full-service bank for Germany's Mittelstand and large companies, for private customers through about 400 branches and comdirect, and in Poland through mBank.
Two business segments: Corporate Clients, and Private and Small-Business Customers (Germany, plus mBank in Poland).
Where the money came from · Revenues by business, 2025
Source: Commerzbank annual results press release for 2025 (Feb 11, 2026; preliminary, unaudited)
Source: Commerzbank annual results press release for 2025 (Feb 11, 2026)
Growth: revenue vs. people
€8.2B → €12.2B
Revenues as presented in Commerzbank's annual results press releases: 2021 (2020–2021, rounded), 2023 (2022–2023) and 2025 (2024–2025; 2025 preliminary). Employees: full-time equivalents incl. junior staff at Dec 31, 2025 (commerzbank.de Facts and figures). Multiple calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Appointed CEO by the Supervisory Board in September 2024, succeeding Manfred Knof.
Chaired the Board of Managing Directors for about four years and left the bank on September 30, 2024.
Founded in Hamburg on February 26, 1870 by a group of merchants, merchant bankers and private bankers; ship owner Carl Woermann was the first chairman of the Supervisory Board (1870–1880).
Source: commerzbank.de Management · press release “Manfred Knof is leaving Commerzbank” (Sep 25, 2024) · commerzbank.de History
Commerzbank: questions people ask
Where is Commerzbank's headquarters?
In the Commerzbank Tower at Kaiserplatz, 60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Frankfurt has been the bank's legal domicile since 1990.
Source: Commerzbank Imprint · commerzbank.de History
Who designed the Commerzbank Tower?
Sir Norman Foster of Foster + Partners. Ove Arup & Partners with Krebs & Kiefer were the structural engineers and Sommerland & Partners the landscape architects.
Source: Commerzbank press release, May 15, 2017 · Foster + Partners project credits
How tall and how big is the Commerzbank Tower?
259 metres, Germany's tallest office building, with about 85,000 m² (≈ 915,000 sq ft) of space — about 14 football pitches — for around 2,600 people.
Source: Commerzbank press release, May 15, 2017
What is special about the building?
Nine themed gardens, each four storeys high, and natural light and ventilation: every office is daylit with openable windows. Foster + Partners calls it the world's first ecological office tower, using about half the energy of a conventional tower.
Source: Commerzbank press release, May 15, 2017 · Foster + Partners project text
When did Commerzbank move into the tower?
The first employees moved in on May 16, 1997, after construction from 1994 to 1997 costing about €300 million.
Source: Commerzbank press release, May 15, 2017
Does Commerzbank own its headquarters?
No longer. In 2016 it decided to sell the tower to Samsung SRA Asset Management and signed a 15-year lease as the sole tenant.
Source: Commerzbank press release, May 15, 2017
Can Commerzbank employees work remotely?
Yes. There are no fixed office quotas — teams agree mobile work with their manager — and employees can work from more than 20 countries abroad for up to 20 working days a year.
Source: commerzbank.de Careers “Our Benefits”
What benefits does Commerzbank offer in Germany?
Sabbaticals of 1–12 months, 8 hours of learning time per quarter, 20 days of free back-up childcare per child, a bank-funded pension, a €20 monthly mobility allowance and special banking terms with refunds up to €1,080 a year.
Source: commerzbank.de Careers “Our Benefits”
How many people work at Commerzbank?
39,867 full-time equivalents including junior staff at the end of 2025, and 40,110 at the end of June 2026.
Source: commerzbank.de Facts and figures
Where was Commerzbank founded?
In Hamburg, on February 26, 1870, as the Commerz- und Disconto-Bank. Its head office later moved to Berlin (1905), Hamburg (1945), Düsseldorf (1958) and Frankfurt (from 1970).
Source: commerzbank.de History
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