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DHL Group Headquarters & offices · Bonn, Germany
DHL Group · Bonn, Germany
A 162.5-metre glass tower on the Rhine that “breathes in the wind” — no conventional air-conditioning, nine-storey sky gardens and about 2,800 people from 92 nations inside.
The Post Tower by Helmut Jahn, the perks for people who work there and the road from a San Francisco start-up and the German federal post to one building in Bonn — then the business. Every number from DHL Group's own report, press releases and job postings, and from the architects' project pages.
- 162.5 mPost Tower, the tallest building in North Rhine-Westphalia
- ≈ 2,800people from 92 nations work in the tower
- 30%less energy than comparable office buildings
- 583,998DHL Group employees worldwide, end of 2025
Sources: DHL Group press releases “Besonderes Post Tower Jubiläum” (Dec 12, 2022) and “25 Jahre Grundsteinlegung des Bonner Post Tower” (Aug 21, 2025) · DHL Group 2025 Annual Report, Key Figures
Companies / Germany / Logistics / DHL Group
THE HEADQUARTERS · POST TOWER · 2002
Two glass half-ellipses that ventilate themselves
The Post Tower is made of two halves — a northern and a southern half-ellipse — separated by a 7.2-metre gap and joined by a steel-and-glass structure. JAHN says nine-storey sky gardens fill that gap between the office bays. A double glass skin brings daylight deep inside and lets the building ventilate naturally: automated flaps in the outer façade open according to the outside temperature, and water pumped through 210 km of pipes in the slabs heats and cools the floors. “The tower breathes in the wind,” Helmut Jahn said. Twelve high-speed lifts serve the floors, staff eat in a company restaurant in the adjoining base building, a “World Net Café” on the ground floor has served coffee and snacks since 2006, and about 2,000 lights in the façade cavity show symbols such as a treble clef for the Beethovenfest or a Christmas tree in Advent.
- Design: Helmut Jahn (Murphy/Jahn)
- 162.5 m, 41 floors
- Sky gardens in the 7.2 m gap
- No conventional air-conditioning
- ≈ 800 meals a day in the staff restaurant
- Public tours, about 1 hour
Sky gardens in the gap between the two halves
The tower's northern and southern half-ellipses are separated by a 7.2-metre gap, which nine-storey sky gardens fill between the office bays.
The double-skin façade and the light installation
A double glass skin with automated flaps ventilates the building naturally, and about 2,000 lights in the façade cavity show symbols such as a Christmas tree in Advent.
The tower from the Rhine and the Rheinaue park
The 162.5-metre Post Tower on the Rhine in Bonn is the tallest building in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Facts: DHL Group press releases of Dec 12, 2022 and Aug 21, 2025 (two halves, 7.2 m gap, 41 floors, 12 lifts, 210 km of pipes, 2,000 lights, restaurant, World Net Café) · JAHN project page “Post Tower” (sky gardens, façade, geothermal heating) · post-bonn.de “Rund um den Post Tower” (which gives 40 floors) and “Führungen”. JAHN lists the building as 33 floors and describes it as 40 floors; DHL Group gives 41.
Post Tower, Bonn
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Post Tower (headquarters, visitors' entrance) | Platz der Deutschen Post, 53113 Bonn, Germany |
| DHL AG (company address) | Charles-de-Gaulle-Straße 20, 53113 Bonn, Germany |
Source: group.dhl.com “Headquarters” (visitors' address) · DHL Group press releases 2025–2026 (Charles-de-Gaulle-Str. 20). Underground car parks are entered from Charles-de-Gaulle-Straße. · See them on the map ↓
Source: JAHN project page “Post Tower” · Werner Sobek project page “Post Tower Bonn” · DHL Group press releases of Dec 12, 2022 and Aug 21, 2025. Area and floor counts differ between sources and are shown side by side; sq ft converted by eciffo.
Benefits (Germany · Post Tower, Bonn)
Flexible remote work up to three days a week and flexible working hours without core hours, depending on the role.
30 days of annual leave, flexible hours and mobile working by agreement (Bonn posting, DHL Supply Chain).
Buy DHL shares each quarter at 15% below market price, up to €3,600 a year, with no lock-up; open in 55 countries at the end of 2025.
A company pension plan, plus insurance cooperation and corporate discounts.
Kindergarten places and the Betreuungs- und Erholungswerk (support and recreation program) help with childcare and caring for relatives.
Company bicycles, job tickets and possibly company cars; the tower has a bicycle shelter and its own bus stop.
Health and preventive-care services, an occupational physician, social counseling and the FC Deutsche Post sports club.
Sabbaticals are listed among the extras for Post Tower staff, along with a cleaning service and company events.
Source: DHL job postings AV-337953 (Enterprise Security Architect, Bonn — Post Tower) and AV-372780 (Implementation Expert, Bonn, 30 days' leave) on careers.dhl.com, 2026 · DHL Group 2025 Annual Report, Note 47.5 (myShares) and S1 Own Workforce · group.dhl.com “Headquarters”. Parental-leave pay and holiday days for other roles are not published on these pages.
How DHL Group describes working there
From the annual Group-wide survey; 77% of employees took part. It is one of the figures the Board's pay is tied to.
The same as in 2024 — DHL Group says it aims to keep fluctuation moderate and employees loyal for the long term.
The Group-wide “Certified” program aims to make every employee a certified specialist in their own area, with role-specific follow-up modules.
Piloted in 12 countries in 2023; by the end of 2025 employees in 55 countries — about 40% of the workforce — could take part.
A 2025 collective agreement covering about 170,000 employees: +2% from April 1, 2025 and +3% from April 1, 2026.
DHL Group says it again opened numerous spots in apprenticeships, dual-study and trainee programs in 2025.
Source: DHL Group 2025 Annual Report, Key Figures and S1 Own Workforce (survey, fluctuation, Certified, collective agreement) · Note 47.5 (myShares)
Who works here
employees in Germany
average employee age
of middle and upper managers are women
work on the “Post Campus Bonn”, ≈ 2,800 of them in the tower
Source: DHL Group 2025 Annual Report, SBM (employees by region) and S1 Own Workforce (gender, Germany, age, women in management) · press release Aug 21, 2025 (Bonn). Shares calculated by eciffo; the thin bar is “diverse” and “not specified”.
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From a San Francisco start-up and the federal post to one tower in Bonn
- 1969 DHL is founded in San Francisco
Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom and Robert Lynn found DHL — the initials of their last names — and personally fly shipping documents from San Francisco to Honolulu so customs could start before the ship arrived.
Source: group.dhl.com History, “1969 – Founding of DHL”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1995 Deutsche Post AG, at Robert-Schuman-Platz in Bonn
The second postal reform turns the post office of Deutsche Bundespost into Deutsche Post AG, a stock company in Bonn. Until 2002 its head office was at Robert-Schuman-Platz, in the long, winding corridors of the former Federal Ministry of Posts — today the second seat of the Federal Environment Ministry.
Source: group.dhl.com History, “1995” · DHL Group press release “Besonderes Post Tower Jubiläum”, Dec 12, 2022
Robert-Schuman-Platz, Bonn (former head office, today the Federal Environment Ministry) · Wolkenkratzer / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1998 A competition for a new headquarters
Deutsche Post launched an architecture competition in 1997. In June 1998 the jury chose three winners — Paul Böhm, Murphy/Jahn and Joachim Schürmann — and a year later Helmut Jahn's design was picked. The same year Deutsche Post bought its first stake in DHL International.
Source: DHL Group press release “25 Jahre Grundsteinlegung des Bonner Post Tower”, Aug 21, 2025 · group.dhl.com History, “2002”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2000 Foundation stone for the Post Tower
Construction began in mid-1999; on August 21, 2000 the Board, federal and state ministers, Bonn's mayor and Helmut Jahn laid the foundation stone of the new headquarters of “Deutsche Post World Net”, meant to mark its change from national mail service to global logistics group.
Source: DHL Group press release, Aug 21, 2025
Post Tower construction site, 2000 · © Deutsche Post AG / Siegmann - 2002 Into the Post Tower
In mid-December 2002 removal trucks shuttled between Robert-Schuman-Platz and the new glass tower as about 2,000 employees moved in. The same month DHL became a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Post.
Source: DHL Group press release, Dec 12, 2022 · group.dhl.com History, “2002”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2026 Same tower, a new name: DHL AG
Renamed DHL Group in 2023, the listed parent company became DHL AG on September 1, 2026, still in the Post Tower. About 2,800 people from 92 nations now work in the tower and about 6,700 on the wider Post Campus Bonn.
Source: DHL Group press releases Jun 19, 2023, Aug 21, 2025 and Sep 1, 2026
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
Map: how the headquarters moved
DHL started in San Francisco; Deutsche Post started in Bonn. Since 2002 the combined group has been run from one glass tower beside the Rhine in Bonn's former government quarter.
- 1 · 1969San Francisco — DHL founded by Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn — city centre shown; no street address published
- 2 · 1995Robert-Schuman-Platz, Bonn — Deutsche Post head office in the former Federal Ministry of Posts, until 2002
- 3 · 2002Post Tower, Platz der Deutschen Post, Bonn — Headquarters of DHL Group (DHL AG since 2026), designed by Helmut Jahn
Addresses: group.dhl.com History and Headquarters · DHL Group press releases Dec 12, 2022 and Aug 21, 2025 (no house number is given for the former head office)
What DHL Group does
DHL Group calls itself the world's leading logistics company. Under the DHL and Deutsche Post brands it carries express documents and parcels, forwards air, ocean and road freight, runs warehouses for other companies and delivers the mail in Germany. Since September 1, 2026 the listed parent company is called DHL AG; Deutsche Post AG continues as the German mail and parcel subsidiary.
Five divisions: Express; Global Forwarding, Freight; Supply Chain; eCommerce; Post & Parcel Germany.
Where the money came from · Revenue by division · 2025
Source: DHL Group 2025 Annual Report, Business model and division reports (division revenue before consolidation, so the bars add up to more than Group revenue)
Source: DHL Group 2025 Annual Report — Key Figures, Note 10 (geographical regions), S1 Own Workforce (remuneration ratio)
Growth: revenue vs. people
€60.4B → €82.9B
≈ 550,000 → 583,998
Source: DHL Group 2025 Annual Report, Key Figures (2021–2025, adjusted; headcount at year-end incl. trainees) · DHL Group annual results press releases for FY2017–FY2020 (revenue rounded to €0.1B; employees “around” 550,000 and 570,000). Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Joined in 2013; head of Post & Parcel Germany before becoming Group CEO. On the Board of Management since April 2019.
Led the Group until the Annual General Meeting of May 4, 2023.
Chairman of the Board of Management at Deutsche Post AG's first Annual General Meeting after the IPO, June 27, 2001.
DHL founders: Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom, Robert Lynn (San Francisco, 1969). Deutsche Post AG was formed from Deutsche Bundespost in 1995.
Source: DHL Group 2025 Annual Report, Board of Management · Ad hoc announcement Dec 8, 2021 · group.dhl.com History (1969, 1995, 2001)
DHL Group: questions people ask
Where is DHL Group's headquarters?
In the Post Tower in Bonn, Germany. Visitors use the main entrance at Platz der Deutschen Post, 53113 Bonn; the company address is Charles-de-Gaulle-Straße 20, 53113 Bonn.
Source: group.dhl.com “Headquarters” · DHL Group press releases
Who designed the Post Tower?
Helmut Jahn of Murphy/Jahn (now JAHN), Chicago, who won a 1997–98 competition and was chosen in 1999. Werner Sobek did the structural and façade engineering.
Source: DHL Group press release Aug 21, 2025 · Werner Sobek project page
How tall and how big is the Post Tower?
162.5 m, the tallest building in North Rhine-Westphalia. DHL Group gives 41 floors; JAHN gives 775,000 sq ft (72,000 m²) and Werner Sobek a gross floor area of 107,000 m².
Source: DHL Group press release Dec 12, 2022 · JAHN · Werner Sobek
When did DHL Group move into the Post Tower?
Employees began moving in from the old head office at Robert-Schuman-Platz in mid-December 2002, after two years of construction.
Source: DHL Group press release Dec 12, 2022
Can you visit the Post Tower?
Yes. Free public tours of about one hour are offered in German and English; you register on post-bonn.de or by e-mail, and the tower also hosts concerts of the Beethovenfest and Jazzfest Bonn.
Source: post-bonn.de “Führungen” · DHL Group press releases 2022 and 2025
How many people work at DHL Group and in the tower?
583,998 employees worldwide at the end of 2025, 209,943 of them in Germany. About 2,800 work in the Post Tower and about 6,700 on the Post Campus Bonn.
Source: DHL Group 2025 Annual Report · press release Aug 21, 2025
Does DHL Group allow remote work at headquarters?
A 2026 Post Tower job posting offers up to three days a week of flexible remote work and flexible hours without core hours, depending on the role.
Source: DHL job posting AV-337953
What benefits does DHL Group offer in Bonn?
Bonn postings list 30 days of leave, a company pension, kindergarten places, job tickets and company bikes, an occupational physician and sabbaticals. Employees in 55 countries can buy shares at 15% off through myShares.
Source: DHL job postings AV-337953, AV-372780 · 2025 Annual Report, Note 47.5
Who is the CEO of DHL Group?
Tobias Meyer, CEO since May 2023, when he succeeded Frank Appel.
Source: 2025 Annual Report, Board of Management · Ad hoc announcement Dec 8, 2021
Is DHL Group the same company as Deutsche Post?
Since September 1, 2026 the listed parent company is DHL AG; Deutsche Post AG is its subsidiary for mail and parcels in Germany. DHL itself was founded in San Francisco in 1969 and became wholly owned by Deutsche Post in December 2002.
Source: DHL Group press release Sep 1, 2026 · group.dhl.com History
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