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Lufthansa Group Headquarters & offices · Frankfurt, Germany
Lufthansa Group · Frankfurt, Germany
A glass “double comb” next to Frankfurt Airport, where every desk looks onto a garden themed on a different part of the world.
The building, the art, the perks and 100 years of headquarters history — from a Berlin hotel to the airport. Every number from Lufthansa's own annual report, websites and its architect.
- 9indoor gardens in the Lufthansa Aviation Center
- 2,400workplaces under one glass roof
- 13.9 yrsaverage time with the Group (2025)
- 103,255employees at the end of 2025
Sources: lufthansagroup.com (Lufthansa Aviation Center pages) · Annual Report 2025 (Key figures, Employees)
Companies / Germany / Airlines / Lufthansa Group
THE GROUP HEADQUARTERS · LUFTHANSA AVIATION CENTER · 2006
A transparent office of gardens beside the runways
Lufthansa calls the LAC its main operation base at Frankfurt Airport, where “the Group's course is set”. Christoph Ingenhoven designed a 180 m × 90 m building shaped like a double-sided comb with ten “teeth”. The gardens between them shield the offices from airport noise and represent landscapes from five continents — from a white sandy beach to the Australian outback and a Japanese Zen garden. A central passage links the lifts, mini-atriums and lounge-like meeting points, and seven artists made works for the building itself.
- Design: Christoph Ingenhoven
- 2,400 workplaces
- 9 gardens under glass roofs
- 55,000 m² of glass
- LEED Gold
- Opened 18 July 2006
The gardens: five continents under glass
The gardens between the building's ten “teeth” shield the offices from airport noise and represent landscapes from five continents.
The passage, meeting points and art
A central passage links the lifts, mini-atriums and lounge-like meeting points, and seven artists made works for the building itself.
From the outside, next to the runways
Christoph Ingenhoven designed the 180 m × 90 m building shaped like a double-sided comb, opened on 18 July 2006 with 55,000 m² of glass.
Facts: lufthansagroup.com (Lufthansa Aviation Center: home, Architecture, Green Building, Art) · christoph ingenhoven architects project page “Lufthansa Aviation Centre”
The Lufthansa Aviation Center
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Lufthansa Aviation Center (Group HQ, main operation base) | Airportring, 60546 Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| Registered corporate headquarters | Venloer Straße 151-153, 50672 Köln, Germany |
Source: lufthansagroup.com, Lufthansa Aviation Center home page and Imprint · See them on the map ↓
Source: christoph ingenhoven architects project page (GFA, size, dates, LEED) · lufthansagroup.com LAC Architecture and Green Building pages (glass, parking, energy). Square feet converted by eciffo.
Office tour videos
Benefits (Germany and the Americas)
Discounted tickets on Lufthansa and partner airlines; family and friends can travel at a reduced price (Lufthansa Technik, Germany).
Collectively agreed pay rises, Christmas and holiday bonuses, plus an annual special payment (Lufthansa Technik).
The company contributes to the company pension scheme (Lufthansa Technik, Germany).
Free parking spaces and a subsidised public-transport job ticket; bicycle leasing (Lufthansa Technik).
Lufthansa Sports Club at favourable rates, a health month with free courses, and psychosocial counsellors (Lufthansa Technik).
Company match of up to 7% in the U.S. retirement plan.
15 vacation days from the start, building up to 25; 9 paid holidays plus 1 floating holiday.
Up to 100% of base pay during leave, for birthing and non-birthing parents.
Source: Lufthansa Technik career site, “Our benefits for you” (Germany) · Lufthansa Group The Americas careers site, Benefits (U.S.)
Why people stay: what the Lufthansa Group itself says
Employees had been with the Group 13.9 years on average at the end of 2025.
Unchanged from the year before.
Part-time work, flextime, mobile working and partial retirement are part of the working-time models.
Management jobs can be shared by two part-time managers; managers and non-tariff staff can take sabbaticals.
Childcare places at various locations, parent-child offices for childcare gaps, and advice on caring for relatives.
In training worldwide at the end of 2025.
Source: Annual Report 2025, Employees · lufthansagroup.com, Work-Life Balance
Who works here
work in Germany (67,091 people)
average age
of top managers are women
full-time equivalents
Source: Annual Report 2025 — Key figures business segments, Employees, ESRS S1 metrics (“Other” = Group total minus the three segments, calculated by eciffo)
Headquarters history: from a Berlin hotel to the airport
- 1926 Founded at the Hotel Kaiserhof, Berlin
On 6 January 1926 Deutsche Luft Hansa Aktiengesellschaft was founded at the Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin, taking in Aero Hansa and large parts of Deutsche Aero Lloyd and Junkers Luftverkehr. Flight operations were based in Berlin-Johannisthal.
Source: Lufthansa Group Chronicle
Hotel Kaiserhof, Berlin, 1928 · Hoffmann, Herbert / CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia Commons - 1938 Into the new Tempelhof Airport
On 24 June 1938 Lufthansa's headquarters moved into the new Berlin-Tempelhof Airport. In March 1945, as the front approached, part of the headquarters was relocated to Munich.
Source: Lufthansa Group Chronicle
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1953 A fresh start in Cologne
On 6 January 1953 the “Luftag” (Aktiengesellschaft für Luftverkehrsbedarf) was founded with headquarters in Cologne. It took the name Deutsche Lufthansa on 6 August 1954; its first offices were in former buildings of Cologne University.
Source: Lufthansa Group Chronicle (entries for 1953, 1954 and January 1970)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1970 A high-rise on the banks of the Rhine
In January 1970 the Cologne headquarters moved from the former university buildings into a high-rise on the banks of the Rhine.
Source: Lufthansa Group Chronicle
Lufthansa high-rise on the Rhine, Cologne-Deutz · D-Kuru / CC BY-SA 3.0 at · Wikimedia Commons - 2002 Cornerstone at Frankfurt Airport
On 2 December 2002 the cornerstone was laid for a new administration building, the Lufthansa Aviation Center, after Christoph Ingenhoven won the 1999 design competition.
Source: Lufthansa Group Chronicle · christoph ingenhoven architects
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2006 The Lufthansa Aviation Center opens
On 18 July 2006 “the new Group headquarters” officially opened at Frankfurt Airport. The company's legal seat stays in Cologne: its imprint lists Venloer Straße 151-153 as the corporate headquarters.
Source: Lufthansa Group Chronicle · lufthansagroup.com Imprint
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Map: how the headquarters moved
From a hotel on Berlin's Wilhelmplatz to Tempelhof, then to Cologne after the war, and since 2006 to a glass building at Frankfurt Airport, about 450 km from where it began.
- 1 · 1926Hotel Kaiserhof, Berlin — Deutsche Luft Hansa AG founded
- 2 · 1938Berlin-Tempelhof Airport — Headquarters in the new airport building
- 3 · 1970Lufthansa high-rise, Cologne — Headquarters in a high-rise on the Rhine
- 4 · 2006Lufthansa Aviation Center, Frankfurt Airport — Group headquarters and main operation base today
Places: Lufthansa Group Chronicle · LAC GPS coordinates from lufthansagroup.com · 1970 building location: Wikimedia Commons category “Lufthansa-Hochhaus (Köln)” (Köln-Deutz)
What Lufthansa Group does
The Lufthansa Group calls itself the leading European airline group and the biggest by revenue. Its network airlines — Lufthansa Airlines, SWISS, Austrian Airlines and Brussels Airlines — fly from hubs in Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich, Vienna and Brussels, alongside Eurowings, Lufthansa Cargo and Lufthansa Technik.
Business segments: Passenger Airlines, Logistics, MRO, and Additional Businesses and Group Functions.
Where the money came from · Revenue by segment, 2025
Source: Annual Report 2025, Key figures business segments (segment revenue includes revenue with other Group companies)
Source: Annual Report 2025, Key figures Lufthansa Group and Ten-year overview (published 6 March 2026)
Growth: revenue vs. people
€31.7B → €39.6B
123,287 → 103,101
Source: Annual Report 2025, Ten-year overview (revenue in € billions; average number of employees). Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Chairman of the Executive Board (CEO) since 2014, on the Executive Board since 2011, with the Lufthansa Group since 1994. Industrial engineer, born 1966.
Deutsche Luft Hansa AG was formed in Berlin on 6 January 1926 from Aero Hansa and large parts of Deutsche Aero Lloyd and Junkers Luftverkehr. Today's company goes back to Luftag, founded in Cologne on 6 January 1953.
Source: Annual Report 2025, The Executive Board · Lufthansa Group Chronicle
Lufthansa Group: questions people ask
Where is the Lufthansa Group's headquarters?
Lufthansa works from the Lufthansa Aviation Center (LAC) at Airportring, Frankfurt Airport, which its chronicle calls the Group headquarters and its LAC site the main operation base. The legally registered corporate headquarters is in Cologne, at Venloer Straße 151-153.
Source: lufthansagroup.com Chronicle, LAC home page and Imprint
Who designed the Lufthansa Aviation Center?
Christoph Ingenhoven, who won the 1999 design competition. Werner Sobek did the structural design and WKM Weber Klein Maas the landscape.
Source: christoph ingenhoven architects project page
How big is the Lufthansa Aviation Center?
About 124,800 m² gross floor area (≈ 1.34 million sq ft) on a 180 m × 90 m footprint, with 2,400 workplaces, 55,000 m² of glass and 1,400 parking spaces.
Source: christoph ingenhoven architects · lufthansagroup.com LAC Architecture
When did the Lufthansa Aviation Center open?
It was officially opened on 18 July 2006. The cornerstone had been laid on 2 December 2002.
Source: Lufthansa Group Chronicle
What are the gardens inside the LAC?
Nine gardens sit between the office wings under glass roofs. They help air-condition the building, buffer airport noise and stand for the vegetation along Lufthansa's global route network.
Source: lufthansagroup.com LAC Architecture and Green Building
Is there art in the Lufthansa headquarters?
Yes. Curators Max Hollein and Nicolaus Schafhausen chose seven artists — among them Thomas Demand, Carsten Nicolai, Cerith Wyn Evans and Elmgreen & Dragset — to create works for the building itself.
Source: lufthansagroup.com LAC Art
How many people work for the Lufthansa Group?
103,255 at the end of 2025, 65% of them in Germany. Average age was 42.4 and average seniority 13.9 years.
Source: Annual Report 2025, Employees
Does Lufthansa offer flexible or mobile work?
Lufthansa says it supports flexible working hours, mobile working, part-time work, sabbaticals and shared leadership, with home-office options in administrative areas.
Source: lufthansagroup.com Work-Life Balance
What benefits do Lufthansa employees get?
Group companies list discounted flights on Lufthansa and partner airlines, a company pension, a company bonus where applicable, subsidised canteens and, in Germany, Christmas and holiday bonuses.
Source: Lufthansa Technik benefits page · Lufthansa Group careers
Who is the CEO of the Lufthansa Group?
Carsten Spohr, Chairman of the Executive Board since 2014.
Source: Annual Report 2025, The Executive Board
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