DB Netz

Company type	Joint-stock company
Industry	Transport
Founded	1998
Defunct	31 December 2023
Headquarters	Frankfurt , Germany
Area served	Germany
Key people	Frank Sennhenn (acting CEO)
Services	Railway infrastructure manager
Owner	Deutsche Bahn
Number of employees	40,925 (2016)
Website	fahrweg.dbnetze.com

DB Netz was a major subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn that owned and operated a majority of the German railway system. It was one of the largest railway infrastructure managers by length (33,291 km as of 2019) and transport volume of its network.

The company was established in the course of the second stage of the German rail reform as a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn. DB Netz was headquartered in Frankfurt and contained seven regional divisions ("Regionalbereiche", RB) and a central division. The locations of its regional headquarters were Berlin (RB east), Frankfurt (RB central), Duisburg (RB west), Hanover (RB north), Karlsruhe (RB southwest), Leipzig (RB southeast) and Munich (RB south). DB Netz AG was profitable from route fees but received extensive public funding for maintaining, developing and extending the network of European and federal transportation routes.^{[citation needed]}

Despite being an integral part of Deutsche Bahn AG and one of its major subsidiaries, DB Netz AG had to grant non-discriminatory access to other rail service providers that are in competition to Deutsche Bahn's other major business units. Therefore DB Netz AG was overseen by the Federal Network Agency.^{[citation needed]}

It was included in the division DB Netze when Deutsche Bahn was reorganized into three major divisions covering passengers, logistics, and infrastructure. However its legal entity remained. On 1 January 2024, it then merged with DB Station&Service to form DB InfraGO.^[1][2]

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Divisions	DB Cargo DB Fernverkehr DB InfraGO DB Netze DB Regio DB Schenker
Foreign subsidiaries	DB Cargo France DB Cargo Polska DB Cargo UK DB E.C.O. North America
Services	Call a Bike EuroCity Intercity Express Intercity Interregio-Express Regional-Express Regionalbahn S-Bahn
History	Deutsche Reichsbahn Deutsche Bundesbahn Deutsche Reichsbahn (East Germany)
Former subsidiaries and services	Alleo Alliance Rail Holdings Arriva Arriva Buses Wales Arriva Deutschland Arriva Herts & Essex Arriva London Arriva Malta Arriva Max Arriva Midlands Arriva North East Arriva North West Arriva PCC (50%) Arriva Rail London Arriva Rail North Arriva Sapphire Arriva Scotland West Arriva Southern Counties Arriva TrainCare Arriva Trains Wales Arriva Yorkshire Bahn TV Chiltern Railways CityNightLine City Night Line CrossCountry DB AutoZug DB Netz DB ProjektBau DB Reise & Touristik DB Station&Service Etihad Rail DB (49%) Grand Central InterRegio London Overground Rail Operations (50%) Metropolitan Scandlines (50%) The Original Tour Tyne & Wear Metro Wardle Transport Wrexham & Shropshire Yorkshire Tiger
Related topics	BahnCard Bahntower Rail transport in Germany
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