Germany: Google Germany

Overview

Google Germany GmbH is Google’s main German market-facing, service and research entity. It is registered with the Hamburg commercial register under HRB 86891 and has its registered office at ABC-Straße 19, 20354 Hamburg. The company is a German Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung / GmbH and is classified as a large corporation under §267(3) HGB. Its FY2024 annual accounts were created in the German Unternehmensregister on 10 November 2025 and audited by EY GmbH & Co. KG.

Google Germany GmbH operates mainly as a service company within the Alphabet group. Its FY2024 management report states that the company functions principally as a service company for Google LLC, Google Ireland Ltd and Google Cloud EMEA Ltd, providing services for the German market in marketing and research and development. The company generates revenue from services provided to other group companies.

Google Germany GmbH is not the German data-centre operations entity. Google Cloud’s subprocessor list identifies Google Germany GmbH for Service Maintenance and Technical Support, while Redtec Computing GmbH is listed separately for Data Center Operations in Germany.

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Ownership and group status

Google Germany GmbH is directly owned by Google Germany Holdings Inc., Mountain View, California, United States. The FY2024 annual report states that Google Germany Holdings Inc. holds 100% of the registered capital of Google Germany GmbH. The shareholder resolution attached to the same filing also identifies Google Germany Holdings Inc. as the company’s sole shareholder. The annual accounts disclose GFI Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Internetforschung GmbH as a 100% participation held by Google Germany GmbH, not as a shareholder in Google Germany GmbH.

The company is included in the consolidated accounts of Alphabet Inc., Mountain View, California.

Leadership

The FY2024 annual report lists Paul Terence Manicle, Regional Controller EMEA, Google Ireland Ltd, and Liana Sebastian, Director Global Trade Compliance, Google LLC, as managing directors. Both are authorised to represent the company individually.

Consumer, data and cloud-contracting structure

Google Germany GmbH is not the main contracting entity for German users of Google consumer services. For users in the European Economic Area and Switzerland, Google’s standard consumer-service structure places most user relationships with Google Ireland Limited. For Google Cloud, Germany falls under Google’s EMEA contracting structure, where Google Cloud EMEA Limited is the contracting entity for EMEA except France, Italy and Poland, unless otherwise agreed.

Infrastructure

Google Germany GmbH is not classified as the German data-centre operations entity. Google’s German data-centre and cloud-infrastructure presence includes the Hanau data centre. In November 2025, Google announced a further €5.5bn investment in Germany for 2026 to 2029, including a new data centre in Dietzenbach, continued investment in the Hanau data-centre campus and expanded offices in Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich.

Latest financial snapshot

FY2024

The FY2024 figures are taken from Google Germany GmbH’s audited annual financial statements in the German Unternehmensregister. The profit-and-loss account gives €1,540.7m in revenue and €195.8m in annual net profit for 2024. The notes break revenue down into €1,052.8m from Sales Support & Marketing, €487.6m from Research & Development and €0.3m from other revenue. The shareholder resolution gives the exact FY2024 annual net profit as €195,913,401.17. The GMFM chart uses €195,800,000 because the audited financial statements are presented in millions of euros.