{{Short description|German banknote printing company}} {{Multiple issues| {{Expand language|topic=|langcode=de|date July 2023|date=July 2025}} {{Update|date=July 2023}} }} {{Infobox company | name = Bundesdruckerei GmbH | logo = Bundesdruckerei 201x logo.svg | logo_size = 250px | type = [[Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung|GmbH]] | industry = IT systems and services, identification systems, secure printing | predecessor = {{ill|Königlich Preußische Staatsdruckerei|de}} | foundation = 6 July 1879 | location = [[Berlin]], [[Germany]] | key_people = Stefan Hofschen (CEO)<br /> Christian Helfrich (CFO) | num_employees = 3,338 | num_employees_year = 2021<ref name="BD_2021" /> | revenue = {{Increase}} EUR 773,996,139 | revenue_year = 2021<ref name="BD_2021">{{cite web |url=https://www.bundesdruckerei.de/files/dokumente/pdf/bundesdruckerei_lagebericht_jahresabschluss_2021.pdf|title=Lagebericht und Jahresabschluss 2021|trans-title=Annual Report 2021|publisher=Bundesdruckerei Gruppe GmbH|accessdate=2023-02-27|language=de|website=bundesdruckerei.de|format=PDF; 671 KB}}</ref> | net_income = {{Increase}} EUR {{0|0}}79,332,709 | net_income_year = 2021<ref name="BD_2021" /> | homepage = {{URL|https://www.bundesdruckerei.de/}} }}
[[File:Bundesdruckerei Hauptsitz.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Headquarters of the Bundesdruckerei in Berlin]] [[File:Bundesdruckerei logo.svg|thumb|200px|right|Former logo, used from 2009 until 2018]]
'''Bundesdruckerei''' ({{literal translation|Federal Press}}, short form: BDr) is a German company that produces documents and devices for secure identification and offers corresponding services. It is based in the Berlin district of [[Kreuzberg]]. Its portfolio includes complete passport and ID card systems, the security printing house also offers ID documents, high-security cards, document checking devices, security software and trust center services.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Die Unternehmensgruppe der Bundesdruckerei|url=https://www.bundesdruckerei.de/de/unternehmensgruppe-bundesdruckerei|access-date=2020-11-03|website=www.bundesdruckerei.de}}</ref> Bundesdruckerei also produces banknotes, stamps, visas, vehicle documents, tobacco revenue stamps and electronic publications.
== History == The company was founded as ''Reichsdruckerei'' ("[[German Empire|Reich]] press") in 1879 and operated under this name until 1945. The [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] [[Halid Hamid]] reported in 1918 that the print was of remarkable quality and they were even able to print [[Egyptian hieroglyphs]] in prints for Museums in Egypt.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Adatepe |first=Sabine |editor-first1=Ingeborg |editor-first2=Ruth |editor-first3=Petra |editor-last1=Böer |editor-last2=Haerkötter |editor-last3=Kappert |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110864786/html |title=Türken in Berlin 1871 - 1945 |publisher=[[De Gruyter]] |year=2012 |isbn=978-3-11-086478-6 |page=154 |language=de |doi=10.1515/9783110864786}}</ref> The company also printed in a variety of scripts such as [[Cyrillic alphabets|Cyrillic]], [[Georgian scripts|Georgian]], [[Armenian alphabet|Armenian]], [[Arabic script|Arabic]], [[Kurdish alphabets|Kurdish]] or [[Syriac alphabet|Syriac]] among others.<ref name=":0" />
In 1951, the company was renamed ''Bundesdruckerei''. After it became privatised in 1994, the company expanded operations into digital security and secure identification services. In 2009 it became a [[state-owned enterprise]] again.{{citation needed|date=April 2018}}
In September 2014, Bundesdruckerei succeeded, in a case referred to the [[European Court of Justice]], in obtaining a preliminary ruling that the City of Dortmund could not require tenderers for a document digitalisation contract to commit to paying [[Minimum wage in Germany|German minimum wage]] levels to the workforce when they were intending to sub-contract the performance of the contract to a firm based in Poland outside the scope of the German minimum wage law.<ref>[http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:62013CJ0549&from=EN Case C-549/13 Bundesdruckerei GmbH v. Stadt Dortmund], 18 September 2014</ref>
The following year, Bundesdruckerei won the tender to provide the [[International Civil Aviation Organization Public Key Directory]] (ICAO PKD).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bundesdruckerei.de/de/4013-bundesdruckerei-macht-das-reisen-weltweit-sicherer|title=Bundesdruckerei macht das Reisen weltweit sicherer|publisher=Bundesdruckerei GmbH|date=July 2015|access-date=2015-07-03|archive-date=2020-06-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615231033/https://www.bundesdruckerei.de/de/4013-bundesdruckerei-macht-das-reisen-weltweit-sicherer|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==See also== * {{ill|Österreichische Staatsdruckerei|de}} - the corresponding agency in [[Austria]] * [[Orell Füssli]] - the corresponding agency in [[Switzerland]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.bundesdruckerei.de/ Official website]
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