The Deutsche Bundesbank in figures

The Deutsche Bundesbank: key figures

	2023	2024
Staff¹
Core staff (full-time equivalents)	10,255	10,207
Contraction since 31 December 2001²	4,545 (= 30.7 %)	4,609 (= 31.1 %)
Locations / core staff (full-time equivalents)¹
Central Office	1 / 5,530	1 / 5,791
Regional offices	9 / 2,623	9 / 2,415
Branches	31 / 2,102	31 / 2,001
Annual accounts¹
Distributable profit	–	− €19,153 million
Net interest income	− €13,907 million	− €13,059 million
Total assets	€2,516,001 million	€2,372,647 million
Foreign reserve assets (total)	€292.3 billion	€363.7 billion
Foreign currency	€33.4 billion	€34.0 billion
Receivables from the IMF	€57.5 billion	€59.2 billion
Gold	(3,353 t) €201.3 billion	(3,352 t) €270.6 billion
Allocation across the various storage locations
Frankfurt	(1,710 t) €102.7 billion	(1,710 t) €138.1 billion
New York	(1,236 t) €74.2 billion	(1,236 t) €99.8 billion
London	(406 t) €24.4 billion	(405 t) €32.7 billion
ECB capital key¹
Share of subscribed capital	21.4394 %	21.7749 %
Share of paid-up capital	26.1494 %	26.6301 %
Amount of the participating interest in the ECB	€2.32 billion	€2.36 billion
Foreign reserve assets transferred to the ECB	€10.64 billion	€10.80 billion
Monetary policy operations
Open market operations in the euro area
Main refinancing operations	€14.1 billion	€17.0 billion
Longer-term refinancing operations³	€396.2 billion	€17.2 billion
of which counterparties of the Bundesbank	€69.5 billion	€3.5 billion
Banks participating in refinancing operations (total)	458	88
of which via the Bundesbank	252	27
Standing facilities
Marginal lending facility in the euro area	€0.01 billion	€0.048 billion
Deposit facility in the euro area	€3,334.8 billion	€2,799.01 billion
Asset purchase programmes (Bundesbank’s share)¹
CBPP3 portfolio	€74.5 billion	€64.9 billion
PSPP portfolio	€513.5 billion	€447.3 billion
CSPP portfolio	€71.8 billion	€63.7 billion
PEPP public sector portfolio	€339.6 billion	€325.1 billion
PEPP corporate sector portfolio	€8.3 billion	€8.7 billion
PEPP covered bonds portfolio	€1.4 billion	€1.3 billion
Cash payments
Volume of euro banknotes in circulation (Eurosystem)¹	€1,567.2 billion	€1,588.3 billion
Volume of coins in circulation (Eurosystem)¹	€33.5 billion	€34.5 billion
Returned DEM banknotes and coins	DEM 58.1 million	DEM 53.1 million
Unreturned DEM banknotes and coins	DEM 12.24 billion	DEM 12.18 billion
Incidence of counterfeit money in Germany
Euro banknotes (number)	56,572	72,413
Euro coins (number)	115,832	141,332
Cashless payments
Payments via the Bundesbank (number of transactions)	7,838.6 million	8,487.7 million
of which via RPS	7,681.6 million	8,294.8 million
of which via TARGET (2)-Bundesbank	154.5 million	190.3 million
payment transactions in T(ARGET)2⁴	53.0 million	53.4 million
payment transactions in TIPS	33.4 million	62.5 million
settlement of securities transactions in T2S	68.1 million	74.4 million
Payments via the Bundesbank (value)	€307.8 trillion	€308.9 trillion
of which via RPS	€4.5 trillion	€4.8 trillion
of which via TARGET (2)-Bundesbank	€300.1 trillion	€299.8 trillion
payment transactions in T(ARGET)2⁴	€230.3 trillion	€221.0 trillion
payment transactions in TIPS	€27.7 billion	€56.3 billion
settlement of securities transactions in T2S	€69.8 trillion	€78.7 trillion
Banking supervision
Number of institutions supervised	2,779	2,723
On-site inspections	163	150
Cooperation with foreign central banks
Training and advisory events	249	270
Number of participants (total)	3,386	2,573
Number of participating countries (total)	104	104
Selected publications
Annual Report	1	1
Financial Stability Review	1	1
Monthly Report	12	12
Statistical Series	104	104
Research Centre discussion papers	34	46
Technical papers	8	12
Publications in academic journals	78	81
External communication / public relations
Visitors to the Money Museum	44,144	47,125
Economic education events / number of participants	1,932 / 54,003	1,771 / 49,243
Written answers to queries	17,749	19,691
Press releases	480	495
Training sessions on counterfeit prevention / number of participants	2,100 / 42,000	2,000 / 39,900
1 As at 31 December. 2 Core staff (full-time equivalents) as at 31 December 2001 (year before the structural reform began): 14,800. 3 Including targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTROs ), excluding US dollar tenders. 4 On 20 March 2023, a new technical platform replaced the existing TARGET2 system. Since then, banks’ liquidity management, transactions with the central bank and individual payments (including settlement with connected market infrastructures) have been processed in the new T2 service. The figures listed here comprise the transactions in TARGET2 -Bundesbank up until the changeover date and subsequently the transactions in TARGET -Bundesbank (T2 service).

Branches of the Deutsche Bundesbank

on 31 December 2023

Locality number	Bank location
720	Augsburg
100	Berlin
480	Bielefeld
870	Chemnitz
370	Cologne
470	Dortmund
820	Erfurt
500	Frankfurt am Main
680	Freiburg
260	Göttingen
200	Hamburg
250	Hannover
660	Karlsruhe
570	Koblenz
370	Köln
860	Leipzig
545	Ludwigshafen
810	Magdeburg
550	Mainz
700	Munich
150	Neubrandenburg
760	Nuremberg
280	Oldenburg
265	Osnabrück
750	Regensburg
640	Reutlingen
130	Rostock
590	Saarbrücken
600	Stuttgart
630	Ulm
694	Villingen-Schwenningen
790	Würzburg

Staff of the Deutsche Bundesbank

on 31 December 2024

Not included:

– Members of staff on secondment: 97 (end-2023: 96)

– Members of staff on unpaid leave: 256 (end-2023: 243)

– Members of staff in the second phase of the partial retirement scheme: 146 (end-2023: 140)

Item	Staff numbers¹				Change compared with AR 2023
Item	Total	Regional offices	Branches	Central Office	Total	Regional offices	Branches	Central Office
Civil servants	6,255	1,549	769	3,937	27	− 85	− 37	149
Salaried staff	5,397	1,145	1,426	2,826	− 127	− 163	− 70	106
Total	11,652	2,694	2,195	6,763	− 100	− 248	− 107	255
of which: trainees	626	69	22	535	− 43	− 13	− 1	− 29
Remainder: core staff	11,026	2,625	2,173	6,228	− 57	− 235	− 106	248
Memo item: Core staff pro rata (full-time equivalents)	10,207.4	2,415.5	2,001.0	5,790.9	− 47.7	− 207.8	− 100.9	261.0
1 Of which: – part-time employees: 3,094 (end-2023: 3,044) – staff with temporary contracts: 155 (end-2023: 141).

Offices held by members of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank

Pursuant to the Code of Conduct for members of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, the Annual Report shall disclose details of offices held by Board members on supervisory boards or similar inspection bodies of business enterprises.

Membership of other official bodies is not listed.

Michael Theurer, member of the Executive Board since 2 September 2024,
was a co-partner in TWF Metallbearbeitungs Holding UG

in 2024.

The partnership existed prior to his taking up office and is in the process of being dissolved.

Footnotes

Not included:
– Members of staff on secondment: 97 (end-2023: 96)
– Members of staff on unpaid leave: 256 (end-2023: 243)
– Members of staff in the second phase of the partial retirement scheme: 146 (end-2023: 140)
Membership of other official bodies is not listed.
The partnership existed prior to his taking up office and is in the process of being dissolved.

The Deutsche Bundesbank in figures Annual Report 2024

The Deutsche Bundesbank: key figures

Branches of the Deutsche Bundesbank

Staff of the Deutsche Bundesbank

Offices held by members of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank

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