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As of 4 November 2026, 72,304 automotive companies are based in Germany: 1,465 with 51+ employees, 1,810 hiring right now, led by vehicle & parts retail and Berlin.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies, confident classification
- 72,304
- 51+ employees
- 1,465 · 2%
- Hiring now
- 1,810 · 180 new in 30 d
- Largest segment
- Vehicle & parts retail · 38,523
- Top city
- Berlin · 1,450
- Running cold outbound
- 7
Automotive in Germany, by segment
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| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Vehicle & parts retail | 38,523 · 1,094 |
| Vehicle repair & detailing | 34,533 · 638 |
| Vehicle & transport equipment manufacturing | 3,536 · 191 |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 19,861 · 6 |
| 2-10 employees | 48,331 · 1,088 |
| 11-50 employees | 2,647 · 259 |
| 51-200 employees | 879 · 235 |
| 201-500 employees | 343 · 108 |
| 501-1000 employees | 124 · 55 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 93 · 48 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 8 · 3 |
| 10,001+ employees | 18 · 8 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Berlin | 1,450 | 2% |
| Hamburg | 1,029 | 1% |
| Gelsenkirchen | 912 | 1% |
| Stuttgart | 830 | 1% |
| Bochum | 772 | 1% |
| Köln | 716 | 1% |
| München | 637 | 1% |
| Frankfurt am Main | 617 | 1% |
| Essen | 594 | 1% |
| Wiesbaden | 498 | 1% |
| Düsseldorf | 414 | 1% |
| Dortmund | 325 | 0% |
The biggest automotive companies in Germany
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The stack of automotive in Germany
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72,304 automotive companies are based in Germany: 1,465 with 51 or more employees, 1,810 hiring right now (180 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by vehicle & parts retail and Berlin. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/automotive/germany)
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- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
- StackScripts and embeds on the company's pages plus SPF, DKIM, MX and CNAME records of its domain.
Automotive in Germany: questions
How many automotive companies are there in Germany?
72,304 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 1,465 of them have 51 or more employees.
How do you know a company belongs to automotive?
We classify every company from its own website into a vertical, a sub-vertical and a leaf, each with a confidence score. This page counts companies with industry confidence of at least 0.7 and country confidence of at least 0.8; the company list shows only rich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount.
Which automotive companies in Germany are hiring?
1,810 have an open role on their own career site today and 180 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.
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