Employees by status group in Germany
Proportion of civil servants continues to decrease
FTEs |
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2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
2025 |
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Active civil servants |
9,653 |
8,381 |
6,891 |
5,801 |
4,759 |
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Civil servants on temporary leave from civil servant statusa |
311 |
256 |
212 |
152 |
137 |
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Civil servants at affiliated companiesa |
6,773 |
5,836 |
4,942 |
3,728 |
3,194 |
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Total civil servants |
16,736 |
14,474 |
12,045 |
9,681 |
8,090 |
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Non-civil servants in Germany |
68,424 |
66,995 |
66,555 |
64,869 |
62,661 |
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Total employees in Germany |
85,160 |
81,469 |
78,600 |
74,550 |
70,751 |
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Proportion of non-civil servants in Germany |
80.3 % |
82.2 % |
84.7 % |
87.0 % |
88.6 % |
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Proportion of civil servants in Germany |
19.7 % |
17.8 % |
15.3 % |
13.0 % |
11.4 % |
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During the 2025 financial year, the proportion of employees with civil servant status declined further to 11.4 %, while the proportion of non-civil servants rose accordingly by 1.6 percentage points to 88.6 %.
This development is related to the company’s structure as Deutsche Telekom stopped recruiting new employees with civil servant status following its privatization in 1995. The number of remaining civil servants is continuously shrinking through natural attrition due to retirement, transfers to government authorities, and the dedicated retirement scheme or the passive phase of partial retirement.