BVG-Familienstiftung: version 2
Saved 2026-09-21 05:53 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled the flag. The NRW foundation directory (new References row nrw-bvgf) records the BVG-Familienstiftung as Stiftungsart Nichtgemeinnuetzig, Stiftungstyp Familie, purpose "Unterstuetzung der eigenen Familie", recognised 28 April 2022 under file 659 in Regierungsbezirk Detmold, so the Identity disambiguation no longer calls it non-profit and now separates it from the charitable BVG-Stiftung; summary rewritten to lead with what it is and the 50 percent stake. The one-day gap between the register's recognition date and GLEIF's entity creation date is an artefact of time zones, not a disagreement: GLEIF gives 2022-04-27T22:00:00Z, which is midnight on 28 April CEST, so founded moves to 2022-04-28 and About says why. Added the Amtsgericht Guetersloh Liste der Gesellschafter of 21 July 2023 via LobbyControl (new row lobbypedia) to About: it holds 50 percent of Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft. No Relations row for that holding, because the relation points up and company/bertelsmann-verwaltungsgesellschaft already carries owned_by company/bvg-familienstiftung with the same source. Also added register id DE-STIFT:Detmold 659, the register's own address spelling, the board and the c/o contact, GLEIF legal form V2YH Stiftung des privaten Rechts (new row gleif-elf), the ultimate parent reporting exception alongside the direct one (new row gleif-bvgf-uparent) for ownership_status: no_corporate_parent, and a search alias for the unhyphenated spelling. Kept the source disagreement and made it symmetric: Bertelsmann's own shareholder page names four foundations behind the 80.9 percent, the English Wikipedia article and Lobbypedia still name only three and leave this one out (both re-read today). No Wikidata item exists for the foundation, so wikidata stays blank; no cleanup flags filed, since the sibling foundation and BVG pages read correctly.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# BVG-Familienstiftung <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: BVG-Familienstiftung
disambiguation: Non-charitable Mohn family foundation in Gütersloh, separate from the charitable BVG-Stiftung
summary: Non-charitable Mohn family foundation in Gütersloh, recognised in 2022, majority shareholder of Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft and one of four foundations behind Bertelsmann.
legal_name: BVG-Familienstiftung
ownership_status: no_corporate_parent
ownership_source: ^gleif-bvgf-parent
registered_address: Carl-Bertelsmann-Straße 270, 33311 Gütersloh
country: DE
register_ids: LEI:391200HUBMZL357W9389, DE-STIFT:Detmold 659
founded: 2022-04-28
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| -------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| BVG Familienstiftung | search | de | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | --------- | -------------------- | ------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| nrw-bvgf | https://www.im.nrw/bvg-familienstiftung | Stiftungsverzeichnis Nordrhein-Westfalen: BVG-Familienstiftung | 2026-09-21 | Ministerium des Innern des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen | registry | | 659 | | | | |
| gleif-bvgf | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/391200HUBMZL357W9389 | GLEIF LEI record: BVG-Familienstiftung | 2026-09-21 | GLEIF | registry | | 391200HUBMZL357W9389 | | CC0 | | |
| gleif-elf | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/entity-legal-forms/V2YH | GLEIF entity legal form V2YH: Stiftung des privaten Rechts | 2026-09-21 | GLEIF | registry | | V2YH | | CC0 | | |
| gleif-bvgf-parent | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/391200HUBMZL357W9389/direct-parent-reporting-exception | GLEIF direct parent reporting exception: BVG-Familienstiftung | 2026-09-21 | GLEIF | registry | | 391200HUBMZL357W9389 | | CC0 | | |
| gleif-bvgf-uparent | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/391200HUBMZL357W9389/ultimate-parent-reporting-exception | GLEIF ultimate parent reporting exception: BVG-Familienstiftung | 2026-09-21 | GLEIF | registry | | 391200HUBMZL357W9389 | | CC0 | | |
| lobbypedia | https://lobbypedia.de/wiki/Bertelsmann_SE | Lobbypedia: Bertelsmann SE | 2026-09-21 | LobbyControl | publication | | | | | | |
| wiki-bertelsmann | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertelsmann | Wikipedia: Bertelsmann | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| bertelsmann-shareholders | https://www.bertelsmann.com/en/company/aktionaere/ | Bertelsmann: Shareholder Structure | 2026-09-21 | Bertelsmann | manufacturer | | | | (c) | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
The BVG-Familienstiftung is a family foundation under private law in Gütersloh, recognised by the Detmold district government on 28 April 2022 under file 659, registered as non-charitable and with the stated purpose of supporting its own family.[^nrw-bvgf] It holds 50 percent of Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, the company that controls all voting rights at the general meetings of Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and of its general partner Bertelsmann Management SE, according to the Liste der Gesellschafter filed at the Local Court of Gütersloh on 21 July 2023.[^lobbypedia] Bertelsmann counts it as one of the four foundations that together hold 80.9 percent of the capital shares in Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA indirectly, with the Mohn family holding the remaining 19.1 percent.[^bertelsmann-shareholders]
Its board is Christoph Mohn, who may act alone, together with Elisabeth "Liz" Mohn and Brigitte Mohn, who act jointly; the register gives its address in care of Dr. Erkan Uysal at the Bertelsmann head office.[^nrw-bvgf] It is the youngest of the four foundations. GLEIF records it as an active Stiftung des privaten Rechts, legal form code V2YH, at Carl-Bertelsmann-Straße 270 in Gütersloh, validated against the same North Rhine-Westphalian foundation directory, and gives its entity creation date as 27 April 2022 at 22:00 UTC, which is midnight on 28 April in German summer time and so the register's recognition date.[^gleif-bvgf][^gleif-elf] Bertelsmann's own shareholder page names four foundations behind the 80.9 percent, while the English Wikipedia article on Bertelsmann and LobbyControl's Lobbypedia name three, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Reinhard Mohn Stiftung and BVG-Stiftung, and leave this one out.[^wiki-bertelsmann][^lobbypedia] No company stands above it: GLEIF carries both a direct and an ultimate parent reporting exception for the foundation, each with the reason that there is no known person,[^gleif-bvgf-parent][^gleif-bvgf-uparent] and a foundation of this legal form has no shareholders.[^gleif-elf]
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