BVG-Stiftung: version 1

Saved 2026-09-21 05:40 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by review: Rebuilt the entry around the ownership chain the queue asked for. Identity gains a searchable summary, the registered address and Wikidata Q156913; a new Relations section carries owned_by to Johannes. This is the current version.

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# BVG-Stiftung <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: BVG-Stiftung
disambiguation: Non-profit German foundation in Gütersloh holding Bertelsmann capital shares
summary: Non-profit German foundation in Gütersloh, one of the four foundations that hold 80.9 percent of the capital shares in the media group Bertelsmann indirectly.
legal_name: BVG-Stiftung
ownership_status: no_corporate_parent
ownership_source: ^gleif-bvgs-parent
registered_address: Carl-Bertelsmann-Straße 256, 33311 Gütersloh
country: DE
register_ids: LEI:967600OTHPIDTKYXSJ81
founded: 2007-12-21
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## References <!--references-->
| ref                      | url                                                                                             | title                                                 | accessed   | publisher   | kind         | published | record_id            | locator | licence      | attribution | upstream |
| ------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------- | ------------ | --------- | -------------------- | ------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| gleif-bvgs               | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/967600OTHPIDTKYXSJ81                                   | GLEIF LEI record: BVG-Stiftung                        | 2026-09-21 | GLEIF       | registry     |           | 967600OTHPIDTKYXSJ81 |         | CC0          |             |          |
| gleif-bvgs-parent        | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/967600OTHPIDTKYXSJ81/direct-parent-reporting-exception | GLEIF direct parent reporting exception: BVG-Stiftung | 2026-09-21 | GLEIF       | registry     |           | 967600OTHPIDTKYXSJ81 |         | CC0          |             |          |
| 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)          |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
The BVG-Stiftung is a non-profit foundation under private law in Gütersloh and one of the four foundations that Bertelsmann names as holding, indirectly and together, 80.9 percent of the capital shares in Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA; the remaining 19.1 percent is held indirectly by the Mohn family, and all voting rights are controlled by Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, whose initials the foundation carries.[^bertelsmann-shareholders] The English Wikipedia article on Bertelsmann names it as one of three foundations holding that 80.9 percent.[^wiki-bertelsmann] GLEIF records it as an active Stiftung des privaten Rechts at Carl-Bertelsmann-Straße 256 in Gütersloh, with an entity creation date of 21 December 2007.[^gleif-bvgs] No company stands above it: GLEIF carries a direct parent reporting exception for the foundation with the reason that there is no known person, and a foundation of this legal form has no shareholders.[^gleif-bvgs-parent]
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