Johannes Mohn GmbH: 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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# Johannes Mohn GmbH <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Johannes Mohn GmbH
disambiguation: Gütersloh holding company holding the Bertelsmann capital shares
summary: Gütersloh holding company, registered as HRB 1084, that holds the majority of the capital shares in the media group Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA.
legal_name: Johannes Mohn GmbH
registered_address: Carl-Bertelsmann-Str. 270, 33311 Gütersloh
country: DE
register_ids: DE-HRB:Gütersloh 1084
founded: 1964-01-27
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | ---------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | -------- | ------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/bertelsmann-stiftung | | | | | verified | ^bst-statutes | The foundation's own statutes state that its assets consist mainly of the initial endowment and the shares in Johannes Mohn GmbH, and that legal transactions in those shares need the consent of the Board of Trustees and of Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------- | ---------- | -------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | --------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------------------------------------- |
| bertelsmann-shareholders | https://www.bertelsmann.com/en/company/aktionaere/ | Bertelsmann: Shareholder Structure | 2026-09-21 | Bertelsmann | manufacturer | | | | (c) | | |
| bst-statutes | https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/fileadmin/files/BSt/Corporate/Organisation/Statutes-of-Bertelsmann-Stiftung_08-05-2025.pdf | Statutes of Bertelsmann Stiftung | 2026-09-21 | Bertelsmann Stiftung | other | 2025-05-08 | | | (c) | | |
| nd-johannes-mohn | https://www.northdata.com/Johannes+Mohn+GmbH,+G%C3%BCtersloh/HRB+1084 | North Data: Johannes Mohn GmbH, Gutersloh | 2026-09-21 | North Data | registry | | HRB 1084 | | | | Handelsregister, Amtsgericht Gutersloh |
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## About <!--about-->
Johannes Mohn GmbH is a holding company in Gütersloh that holds the majority of the capital shares in the media group Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA. It has been registered at the Local Court of Gütersloh as HRB 1084 since 27 January 1964, at Carl-Bertelsmann-Str. 270, and its registered object is the acquisition and management of interests in Bertelsmann AG, today Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA, and in Reinhard Mohn Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH; Liz Mohn and Christoph Mohn are recorded as its managing directors and it absorbed Bertelsmann Beteiligungs GmbH in a merger registered in December 2017.[^nd-johannes-mohn] The statutes of the Bertelsmann Stiftung name it as the majority shareholder in terms of ownership of Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and describe the foundation's assets as consisting mainly of its initial endowment and of the shares in this company.[^bst-statutes] Bertelsmann itself states that 80.9 percent of its capital shares are held indirectly by four foundations and 19.1 percent indirectly by the Mohn family.[^bertelsmann-shareholders]
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