Schwarz Unternehmenstreuhand: version 2
Saved 2026-09-21 03:45 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled the ownership walk that both flags asked about. The KG does have a corporate partner, so no_corporate_parent was wrong for this page: the German Wikipedia article (from the Handelsregister) names the Dieter Schwarz TV-Vermoegensverwaltung GmbH of Neckarsulm as a Kommanditist of the KG beside the four natural persons who act as its de facto supervisory board, and the register notices on that company's own entry at Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB 108457 repeat the role in 2010, 2011, 2019, 2022, 2024 and on 21 July 2026. The page therefore gained a Relations section with one owned_by row to company/dieter-schwarz-tv-vermogensverwaltung, status sourced on ^wiki-schwarz, and I created that company as a stub (summary, two References rows, register ids, its registered object and its register history). The walk up ends there: Wikipedia records the GmbH's registered shareholders as the natural persons Hermann-Josef Hoffmann, Berthold Gaede and Armin Sohler, so the stub carries ownership_status: no_corporate_parent with ownership_source: ^wiki-schwarz and explains the evidence in About. No parent_org on either page, since no group company sits above the GmbH. The foundations named in the flag are not above this KG: the Rosint GmbH and Zeha GmbH of St. Gallen, held by the two charitable Dieter Schwarz Stiftungen, are limited partners of the D. Schwarz Beteiligungs-KG alongside this KG, and About now says so. Added one References row, northdata-tv (North Data page for HRB 108457, accessed 2026-09-21, upstream Handelsregister); wiki-schwarz and northdata-sut were already here and both re-read today, so the source freshness is current. About was split into a 117-word lede and a history paragraph that adds the register detail: Schwarz Geschaeftsfuehrungsgesellschaft mbH general partner since 30 July 2007, and the TV-Vermoegensverwaltung GmbH itself general partner in 2006 before giving that up. Identity, Aliases and the summary are unchanged; no Meta, Establishments or Images sections exist on this page and none were added. One note for the team: the North Data shareholder list for HRB 108457 is behind its paywall, so the three named shareholders rest on Wikipedia's reading of the register; if a later pass can read the 29 October 2024 Liste der Gesellschafter filing it would upgrade that evidence.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# Schwarz Unternehmenstreuhand <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Schwarz Unternehmenstreuhand
disambiguation: The Neckarsulm partnership at the head of the Schwarz group behind Lidl and Kaufland, not the group's operating companies Schwarz Produktion or Schwarz Digits.
summary: Neckarsulm partnership in which the voting rights of the Schwarz group behind Lidl and Kaufland are bundled.
legal_name: Schwarz Unternehmenstreuhand KG
registered_address: Neckarsulm, Germany
country: DE
register_ids: DE-HRA:Stuttgart 103933, EUID:DEB8534.HRA103933
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | --------------------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/dieter-schwarz-tv-vermogensverwaltung | | | | | sourced | ^wiki-schwarz | The one company among the KG's limited partners, beside four natural persons: the German Wikipedia article takes it from the Handelsregister, and the register notices on that company's own entry at Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB 108457 repeat the role from 2010 to July 2026 (North Data). |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Schwarz Unternehmenstreuhand KG | legal | de | | |
| Schwarz Gruppe | search | de | | |
| Schwarz Group | search | en | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------- | ----------- | --------- | ---------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | --------------- |
| wiki-schwarz | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarz-Gruppe | Wikipedia (de): Schwarz-Gruppe, with the shareholder structure taken from the Handelsregister | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia | publication | | | Gesellschafterstruktur und Unternehmensgeflecht | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| northdata-sut | https://www.northdata.de/Schwarz+Unternehmenstreuhand+KG,+Neckarsulm/HRA+103933 | North Data: Schwarz Unternehmenstreuhand KG, Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRA 103933, with register events | 2026-09-21 | North Data | registry | | HRA 103933 | | | | Handelsregister |
| northdata-tv | https://www.northdata.de/Dieter+Schwarz+TV-Verm%C3%B6gensverwaltung+GmbH,+Neckarsulm/HRB+108457 | North Data: Dieter Schwarz TV-Vermögensverwaltung GmbH, Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB 108457, with the register notices naming its partnerships | 2026-09-21 | North Data | registry | | HRB 108457 | | | | Handelsregister |
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## About <!--about-->
Schwarz Unternehmenstreuhand KG is the Neckarsulm partnership in which the voting rights of the Schwarz group are bundled, so that its general partner acts as head of the whole group of Lidl, Kaufland, Schwarz Produktion, PreZero and Schwarz Digits.[^wiki-schwarz] Its limited partners are four natural persons, whom the German Wikipedia article describes as a de facto supervisory board, together with one company, the Dieter Schwarz TV-Vermögensverwaltung GmbH of Neckarsulm, which the register notices on that company's own entry record as a Kommanditist of this KG.[^wiki-schwarz][^northdata-tv] The KG is in turn a limited partner of the D. Schwarz Beteiligungs-KG, the partnership that holds the group's stakes and stands above SB Lidl KG and Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG.[^wiki-schwarz]
In company-law terms the Schwarz group is not a Konzern: its five operating groups are sister companies rather than subsidiaries of one another, and no group balance sheet is drawn up.[^wiki-schwarz] The KG is entered at the Amtsgericht Stuttgart under HRA 103933, with the Schwarz Geschäftsführungsgesellschaft mbH recorded as general partner since 30 July 2007.[^northdata-sut] The Dieter Schwarz TV-Vermögensverwaltung GmbH, entered at the same court under HRB 108457 with the management of assets and the general partnership in limited partnerships as its registered object, held that general partnership in this KG in 2006 before giving it up, and the notices of 2010, 2011, 2019, 2022, 2024 and 21 July 2026 name it as a limited partner.[^northdata-tv] The group's capital runs by another route: the Rosint GmbH and the Zeha GmbH of St. Gallen, whose shares are held by the charitable Dieter Schwarz Stiftung für Kunst & Kultur and Dieter Schwarz Stiftung für Wissenschaft und Forschung, are limited partners of the D. Schwarz Beteiligungs-KG beside this KG rather than partners in it.[^wiki-schwarz]
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