Our sites in Germany

Taufkirchen in the south of Munich is the registered headquarters of HENSOLDT. Here, around 520 HENSOLDTIANS work on highly developed electronic systems to equip ground systems, aeroplanes and helicopters. The site is associated with a rich tradition of aerospace related to names such as Messerschmitt, Bölkow and DASA.

In 2019 HENSOLDT build a new annex to the building 88 on the Ludwig-Bölkow Campus. This is home to members of our top management and central functions such as HR, Finance, Legal and Communications as well as the laboratories for our Electronic Warfare, MILDS and IFF equipment.

In Oberkochen, almost 800 employees develope, design and produce state-of-the-art optical and optronic devices for military, civilian and security applications since 70 years. Optronic systems from Oberkochen enable fast and detailed reconnaissance for combat support, border protection and the protection of critical infrastructure.

The site in Oberkochen is the largest development and production facility of HENSOLDT Optronics. In the production facility for sensor components, the periscope tower as well as the land and space production facilities, the highly complex sensors for the different platforms for land, air, sea and space missions are manufactured.

Moritz Carl Hensoldt, who gave our company its name, is the founder of the Wetzlar site. Today, the Wetzlar site still develops and manufactures telescopic sights, targeting optics and optronic equipment such as residual light and thermal imaging clip-on systems as well as fire control systems as well as unstabilised periscopes for armoured vehicles and calibration technology for artillery.

The products – above all the telescopic sights and the night vision attachments – enjoy an excellent reputation with authorities and military units throughout the world. At present, approximately 100 HENSOLDTIANS are working the site in Wetzlar which is situated on the Carl Zeiss AG premises.

From 1966 to 2018, our site in Cologne was a branch of Customer Service Ulm and originally part of AEG. Today, areas of technical documentation are still represented there. The current focus is on forensic license analysis in the use of open source software in product development, which was established 10 years ago on behalf of the CTO.

In addition, the employees are working with other departments across sites to set up an asset management system for FOSS and to develop the software incident monitoring and management process for HENSOLDT. Employees at the Cologne site also develop information security concepts for our products and projects for the Bundeswehr in accordance with the specifications of the Central Service Regulation A-960/1.

Established in 2021, our Integrated Solution Center in Aalen is specially dedicated to the development, production and presentation of sensor network solutions for Ground Based Systems within HENSOLDT Optronics. Here, around 70 colleagues work intensively on the refinement of original sensor data into mission-relevant information.

With various presentation areas and product demonstrators, this site is intended to become a central location for customer meetings, simplifying the permanent exchange and collaboration with our partners in order to create the perfect solution for the users´ needs.