The Deutsche Einheit Fernstraßenplanungs- und -bau GmbH (DEGES) (German Unity motorway planning and construction company) is a state-owned project management institution founded on October 7th, 1991, about one year after the German reunification. The intention was to support the New Länder in the planning and preparation of necessary construction work on their old a new Autobahn highways.
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Organisation
Participators and owners of DEGES are the Federal Republic of Germany (42,91%) as well as the federal states Brandenburg, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia with 8,16% each. The company resides in Berlin, there are branches in every capital of the participating federal states. As of 2006, the company employs approximately 250 people.
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The company is responsible for the improvement or construction of 1200 km of Autobahn (750km old, 450km new) in the New Länder, as well as the City-Tunnel in Leipzig, with a total investment of approximately 9.6 billion €,