Deutsche Bahn, while having undergone preparations for going public like Deutsche Post (DHL), Postbank and Deutsche Telekom, is still 100% state-owned. The curr

Deutsche Bahn, while having undergone preparations for going public like Deutsche Post (DHL), Postbank and Deutsche Telekom, is still 100% state-owned. The current political sentiment in Germany makes an IPO very unlikely to happen in the forseeable future, so those operations might just continue. Just recently a few laws passed, further integrating state and DB (soldiers travelling for free, state money as part of climate change prevention, VAT decrease, etc). Edit: Writing this on a DB train and just got a christmas present. :)