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Deutsche Bahn AG (abbreviated as ''DB'', ''DB AG'' or ''DBAG'') is a German railway company. Headquartered in Berlin, it is a private joint-stock company (AG), with the Federal Republic of Germany being its single shareholder. Deutsche Bahn describes itself as the second-largest transport company in the world, after the German postal and logistics company Deutsche Post / DHL, and is the largest railway operator and infrastructure owner in Europe. It carries about two billion passengers each year. ''Deutsche Bahn'' (literally "German Railway" in German) came into existence in 1994 as the successor to the former state railways of Germany, the ''Deutsche Bundesbahn'' of West Germany and the Deutsche Reichsbahn of East Germany. It also gained ownership of former railway assets in West Berlin held by the ''Verwaltung des ehemaligen Reichsbahnvermögens''. == History == While the railway network in Germany dates back to 1835 when the first tracks were laid on a route between Nuremberg and Fürth, Deutsche Bahn has been a relatively recent development in German railway history. Founded in January 1994 as a joint stock-company, Deutsche Bahn was designed to operate the railways of both the former East and West Germany after unification in November 1990 as a single, uniform, and private company.〔("The foundation of Deutsche Bahn AG" company website )〕 There are three main periods of development in this unified German railway: its formation, its early years (1994–1999), and the period from 1999 to the present. At its creation, Deutsche Bahn took over the abbreviation and logo ''DB'' from the West German state railway ''Deutsche Bundesbahn'', and Kurt Weidemann later modernised the logo. Erik Spiekermann designed the new corporate font DB Type. Originally, DBAG had its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main but moved to Potsdamer Platz in central Berlin in 1996, where it occupies a 26-storey office tower designed by Helmut Jahn at the eastern end of the Sony Center and named BahnTower. As the lease was to expire in 2010, DB had announced plans to relocate to Berlin Hauptbahnhof, and in 2007 a proposal for a new headquarters by 3XN Architects won an architectural competition which also included Foster + Partners, Dominique Perrault and Auer + Weber. However, these plans have been put on hold, and the BahnTower leased for at least three more years.〔http://www.ftd.de/unternehmen/handel_dienstleister/:Deutsche%20Bahn%20Pl%E4ne%20Umzug/346601.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Deutsche Bahn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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