Quantum Ecosystems Germany

Quantum Ecosystems in Germany

Gain insights into Germany’s thriving quantum landscape with our comprehensive overview of quantum ecosystems in Germany. This resource presents a curated view of the most relevant regional quantum initiatives, covering key aspects such as geographic focus, technological strengths, stakeholder networks, and available infrastructure.

By exploring the German quantum initiatives, you’ll discover how regional hubs—from Hamburg to Stuttgart—are advancing quantum computing, quantum sensing, and quantum communication. The ecosystem map reveals regional quantum networks, helping identify strengths, connect with partners, and foster new collaborations across science, industry, and policy.

Explore the diversity of quantum technologies in Germany and uncover where the future is being built—powered by a nationwide effort to drive innovation, scale capabilities, and support the growth of a world-class quantum economy.

Quantum Ecosystems in Germany

Country: Germany

State (Bundesland): Berlin

Cities/Towns Covered: Berlin

Key Focus Areas:

  • Quantum Computing Hardware (quantum photonics implementations)
  • Quantum Communication (quantum networks and network security)
  • Quantum Sensing and Metrology
  • Enabling Technologies (microelectrons and photonics)
  • Quantum Software and Algorithms

Key Metrics: No. of Stakeholders: 46

Infrastructure and Networks:

  • Shared Facilities (office workspace)
  • Networking Platforms

Offers:

  • Funding
  • Grants
  • Quantum Programs by (Educational Institutions, …)
  • Inkubator
 
Stakeholders:
  1. Adva Network Security GmbH
  2. Akhetonics GmbH
  3. Anabrid GmbH
  4. APE Angewandte Physik & Elektronik GmbH
  5. AQLS UG
  6. Berlin Partner for Business and Technology GmbH
  7. Bundesdruckerei GmbH
  8. DB Systel GmbH
  9. Deutsche Telekom AG – T-Labs
  10. DIGALOG Industrie-Mikroelektronik GmbH
  11. DLR German Aerospace Center
  12. Eagleyard Photonics GmbH
  13. Ferdinand-Braun-Institut
  14. Forschungsfabrik Mikroelektronik Deutschland (FMD)
  15. Fraunhofer FOKUS
  16. Fraunhofer IZM
  17. Frele Universitat Berlin Dahlem
  18. Fujitsu
  19. Heinrich-Hertz-Institut
  20. HOLOEYE Photonics AG
  21. Humboldt-Innovation GmbH
  22. Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
  23. JCMWave GmbH
  24. KI Park e.V.
  25. Kipu Quantum GmbH
  26. Leap Coworking Berlin
  27. Leibniz-institute for Crystal Growth
  28. M Squared Lasers UG
  29. Max-Born-Institut Berlin
  30. Menlo Systems GmbH
  31. Nomad Atomics GmbH
  32. Optec-Berlin-Brandenburg (OpTecBB) e.V.
  33. Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics
  34. PicoQuant GmbH
  35. PTB, Braunschweig and Berlin
  36. Q-CTRL
  37. Quantistry GmbH
  38. Quantune Technologies GmbH
  39. QUARTIQ GmbH
  40. Technical University of Berlin
  41. THOSS Media GmbH
  42. University of Applied Sciences Berlin
  43. Welerstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS)
  44. Zuse-Institut Berlin

Country: Germany

State (Bundesland): Nordrhein-Westfalens

Cities/Towns Covered: Dusseldorf

Key Focus Areas:

  • Quantum Computing Hardware (Supercomputer)
  • Quantum Sensing and Metrology

Key Metrics: No. of Stakeholders: 13

Infrastructure and Networks: Networking Platforms

Offers:

  • Funding
  • Quantum Programs by (Educational Institutions, …)

Stakeholders

  1. RWTH Aachen University​
  2. Ruhr University Bochum​
  3. University of Bonn​
  4. TU Dortmund University​
  5. University of Duisburg-Essen​
  6. Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf​
  7. University of Cologne​
  8. University of Münster​
  9. Paderborn University​
  10. University of Siegen​
  11. German Aerospace Center (DLR)​
  12. Forschungszentrum Jülich​
  13. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Country: Germany

State (Bundesland): Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg

Cities/Towns Covered: Hamburg

Key Focus Areas:

  • Quantum Computing Hardware (ion traps)
  • Enabling Technologies (development of chip technology)
  • Quantum Software and Algorithms

Key Metrics: No. of Stakeholders: 39

Infrastructure and Networks:

  • Shared Facilities (office workspace)
  • Networking Platforms

Offers:

  • Grants
  • Quantum Programs by (Educational Institutions, …)

Stakeholders:

  1. Fraunhofer ISIT
  2. Lufthansa LHIND
  3. Magnicon
  4. Fraunhofer ITMP
  5. Fraunhofer IAP
  6. NXP
  7. DLR QCI/SC/Innovationszentrum
  8. Quodora
  9. Universal Quantum
  10. eleQtron
  11. parityQC
  12. Schafter & Kirchhoff
  13. DESY
  14. UHH
  15. ZOQ
  16. IQP
  17. MPSD
  18. DESY Innovationfactory I+II
  19. Startup Labs Bahrenfeld
  20. Airbus
  21. DLR IM&TT
  22. TUHH
  23. Fraunhofer CML
  24. DLR Luftverkehr
  25. Innovationspark Tempowerkring
  26. Hamburg Innovation Port
  27. IFIS
  28. Universitat zu Lubeck
  29. Spectrum Instrumentation
  30. Otto Group
  31. Qubalt
  32. BWI
  33. BWFGB
  34. IFB
  35. Hamburg Invest
  36. Fehrmann
  37. Fraunhofer IAPT
  38. HPA
  39. HHLA

Country: Germany

State (Bundesland): Bayern

Cities/Towns Covered: Munich

Key Focus Areas:

  • Quantum Computing Hardware (superconducting qubits, neutral-atom qubits, trapped-ion-qubits)
  • Quantum Communication
  • Quantum Sensing and Metrology
  • Enabling Technologies (Optical systems and photonics)
  • Quantum Software and Algorithms (Munich Quantum Software Stack MQSS)

Key Metrics: No. of Stakeholders: 46

Infrastructure and Networks: Shared Facilities (office workspace, Quantum Technology Park (Joint center)) 

Offers:

  • Funding
  • Grants
  • Quantum Programs by (Educational Institutions, …)

Stakeholders:

 


      Industry

  1. Airbus
  2. AQT
  3. Attocube
  4. BMW Group
  5. CAENels
  6. Datev
  7. Highfinesse
  8. Infineon
  9. IQM
  10. Keysight
  11. Kiutra
  12. MenloSystems
  13. Munich Quantum Software Company
  14. Optware
  15. Parityqc
  16. Peak Quantum
  17. Planqc
  18. Qruise
  19. Quandela
  20. Quantagonia
  21. Quantinuum
  22. Quantum Diamonds
  23. Quartiq
  24. Qubig
  25. Qutools
  26. Reply Machine Learning
  27. SAP
  28. Toptica
  29. Zurich Instruments

      Academia:

  1. Equahumo
  2. Freie Universitat Berlin
  3. Forschunginstitut Cyber Defence
  4. Universitat Heidelberg
  5. Julich Forschungzentrum
  6. MCQST
  7. MUNIQC-Atoms
  8. MUNIQC-SC
  9. Technische Hochschule Nurnberg
  10. OTH Regensburg
  11. PASQuans
  12. Universitat Regensburg
  13. University of Stuttgart
  14. Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen
  15. Julius Maximilians Universitat Wurzburg

    Network: 
  1. Invest in Bavaria
  2. PushQuantum

Country: Germany

State (Bundesland): Rhineland-Palatinate

Cities/Towns Covered: Mainz, Kaiserslautern

Key Focus Areas:

  • Quantum Computing Hardware (stored ion, neutral atom)
  • Quantum Communication
  • Quantum Sensing and Metrology (sensors using individual color centers in diamond)
  • Enabling Technologies (integrated micro-optics, chip development)
  • Quantum Software and Algorithms

Key Metrics: No. of Stakeholders: 13

Infrastructure and Networks:

  • Shared Facilities (Competence Center Quantum Computing Rhineland-Palatinate) 
  • Networking Platform 

Offers: Quantum Programs by (Educational Institutions, …)

Stakeholders:

  1. Data Cybernetics 
  2. Debeka 
  3. Highfinesse 
  4. JoS Quantum 
  5. MenloSystems 
  6. NEQT 
  7. SCHOTT 
  8. SPECTRUM 
  9. Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität 
  10. Fraunhofer ITWM 
  11. Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz 
  12. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence 
  13. Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Gesundheit Rheinland-Pfalz 

Country: Germany

State (Bundesland): Baden-Württemberg

Cities/Towns Covered: Stuttgart, Ulm, Freiburg

Key Focus Areas:

  • Quantum Computing Hardware (quantum computers based on nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond)
  • Quantum Communication (inauguration of a 20-kilometer fiber optic test line)
  • Quantum Sensing and Metrology
  • Enabling Technologies
  • Quantum Software and Algorithms
  • Governance, Standards, and Certification

Key Metrics: No. of Stakeholders: 35

Infrastructure and Networks:

  • Shared Facilities (high-performance computing centers) 
  • Networking Platforms

Offers: Quantum Programs by (Educational Institutions, …)

Stakeholders:

  • Companies:
  1. Advanced Quantum GmbH 
  2. AITAD GmbH 
  3. Balluff GmbH 
  4. Carl Zeiss AG 
  5. EnBW AG 
  6. Eviden Germany GmbH 
  7. Festo SE & Co. KG 
  8. Hensoldt Sensors GmbH 
  9. HQS Quantum Simulations GmbH 
  10. IBM Deutschland GmbH 
  11. Kipu Quantum GmbH 
  12. Mercedes-Benz-Group AG 
  13. Nvision Imaging Technologies GmbH 
  14. Q.ANT GmbH 
  15. Quantum Brilliance GmbH 
  16. Quantum Machines Ltd. 
  17. Robert Bosch GmbH 
  18. Thales Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG 
  19. Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG 
  20. TRUMPF SE+ Co. KG
  • Universities:
  1. Baden-Wurttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) 
  2. Heidelberg University 
  3. Hochschule Karlsruhe 
  4. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 
  5. Ulm University 
  6. University of Freiburg 
  7. University of Konstanz 
  8. University of Stuttgart 
  9. University of Tubingen
  • Research Institutions:
  1. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V, 
  2. German Aerospace Center (DLR) 
  3. Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft fur angewandte Forschung e.V, 
  4. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften e.V, 
  • Further Institutions:
  1. Baden-Wurttemberg International 
  2. Technoseum-Landesmuseum fur Technik und Arbeit in Mannheim 

Country: Germany

State (Bundesland): Niedersachsen

Cities/Towns Covered: Hannover

Key Focus Areas:

  • Quantum Computing Hardware (ion traps)
  • Quantum Communication
  • Quantum Sensing and Metrology
  • Enabling Technologies (microelectronics, photonics)
  • Quantum Software and Algorithms
  • Governance, Standards and Certification

Key Metrics: No. of Stakeholders: 12

Infrastructure and Networks:

  • Shared Facilities (labs and office workspace) 
  • Networking Platforms

Offers:

  • Funding
  • Grants
  • Quantum Programs by (Educational Institutions, …)
  • Accelerators

Stakeholders:

  • Research Institutions and Universities:
  1. Leibniz Universität Hannover 
  2. Technische Universität Braunschweig 
  3. Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) 
  4. Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics 
  5. German Aerospace Center (DLR) 
  • Industry Partners: 
  1. eleQtron GmbH 
  2. NXP Semiconductors Germany 
  3. Parity Quantum Computing Germany 
  4. QUDORA Technologies GmbH 
  5. Universal Quantum Deutschland 
  • Government and Funding Bodies: 
  1. Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony 
  2. Volkswagen Foundation 

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