Trenkwalder
Trenkwalder is a European staffing group headquartered in Austria with more than 200 locations across Europe. It offers Employer of Record services in Germany, Austria and Poland, where it acts as the legal employer while the client retains operational control of the staff; its EOR coverage and entity footprint in other countries varies by market. The group also provides temporary staffing and recruitment services.
Global EOR Listed in 4 country lists
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Established | 1985 |
| Founders | Richard Trenkwalder |
| Region / headquarters | Europe / Global |
| Website | group.trenkwalder.com ↗ |
| What it does | Trenkwalder is a European staffing group headquartered in Austria with more than 200 locations across Europe. It offers Employer of Record services in Germany, Austria and Poland, where it acts as the legal employer while the client retains operational control of the staff; its EOR coverage and entity footprint in other countries varies by market. The group also provides temporary staffing and recruitment services. |
| Entry price | Quote-based (no public price) |
| Countries covered | 15+ (provider's own claim) |
| Last verified | 4 Nov 2026 |
Germany profile
Trenkwalder is one of Central Europe's largest staffing groups, founded in 1985 in Austria and active in Germany since 1999, with around 20,000 employees, revenue of about EUR 600 million and operations in some fifteen countries. The German operating company, Trenkwalder Personaldienste GmbH, is registered at Amtsgericht München under HRB 109681 and based in Munich, with branches nationwide; the group parent is Trenkwalder Group AG in Vienna, majority-owned by Germany's Droege Group. Managing director Mark Pollok also heads the group.
Its Payroll and Employer of Record service lets companies employ staff in Germany, and in the group's other countries, where they have no local entity, alongside temporary staffing, placement, relocation and migration support, and recruitment process outsourcing. As a Zeitarbeit company it operates under the AÜG, and its Impressum names the Agentur für Arbeit Nürnberg as supervisory authority, although the EOR pages do not spell out the licence. Pricing and onboarding times are on request, and the EOR line is a recent addition to a business built on industrial and volume staffing.
Germany facts
| German employing entity | Trenkwalder Personaldienste GmbH, Munich (own entity); sister companies Trenkwalder Personaldienste Medical Care GmbH (HRB 160087) and Trenkwalder Business Solution GmbH (HRB 160083) at the same address |
| Commercial register | HRB 109681, Amtsgericht München; VAT ID DE172489891 |
| Registered office | Werner-Eckert-Straße 6, 81829 München, Germany; branches nationwide |
| Managing director | Mark Pollok (also sole management board member of Trenkwalder Group AG); supervisory board chair Dr. Ernest Droege |
| AÜG licence | Not stated in words on the EOR page. The Impressum names the Agentur für Arbeit Nürnberg as supervisory authority for each GmbH, which is the disclosure required of licensed Arbeitnehmerüberlasser, and temporary employment is its core business. |
| Founded | Group 1985 (Schwadorf, Austria); in Germany since 1999. Parent Trenkwalder Group AG, Vienna (FN 297412x), majority-owned by Droege Group, Düsseldorf |
| Pricing | Not published; individual offer on request |
| Onboarding | No timeline published; five-step process from needs assessment to ongoing support |
| Coverage | Germany, Austria and about thirteen further countries in Central and Eastern Europe through group companies |
Services in Germany
| Payroll and Employer of Record | Legal employer function where the client has no local entity; payroll, tax and social-security reporting, contract and compliance management, reporting; offered nationally and internationally. |
| Temporary employment and placement | Zeitarbeit, personnel placement and temp-to-perm across industrial, commercial, healthcare, energy and financial services. |
| International recruiting and relocation | Recruiting abroad, relocation and migration services, recruitment process outsourcing, field-service and customer-experience outsourcing. |
Strengths and watch-outs in Germany
- ✓ Large, established staffing company operating under the AÜG for decades, with about 20,000 employees and EUR 600 million revenue.
- ✓ Three registered Munich GmbHs with a full Impressum and the supervisory authority disclosed.
- ✓ EOR delivered through own group entities in fifteen-plus countries, useful for Central and Eastern European expansion.
- ✓ Recruiting, relocation, migration support and RPO available alongside EOR.
- ✗ EOR is a recent, ancillary line of an industrial staffing business, with no pricing, timelines or EOR case studies published.
- ✗ No explicit AÜG licence statement on the EOR pages; confirm on request.
- ✗ Positioned for volume and industrial staffing rather than single white-collar remote hires.
Reviews
- kununu employer rating 4.0/5 from 528 ratings, 72% recommend (employee reviews, not client reviews). No G2, Capterra or Trustpilot client ratings for the EOR service were found.
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