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Top 25 Board recruitment firms based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 182 board recruitment firms headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 1,352 professional contacts across them, including 526 with verified work emails. Frankfurt is the largest hub.
This list covers board recruitment firms headquartered in Germany, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 27, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest board recruitment firms based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “division one With our office in Stuttgart along with our partner offices of the international ENEX organization in more than 40 countries (Europe, Asia, Australia, North and South…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are the leading European independent Board Advisory and Executive Search firm for the make-or-break leadership decisions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LAB & Company is one of the fifteen largest executive search consultancies in the German-speaking region.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sie suchen erfahrene Fach- und Führungskräfte für Ihr Unternehmen?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Personalberatung für die erste und zweite Führungsebene Dr.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BludauPartners bietet national und international agierenden Unternehmen mit den Leistungen Executive Search, Executive Assessment und Executive Development einen ganzheitlich…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir sind Headhunter und Berater mit Leidenschaft.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seit 30 Jahren berät GET AHEAD Unternehmen bei der Besetzung und Auswahl von Führungskräften und Aufsichtsrats-/Beiratsgremien.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DELTACON Executive Search ist eine internationale Personalberatung für Executive Search.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MSU Executive Search is an established executive search boutique with over 20 years experiences in recruiting and direct search.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Headgate – Ihr Headhunter für Führungskräfte und Familienunternehmen Als einer der führenden Headhunter für Führungskräfte ist Headgate Markenbotschafter für Familienunternehmen…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TRANSEARCH International is a world leading Executive Search Company with almost 60 offices in more than 40 countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Unser Anspruch: ERWARTUNGEN ÜBERTREFFEN durch Individualität, Kompetenz und Leidenschaft- Seit mehr als 10 Jahren ist die Suche, Auswahl und Gewinnung von Führungskräften und…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CleverMatch ist eine auf den Mittelstand spezialisierte Personalberatung mit Fokus auf Geschäftsführer, Nachfolger und unternehmenskritische Schlüsselpositionen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We - the BOARD CONNECT Global Network - as a globally operating, independent boutique, specialized in executive search and board advisory topics, love to work across the world -…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seit mehr als 70 Jahren begleiten wir Unternehmen rund um die Themen Executive Search und Leadership Consulting:#passion for people #driven by excellence #focussed on you.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Personalberatung auf Augenhöhe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gunnar Kühne Executive Search (‚GKES’) bietet zahlreiche Dienstleistungen an, die sich in Kategorien unterteilen lassen- Dedizierte Kandidatensuche und aktives Headhunting -…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bei Siebenlist Personal setzen wir alles daran, die hohen Erwartungen unserer Kunden im Bereich Executive Search mit unserer Beratungserfahrung zu erfüllen und zu übertreffen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Board Consultants International widmet sich ausschließlich den Beratungsfeldern Executive Search und Board Consulting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MEYER & SÖHNE is one of Europes’s premier providers of Executive Search services, founded in 2009 by Marcus Meyer and his sons Max and Luis.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hoffmann & Partner ist eine auf Executive Search spezialisierte Boutique-Beratung mit Hauptsitz in Berlin.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Experience Drawing on our extensive experience, we offer you both executive search services as well as fast and uncomplicated recruitment of professionals and specialists for the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sie haben sich beworben.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Als inhaber-geführtes Personalberatungsunternehmen bietet Baehrens Executive Search seinen Klienten ausschließlich maßgeschneiderte und individuelle Lösungen zur Gewinnung von…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: board recruitment firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names board recruitment firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of board recruitment firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name board recruitment firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Board recruitment firms based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 27, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 182 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among board recruitment firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Germany whose own description of what they do matches “board recruitment firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names board recruitment firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among board recruitment firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 526 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 27, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names board recruitment firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many board recruitment firms are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 182 board recruitment firms headquartered in Germany as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Division ONE, headquartered in Stuttgart, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most board recruitment firms?
Frankfurt leads with 18 headquartered companies, followed by Hamburg (18) and Munchen (18).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 526 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 182 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 27, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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