Register No. 086
Is STACKIT European?
Yes. STACKIT is under verified European control.
STACKIT belongs to the Schwarz Gruppe, the German retail group behind Lidl and Kaufland, which says it has no outside investors. The group is controlled from Neckarsulm through a holding partnership that carries the voting rights and the Dieter Schwarz foundation, which holds most of the capital.
Latest
Nothing new on file since the check on 30 October 2026. Seen news about STACKIT? Send it with a source.
- Controlled by
- Schwarz Gruppe (owner of Lidl and Kaufland): voting rights bundled in Schwarz Unternehmenstreuhand KG, capital held mostly by the Dieter Schwarz Stiftung, both in Neckarsulm
- Control sits in
- Germany
- Legal entity
- Schwarz Digits Cloud GmbH & Co. KG
- Company register
- Handelsregister, Amtsgericht Stuttgart · HRA 741347
- Seat
Bad Friedrichshall, Germany- Last checked
About STACKIT
STACKIT is a cloud platform with virtual servers, Kubernetes, object storage, databases and AI model hosting. It is run from Neckarsulm, Germany, by Schwarz Digits, the IT arm of the group that owns Lidl and Kaufland. Schwarz Group companies use it, and it is also sold to outside companies in Europe.
Ownership
Schwarz Digits Cloud GmbH & Co. KG (named STACKIT GmbH & Co. KG until March 2026) has STACKIT Holding GmbH & Co. KG as limited partner and is part of Schwarz Digits, the IT and digital division of the Schwarz Gruppe. In the Schwarz Gruppe the voting rights are bundled in Schwarz Unternehmenstreuhand KG in Neckarsulm, while almost all of the capital sits with the charitable Dieter Schwarz Stiftung, also in Neckarsulm.
Evidence 5
- STACKIT imprint: Schwarz Digits Cloud GmbH & Co. KG, Bad Friedrichshall, Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRA 741347stackit.com ↗
- STACKIT homepage: cloud provider of the Schwarz Group, independent of external investors, part of Schwarz Digits, seven data centres in Europestackit.com ↗
- North Data (Handelsregister publications): limited partner STACKIT Holding GmbH & Co. KG, name change to Schwarz Digits Cloudnorthdata.com ↗
- apotheke adhoc (2011): Schwarz Unternehmenstreuhand holds 100% of the voting rights, the Dieter Schwarz Stiftung almost all of the capital (German)apotheke-adhoc.de ↗
- Wikipedia (German): Schwarz-Gruppe, shareholder structure with register referencesde.wikipedia.org ↗
Sources were opened and read on the date of the check. Registers and websites change; if one of these no longer says what we cite it for, tell us.
Products 3
STACKIT
stackit.de ↗Cloud computing platform from Germany
STACKIT is a cloud computing platform run by the German retail group Schwarz Group. It offers managed services including object storage, block storage, Kubernetes and databases, with MySQL and PostgreSQL alongside less commonly managed options such as Redis, MongoDB, RabbitMQ and the ELK stack.
- Instead of
- Amazon Web Services (AWS), DigitalOcean, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure
- Pricing
- STACKIT provides a detailed price calculator covering its services.
- Suits
- Companies needing EU based managed cloud services
STACKIT AI Model Serving
stackit.com ↗- Instead of
- Azure OpenAI and OpenAI API
STACKIT Git
stackit.com ↗- Instead of
- GitHub and GitLab.com
Operations
Who runs the parts of the service we could observe from outside, checked 4 September 2026. A provider's control can differ from where its servers stand.
| Part | Provider | Provider control | What we saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public website | SOPRADO | European | A 91.236.122.189 · CNAME www-stackit-de.ax4z.com · AS20546 [1] [2] |
| Incoming email | Microsoft 365 | Not European | MX 0 stackit-de.mail.protection.outlook.com [1] |
STACKIT says it currently runs seven data centres in Europe.
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