Corporate Citizenship
Our Engagement
Our Engagement
As an integrated technology and defence group, we are aware of our social responsibility. With our expertise, our systems and components, we create the indispensable basis for peace, freedom and sustainable development: security. But for us, responsibility also means social commitment outside of our operational business. From sports sponsorship, donations for culture and education and initiatives for people in need to the voluntary work of our employees on site: our commitment to society is diverse. On this page you will find an exemplary overview of projects and initiatives with which we fulfil our civic commitment.
Our partners
Borussia Dortmund
Düsseldorfer EG
D.SPORTS
Borussia Düsseldorf
3x3 Basketball Düsseldorf
Bergischer Handball-Club 06 e.V.
Arrabona Racing Team
Raceyard Kiel
UWE FS Bristol
Bodensee Racing Team
Abrahams Accords Institute
Düsseldorf Festival!
FUAV
International veterans programmes
TH Zurich rocket technology project
Familienrösterei Pape
Rotary Club Nigdi Pune Charitable Trust
"Bundles of Joy"
YOU Stiftung
Lachen helfen e.V.
Munich Security Conference (MSC)
Initiativkreis Ruhr
Help for Ukraine
Borussia Dortmund
Rheinmetall is „Champion Partner“ of Borussia Dortmund (BVB)
BVB and Rheinmetall are two partners whose ambitions, attitude and origins are a good match. BVB comes from the heart of North Rhine-Westphalia and stands for the pursuit of top performance and international success like hardly any other German club. Rheinmetall is deeply rooted in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region and wants to raise the international profile of its brand as a technology group and attractive employer. The sponsorship will run until 2027 and includes the use of advertising space and marketing rights as well as event and hospitality offers in the stadium and on the club grounds.
Düsseldorfer EG
Rheinmetall is „Premium Partner“ of Düsseldorfer EG
The founding member of the Deutschen Eishockey Liga (DEL), Düsseldorfer EG, and Rheinmetall AG have entered into a partnership for the 2024/25 season. The Düsseldorf-based technology group is a premium partner of the eight-time German ice hockey champions. The partnership will initially run for one year. Rheinmetall will be present at home games on under-ice surfaces, on boards and on other advertising spaces. With this commitment, Rheinmetall is emphasising its close ties with the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital.
D.SPORTS
Rheinmetall is an official partner of the sports city of Düsseldorf
The DAX-listed Rheinmetall Group has its roots in the state capital, which also hosts numerous high-calibre sporting events every year. The partnership with D.SPORTS is aimed at supporting these highly publicised major events as well as popular sport for the urban community. It is also, of course, about promoting top-class sport in the city, the athletes and their respective clubs.
Borussia Düsseldorf
Rheinmetall supports German table tennis league team
Rheinmetall is a partner of Germany's most successful table tennis club. Sports legend Timo Boll also played for Borussia Düsseldorf for many years before ending his international career in 2024. As a partner, Rheinmetall supports the club as an organiser of international competition events at the German Table Tennis Centre (DTTZ), for example.
3x3 Basketball
Rheinmetall supports the men's and women's professional streetball teams from Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is known as the capital of 3x3 basketball. Rheinmetall supports both the men's team LFDY (Live Fast Die Young) and the women's team Düsseldorf Zoos. A total of 200 participants in the Academy's youth programme are also involved, who play in the club directly or at cooperating schools or regional social institutions.
Bergischer Handball-Club 06 e.V. (BHC)
Rheinmetall is Premium-Partner of Bergischen Handball-Clubs 06 e.V. (BHC).
The partnership with the handball club BHC is expressed in joint appearances and campaigns. The technology group will be present at BHC's home games with LED perimeter advertising, floor branding and communication measures. The BHC is a joint handball club of the Bergisch cities of Solingen and Wuppertal and is therefore also at home in the Rheinmetall AG site environment.
Arrabona Racing Team Györ
Rheinmetall logo on the racing car of the Formula Student Team of the University of Györ in Hungary
The Arrabona Racing Team is made up of students from Széchenyi István University in Győr and is one of the top teams in Europe with its designs. In addition to sponsoring the logo, Rheinmetall also supports the team in the operation of the student racing team. With this commitment, the Düsseldorf-based technology group aims to promote enthusiasm for technology and the innovative potential of young people. Rheinmetall plays an important role in the modernisation of the Hungarian armed forces. Through the company's automotive activities, there is a dual connection to the Hungarian Formula Student Team.
Raceyard Kiel
Rheinmetall is „Platinum Sponsor“ of Raceyard Formula Student Teams from Kiel
Rheinmetall AG supports the Formula Student Team Raceyard from Kiel as a "platinum sponsor" and is thus active in the highest sponsorship category. The Raceyard team has been building racing cars since 2005 and competed with its first fully electric vehicle in 2012. The Raceyard team is made up entirely of students and, in addition to building electric racing cars, works on designs for the driverless class, i.e. the class for autonomous vehicles. The student team from Kiel, sponsored by Rheinmetall, was the overall winner of Formula Student Spain in the electric class in 2023. Rheinmetall Landsysteme has a long-standing partnership with Kiel University of Applied Sciences due to its location in Kiel.
UWE FS Bristol
Rheinmetall Defence UK "Team Lead Sponsor" of the Formula Student Team from Bristol
Rheinmetall has also been involved in the student form in the UK since 2024. Rheinmetall Defence UK is Team Lead Sponsor of the racing team at the University of West England (UWE) in Bristol. The team has set itself the goal of becoming the first hybrid-electric Formula Student team in the United Kingdom. Rheinmetall is supporting the students with funding for motors, safety systems and new driver suits. The team's vision of taking a leading role in reducing CO2 emissions in the sport fits perfectly with Rheinmetall's sustainability goals.
Bodensee Racing Team
Rheinmetall also on board the Formula Student University racing team from Constance
From Rheinmetall's point of view, Formula Student offers the perfect combination of promoting young talent, competition and creative engineering. This is why the technology group also sponsors the Bodensee Racing Team from Constance: a team consisting of over 60 students who are passionate about their work. To ensure success, the team consists not only of technicians, but also of functions that are not directly related to the vehicle, such as sponsorship or finance and controlling.
Abrahams Accords Institute
Rheinmetall supports the Abrahams Accords Institute for Peace and Regional Integration
Despite the horrific terrorist attack on 7 October 2023, the Abrahams Accords Institute is committed to Arab-Israeli rapprochement. The aim is peaceful neighbourly coexistence on the basis of coexistence and dialogue. Rheinmetall is aware of its historical responsibility towards Israel and is fully committed to the Jewish state's right to exist. As the company also maintains relations with Arab states, Rheinmetall particularly welcomes the Institute's dialogue-oriented approach.
Historical research, remembrance and coming to terms with National Socialism
Rheinmetall acknowledges its responsibility
As a German defence company, we see ourselves as having a special responsibility to contribute to the culture of remembrance and commemoration in the context of the Second World War. We have analysed and documented our role and our misconduct during the Nazi era. The resulting historical documents on the subject of forced labour are available to researchers and interested parties in the Düsseldorf City Archive and Rheinmetall's central archive. In the course of these reappraisal projects, various memorials were also created not far from the Rheinmetall headquarters in the Düsseldorf districts of Derendorf and Grafenberg to commemorate the Nazi injustice. A memorial was also erected at the Unterlüß production site to raise awareness of the inhumane living conditions of Nazi forced labourers.
Furthermore, in cooperation with the Düsseldorf memorial site, we were able to enable former forced labourers from Poland to visit the former Rheinmetall-Borsig AG factory site.
Düsseldorf Festival!
Rheinmetall is co-sponsor of the renowned cultural event Düsseldorf Festival!
The Düsseldorf Festival is a privately organised cultural festival that aims to present young, international art and culture in Düsseldorf. The festival was founded in 1991 and has since gained supra-regional significance. The 60 or so events attract over 20,000 visitors every year. With its commitment, Rheinmetall AG makes an important contribution to promoting culture at its headquarters.
FUAV
Rheinmetall donates to the association to support work with the disabled
The Förderverein zur Unterstützung der Arbeit mit Versehrten e.V. (FUAV) is a non-profit organisation; it supports the work with disabled and comparable patients of the Bundeswehr both ideally and financially. This takes place at the Bundeswehr Centre for Sports Medicine and with the "Sports Therapy after Injury" group at the Bundeswehr Sports School in Warendorf. Other Bundeswehr institutions that work with the disabled can also receive funding. Measures by the "Network of Help" or the Invictus Games organisations can also be supported. Rheinmetall supports the association so that it can continue its valuable work and make the difficult path of rehabilitation a little easier for our disabled soldiers and their families.
International veterans programmes
Rheinmetall supports veterans in the UK and Australia
Rheinmetall supports people who stand up for the security of their country and their families in difficult phases of their lives. Rheinmetall is therefore active in various veterans' programmes in the UK and Australia. Soldiers and their families receive long-term social, emotional and financial support through programmes such as Legacy Brisbane or UK SSAFA, which enable them to reintegrate into society or to live after a tragic event.
ETH Zurich rocket technology project
RWM Switzerland promotes young academics in the field of civil rocket technology
The Swiss Academic Space Initiative (ARIS) brings together students from Swiss universities who are fascinated by space exploration. Under the coaching of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), a rocket is to win the Spaceport America Cup. Rheinmetall Waffe und Munition (RWM) Switzerland is supporting the young scientists as a silver sponsor, in particular by providing the necessary infrastructure for testing newly developed rocket engines.
Pape family roastery
Rheinmetall supports hospice work with coffee purchase
The Düsseldorf-based technology group has been a regular customer of the Pape coffee roasting company, which operates in the East Westphalian town of Preußisch Oldendorf, for several years. The Pape family also runs a hospice in the region. The roastery supports this organisation. The Rheinmetall site in Düsseldorf obtains the coffee beans for the fully automatic coffee machines at the company headquarters from the Pape family, whose relatives are also involved in other social projects. The hospice provides a place of refuge not only for the seriously ill, but also for traumatised and grieving people and their families.
Rotary Club Nigdi Pune Charitable Trust
Rheinmetall supports Indian Rotary Club in building a school
Rheinmetall has donated over 28,000 euros to the Rotary Club Nigdi Pune Charitable Trust for the construction of a school. The technology group is thus demonstrating its commitment to its Indian locations. Rotary is committed to solving humanitarian problems worldwide and promotes peace, education, clean water, disease prevention and environmental protection. The Nigdi Pune club has organised charity projects such as blood drives and food donations.
"Bundles of Joy"
Rheinmetall with social commitment for day care centre in South Africa
As a responsible employer, Rheinmetall in South Africa takes special care of the well-being of the children who grow up in the neighbourhood of the Somerset West site, sometimes in poor living conditions. The "Bundles of Joy" day-care centre, which was officially opened on a company-owned site in the immediate vicinity of the headquarters of Rheinmetall Denel Munition (Pty) Ltd. in South Africa, focuses on both playing and learning.
YOU Stiftung
Rheinmetall donation for humanitarian emergency aid in Israel
Rheinmetall has donated 10,000 euros to the YOU Foundation. The foundation promotes sustainable development projects for children in need, including through social investment in education. The foundation is also involved in income-generating programmes, the advancement of women and WASH-initiatives (water, hygiene and sanitation) with projects worldwide.
Lachen helfen e.V.
Rheinmetall gehört zu den Unterstützern von „Lachen helfen“ für Kinder in Kriegsgebieten
Lachen helfen e.V. ist eine Initiative deutscher Soldaten und Polizisten, die Kindern in Kriegs- und Krisengebieten unterstützt. Die Organisation engagiert sich mit verschiedenen Projekten, die von Schul-AGs bis hin zur Unterstützung von Neugeborenen reichen. Für ihre herausragenden Leistungen erhielt Lachen helfen e.V. 2020 den Sonderpreis für Frieden und Sicherheit in Europa von CiDAN. Dank Spenden, wie der von Rheinmetall, kann die Initiative ihre wertvolle Arbeit fortsetzen und Kindern in Krisengebieten eine bessere Zukunft ermöglichen.
HX for THW
Rheinmetall donates versatile logistics lorries
Rheinmetall supports civil disaster relief: since 2022, two highly mobile HX 4x4 vehicles from Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles GmbH (RMMV) have been in service with the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief. The all-round vehicles combine the reliability of proven components from mass production with innovative, state-of-the-art design performance.
Bee partnership
Initiative for species protection at the Kassel site
Sustainability is an integral part of Rheinmetall's corporate culture. A bee colony project at the Kassel site is also part of this tradition. To protect biodiversity, Rheinmetall has entered into a bee sponsorship programme: A total of six bee colonies have moved into the Rheinmetall site in Kassel. The project was realised in cooperation with the beekeepers of Craftbee, a local start-up company.
Active at the site
Voluntary activities by our employees
It is not only Rheinmetall as a company that is actively involved in society. Our employees are also involved in various campaigns and projects around the world. Whether it's charity runs, blood donations or clean-up campaigns - we motivate and support our employees to take part in social and charitable activities.
Munich Security Conference (MSC)
Rheinmetall is a sponsor of the Munich Security Conference (MSC)
The MSC is the largest international conference on security policy. It is traditionally held in February and regularly attracts several hundred participants, including numerous heads of state and government. The MSC is privately organised and largely financed by sponsors and partners. The Federal Government and the Bundeswehr support the event in areas such as public relations.
Initiativkreis Ruhr
Rheinmetall is a member of the network of companies for the Ruhr area
Rheinmetall AG has been a member of the network of over 70 partner companies since March 2024. The Initiativkreis Ruhr aims to promote the development of the Ruhr region and strengthen its future viability and competitiveness. ‘At Rheinmetall, we take responsibility in a changing world - our mission could hardly be more fitting for membership in the Initiativkreis Ruhr,’ said Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger at the plenary meeting to mark the 35th anniversary of the Initiativkreis.
Dealing with the consequences of war
Rheinmetall supports the Olena Selenska Foundation
Rheinmetall has made a donation of over 100,000 euros to the Kiev-based Olena Selenska Foundation. The founder of the foundation, Olena Selenska, wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj, was able to accept the donation pledge in person during a visit to Berlin. The foundation has been active since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. Together with foreign supporters, it helps affected people to cope with the consequences of the war. The initiative supports projects in the areas of education, healthcare and humanitarian aid.
Schoolbags for children in Czernowitz
Rheinmetall donates to schoolchildren in eastern Ukraine
The Düsseldorf-based Rheinmetall Group has supported children of refugee families in Chernivtsi in western Ukraine with a donation totalling 20,000 euros. The project partner is the Blau-Gelbe Kreuz / Deutsch-Ukrainischer Verein e.V. The donation was used to purchase satchels for the start of school. With this campaign, Rheinmetall AG wants to make a contribution to the education and well-being of the traumatised young generation in the region, as many families who fled the war in the east of the country had to build a completely new existence in Chernivtsi.