DeinBus.de

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DeinBus.de
Logo from DeinBus.de
Basic information
Company headquarters Offenbach am Main
Reference year 2009
legal form GmbH
Managing directors Alexander Kuhr, Christian Janisch, Tillmann Raith
Employee about 30
Lines
bus 3 national and cross-border long-distance bus lines, 3 line bundles in public transport
statistics
Stops approx. 20 bus stops

DeinBus.de is a former German long-distance bus company based in Offenbach am Main . The company offered long-distance bus routes in Germany, France and the Czech Republic from November 2011 to September 2019 at the latest. A few months after the bus ride-sharing service went into operation (abolished in 2015), Deutsche Bahn sued the young company DeinBus.de for an injunction. However, Deutsche Bahn's lawsuit was dismissed in April 2011. Thus, the company DeinBus.de opened the long-distance bus market. The insolvency proceedings have been running since November 1, 2019.

Establishment and legal proceedings

The company was founded in March 2009 by the three students Alexander Kuhr, Christian Janisch and Ingo Mayr-Knoch from Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen as Yourbus GmbH. In the beginning, the financing was almost exclusively from own funds through “family, friends & fools”, in 2011 and 2012 profit participation rights were issued.

At the end of 2009, the first bus, which was formed by the ride-sharing agency, drove. Shortly thereafter, Deutsche Bahn issued a warning to the company and, after a while, sued for an omission. The railway criticized the fact that DeinBus.de offers unauthorized scheduled services that require approval. However, the concept of the bus ride-sharing scheme provides for a group to be found who would like to cover the same distance with a bus at the same time. A passenger registers the route on the company's website and if there are at least 30 passengers up to a week before the trip, the company hires a bus and the trip takes place. The company claims that this is occasional traffic that is not subject to any special licensing requirements. The news portal Deutsche Startups awarded DeinBus.de the third best German start-up company in 2010 for the business model of the bus ride-sharing service .

The reporting in Spiegel , whose article about the company was the most widely read and shared on the day of publication, brought the company great attention and support, among other things . To finance the lawsuit, the company initiated a fundraising campaign and formulated a petition against the long-distance line transport monopoly of Deutsche Bahn. The petition had been signed over 7,500 times before the verdict was announced. The company received further support from the Hessian State Secretary Steffen Saebisch and other politicians.

The Frankfurt Regional Court postponed the decision after the first hearing in November 2010. Until then, DeinBus.de was allowed to continue to operate the ride-sharing service. On April 20, 2011, the regional court finally decided that DeinBus.de had not behaved in an anti-competitive manner, but carried out occasional traffic approved by the Friedrichshafen district office. The district court did not see itself as responsible for checking the legality of the decision of the district office and accordingly dismissed the action of the Deutsche Bahn. Since the railway did not appeal, the judgment became final in May 2011.

Route development

Long-distance bus

After the dismissal of the lawsuit, the company expanded its range and was able to offer more routes thanks to its greater awareness. The journeys from Düsseldorf via Cologne to Frankfurt and back were the most frequently used and were served several times a week. In November 2011 DeinBus.de opened what it claims to be the first approved long-distance bus route in southern Germany before the liberalization of domestic long-distance bus traffic in January 2013. The company planned to offer a nationwide long-distance bus route network in Germany by 2015. In 2012, the company opened three more lines in accordance with the old legislation - from Stuttgart to Freiburg, from Freiburg to Constance and from Stuttgart to Frankfurt. After the liberalization of the market, the company started further routes and offers an extensive network in southern and western Germany. In June 2017, the timetable was expanded to include the Frankfurt am Main-Gießen-Erfurt-Leipzig-Berlin connection (two trips per day). Pilsen , Prague and Maastricht were also served. However, the lines to Pilsen and Maastricht were discontinued after a certain time, as the journeys were not worthwhile for the company. The company now served four destinations abroad: Arnhem , Amsterdam, Prague and Utrecht .

Transportation

In the Wetterau district , the “RMV ZOV C Friedberg” award procedure went to DeinBus Verkehrs-GmbH. The service awarded comprises 690,000 timetable kilometers per year. The term of the contract is ten years; The start of operations was on December 10, 2017 when the timetable changed.

DeinBus Verkehrs-GmbH submitted the cheapest offer in the tender in 2016, but was excluded from the award procedure due to a lack of references in local public transport . Your bus then lodged an objection. The public procurement tribunal declared the exclusion in the review procedure inadmissible. The complaint submitted by the responsible party to the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court was rejected. The contract then went to DeinBus Verkehrs-GmbH.

Bankruptcies

In 2014 the company had 25 employees and a market share of two percent. On November 4, 2014, the company filed for insolvency at the Offenbach District Court . The operation was initially continued. On December 23, 2014, the company announced that it had found an investor whose commitment should ensure continued operations. It was also announced that it would expand with new route offers; all 25 jobs could be secured. During this restructuring, the company was legally transferred to a new company. The old DeinBus.de GmbH will be liquidated, explained the then insolvency administrator. The start-up founders and previous owners, Alexander Kuhr and Christian Janisch, stayed with the company as managers. The investor was Tillmann Raith , who invested in the company with a low seven-figure sum.

On August 12, 2019, the company again filed for bankruptcy at the Offenbach district court and immediately stopped operating all school bus routes in the Rhein-Hunsrück district that were only taken over on August 1 . The Hessian lines were initially served.

Others

In May 2015, the company named one of its buses after GDL boss Claus Weselsky , as the tariff conflict between GDL and Deutsche Bahn that had been going on for months during the repeated strikes among long-distance bus providers had significantly improved occupancy.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Long-distance bus pioneer "DeinBus.de" sees further potential in Freiburg , Badische-Zeitung.de, accessed on March 12, 2014
  2. ↑ DEINBUS: Decision by the end of October. Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Insolvency proceedings DeinBus Verkehrs-GmbH file number 8 IN 341/19. Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Torsten Paßmann: Nine questions for Alexander Kuhr from DeinBus.de. In: vc-magazin.de. October 4, 2012, accessed February 13, 2017 .
  5. ^ Lawsuit: Deutsche Bahn versus "DeinBus". In: Focus Online . November 15, 2010, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  6. ↑ The idea , DeinBus.de, accessed on March 12, 2014.
  7. ↑ Protection against competition in long-distance transport: A start-up annoys Deutsche Bahn , LTO.de, accessed on March 12, 2014.
  8. ↑ Start-up of the year 2010 - The hit list: DeinBus.de and MyTaxi just beaten , Deutsche-Startups.de, accessed on March 12, 2014.
  9. ↑ By Sven Böll: Bus start-up: How the train destroys creative competition. In: Spiegel Online . October 29, 2010, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Thousands of euros in donations: Bus start-up continues fight against rail monopoly. In: Spiegel Online . November 5, 2010, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  11. ^ Petition , DeinBus.de, accessed on March 12, 2014.
  12. ^ Wiebke Rannenberg: Competition for Deutsche Bahn: State Secretary supports Deinbus.de. In: fr-online.de . February 10, 2011, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  13. ^ Regine Seipel: DeinBus.de: Postponement for young bus entrepreneurs. In: fr-online.de . January 11, 2011, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  14. ↑ Press release: Frankfurt Regional Court rejects Deutsche Bahn's lawsuit against Dein Bus , LG-Frankfurt.Justiz.Hessen.de, PDF file; 68.6 kB. Accessed March 12, 2014.
  15. ↑ FAZ.NET with dapd: Bahn loses against student start-ups. In: FAZ.net . April 20, 2011, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  16. ↑ https://www.medienmilch.de/gereifter-kaese/archivuebersicht/artikel/details/10988deinbusde-darf-weitermachen/
  17. ↑ "David" wins in court: Bahn loses against DeinBus.de , n-tv.de, accessed on March 12, 2014.
  18. ↑ Long-distance traffic: Bahn cannot slow down DeinBus.de , Stuttgarter-Zeitung.de, accessed on March 12, 2014.
  19. ↑ Become a partner of DeinBus.de , DeinBus.de, accessed on March 12, 2014.
  20. ↑ Long- distance bus route network: All connections , DeinBus.de, accessed on March 12, 2014.
  21. ↑ Small providers lose out: the long-distance bus operator DeinBus.de files for bankruptcy. In: Focus Online . November 8, 2014, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  22. ↑ DeinBus.de: The long-distance bus company files for bankruptcy. In: zeit.de . November 8, 2014, accessed December 20, 2014 .
  23. ↑ Investor saves DeinBus.de and plans expansion. In: welt.de. December 24, 2014, accessed January 7, 2015 .
  24. ↑ DeinBus doubles ticket prices. Handelsblatt, February 7, 2015, accessed on February 8, 2015 (agency report from Agence France-Presse ).
  25. ↑ DeinBus: insolvency application is submitted. Retrieved August 13, 2019 .
  26. ↑ DEINBUS: Hessian lines secured for the time being. Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Long-distance bus provider honors GDL boss with "Weselsky" bus. In: welt.de , May 8, 2015, accessed on May 15, 2015.