Schenker has 86,600 employees, including 13,900 temporary workers at some 2,000 offices around the world and has a turnover of 19.1 billion € per year.

[3] During the Nazi era, the Schenker Company was "one of the most important enterprises engaged in pillage and plunder during German aggressions and mass crimes throughout Europe in the period from 1938 to 1945.

"[4][5] The Schenker papers, which recorded shipping via Schenker of Nazi looted art, were discovered by British Monuments Man Douglas Cooper and enabled researchers to track down some of the artworks stolen from Jews during the Holocaust.

[6][7] In 2003, Schenker became a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, when DB acquired Stinnes AG.

In 2010, DB Schenker opened a major new intermodal transport hub in Salzburg.