Employee benefit plans (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2018

Employee benefit plans

Schedule of components of net periodic benefit cost

Net periodic benefit cost
in € THOUS
	For the three months ended March 31,
	2018	2017
Service cost	6.794	7.107
Net interest cost	3.208	2.785
Net periodic benefit costs	10.002	9.892