Telemax, Communications tower in Buchholz-Kleefeld district, Hanover, Germany

Telemax is a 282-metre telecommunications tower in Hanover, built from 1988 to 1992 to designs by Hans U. Böckler of the Danish office Dissing+Weitling. Its shaft has a square footprint 11 metres on a side, with walls one to two metres thick, and the cube-shaped operations pod 20 metres across hangs asymmetrically from the lowest of seven antenna platforms at 185 metres. A 50-metre steel lattice mast carrying a 30-metre glass-fibre cylinder tops the shaft.

The tower was built between 1988 and 1992 after initial design concepts were reconsidered as unsuitable for the city. This redesign process led to the concrete structure that now stands as part of Hanover's 1990s development.

The names Telemax and Telemoritz were chosen in 1992 by readers of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung in a vote, a nod to Wilhelm Busch's story of Max and Moritz. The old inner-city tower became Telemoritz and was sold to Volkswagen in 2000, becoming the VW-Tower. Once a year for CeBIT the Telemax was lit at night in Telekom's magenta.

The Telemax stands in the Groß-Buchholz district, about six kilometres northeast of Hanover's centre, near the B 3 motorway. It is not open to the public; the viewing platform at 185 metres was only accessible during events. On clear days it can be seen from the A 2 motorway from roughly 30 kilometres away.

The tower's shaft rests on a square footprint just 11 metres on each side, with walls one to two metres thick. Its 43,000-tonne mass sits on foundations driven 16 metres into the ground, and a staircase of about 1,100 steps climbs to the 200-metre level.