VW tower, Telecommunications tower in Mitte, Hanover, Germany

The VW Tower, also called Telemoritz, is a 141-metre reinforced-concrete television tower on Hamburger Allee in Hanover's Mitte district. A plain cylindrical shaft rises to a wide circular platform with a metal railing, above which sit three stacked circular levels, each smaller than the one below and separated by gaps on vertical struts. A blue circular sign with the white Volkswagen logo tops the tower, with a thin antenna above it.

The tower was built in 1958 and 1959 to plans by civil engineer Fritz Leonhardt, who also designed Stuttgart's television tower; both count among the first reinforced-concrete television towers. It was commissioned by Deutsche Bundespost in April 1960 as a transmitter for television and radio signals. In 2000 Volkswagen Nutzfahrzeuge bought it from DeTeImmobilien for a symbolic 1 DM and mounted rotating illuminated logos below the spire.

The tower's nicknames come from a newspaper readers' vote: since 1992 it has been called Telemoritz, after Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz, to distinguish it from the newer Telemax. In the late 1960s it was known as the Pusteblume, or dandelion, for its shape. The planned tower cafe was never built.

The tower stands on Hamburger Allee between the Raschplatz elevated road and the main station, in the Mitte district. Since the adjacent parcel post office was demolished and a shopping centre built in 2003, the tower is reached at ground level; the original glass footbridge is gone. The shaft is not open to visitors, and the planned tower cafe was never built.

The tower's nickname "Pusteblume" (dandelion) dates from the late 1960s, when its stacked circular platforms and antenna reminded locals of the seed head of that plant. The name predates Telemoritz, chosen in 1992 by a newspaper readers' vote alongside Telemax, both alluding to Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz.