In the past few years the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) became the global standard for author identification in science. In Germany ORCID has been established as a standard too. The project ORCID DE contributed to this development by initiating the foundation of the ORCID Germany Consortium led by the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB). Through workshops, webinars and its website the project provides a forum for academic institutions in Germany to discuss challenges and benefits of ORCID. The implementation of ORCID in essential information infrastructures such as the Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) as well as the linking with the Integrated Authority File (GND) mark important milestones of the dissemination of ORCID in Germany. The aim of the ORCID DE project is to sustainably foster Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) at universities and non-university research institutions by taking a comprehensive approach. ORCID DE received funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the beginning of 2016 for a period of three years. The poster illustrates the development of ORCID in Germany in the past three years depicting milestones and crucial factors for the growth of ORCID.