The present thesis deals with hedging devices, aiming to develop a working definition and proposing a taxonomy of hedging for standard German. The thesis is following a theoretical approach, taking into account different views on hedging, both for classification and delimitation, as well as for the possible functional aspects behind hedging. As the concept of hedging has over time become rather convoluted, this thesis is aiming to clear up some of these fuzzy boundaries and make them more clear, as well as to construct a rather strict definition and taxonomy for standard German, focusing on the core of what hedging is. The resulting taxonomy shows that there are certain forms that are frequently used in standard German to express hedging content, but that it is highly important to always view these devices in context in order to judge whether they are instances of hedging or not. Subsequently, examples derived from corpora by the Datenbank für Gesprochenes Deutsch (data bank for spoken German, DGD) are used to illustrate the use of these devices in context further.