Class lottery
A class lottery is a lottery in which the game period is divided into so-called classes . The number and amount of prizes increases from class to class.
The lottery organized in Germany by the GKL joint class lottery of the federal states currently runs for six months and is divided into 6 classes (months). Draws are held daily, with one main draw each week. The lots are issued in shares. The game participant chooses how many shares he wants to play from a ticket. The winnings are paid out according to the shares. If a participant chooses half a ticket, he / she will win 50% of the winnings. Prizes can fall on end digits and whole ticket numbers. The schedule is fixed for the duration of a lottery and is played regardless of how many tickets have actually been sold. In any case, the game participant receives the winnings on their ticket number. The maximum win is 16 million euros. The federal states involved guarantee for the profits.
history
The class lottery emerged from the lottery. In the 16th and 17th centuries, lotteries were held for the poor in the country and in order to rebuild the country after wars without burdening the citizens with additional taxes. So that the authorities could secure the income for charitable institutions for a certain period of time, several draws were held within a lottery, for which the stake had to be made again; from this the classes emerged. Otherwise, the tickets in a lottery could only be sold after a lottery license had been obtained. A lottery approval took several years; there were also further delays due to the sale of the lots. The ticket sellers marched through the country on foot, which also took several years, as a drawing date was only set and published after all tickets had been sold.
The first class lottery in Germany was held on July 23, 1697 in Leipzig. The class system was introduced in Hamburg in 1721, although lotteries existed before that. A lottery ticket numbered 40,000 pieces and it was played in 10 classes. In 1763 there was a class lottery in the Prussian Kurmark with 20,000 tickets of 5 thalers each. The highest prize among the 10,000 prizes was 6,000 thalers. The city magistrates and post offices were responsible for selling the lots.
Towards the end of the 19th century there were a total of 7 competing class lotteries in what was then Reich territory. 1938, all lottery companies (including class lottery tickets) of the ruling were Nazis in the German National Lottery together and thus brought into line . The South German Class Lottery was established in 1947 and the North West German Class Lottery in 1948 .
Classes
The classes originated in the 15th century. Lotteries were always held for a specific charitable purpose and ended with the drawing. After a lottery was approved, it took several years until all the tickets were sold, as the tickets were only sold in town halls and the ticket sellers wandered through the country on foot to sell them on the "flat land". The drawing was not held until all the tickets were sold. This also usually lasted several weeks, during which it was carried out day and night without interruption. In the 17th century, the time-consuming preparation of a lottery was shortened by holding several draws within a lottery. The classes that were created in this way had the advantage that tickets for the next drawing could already be sold between the previous ones; in addition, the income for charitable purposes was secured for a period of time. The first class lottery in Germany was held in Leipzig in 1696. Almost every city and country in Germany had its own class lottery in the 18th and 19th centuries. The number of classes was handled just as differently from country to country as the duration of a lottery. Some organizers increased the number and amount of prizes from class to class or canceled tickets that had already been won after a certain drawing. There were also organizers who threw the winning tickets of one class back into the pot for the next lottery, so that in the last classes of a lottery numerous ticket numbers were used several times. The schedules were adapted to the needs of the citizens. In the war years, everyday items such as the Bible or dishes were added to the game plan. Life annuities were also often played out as profits. Here, however, many organizers miscalculated, as more was paid out in the long run than was previously earned through the lottery. The annuities were paid out for life; if a winner of an annuity did not return after two years at the latest, he was deemed to have died and payment was suspended. In most cases, however, the winner would transfer the pension to the youngest family member in order to receive a longer and permanent payment.
As diverse as the class lotteries were organized in the 18th and 19th centuries, the development also shaped today's class lotteries in different ways. The class lotteries NKL, SKL and ÖKL that exist today therefore have differences in the schedule.
Often this is a final number lottery that refers to the lot number. There is no rule of thumb for the length and number of individual classes. Nowadays a class lasts one month and a lottery with six classes lasts six months.
Participation in such a lottery only makes sense from 1st class. As a rule, entry is possible at any time if you pay the stakes in the previous classes. A subsequent profit is, of course, not possible.
organizer
Since the merger of the Northwest German Class Lottery and the South German Class Lottery on July 1, 2012, class lotteries have been organized in Germany by the GKL Joint Class Lottery of the Länder .
In Austria, the Austrian Lotteries offer the Austrian Class Lottery .
literature
- Sabine Schönbein: The millionaire game with tradition - the history of the class lottery. Books on Demand, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-8779-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sabine Schönbein: The million dollar game with tradition: the history of the class lottery . BoD - Books on Demand, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-8779-8 , pp. 13 ff . (318 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ A. Zahn: History and statistics of the lotteries in the Kingdom of Saxony , printed by O. Schmidt, 1901, pages 30, 60, 74
- ^ Merten Haring: Sport Promotion in Germany: A Comparative Analysis of the Federal States . Springer-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17155-5 , pp. 64 (289 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).