Lotto Hessen

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LOTTO Hessen GmbH

logo
legal form GmbH
founding 1949
Seat Wiesbaden , Hesse
management Heinz Georg Sundermann, managing director
Number of employees around 180
sales 656.9 million euros
Branch Service company
Website www.lotto-hessen.de
Status: 2019

The Lotto Hessen GmbH is an associated company of the country Hessen , based in Wiesbaden .

background

Lotto Hessen is responsible for the technical implementation of the nationwide lotteries of Lotto 6 aus 49 , Toto , the sports betting ODDSET , the additional lottery Super 6 and Spiel 77 , the instant lottery , Keno and the number lottery Eurojackpot in the Hesse sales area . The organizer of these state lotteries is the Hessian Lottery Administration. In addition, Lotto Hessen provides the pension lottery Glücksspirale and since April 2016, the Environmental lottery Exactly at. Since January 21, 2015, the German Sports Lottery has been supplementing the offer of Lotto Hessen.

The company achieved sales of 656.9 million euros in 2019. The common good has benefited from the sales of the Hessian lottery company since 1949 . Lotto Hessen was able to provide around 129 million euros for the common good in Hessen in 2019: for projects in the areas of sport , culture , monument preservation , social affairs and the environment . The Hessian tipsters achieved a total of 309 million euros in prizes in 2019, distributed among a total of 25,602,216 individual winners. At the drawing of the European lottery Eurojackpot on Friday evening July 29, 2016 in Helsinki, Finland, a tipster, a Hessian, cracked the Eurojackpot in profit class 1, which was filled with exactly 84,777,435.80 euros. This also meant a new Germany-wide record at that time. A little later, however, a tipster from Baden-Württemberg set that up, who set a new German record with 90 million euros. The Hessian record has remained in North Hesse to date.

Lotto Hessen employs around 180 people at its headquarters in Wiesbaden. They are responsible for the distribution of the products, quality management in the sales outlets as well as the logistical and technical processes. Around 1.5 million game orders are processed under security precautions every week. They arrive online from the network of Lotto Hessen sales outlets in the Wiesbaden central computer. Lotto Hessen is a member of the German Lotto and Totoblock . In a nationwide per capita comparison, Hessen traditionally plays a leading role: The share of nationwide total sales was 9.1 percent in 2019. For comparison: the population of Hesse is 7.5 percent.

history

In February 1949, the Hessian state parliament laid the foundation stone for the establishment of the Lotterie-Treuhandgesellschaft mbH Hessen. At that time, in the third reading, he passed the Sports Betting Act, so that on March 14, 1949, the "Staatliche Sportwetten GmbH Hessen" was officially founded. One month later, the first official Toto was played in Hesse. This was preceded by a special show of strength, because within days 180 acceptance points had to be created all over Hesse, betting slips had to be printed and the employees found who at that time had to evaluate the tips by hand with a template in painstaking detail. 70,000 betting slips were received for the first draw by April 9, 1949. The first profit determination took place in a gym in Wiesbadener Schwalbacher Straße. The first Toto Sunday brought in income of 117,000 German marks. In 1952, the "Staatliche Sportwetten GmbH Hessen" moved to Wiesbaden's Rosenstrasse, which is still the company's headquarters today.

Lotto 6 out of 49 only prevailed on June 29, 1956 in Hesse. At that time, the Hessian state parliament passed the law on the approval of the number lottery. The "State Numbers Lottery GmbH" officially started operations in Wiesbaden on July 15, 1956 and joined the German Lotto block directly. On September 2 of the year, the Hessians were able to place their lottery bets for the first time with what was then the "Hessen-Lotto" company. Shareholders were the state of Hesse and the "Staatliche Sportwetten GmbH". Already on October 9, 1955, the first drawing of the game formula 6 out of 49 took place in Hamburg, still without Hessian participation. The orphan girl Elvira Hahn drew the first winning numbers from a draw wheel in the former Hotel Mau. On September 4, 1965, the Hessischer Rundfunk broadcast the drawing for the first time from Studio 4 into the German living room.

Gradually, further lotteries and sports betting were introduced in Hessen . On October 18, 1993, the first ticket was electronically recorded in the headquarters of Lotto Hessen. After a test phase at selected sales outlets throughout the year, all sales outlets in Hesse went to the lottery company's online registration system on January 1, 1994. Since then, the almost 1.5 million weekly gaming and betting orders have been recorded and evaluated online in the Wiesbaden central computer.

In January 2016, Lotto Hessen became the new majority shareholder in the German Sports Lottery .

Sponsorship

Lotto Hessen GmbH sponsors the Hessian teams Eintracht Frankfurt, HSG Wetzlar, RSV Lahn Dill, Fraport Skyliners and Rhein-Main Baskets. Around 40 sports clubs and events come together in this way. This includes not only Hessian Bundesliga clubs in football, basketball, handball and volleyball, but also in artistic gymnastics, judo and table tennis. In 2016, Lotto Hessen became the shirt sponsor of the 1. FFC Frankfurt . The sponsorship contract was concluded for two years. LOTTO Hessen was already a shirt sponsor in the early years of the FFC. In 2016 Lotto Hessen became the successor to Commerzbank .

Lotto Hessen is also a sponsor of the Bundesliga basketball team Gießen 46er .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse , March 23, 2016. Accessed August 29, 2017.
  2. ↑ [2] . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 22, 2017. Accessed August 29, 2017.
  3. ↑ Further growth at Lotto Hessen in the anniversary year. In: Press release Lotto Hessen. Retrieved April 8, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Record jackpot cracker announces itself. In: Focus Online , August 4, 2016. Accessed August 29, 2017.
  5. ↑ Record profit goes to a North Hessian. Lotto Hessen website. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
  6. ↑ The state budget always wins. (No longer available online.) In: Frankfurter Neue Presse. Archived from the original on May 10, 2016 ; accessed on May 10, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fnp.de
  7. ↑ Hesse spend a lot on lottery tickets. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Lotterie Treuhandgesellschaft mbH: 30 years of Hessen-Lotto , Wiesbaden, 1986, p. 12ff.
  9. ↑ Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main GmbH & Co. KG: Lotto Hessen: Managing Director Sundermann holds talks with companies and countries. Retrieved August 9, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Lotto Hessen again jersey sponsor at 1. FFC Frankfurt. In: The world. Retrieved September 26, 2016 .
  11. ↑ GIESSEN 46ers | LOTTO Hessen becomes the seventh premium partner of the GIESSEN 46ers. In: giessen46ers.de. Retrieved September 26, 2016 .