Saxon Lotto GmbH

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Saxon Lotto GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1990
Seat Leipzig , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Siegfried Schenek, managing director
Number of employees 107
sales € 184.4 million
Branch Gambling
Website www.sachsenlotto.de
As of December 31, 2014

The Sächsische Lotto-GmbH (short: Sachsenlotto , own spelling SACHSENLOTTO) was founded in October 1990 through the merger of the lottery district administrations Chemnitz , Dresden and Leipzig . The company has been commissioned by the Free State of Saxony to run the state lotteries and sports betting. The seat of the company is in Leipzig . Sachsenlotto generated sales of € 184.4 million in 2014.

Basics and tasks

Sachsenlotto carries out the state lotteries and sports betting on behalf of the Free State of Saxony and operates 1,250 sales points. The legal basis for the organization of lotteries and bets are the State Treaty on Gaming in Germany and the Saxon law on this. Since September 2007, the company has met the requirements of the World Lottery Association .

The capital generated by Sachsenlotto is used in the Free State for the benefit of the general public and in the areas of addiction prevention , sport, culture, the environment, youth and welfare.

As a member of the German Lotto and Totoblock , the company organizes lotteries and sports betting according to nationwide uniform rules in cooperation with the lottery companies of the other 15 federal states.

history

In 1713, Elector Friedrich August I , known as August the Strong, introduced a state lottery, and there were already other lotteries in the cities. Leipzig organized, for example, lucky pots and other lotteries, the proceeds of which were used, among other things, to build orphanages.

In 1726 a lottery was held in Dresden to promote the building of the Church of Our Lady . 48,000 lots were advertised in four classes. Twenty percent of the income went towards building the Frauenkirche. This procedure was not unusual, because before and after the Seven Years War , many German cities were in financial difficulties. Lotteries should help to raise money for charitable purposes and special projects - like the building of the Frauenkirche.

The construction of the Monument to the Battle of the Nations was largely financed by lotteries from the Royal Saxon Government in order to raise the construction costs of more than six million gold marks .

After the Second World War, lottery games were reorganized in Germany. In 1952, after the dissolution of the federal states, the GDR developed its own lottery system. Bear lottery , sports pools and football pools were established. From March 1957, the GDR television broadcast the drawings with publicity, including the presence of the drawing manager and notary. The lottery tickets were sold through acceptance points. In 1964 there was a comprehensive sales network in Saxony. In 1972 the Tele-Lotto 5 out of 35 started.

At the beginning of 1990, the GDR's state-owned lottery operation was converted and the Saxon Lotto GmbH was founded. After the merger of the Lotto district administrations in Chemnitz, Dresden and Leipzig to form Sächsische Lotto-GmbH, the newly founded company joined the federal states' block contract, which regulates participation in the German lottery and tote block types .

Game offers

The games offered include:

The range of games is aimed exclusively at adults .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Corrected 2012 annual financial statements of Sächsische Lotto-GmbH, www.bundesanzeiger.de, November 29, 2013, accessed on June 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ Annual Report 2014. Sachsenlotto, accessed on May 24, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Helge-Heinz Heinker: High commitment and big profit for Saxony , p. 27.