State lottery administration in Bavaria
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| legal form | authority |
| founding | March 12, 1946 |
| Seat | Munich , Germany |
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| Number of employees | 360 (2017) |
| sales | EUR 1.16 billion (2019) |
| Branch | Gambling |
| Website | www.lotto-bayern.de |
The State Lottery Administration in Bavaria (short form: LOTTO Bayern) is a commercial enterprise of the Free State of Bavaria and is legally part of the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance and Homeland . It is the state lottery company in Bavaria and the operator of the nine Bavarian casinos .
Basics and tasks
LOTTO Bayern's activities are based on the State Treaty on Gaming and the associated amendment contract that came into force on July 1, 2012. LOTTO Bayern offers the opportunity to gamble legally via the internet, taking into account player protection, and uses the income to promote, among other things, popular sport, nature conservation, monument protection and the work of charities .
The State Lottery Administration in Bavaria has been a commissioned company of the German Lotto and Totoblocks and for the GlücksSpirale lottery since January 2013 . This is the amalgamation of the lottery companies of all federal states to organize the state sports betting ODDSET developed in Bavaria. LOTTO Bayern is a member of the European Lotteries (EL) and the World Lottery Association (WLA).
LOTTO Bayern has 360 employees (as of December 2017). The sales area of LOTTO Bayern is divided into 24 district offices, which look after the network of acceptance points with around 3500 acceptance points, 166 ticket sales points and 10 ticket sellers (as of March 2016). In the 2019 financial year, the company generated sales of 1.16 billion euros and around 410 million euros in lottery taxes and duties. The comparative figures for 2018 were 1.18 billion and 410 million euros, respectively.
The State Lottery Administration in Bavaria has carried out the weekly drawing of the winning numbers for the GlücksSpirale since the introduction of the GlücksSpirale in 1970. The drawing begins every Saturday at 7.15 p.m. in the drawing room at Theresienhöhe in Munich . The drawing is public and takes place under official supervision. The draw result, by announcing the lottery numbers against 19:57 in the first published. The lottery numbers the Wednesday draw are against 18:54 in ZDF announced.
Since July 3, 2013, the lottery numbers are no longer drawn on television, but only live on the Internet at www.lotto.de. The videos can also be called up there at a later point in time. The drawing of the numbers takes place on Wednesday from 6:25 p.m. and on Saturday from 7:25 p.m.
In July 2013, the Lotto Academy opened its doors on Nelson-Mandela-Platz in Nuremberg . There, acceptance point managers and their employees can take part in seminars. At the beginning of March 2014, the customer service point in Nuremberg also went into operation, which is located in the same building.
history
Bavaria was the first German state to introduce the lottery on April 27, 1735 through the general mandate of Elector Karl Albrecht . Under Elector Max III. Joseph it was nationalized in 1773 and extended to the entire Kingdom of Bavaria in 1807. The establishment of the state lottery was suspended from 1861 to 1911, and in 1911 Bavaria joined the Royal Prussian State Lottery , which in this context changed its name to the Royal Prussian-South German Class Lottery .
On March 12, 1946, the "Bavarian State Lottery" was established by ordinance with the consent of the American military government as a state institution without legal personality in the division of the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance. A few days earlier, on February 27, 1946, the State Lottery Administration had started operations. On March 15, 1946, the sale of tickets under the name "Bavarian Reconstruction Lottery" started. Soon after the introduction of the lottery lottery, preparations for the establishment of a class lottery ( South German class lottery ) began. On 15./16. May 1948 followed the Bavarian football pools . The famous 6 out of 49 lottery goes back to 1955. On October 9, 1955, at the premiere drawing in Hamburg, 13 was the first winning number in the lottery. In Bavaria, the first drawing of the lottery numbers took place on Sunday, November 13, 1955, in the drawing room of the State Lottery Administration in Munich.
Sponsorship
LOTTO Bayern has been a cooperation partner of the Munich Olympic Park since March 2016 . The cooperation runs until 2018. In April 2016 LOTTO Bayern became a sponsor of SpVgg Greuther Fürth for two years . In 2017, the twelve-year partnership with the Brose Baskets basketball club was extended for two more seasons. Also in 2017, the partnership with the soccer club 1. FC Nürnberg was extended by two years. Also ATP Munich is supported by LOTTO Bavaria.
Products
LOTTO Bayern sells its products on the internet in addition to its network of retail outlets. These include Lotto 6aus49 with the additional lotteries Spiel 77 and SUPER 6, tear-open and scratch cards such as Bayernlos, diridari and Super Cash, the KENO number lottery with the additional lottery plus5, the pension lottery GlücksSpirale including the additional lottery GlücksSpirale-Die Sieger-Chance and the Sports betting ODDSET and TOTO from ODDSET GmbH. LOTTO Bayern has been a founding member of the Eurojackpot since March 2012 . The State Lottery Administration also operates Bavaria's nine casinos in Bad Füssing, Bad Kissingen, Bad Kötzting, Bad Reichenhall, Bad Steben , Bad Wiessee, Feuchtwangen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Lindau.
People under the age of 18 are generally excluded from participating in lotteries and sports betting in Germany, including here. As a further measure to protect against gambling addiction , the customer card requirement applies to certain products that can only be used by adult customers on presentation of a customer card.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Participation report of the Free State of Bavaria 2011, page 235 f. (PDF) Archived from the original on February 13, 2012 ; Retrieved November 5, 2012 .
- ↑ a b About Lotto Bayern. Retrieved May 10, 2016 .
- ↑ About Lotto Bayern. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on August 28, 2014 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ History of Lotto Bayern. Retrieved March 27, 2014 .
- ^ J. Ludwig Spyri, Johann Emanuel Grob: Swiss journal for non-profit: Organ of the Swiss non-profit society . Ed .: Société suisse d'utilité publique. tape 2 , 1863, p. 201 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Richard Bauer: Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799-1980 . Ed .: Wilhelm Volkert. CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , pp. 167 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Ihno Gebhardt, Sabine Miriam Grüsser-Sinopoli (ed.): Gambling in Germany: Economy, Law, Addiction . de Gruyter Recht, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89949-317-7 , p. 506 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ House of Bavarian History. Retrieved October 27, 2012 .
- ↑ April 8th, 2016: LOTTO Bayern becomes exclusive partner - SpVgg Greuther Fürth news. (No longer available online.) In: www.greuther-fuerth.de. Archived from the original on August 29, 2016 ; accessed on August 29, 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.
- ↑ 18.09.2017: LOTTO Bayern remains Brose Baskets sponsor - LOTTO Bayern news. In: www.lotto-bayern.de. Retrieved January 26, 2018 .
- ↑ 23.08.2017: LOTTO Bayern remains FCN Premium Partner - Lotto Bayern news. In: www.lotto-bayern.de. Retrieved January 26, 2018 .
- ↑ May 2nd, 2017: Lotto Bayern sponsors BMW Open - Lotto Bayern current news. In: www.lotto-bayern.de. Retrieved January 26, 2018 .
- ^ The Lotto Bayern customer card. In: tz.de. Retrieved May 10, 2016 .
