State Toto-Lotto GmbH Baden-Württemberg

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State Toto-Lotto GmbH Baden-Württemberg

logo
legal form GmbH
founding 1948
Seat Stuttgart
management Georg Wacker,

executive Director

Number of employees 190
sales EUR 977.9 million
Branch Lotteries and sports betting
Website www.lotto-bw.de

The State Toto-Lotto GmbH Baden-Württemberg ( short: Lotto Baden-Württemberg ) is the lottery company of the state of Baden-Württemberg . The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Baden-Württemberg state holding company. At the national level, Lotto Baden-Württemberg is a member of the German Lotto and Totoblock and at the international level of the European Lotteries (EL) and the World Lottery Association (WLA). Georg Wacker has been the managing director since January 1, 2018 . Marion Caspers-Merk had previously headed the lottery company.

Around 190 people are employed at the company's headquarters in Stuttgart at Nordbahnhof. Seven regional offices within Baden-Württemberg look after the sales network, which consists of around 3,100 sales points. In the 2019 financial year, the company generated stakes of 977.9 million euros. 380.6 million euros were achieved for the country. The amount is made up of 164 million euros in lottery tax and 216.6 million euros in special-purpose income. The state uses 132.4 million euros of this through the betting funds to promote sport, art and culture, the preservation of monuments and the social sector in Baden-Württemberg.

View of the lottery headquarters from Nordbahnhofstrasse.

history

The company's history began on August 18, 1948, when the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg passed Law No. 527 on sports betting. On October 7, 1948, the company was officially founded under the name “Staatliche Sport-Toto GmbH”. On March 19, 1958, the law on the number lottery in Baden-Württemberg came into force. The first lottery drawing with Baden-Württemberg participation took place on April 13, 1958. In 1991 the Staatliche Sport-Toto GmbH was renamed Staatliche Toto-Lotto GmbH in order to anchor the number lottery in the company name. Since 1993, the net income from all bets and lotteries has been allocated to a betting fund, which is earmarked for the promotion of sports and culture as well as for the preservation of monuments and social purposes.

Product history

  • since 1948: TOTO
  • since 1958: LOTTO 6aus49
  • 1967–1974: Olympic lottery
  • since 1970: GlücksSpirale
  • since 1977: game 77
  • since 1986: scratch-off lotteries
  • since 1992: SUPER 6
  • since 1999: ODDSET
  • since 2005: KENO
  • since 2010: New Year's Eve millions
  • since 2012: Eurojackpot
  • since 2016: GlücksSpirale winner chance
  • 2017–2018: LOGEO

Current range of games

A customer receives her ticket for LOTTO 6aus49 at an acceptance point.
  • TOTO 13 results tip
The Eurojackpot has been drawn in Helsinki, Finland, since 2012.
  • TOTO 6aus45 selection tip
  • New Years Eve Millions
  • Scratch-off lotteries

The range of games is aimed exclusively at adults.

Big wins

In October 2016, the largest single win in Germany at the time, at 90 million euros, was achieved by a Eurojackpot player from Baden-Württemberg. The tipster tried his luck at a collection point in the Black Forest. His stake was 20 euros. In total, Baden-Württemberg generates an average of 20 million prizes each year. In 2019 there were 23 and thus the most nationwide before North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria.

Lotto affair Baden-Wuerttemberg

The public prosecutor's office in Stuttgart has been investigating fraud in connection with gambling irregularities at the State Toto-Lotto GmbH Baden-Württemberg since 1994 and, since mid-March, also for multiple infidelity against Peter Wetter. On May 30, 1995, he was served a penalty order in the amount of DM 52,500 for breach of trust in his function as managing director. In order to avoid a conviction in public criminal proceedings and without further public clarification of the allegations raised, weather paid this penalty order.

Various newspapers and news magazines had previously reported on him in his role as lottery boss in Baden-Württemberg. In the mirror appeared u. a. An article with the accusation that a large part of the lottery tickets bought by Baden-Württemberg lottery customers never took part in special draws. The effort for sorting out the permanent lottery tickets (tickets for several weeks in a row) from the lottery drum, which is necessary after each drawing, seemed to Peter Wetter to be too expensive, which is why they were not thrown into the lottery drum for the drawing. The regular customers with permanent lottery tickets knew nothing of this. In addition - according to Der Spiegel - family members, relatives and friends of Peter Wetter have been lifted to lucrative top positions within the lottery center. He himself was responsible for numerous luxury trips abroad financed by the lottery company under the pretext of supposedly necessary meetings and conferences and the associated granting of benefits to Lotto employees and third parties.

Some of the winning lots drawn under notarial supervision were also not taken into account after the drawing and were thrown back into the lottery drum under Peter Wetter's supervision without payment if it turned out that the name of the winner on the lot sounded foreign.

According to the penalty order, Wetter had to vacate his chair as the lottery boss. Ahead of the affair and the Baden-Wuerttemberg Finance Minister was Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder involved in his capacity as chairman of the board of the lottery company, which has been subsequently contributed to a considerable extent also to his resignation already another scandal.

The scandal that developed from the penalty order against Peter Wetter gained notoriety as the Baden-Württemberg lottery affair , as the general public perceived the mild judgment of the penalty order (only a small fraction of its annual income and royalties for the lottery) as "cousin economy". Both Wetter and Mayer-Vorfelder, as well as the responsible Minister of Justice Thomas Schäuble, were members of the CDU ruling in Baden-Württemberg at the time.

literature

  • Lotto Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): 50 years of Toto-Lotto Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart 1998. DNB 05050908X.
  • Lotto Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): 49 moments of happiness. 50 years 6 out of 49 in Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart 2008.
  • DNB 05050908X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Participation report 2015 of the state of Baden-Württemberg. P. 105. Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Finance and Economics, accessed on December 13, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Annual Report 2015, p. 37. Lotto Baden-Württemberg, accessed on November 30, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Newspaper: CDU man Wacker is the new lottery boss in the state - Lotto News . In: Lotto News . November 14, 2017 ( lotto-news.de [accessed January 5, 2018]). Newspaper: CDU man Wacker will be the new Lotto boss in the Ländle - Lotto News ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lotto-news.de
  4. ^ Badische Zeitung: Caspers-Merk is the new lottery boss - Südwest - Badische Zeitung . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on January 5, 2018]).
  5. ↑ portrait. Lotto Baden-Württemberg, accessed on November 30, 2016 .
  6. ↑ ISA-Guide: Annual lottery balance 2019: Baden-Württemberg has the most millions in prizes nationwide. Accessed January 21, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Annual lottery balance 2019: Baden-Württemberg has the most millions in prizes nationwide. In: Isa Guide. Accessed July 1, 2020 (German).
  8. ↑ Lotto Baden-Württemberg - a modern service company. State Toto-Lotto GmbH Baden-Württemberg, accessed on July 1, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Betting funds. State Toto-Lotto GmbH Baden-Württemberg, accessed on January 21, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Annual Report 2015. P. 60/61. Lotto Baden-Württemberg, accessed on December 21, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Sports funding in Germany. (PDF) German Bundestag, accessed on January 24, 2017 .
  12. ↑ 50 years of Toto Lotto Baden-Württemberg. P. 196ff. Lotto Baden-Württemberg, accessed on December 21, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Gambling Law & Jugendschutzhrsg = Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA). Retrieved February 22, 2017 .
  14. ↑ The winner of the highest lottery prize in Germany comes from the Black Forest. Südkurier, accessed January 24, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Press releases. (No longer available online.) Lotto Baden-Württemberg, archived from the original on December 21, 2016 ; accessed on December 21, 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.lotto-bw.de
  16. ↑ Nationwide, the most millions of lottery winnings. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Penalty order against ex-lottery boss Peter Wetter , accessed on July 10, 2017
  18. ↑ Der Spiegel 27/1995: Article Das Geld muss raus , page 94ff. , accessed July 10, 2017
  19. ↑ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg R 1/005 D941011 / 103 , accessed on July 10, 2017
  20. ↑ Focus 23/1995: Article Lieber No Trial , accessed on July 10, 2017
  21. ↑ Der Spiegel 24/1994: Article Camouflaged Widows , accessed on July 10, 2017
  22. ↑ Focus 24/1994: Article Vom Glück left , accessed on July 10, 2017