Overview
- Germany’s nationwide Dunkelfeld survey reports lifetime physical partner violence at 16.1 percent, affecting 18 percent of women and 14 percent of men.
- Reporting remains rare, with only 2.7 percent of affected women and 3.5 percent of affected men saying they filed a complaint, leaving most incidents outside crime statistics.
- Violence against women tends to be more severe, with substantially higher rates of injury and many more situations perceived as life‑threatening than among men.
- Younger people face newer forms of abuse such as K.-o.-drugs and digital violence, and women with a migration background report markedly higher rates of physical partner violence than those without.
- Family Minister Karin Prien and Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt presented the results as officials press for prevention and stronger support, while the legal right to free shelter and counselling begins only in 2032 and currently excludes men; BKA chief Holger Münch urges measures that encourage and safeguard reporting.