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Weiße Ring Marks 50 Years With Rising Caseload and Funding Pressures

Victims can seek anonymous help via 116 006 with support available without a police report.

Overview

  • Rhineland-Palatinate logged more consultations in 2025, including 495 bodily-injury cases—over half tied to domestic violence—and 318 sexual offences, together making up about two-thirds of all cases.
  • The Rhineland-Palatinate branch paid out more than €265,000 in aid last year, a decline from 2024, as the organization depends on donations, membership fees and court-assigned fines rather than public subsidies.
  • Thuringia reported 161 domestic-violence cases in 2025, up from 112 in 2022 and 148 in 2024, within a total of 476 interventions and nearly €147,000 in victim assistance.
  • Capacity gaps persist in Thuringia, where two of 20 local offices are unstaffed and the association counts 657 members despite a statewide volunteer corps.
  • Nationwide, the group runs 400-plus local offices with roughly 3,000 trained volunteers and a free victim helpline at 116 006 available daily from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.