Opferhilfe Sachsen e.V.

What Opferhilfe Sachsen e.V. does

Opferhilfe Sachsen e.V. is a registered German nonprofit association (eingetragener Verein) founded in 1997 and headquartered in Dresden, providing professional victim support services across the Free State of Saxony. The organization operates 9 counseling centers in Bautzen, Chemnitz, Dresden, Erzgebirge (Annaberg-Buchholz), Görlitz, Leipzig, Pirna, Plauen, and Zwickau, supplemented by telephone and online counseling channels. Its core services are in-person Beratung (counseling), Onlineberatung, Telefonberatung, Zeug:innenbegleitung (witness accompaniment), and Psychosoziale Prozessbegleitung (psychosocial court proceedings accompaniment), all delivered free of charge, confidentially, and anonymously regardless of whether a criminal report has been filed. The target population comprises adults, youth, and children who have been affected by or have witnessed criminal acts.

The organization's business model is non-commercial and grant- plus donation-funded rather than revenue-generating: services are explicitly free to end users, and the input data contains no disclosed revenue, customer payments, or pricing tiers. Strategic positioning rests on a regulated service offering (Psychosoziale Prozessbegleitung, delivered as pilot projects at Amtsgericht Leipzig and Amtsgericht Chemnitz), institutional relationships with the Opferbeauftragte der Sächsischen Staatsregierung, and partnerships such as the joint 'Die Überlebenskünstler' trauma-pedagogical project with Frauenschutzhaus Bautzen e.V. financed via crowdfunding on vieler-schaffen-mehr.de. Programmatically, the organization has launched a berufsbegleitender Zertifikatskurs Psychosoziale Prozessbegleitung (certified practitioner training) and recurring Fachtagungen on emerging verticals including youth sexualized violence and violence against people with cognitive disabilities. With 8 employees servicing 9 centers, the operating model is high-leverage on credentialed human counselors rather than technology, and no AI/ML capabilities, proprietary platforms, or app products are referenced in the source data.

Name

Opferhilfe Sachsen e.V.

Legal name

Opferhilfe Sachsen e.V.

Website

https://opferhilfe-sachsen.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Opferhilfe Sachsen e.V. is a Dresden-based German nonprofit that operates 9 counseling centers across Saxony, providing free, confidential victim counseling, witness accompaniment, and psychosocial court proceedings support to adults, youth, and children affected by crime.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Victim Support and Counseling Services

NAICS

Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians) (621330), Other Individual and Family Services (62419)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Victim Services & Witness Assistance (Justice System) (BPAIAFAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Mental Health & Crisis Support Services (BPAGAEAH)

Keywords

• Victim support services
• Crime victim counseling
• Witness accompaniment
• Psychosocial process support
• Trauma counseling services

Headquarters

HQ city

Bautzen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices9 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Opferhilfe Sachsen e.V. is a professional counseling facility for adults, youths, and children affected by crime, offering free, confidential, and anonymous support across Saxony. Its core offerings include in-person Beratung (counseling), Telefonberatung (phone counseling), Onlineberatung (online counseling), Zeug:innenbegleitung (witness accompaniment), and Psychosoziale Prozessbegleitung (psychosocial court proceedings accompaniment), delivered through a network of 9 counseling centers.

Product overview

Opferhilfe Sachsen e.V. is a professional counseling organization providing victim support services across Saxony, Germany. The organization operates through a network of counseling centers offering multiple service channels: in-person Beratung (counseling), Onlineberatung (online counseling), Telefonberatung (telephone counseling), Zeug:innenbegleitung (witness accompaniment), and Psychosoziale Prozessbegleitung (psychosocial court accompaniment). All services are free, confidential, and available to adults, adolescents, and children affected by crimes. The organization maintains counseling locations in Bautzen, Chemnitz, Dresden, Erzgebirge, Görlitz, Leipzig, Pirna, Plauen, and Zwickau.

Differentiator

Problem solved

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Products and services

• Beratung (Counseling) Professional, confidential, partisan, and supportive in-person counseling for adults, youths, and children affected by crime, available regardless of whether a police report was filed. Free, confidential, and anonymous.
• Onlineberatung (Online Counseling) Anonymous, time-flexible, and secure digital counseling for crime victims who prefer online access to support services.
• Telefonberatung (Phone Counseling) Informative, structuring, and low-threshold telephone counseling providing immediate assistance to crime victims.
• Zeug:innenbegleitung (Witness Accompaniment) Transparent, professional witness accompaniment providing relief and support to witnesses during legal proceedings.
• Psychosoziale Prozessbegleitung (Psychosocial Court Proceedings Accompaniment) Competent, stabilizing psychosocial support for crime victims throughout legal proceedings, including pilot projects at the Amtsgericht Leipzig and Amtsgericht Chemnitz.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• Opferbeauftragte der Sächsischen Staatsregierung (Victim Advocate of the Saxon State Government)flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Opferbeauftragte (Victim Advocate) of the Sächsische Staatsregierung, represented by Iris Kloppich, holds the patronage (Schirmherrschaft) for the 25th anniversary conference of Opferhilfe Sachsen e.V. held in Dresden in September 2022. Iris Kloppich also appears as a speaker and referent at the organization's specialist conferences.
• Frauenschutzhaus Bautzen e.V. – Interventionsstelle gegen häusliche Gewalt OstsachsencoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint collaboration on the project 'Die Überlebenskünstler' (The Survival Artists), a trauma-pedagogical group for children affected by domestic partnership violence and/or sexualized violence. The project targets children of primary school age in the district of Bautzen. Opferhilfe Sachsen supports this initiative through a joint crowdfunding campaign on the vieler-schaffen-mehr.de platform.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Regional players

• Victim Support (UK): UK's national independent victim assistance charity offering similar free, confidential counseling, witness service, and court accompaniment to crime victims. Comparable mission and service model, but operating in the UK.
• National Center for Victims of Crime (US): US-based advocacy and service organization for crime victims offering resources, counseling referrals, and court accompaniment. Comparable victim-assistance mission but operates in a different national context.

Direct peers

• Frauenschutzhaus (women's shelter) network in Saxony: Local women's shelters such as Frauenschutzhaus Bautzen e.V. (an explicit partner) provide residential shelter and intervention services for women affected by domestic violence. Directly comparable target population and partner-organization profile.
• Bundesverband Frauenberatungsstellen und Frauennotrufe (bff): Federal association of women's counseling centers and women's crisis hotlines in Germany, offering psychosocial support to women affected by violence. Strongly comparable to Opferhilfe Sachsen's counseling, accompaniment, and violence-support services.
• WEISSER RING e.V. Germany's largest nationwide victim assistance association, providing free counseling, accompaniment to court proceedings, and crisis support to crime victims. Directly comparable mission, service portfolio, and target population to Opferhilfe Sachsen e.V.
• Täter-Opfer-Ausgleich (TOA) – Servicebüro: National coordinating body for victim-offender mediation in Germany, providing restorative justice services that overlap directly with Opferhilfe Sachsen's psychosocial process accompaniment and witness services.

Broad incumbents

• Diakonie Deutschland: National welfare federation of Protestant social welfare organizations, providing counseling and support services including for victims of violence. Comparable in nonprofit psychosocial service delivery at scale across Germany.
• Deutscher Kinderschutzbund Bundesverband: National federation for child protection in Germany offering counseling and support for children and families, including those affected by violence. Comparable in psychosocial support services, though broader in scope beyond crime victims.
• Caritas Deutschland: Major German welfare organization operating counseling, social, and victim support services nationwide. Comparable in nonprofit victim and family support services but with a much broader social-services mandate.
• Telefonseelsorge Deutschland: Nationwide 24/7 crisis hotline providing anonymous telephone and online counseling across Germany. Comparable channel model (anonymous phone/online counseling) but broader crisis scope than victim-specific support.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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