SUCHT.HAMBURG

What SUCHT.HAMBURG does

Sucht.Hamburg gGmbH is a Hamburg-based nonprofit organization (gemeinnützige GmbH, HRB 141125) operating as the city-state's designated specialist center (Fachstelle für Suchtfragen) for addiction issues. Funded primarily by the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (Social Authority/Socialbehörde) and affiliated with Parität Hamburg and the Deutsche Hauptstelle für Suchtfragen (DHS), it coordinates Hamburg's addiction prevention and help system across four pillars: Information (data factsheets, publications, press), Prevention (school, workplace, kindergarten, community programs), Help (counseling, self-help groups, digital services), and Network (coordination with district-level prevention services and the broader Suchthilfe system). Its target audience spans the full Hamburg population, with structured segments for children and youth, families, professionals (Fachkräfte), migrants and refugees, and people with disabilities.

The organization's digital portfolio comprises five interconnected web portals: suchtberatung-hamburg.de (consolidated counseling finder, absorbing drogenberatung-hamburg.de and kursbuch-sucht.de), lina-net.de (pregnancy, birth, early family, and addiction), suchtpraevention-fortbildung.de (professional training), fruehehilfen-hamburg.de (early childhood help ages 0–3), and suchtberatung.digital (Digi Sucht — low-threshold digital counseling launched 2026). All portals were relaunched in March 2026 with improved navigation, extended filter functions, updated database structure, and barrier-free design. The underlying technology is standard web platform tooling (CMS-driven, with CleverReach for newsletters, Google Analytics, Google Maps, YouTube, Google reCAPTCHA, PayPal for shop transactions); no proprietary software product or SaaS offering exists.

Revenue mechanics are dominated by public institutional funding from the Hamburg Social Authority, supplemented by membership fees and nominal shop sales of printed prevention materials (e.g., €0.50 sticker sets, €1.35 posters). All core services — counseling, information, prevention programs, training, and network coordination — are delivered free of charge to Hamburg residents. The organization operates a portfolio of branded programs including Automatisch Verloren (gambling addiction prevention with the Social Authority), Mediencoach (media literacy), connect/connect plus (children from addiction-affected families), HaLT – Hart am Limit (youth alcohol), Bleib Stark, Schulbus, Mobil? Aber sicher!, and Frühe Hilfen, plus the new SUCHT.WISSEN.KOMPAKT compact training series. The team consists of 6 employees under Managing Director Christiane Lieb, with headquarters at Baumeisterstraße 2, Hamburg.

Name

SUCHT.HAMBURG

Legal name

Sucht.Hamburg gGmbH

Website

https://sucht-hamburg.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Sucht.Hamburg gGmbH is a Hamburg-based nonprofit specialist center coordinating addiction prevention, counseling, and help services for city residents, funded by the Hamburg Social Authority. It operates five digital portals, an e-commerce shop for prevention materials, and multiple branded programs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Hamburg

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Public Institutional Funding: Primary funding from the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (Socialbehörde) for operating as the Hamburg addiction specialist center (Fachstelle für Suchtfragen). This covers core operations, digital platforms, prevention projects, and network coordination.
2. Membership Fees: Organization is a member of Parität Hamburg and other associations. Membership fees contribute to operations.
3. Shop Sales: Sale of printed materials including brochures, posters, info-cards, and guides on addiction topics. Materials available in German, multiple foreign languages, and easy language. Some materials free for Hamburg residents.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

SUCHT.HAMBURG operates as the city-designated specialist center (Fachstelle für Suchtfragen) for Hamburg, coordinating addiction prevention, counseling, and information services across four pillars: Information (online portals, publications, data factsheets), Prevention (school programs, workplace prevention, youth projects), Help (counseling finder, self-help groups, digital services such as Digi Sucht), and Network (coordination of district-level prevention services and the Hamburg addiction help system). The organization produces multilingual prevention materials, runs professional training programs (such as SUCHT.WISSEN.KOMPAKT), and sells printed informational materials through an online shop.

Product overview

SUCHT.HAMBURG gGmbH is a non-profit organization (gGmbH) acting as the central addiction issues office for Hamburg. Their digital portfolio consists of a central website (sucht-hamburg.de) and five subsidiary service portals: suchtberatung-hamburg.de (central addiction counseling), lina-net.de (pregnancy/family/addiction), suchtpraevention-fortbildung.de (prevention training), fruehehilfen-hamburg.de (early childhood help), and www.suchtberatung.digital (Digi Sucht - digital counseling). Beyond digital services, they operate an online shop selling informational materials, coordinate a network of addiction help providers across Hamburg, manage numerous prevention projects (Automatisch Verloren, Mediencoach, connect, Bleib Stark, HaLT, etc.), publish newsletters and research reports, and organize training events including an annual conference. The organization does not offer a software product in the traditional SaaS sense but rather information services, counseling coordination, and prevention resources for the Hamburg region.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SUCHT.WISSEN.KOMPAKT: A compact continuing education (Fortbildung) series for professionals covering topics such as media consumption, gaming, nicotine products, and other current developments in addiction work.
• Automatisch Verloren
• Mediencoach
• connect / connect plus
• Frühe Hilfen
• Bleib Stark
• HaLT – Hart am Limit
• Lina / lina-net.de
• Digi Sucht
• Zeitung für Suchtprävention

Products and services

• SUCHT.HAMBURG Central Website Central website providing information about addiction prevention and help services in Hamburg, navigation to all subsidiary portals (suchtberatung-hamburg.de, lina-net.de, suchtpraevention-fortbildung.de, fruehehilfen-hamburg.de, suchtberatung.digital), and current news, press releases, and event listings for Hamburg residents.
• suchtberatung-hamburg.de Counseling Portal Central contact point for orientation within the Hamburg addiction help system; provides a counseling finder with online counseling, withdrawal, and therapy offerings for Hamburg residents seeking help for addiction questions.
• Digi Sucht (suchtberatung.digital) Low-threshold digital addiction counseling service — free, fast, and professional — for individuals seeking help for addiction questions via an online channel.
• lina-net.de Lina Network Portal Professional information and service offerings around pregnancy, birth, early family phase, and addiction — aimed at professional groups in the Early Help network and adjacent areas.
• suchtpraevention-fortbildung.de Training Portal Portal listing current training and qualification offerings of Hamburg institutions in the field of addiction prevention, aimed at professionals seeking continuing education.
• fruehehilfen-hamburg.de Early Childhood Help Portal Overview of counseling, diagnostic, and support offerings for (expectant) families with children aged 0 to 3 years across Hamburg.
• SUCHT.WISSEN.KOMPAKT Training Series Compact continuing-education series (~60-minute sessions) for professionals in counseling, pedagogy, and social/health sectors covering current addiction topics such as media consumption, gaming, and nicotine products.
• SUCHT.HAMBURG Online Shop

Quantifiable outcome

• Four major digital portals serving Hamburg residents with counseling finder, prevention training, and family support services

Named customers2 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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AI maturity

App detail

Integration9 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Parität HamburgcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMembership organization. SUCHT.HAMBURG is a member of Parität Hamburg, the Hamburg association of independent welfare organizations, which provides framework for public welfare work.
• Charta der VielfaltminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDiversity charter membership demonstrating commitment to diversity and inclusion in organizational operations.
• Hamburg addiction help system (Suchthilfe in Hamburg)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNetwork coordination with all addiction counseling centers, therapy facilities, and self-help groups in Hamburg. SUCHT.HAMBURG serves as the specialist coordination point for the system.
• District-level prevention services (Suchtprävention in den Bezirken)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoordination with 7 district-level (Bezirk) prevention services across Hamburg for localized prevention delivery.
• Institut für interdisziplinäre Sucht- und Drogenforschung (ISD)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partnership for data on gambling addiction (Glücksspielsurvey 2025) and other addiction research informing organizational programs.
• Bundesinstitut für Öffentliche Gesundheit (BIÖG)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on national programs such as 'Quit the Shit' cannabis counseling program and Drogenaffinitätsstudie (drug affinity study).
• Mediencoach NetworkminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTrain-the-trainer program for media literacy and addiction prevention in digital contexts, offered in collaboration with Mediencoach project.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• Addiction Suisse: Swiss national specialist body on addiction prevention, research, and policy. Comparable to SUCHT.HAMBURG in coordinating national-level addiction prevention and information, but serving Switzerland rather than a German Bundesland.
• ginko Stiftung für Prävention: ginko operates the Landeskoordinierungsstelle für Suchtprävention NRW, the state-level coordination body for addiction prevention in North Rhine-Westphalia. Directly comparable to SUCHT.HAMBURG in coordinating prevention networks, training, and digital portals — at the much larger NRW scale.
• gsub Gesellschaft für soziale Unternehmensberatung: gsub operates the Fachstelle für Suchtfragen Berlin and similar specialist center functions for the city-state of Berlin. It is the most structurally comparable peer to SUCHT.HAMBURG — same Fachstelle role, same coordination mandate, same public funding model, but serving a different city-state.
• condrobs: condrobs operates Fachstelle Sucht Bayern and runs addiction help services across Bavaria. Closest analogue to SUCHT.HAMBURG for the social-services NGO structure that combines Fachstelle coordination with direct counseling delivery, but serving a different state.

Broad incumbents

• Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA): Federal Centre for Health Education runs national prevention campaigns including addiction topics (e.g., 'Quit the Shit'). Overlaps with SUCHT.HAMBURG on prevention messaging and curriculum but operates at federal scale with a much larger mandate and budget.
• Diakonie Deutschland: Germany's largest Protestant welfare organization; runs addiction counseling and self-help services nationwide. Directly comparable to SUCHT.HAMBURG in delivering addiction help services to individuals and families but at national scale through a faith-based provider network.
• Deutsche Hauptstelle für Suchtfragen (DHS): National umbrella organization for addiction help in Germany; SUCHT.HAMBURG is itself a DHS member. DHS sets national standards, advocates on addiction policy, and coordinates member Fachstellen — operating at a much broader scope than a single-city specialist center.
• Caritas Deutschland: Germany's largest Catholic welfare organization; operates addiction counseling and help services across all Bundesländer through local Caritas chapters. Comparable to SUCHT.HAMBURG in mission (social welfare for vulnerable populations) but operates nationally and through a faith-based provider network.
• European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA): EU agency providing data, research, and policy guidance on drugs and addiction across member states. Comparable to SUCHT.HAMBURG in producing addiction-related information and data, but operating at the EU level with a research/analytical mandate rather than local service delivery.

Emerging players

• Blaues Kreuz Deutschland: National self-help organization for people with addiction and their families, with local chapters across Germany. Comparable to SUCHT.HAMBURG's connect/connect plus projects (services for children of addiction-affected families) but focused on self-help rather than professional coordination.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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