Overview
- The Interior Ministry awarded Gießen-based NBKK the mandate to set up and run the new Fachstelle in the coming weeks at a site yet to be named, supplemented by decentralized services.
- State funding will provide up to €100,000 per year in 2026 and 2027, increasing to up to €200,000 per year in 2028 and 2029.
- The office will offer low-threshold, confidential advice to affected individuals, educators, authorities and companies, and will support early identification of left-wing extremist structures.
- Financing comes from the program “Hessen aktiv für Demokratie und gegen Extremismus,” which already supports about 40 prevention and education projects.
- Officials framed the step as part of addressing all forms of extremism and referenced a recent alleged arson on a Berlin cable bridge as context, with a separate funding call planned to prevent youth radicalization toward the radical left.