Overview
- At 17:00 on 25 November, Brockel’s Heilig-Kreuz Church will be lit orange and open an exhibition on domestic violence curated by activist Stefanie Schmidt, who is offering bystander workshops and promoting “Safe Space” materials.
- In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, bakeries plan to distribute 130,000 “Gewalt kommt nicht in die Tüte” bags, Wismar will stage an orange shoes installation, and cities including Wismar, Greifswald, Neubrandenburg, Rostock and Schwerin will raise flags, host light actions and illuminate public buildings.
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s state criminal police say domestic-violence offenses are likely rising this year, with final 2025 figures still pending.
- Germany’s latest police statistics show nearly 266,000 recorded victims of domestic violence in 2024, 73 percent of them women, while Mecklenburg-Vorpommern logged 5,249 victims with roughly 70 percent women and five femicides by partners or ex-partners in 2023.
- Hamburg recorded 4,695 partnership assault cases in 2024 with 3,271 women as victims, and partner sexual offenses against women rose to 93 from 70 the year before.