One criminal incident can be recorded with more than one bias motivation in the below breakdown.
A victimization survey has been conducted, with results expected in November 2018. The survey included questions about motives of the perpetrators.
The Ministers of Justice of the German Länder decided to collect judicial data on hate crime. This will include the number of investigations initiated and concluded, and, in the case of convictions, the sanction imposed.
The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), which belongs to the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI), declared a "Day of Action against Hate Crime" as a reaction to the increasing number of cases.
The Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) tasked the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony (KFN) and the German Police University (DHPol) to develop a study on "Best practices of co-operation between safety authorities and civil society concerning the avoidance of crime guided by prejudices". The two-year project should lead to police learning from good international practice and to improved collaboration with civil society organizations.
ODIHR observes that Germany has not reported the numbers of prosecuted and/or information on sentenced hate crime cases to ODIHR.
VDK Berlin, the Department for Research and Information on Anti-Semitism (RIAS), MANEO and members of the East German Hate Crime Counselling Projects network reported on statistical data as well as descriptive incidents. This explains the discrepancy between the graphic above and the incidents included below.