Additional numbers in emergencies

Maritime search and rescue

Maritime Search and Rescue (S.A.R.) is the help for people, who have gotten themselves into distress at sea. Among others, their duties are the rescuing of shipwrecked persons, searching for missing people at sea, fire fighting at sea, recovering of dead and deceased, but also the recovery of ships and boats or other objects at sea.

If you are in distress at sea:

Landline: 0049-421-536 870

Mobile: 124 124

Blocking of EC and credit cards

As soon as you notice that your EC-card is missing or was stolen, you have to call the Blocking-Emergency-Phonenumber. The card in question will then be blocked at once and cannot be used anymore. The numbers of choice are:

Centralised Emergency Call: 116 116

EC-card: 0049 - 1805 - 021 021

ViSA card: 0800 - 811 8440

Mastercard: 0800 - 819 1040

Centralised phone number of car insures

In case that you are one of the involved parties in a car accident and do not have any data concerning the insurance of the other party that is affected, you can call the centralised hotline. You can report the accident by using the following number: 0180 - 25026

Spiritual welfare telephone

During our lifetime, problems or a crisis can hit us at any time. Be it, that somebody has problems with his or her partner, mobbing at school or at work, the loss of a job, addictions, an illness, loneness, a life crisis and spiritual questions.
Such events and injuries often show us that there are limits of what somebody is able to bear or what is tolerable. If you feel the urgent need to talk to somebody, be sure to pick up your phone and call one of these numbers:

Phone number for women: 0800 - 116 016

Spiritual Welfare telephone: 0049 - 800 - 1110111 or 0049 - 0800 - 1110 222

Children and Youths telephone: 0049 - 800 - 1110 333