Event Security in Hannover

Ask anyone in industrial manufacturing what Hannover means and the answer is Hannover Messe: widely described in that sector as the world’s largest industrial trade fair, run by Deutsche Messe AG each April on grounds that rank among the largest exhibition sites anywhere, with a typical edition drawing more than 4,000 exhibiting companies from over 70 countries. Fair week reshapes the whole city, hotel rooms disappear, transfers slow down, and any corporate hospitality event booked the same week needs its own contingency built in from the start rather than added once the problem shows up.

Licensing follows the same German framework as elsewhere in the country, Sec 34a of the Gewerbeordnung and the Bewachungsverordnung, with officers holding the IHK Sachkundeprufung. Away from fair week, Continental AG’s new Continental-Plaza headquarters campus, opened December 2023, hosts corporate events in a modern, access-controlled setting that plans very differently from the exhibition grounds. Hannover Hauptbahnhof, meanwhile, recorded 1,606 offences in the first five months of 2025 per Bundespolizei figures, though a joint police and city initiative cut violent crime there by more than 20% over the following year, and we still run platform-to-vehicle escort as standard for rail arrivals. Read the fuller city picture at the Hannover city page.

For clients tying a fair visit into a wider German circuit, our event security in Berlin page and our event security in Frankfurt page cover two of the country’s other major event markets, and our country guide to Germany sets out the national licensing and threat framework. For principal cover through a multi-day fair or corporate visit, our executive protection service extends beyond the exhibition floor, and general enquiries about event cover start at event security.