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Somebody on Reddit recently did collect what one gets for donating blood in different areas of Germany: https://www.reddit.com/r/de/comments/xoqyay/aufwandsentsch%C...

What you can see from that is that a "Aufwandsentschädigung" of ~20€ is pretty common.

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We're not disagreeing. These are (university) hospitals and corporations. I've seen numbers indicating that 70% to 80% of blood donations in Germany are done via the German Red Cross. The Red Cross does not pay money for blood donations.

Pre-COVID the German Red Cross often would have a buffet lunch typically consisting of sandwiches and fruit for donors. Since then they seem to have moved to prepackaged lunches and branded giveaways. But never cash money.

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