SDP/DD/2026-01

Where technology becomes defence capability.

For companies moving from prototype to series production.

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EUR 739bn
Defence spending of European NATO members, 2025
EUR 117.2bn
German defence budget 2026
40 km
To flight test facilities in Kamenz
2 h
To Berlin and the Polish border
A-01 Challenge

The prototype works. Series production is a different challenge.

01 Production readiness in months, not years
02 Volumes that carry a procurement decision
03 Labour costs that do not eat into the margin
04 Logistics that reach the main market
05 Proximity to the technologies the product depends on
06 A partner with first-hand experience in defence and security

The prototype proves the technology. It becomes capability only in series production. At that point, technology is no longer the bottleneck. That makes it a question of capability, not of manufacturing.

The location decides whether technology becomes capability. Whoever opens up that location decides when.

The location is the strategy. We are the execution.

A-02 Why Saxony

The right place. The right people.

Dresden is where defence production scales in Germany.

01 Chip proximity
1 in 3
Share of EU semiconductor manufacturing that comes from Dresden. For automotive power semiconductors, more than half.

Over EUR 16bn of investment is under construction or committed: ESMC/TSMC around 10bn, Infineon around 5bn, GlobalFoundries around 1.1bn, plus Bosch. Anyone building sensors, drones or guidance systems produces where the critical component comes from.

02 Size of the ecosystem
82,500
People employed in microelectronics and software, around 1,500 more than the previous year.

Grenoble, Europe's second-largest cluster, reaches around 38,000. Added to this is test infrastructure within a day's travel: the AEF research and flight test centre in Kamenz, some 40 km away, focused on electric and hybrid propulsion, swarm applications, data transmission and autonomous navigation.

03 Outlook
100,000
People employed by 2030, according to Silicon Saxony projections.

TU Dresden and the Fraunhofer institutes form the talent base. The potential is large, availability is contested: the semiconductor industry competes for the same people. Workforce planning therefore belongs at the start of a project, not at the end.

04 European axis
EUR 46.6bn
Polish defence budget 2026, 4.8 % of gross domestic product.

More than half of it is earmarked for new procurement. From Dresden, Poland and the Baltic states are within direct reach, along with the Leipzig logistics hub and short routes to Berlin.

In Europe there are few places for this. This is one of them.

The components your system depends on are built in the same area. The specialists who take it into series production are already here. And the countries currently investing most in their defence are immediate neighbours. In between sit permits, defence regulations and administrative work nobody enjoys. We run it, and we run it digitally. What comes out of that is not just a location advantage, but a strategic one.

Before every mandate we review sites, permitting status and realistic timelines for your project.

The Dresden skyline, its reflection dissolving into a circuit board
Dresden — microelectronics cluster A-02
B-01 Services

What carries a project through to operation.

B-01.1

Arrive

Site, permitting, construction. Twenty years of building experience, applied to requirements no property developer knows.

  • An assessment of whether a site can meet your programme requirements at all
  • Site requirements from defence regulations considered from the start: we know them from application, not from the manual
  • Property access in Dresden and the surrounding region, including airport-adjacent assets
  • Application and permitting procedures supported on the ground
  • Tendering and coordination of all trades, construction supervision under §34c GewO
B-01.2

Operate

Administration that runs without you watching. Built from military and regulatory experience. Plus the ability to build processes digitally rather than merely administer them.

  • The prerequisites for industrial security clearance, established and documented
  • Security-compliant workflows for handling classified material
  • Digitalised administrative and permitting processes instead of paper and mail chains
  • Digital project management with reporting for investors and authorities
  • Can be run with a small team: processes replace positions, not the other way round
  • Ongoing infrastructure management, support and optimisation
B-01.3

Grow

Network, capital, procurement. Grown over two decades in financial markets and defence.

  • Access to end users and procurement authorities
  • Strategic and geopolitical assessment for expansion decisions
  • A project already introduced to capital providers and political decision-makers
  • Networking events between the German defence hubs and Dresden
  • Curated service provider network
C-01 Next step

An initial assessment in 30 minutes.

Where you stand today, what would be possible in Dresden, what it realistically takes.

Conversations are confidential, under NDA on request.

+49 351 000 000

We use your details to answer your enquiry and to protect the form from misuse. More in our privacy policy.

Viktor Fink

Viktor Fink

Mandate responsibility

Military background, defence and strategic assessment.

Dennis Arians

Dennis Arians

Mandate responsibility

Military background, defence IT and security-compliant processes.

Erik Eckert

Erik Eckert

Mandate responsibility

Infrastructure, permitting and site development.

Holger Weller

Holger Weller

Mandate responsibility

Capital structures, sales and industry network.

D-01 Capital & site development

The market is coming here. Access to it is not.

The manufacturers arriving here need sites, suppliers, service providers and capital. None of it goes to anyone who does not know what the sector requires. We know those requirements, and we know the manufacturers.

This is neither an advisory mandate nor a fund vehicle.

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01 Participation in site and project vehicles
02 Site development with municipalities and state politics
03 Access to the manufacturer and procurement world
04 Structuring across equity, debt and public funding
SDP/DD/2026-01

Legal notice

This legal notice is provided in German.

Angaben gemäß § 5 DDG

realxtrade GmbH
Kreuzbergblick 8
96120 Bischberg
Deutschland

Sanktum Defence Partners ist eine Marke der realxtrade GmbH.

Vertreten durch

Erik Eckert, Geschäftsführer

Kontakt

E-Mail: info@sanktum.de
Kontaktformular: auf der Startseite

Registereintrag

Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bamberg, HRB 11788

Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer

gemäß § 27a Umsatzsteuergesetz: DE436397359

Erlaubnis nach § 34c GewO

Erlaubnis nach § 34c Abs. 1 Satz 1 Nr. 1, 2, 3a und 3b GewO
Zuständige Aufsichtsbehörde: IHK München und Oberbayern, 80323 München

Verantwortlich für den Inhalt nach § 18 Abs. 2 MStV

Erik Eckert, Anschrift wie oben

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SDP/DD/2026-01

Privacy policy

This is a translation. In case of doubt, the German version applies.

This website presents Sanktum Defence Partners. It sets no cookies, puts nothing in your browser's local storage, measures no reach and loads nothing from third parties. What data is processed nonetheless, for what purpose and for how long, is set out here.

01Controller

The controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:

realxtrade GmbH
Kreuzbergblick 8
96120 Bischberg
Germany
represented by its managing director Erik Eckert
Email: info@sanktum.de

Sanktum Defence Partners is a brand of realxtrade GmbH.

02What this website does not do

We set no cookies, put nothing in your browser's local storage and use no analytics, tracking or advertising tools. No third-party content is embedded: no maps, no social media plugins, no externally hosted videos. Fonts, images and the video do not come from Google Fonts or any other third-party service: everything your browser loads on a visit comes from our own server. Like any website's fonts, images and scripts, they are kept in your browser's ordinary cache so they need not be loaded again on every visit.

03Hosting and server logs

The website runs on a server of our own, which we rent from STRATO GmbH, Otto-Ostrowski-Straße 7, 10249 Berlin, Germany, and operate ourselves. The server is located in a data centre in Germany. STRATO GmbH provides the server and the network connection and processes the data on our behalf in doing so (Art. 28 GDPR).

When you open the site, the server processes the connection data this technically requires:

  • IP address
  • date and time of the request
  • requested address and amount of data transferred
  • address of the previously visited page (referrer)
  • browser and operating system

This data is used to deliver the site, to find errors and to fend off attacks. We do not combine it with other data and do not use it for advertising or profiling. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; our legitimate interest is the secure and stable delivery of the website.

We delete the logs after 7 days at the latest. Where a specific attack has to be investigated, we keep the entries concerned until the investigation is complete.

04Encrypted transmission

The website is delivered exclusively over an encrypted connection (TLS). You can tell by the “https://” in your browser's address bar.

05Contact by email

If you email us, we process the details it contains, usually name, email address, company and the content of your message, to answer your enquiry. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; our legitimate interest is answering business enquiries. Where your enquiry aims at a contract with you personally, the legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

Our mailboxes are operated on our behalf (Art. 28 GDPR) by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (Google Workspace). A transfer to Google LLC in the USA cannot be ruled out; Google is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

We delete your enquiry once it has been dealt with, unless statutory retention obligations apply. If it leads to a working relationship, we keep the business correspondence for as long as commercial and tax law require, usually six years (Section 257 HGB, Section 147 AO).

06Contact form

Through the contact form you send us your name, company and email address, a description of your project if you wish, and the language you are reading the site in. We need your name, company and email address to be able to reply; the form cannot be sent without them.

Our server forwards these details as an email to our mailbox info@sanktum.de and does not store them itself. A short confirmation of receipt, containing nothing from the form, goes to the address you gave, no more than one a day to the same address. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; our legitimate interest is answering business enquiries. Where your enquiry aims at a contract with you personally, the legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. The emails are then treated as set out under 05: they are kept in our mailbox with Google Workspace and deleted on the same terms.

To prevent misuse, the server limits how often the form can be sent from one IP address and how often a confirmation goes to the same email address. For this it keeps both for up to one day as an irreversible identifier (hash) in memory only; it does not write them to disk or link them to anything else. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; our legitimate interest is protecting the form and our mailbox from mass misuse.

07Your rights

You have the right of access to the data we hold about you (Art. 15 GDPR), to rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18) and data portability (Art. 20). An informal message to info@sanktum.de is enough.

Right to object under Art. 21 GDPR: Where we process data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, you may object at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation. We will then no longer process the data unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

08Right to lodge a complaint

You may lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR). The authority responsible for us is:

Bavarian Data Protection Authority (BayLDA)
Promenade 18
91522 Ansbach, Germany
www.lda.bayern.de

09No obligation, no automated decisions

You are under no statutory or contractual obligation to provide us with data. Without the technically necessary connection data, however, the website cannot be delivered, and without a name, company and email address no enquiry can be sent through the form. There is no automated decision-making, including profiling (Art. 22 GDPR).

10Changes

We update this privacy policy when the website or the law changes. The version published here applies.

As of September 2026