Silke Schröder presents the essential entrepreneurial challenges of business succession in order to derive economic policy action options. The goal is to identify the problem areas in the succession process and to derive the economic policy needs for action as well as solution approaches to promote medium-sized business successions, using the Saarland as an example. The focus of her analysis is a central contact point for promoting business successions as a solution approach. The process of business succession poses numerous challenges for both the entrepreneur and the successor. Given the overall economic significance of successful business successions in the German mid-sized sector, this topic also holds a high priority in economic policy.