diff --git a/Neos.ContentRepositoryRegistry/Classes/Command/SubprocessProjectionCatchUpCommandController.php b/Neos.ContentRepositoryRegistry/Classes/Command/SubprocessProjectionCatchUpCommandController.php
index d30d9eca6a6..775b34b570f 100644
--- a/Neos.ContentRepositoryRegistry/Classes/Command/SubprocessProjectionCatchUpCommandController.php
+++ b/Neos.ContentRepositoryRegistry/Classes/Command/SubprocessProjectionCatchUpCommandController.php
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 namespace Neos\ContentRepositoryRegistry\Command;
 
+use Neos\Cache\Frontend\VariableFrontend;
 use Neos\ContentRepository\Core\Projection\CatchUpOptions;
 use Neos\ContentRepository\Core\Projection\ProjectionInterface;
 use Neos\ContentRepository\Core\Projection\ProjectionStateInterface;
@@ -24,6 +25,13 @@ class SubprocessProjectionCatchUpCommandController extends CommandController
      */
     protected $contentRepositoryRegistry;
 
+    /**
+     * @Flow\Inject(name="Neos.ContentRepositoryRegistry:CacheCatchUpStates")
+     * @var VariableFrontend
+     */
+    protected $catchUpStatesCache;
+
+
     /**
      * @param string $contentRepositoryIdentifier
      * @param class-string<ProjectionInterface<ProjectionStateInterface>> $projectionClassName fully qualified class name of the projection to catch up
@@ -33,5 +41,6 @@ public function catchupCommand(string $contentRepositoryIdentifier, string $proj
     {
         $contentRepository = $this->contentRepositoryRegistry->get(ContentRepositoryId::fromString($contentRepositoryIdentifier));
         $contentRepository->catchUpProjection($projectionClassName, CatchUpOptions::create());
+        $this->catchUpStatesCache->remove(md5($contentRepositoryIdentifier . $projectionClassName) . 'RUNNING');
     }
 }
diff --git a/Neos.ContentRepositoryRegistry/Classes/Factory/ProjectionCatchUpTrigger/SubprocessProjectionCatchUpTrigger.php b/Neos.ContentRepositoryRegistry/Classes/Factory/ProjectionCatchUpTrigger/SubprocessProjectionCatchUpTrigger.php
index b109aaf54d4..078e2c83685 100644
--- a/Neos.ContentRepositoryRegistry/Classes/Factory/ProjectionCatchUpTrigger/SubprocessProjectionCatchUpTrigger.php
+++ b/Neos.ContentRepositoryRegistry/Classes/Factory/ProjectionCatchUpTrigger/SubprocessProjectionCatchUpTrigger.php
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 declare(strict_types=1);
 namespace Neos\ContentRepositoryRegistry\Factory\ProjectionCatchUpTrigger;
 
+use Neos\Cache\Frontend\VariableFrontend;
+use Neos\ContentRepository\Core\Projection\ProjectionInterface;
+use Neos\EventStore\Model\Event\SequenceNumber;
 use Neos\Flow\Annotations as Flow;
 use Neos\ContentRepository\Core\Projection\ProjectionCatchUpTriggerInterface;
 use Neos\ContentRepository\Core\Projection\Projections;
@@ -20,6 +23,12 @@ class SubprocessProjectionCatchUpTrigger implements ProjectionCatchUpTriggerInte
      */
     protected $flowSettings;
 
+    /**
+     * @Flow\Inject(name="Neos.ContentRepositoryRegistry:CacheCatchUpStates")
+     * @var VariableFrontend
+     */
+    protected $catchUpStatesCache;
+
     public function __construct(
         private readonly ContentRepositoryId $contentRepositoryId
     ) {
@@ -29,15 +38,80 @@ public function triggerCatchUp(Projections $projections): void
     {
         // modelled after https://github.com/neos/Neos.EventSourcing/blob/master/Classes/EventPublisher/JobQueueEventPublisher.php#L103
         // and https://github.com/Flowpack/jobqueue-common/blob/master/Classes/Queue/FakeQueue.php
-        foreach ($projections as $projection) {
-            Scripts::executeCommandAsync(
-                'neos.contentrepositoryregistry:subprocessprojectioncatchup:catchup',
-                $this->flowSettings,
-                [
-                    'contentRepositoryIdentifier' => $this->contentRepositoryId->value,
-                    'projectionClassName' => get_class($projection)
-                ]
-            );
+        $queuedProjections = array_map(fn($projection) => $this->startCatchUpWithQueueing($projection), iterator_to_array($projections->getIterator()));
+        $queuedProjections = array_filter($queuedProjections);
+
+        $attempts = 0;
+        while (!empty($queuedProjections)) {
+            usleep(random_int(100, 25000) + ($attempts * $attempts * 10)); // 50000μs = 50ms
+            if (++$attempts > 50) {
+                throw new \RuntimeException('TIMEOUT while waiting for projections to run queued catch up.', 1550232279);
+            }
+
+            foreach ($queuedProjections as $key => $projection) {
+                if ($this->catchUpStatesCache->has($this->cacheKeyPrefix($projection) . 'QUEUED') === false) {
+                    // another process has started a catchUp while we waited, our queue has become irrelevant
+                    unset($queuedProjections[$key]);
+                }
+                $hasStarted = $this->startCatchUp($projection);
+                if ($hasStarted) {
+                    unset($queuedProjections[$key]);
+                    $this->catchUpStatesCache->remove($this->cacheKeyPrefix($projection) . 'QUEUED');
+                }
+            }
+            $queuedProjections = array_values($queuedProjections);
         }
     }
+
+    /**
+     * @param ProjectionInterface $projection
+     * @return bool has catchUp been started for given projection
+     * @throws \Neos\Cache\Exception
+     */
+    private function startCatchUp(ProjectionInterface $projection): bool
+    {
+        if ($this->catchUpStatesCache->has($this->cacheKeyPrefix($projection) . 'RUNNING')) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        $this->catchUpStatesCache->set($this->cacheKeyPrefix($projection) . 'RUNNING', 1);
+        // We are about to start a catchUp and can therefore discard any QUEUE that exists right now, apparently someone else is waiting for it.
+        $this->catchUpStatesCache->remove($this->cacheKeyPrefix($projection) . 'QUEUED');
+        Scripts::executeCommandAsync(
+            'neos.contentrepositoryregistry:subprocessprojectioncatchup:catchup',
+            $this->flowSettings,
+            [
+                'contentRepositoryIdentifier' => $this->contentRepositoryId->value,
+                'projectionClassName' => get_class($projection)
+            ]
+        );
+
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param ProjectionInterface $projection
+     * @return ProjectionInterface|null Returns only projections that have been queued for later retry.
+     * @throws \Neos\Cache\Exception
+     */
+    private function startCatchUpWithQueueing(ProjectionInterface $projection): ?ProjectionInterface
+    {
+        $catchUpStarted = $this->startCatchUp($projection);
+        if ($catchUpStarted) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        if (!$this->catchUpStatesCache->has($this->cacheKeyPrefix($projection) . 'QUEUED')) {
+            $this->catchUpStatesCache->set($this->cacheKeyPrefix($projection) . 'QUEUED', 1);
+            return $projection;
+        }
+
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    private function cacheKeyPrefix(ProjectionInterface $projection): string
+    {
+        $projectionClassName = get_class($projection);
+        return md5($this->contentRepositoryId->value . $projectionClassName);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/Neos.ContentRepositoryRegistry/Configuration/Caches.yaml b/Neos.ContentRepositoryRegistry/Configuration/Caches.yaml
index 19b4e1c3b8f..faf517748cc 100644
--- a/Neos.ContentRepositoryRegistry/Configuration/Caches.yaml
+++ b/Neos.ContentRepositoryRegistry/Configuration/Caches.yaml
@@ -3,3 +3,9 @@ Neos_ContentGraph_DoctrineDbalAdapter_ProcessedEvents:
   backend: Neos\Cache\Backend\FileBackend
   backendOptions:
     defaultLifetime: 400
+
+Neos_ContentRepositoryRegistry_CatchUpStates:
+  frontend: Neos\Cache\Frontend\VariableFrontend
+  backend: Neos\Cache\Backend\FileBackend
+  backendOptions:
+    defaultLifetime: 30
diff --git a/Neos.ContentRepositoryRegistry/Configuration/Objects.yaml b/Neos.ContentRepositoryRegistry/Configuration/Objects.yaml
index 564750f56d8..c3586f8147d 100644
--- a/Neos.ContentRepositoryRegistry/Configuration/Objects.yaml
+++ b/Neos.ContentRepositoryRegistry/Configuration/Objects.yaml
@@ -33,3 +33,12 @@ Neos\ContentRepository\Core\Projection\NodeHiddenState\NodeHiddenStateProjection
       value: Neos\ContentRepository\Core\Projection\NodeHiddenState\NodeHiddenStateProjectionFactory
     2:
       object: 'Neos\ContentRepository\Core\Infrastructure\DbalClientInterface'
+
+
+'Neos.ContentRepositoryRegistry:CacheCatchUpStates':
+  className: Neos\Cache\Frontend\VariableFrontend
+  factoryObjectName: Neos\Flow\Cache\CacheManager
+  factoryMethodName: getCache
+  arguments:
+    1:
+      value: Neos_ContentRepositoryRegistry_CatchUpStates