Hamburg Olympic Citizenship Referendum

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The Hamburg Olympic Citizenship Referendum was a referendum by the Hamburg sovereign on the application to host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Hamburg. The proposal was rejected on November 29, 2015 by 51.6% against 48.4% of the votes. The turnout was 50.2%.

Hamburg's application for the Olympic Games

In March 2015, the Presidium of the German Olympic Sports Confederation recommended supporting Hamburg's application for the 2024 Summer Olympics. A little later, an extraordinary general meeting in Frankfurt am Main unanimously passed the resolution to apply with Hamburg to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024 and possibly also in 2028.

The plans for the venues and the Olympic village envisaged the little Grasbrook south of HafenCity as the center of the games. The planning status was presented to the public at the beginning of June 2015.

referendum

In June 2015, the change Hamburg Parliament with two-thirds majority , the popular legislation in Hamburg , a citizenship referendum on the Olympic bid to allow the city. All Hamburg residents aged 16 and over were entitled to vote. The referendum was also considered to have failed if less than 20% of those eligible to vote voted “yes”. If the submission was rejected, Hamburg would withdraw its application . Also in Kiel , where the sailing events were to take place, was at the same time by referendum voted.

Voting text

I am in favor of the German Olympic Sports Confederation applying with the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024.

Campaigns

Per

The private initiative “Fire and Flame for Hamburg 2024” promoted the application. The Hamburg Miniatur Wunderland entrepreneurs Frederik Braun , Gerrit Braun and Stephan Hertz were responsible for the campaign .

The SPD Hamburg , the CDU Hamburg , the Greens in Hamburg , the AfD Hamburg and the FDP Hamburg , i.e. all parliamentary groups except for Die Linke , were behind the application. Also, the Hamburger SV and other professional sports clubs campaigned for it. Local media also “threw their neutral observer position overboard” ( Der Spiegel ) and advertised the 2024 Olympics with special supplements, complete Olympic newspapers and pro-reporting.

Contra

The group "Youth Against Olympia" was formed from members of the Left Party and Green Youth. You criticized u. a. the statements of the posters from "Hamburg 2024". As opponents of the application, they saw no gain in the games for the average hamburger. They feared rising rents due to the Olympics, a greater social division in the city and a "huge danger area".

Die Linke was the only parliamentary group to reject the application.

Results

Majorities according to voting bodies

Of 653,227 valid - out of 1528 invalid - votes in Hamburg 51.6% were no. In Kiel, on the other hand, 65.6% voted in favor of continuing the application. The turnout was 50.2% in Hamburg and 31.7% in Kiel.

The Olympic supporters only achieved a majority in two ( Wandsbek , Bergedorf ) of Hamburg's seven districts .

district coordination
legitimate 		Postal
voting 		Voting
ballot box 		Voting
total 		Invalid
votes 		Valid
votes 		YES
votes 		NO-
votes
number number % number % number % number % number % number % number %
Hamburg-center 179.253 65,593 36.6 9,795 5.5 75,338 42.1 231 0.3 75,157 99.7 32,778 43.6 42,379 56.4
Altona 186.110 86,591 46.5 9,744 5.2 96,337 51.8 216 0.2 96.121 99.8 42,965 44.7 53,156 55.3
Eimsbüttel 192.485 91,680 47.6 13,221 6.9 104.901 54.5 232 0.2 104,669 99.8 50,782 48.5 53,887 51.5
Hamburg North 234,571 110,598 47.1 16,300 6.9 126,898 54.1 318 0.3 126,580 99.7 61,767 48.8 64,813 51.2
Wandsbek 309,646 141,839 45.8 17,485 5.6 159,324 51.5 335 0.2 158,989 99.8 82,569 51.9 76,420 48.1
Bergedorf 91,661 37,358 40.8 5,190 5.7 42,548 46.4 89 0.2 42,459 99.8 22,075 52.0 20,384 48.0
Harburg 106,692 41,949 39.3 5,882 5.5 47,831 44.8 107 0.2 47,724 99.8 22,245 46.6 25,479 53.4
Hamburg as a whole 1,300,418 575.610 44.3 77,617 6.0 653.227 50.2 1,528 0.2 651.699 99.8 315.181 48.4 336,518 51.6

Reactions

Olaf Scholz , the First Mayor of Hamburg, said after the referendum that Hamburg would not apply to host the event. The President of the German Olympic Sports Confederation, Alfons Hörmann , described the defeat as a severe setback and a low blow. It was not possible to give the whole of German sport new perspectives.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg is supposed to bring the Olympics to Germany. In: tagesschau.de. Tagesschau.de, March 17, 2015, accessed on September 3, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Internationally renowned offices take on the master planning for the Olympic City. In: hamburg.de. Hamburg , May 26, 2015, accessed April 15, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Hamburg clears the way for the Olympic referendum. In: Abendblatt.de. Hamburger Abendblatt , May 28, 2015, accessed on October 25, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Renate Pinzke: November 29th: Referendum: This is how Hamburg votes on the Olympics. In: mopo.de. Hamburger Morgenpost , June 17, 2015, accessed on November 7, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Olympic referendum on November 29, 2015. In: statistik-nord.de. Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein , accessed on November 7, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Benjamin Knaack: Who asks, has to live with the answer. In: Der Spiegel . Spiegel, November 30, 2015, accessed September 15, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Opponents of the Olympics take apart poster campaign in Hamburg. Guest contribution by youth against the Olympics. In: bento.de . November 3, 2015, accessed November 24, 2015.
  8. ↑ Olympic referendum on November 29, 2015 in Hamburg - final result (state result). (pdf; 128 kB) In: statistik-nord.de. Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein , accessed on December 15, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Olympic referendum: Hamburg says no - SPIEGEL ONLINE. In: spiegel.de. Retrieved November 29, 2015 .
  10. ↑ ad./dpa: Hamburgers reject the Olympic Games. In: FAZ.net . November 29, 2015, accessed November 29, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Olympic referendum on November 29, 2015 in Hamburg - final result (result by district). (pdf; 121 kB) In: statistik-nord.de. Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein , accessed on December 15, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Scholz admits defeat in Hamburg. In: faz.net . November 29, 2015, accessed November 29, 2015 .
  13. ↑ ad./dpa: Long faces among Hamburg's supporters. In: FAZ.net . November 29, 2015, accessed November 29, 2015 .