Category: Press release

According to the preliminary final result, the hamburgers with 54.9% voted against an application for the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2036, 2040 and 2044. Eckart Maudrich, spokesperson for NOlympia Hamburg: "No to Olympia is a vote for more spending in gyms, sports fields and swimming pools, all of which have a benefit and against a suburban arena …

With a clear majority of around 55% The Hamburgers voted against a Hamburg bid for the 2036, 2040 and 2044 Olympic and Paralympic Games. At 50% Hamburg had a national comparison with Munich (42%) and NRW (33%by far the highest voter turnout. Eckart Maudrich, spokesperson for NOlympia Hamburg:  "With the second No, Hamburg has a …

From 22 April to 12 May, the election documents, including a 24-page information brochure, were handed over to 1.3 million voters by post. By May 13, 300,000 (23 million) had already voted.%) Hamburger ab, which in historical comparison to the referendums of 2025 (12%) and the Olympic referendum (14%) is already a time-related participation record.Notwithstanding this, Mayor … sends out

Zeit today published an interview with Alexander Budzier, co-author of The Oxford Olympics Study. The study examined all Olympic Games in the period 1960-2024 in terms of their costs and cost overruns. For all summer games, the study found that budgets in the median, real around 121% have been exceeded. With regard to the Hamburg Games, he will play in ….

According to the announcement of the NDR Hamburg Journal of 21.04.2026 (from minute 19:44), the Chamber of Commerce issued a press release on 19.04. on a survey, which had the sentiment picture for or against an Olympic application to the subject. Unlike other press releases, it is not published on the website of the Chamber of Commerce. On 20 April, the NDR reported on this. In his …

On 19.04. In 2026, 17 municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia and Kiel decided to apply for the Olympic Games. Fewer than one in five voters voted yes, but this caused a yes in the 60s and sometimes 70s percent due to the low level of voter turnout. Only in the NRW Lead-City Cologne it was different. There were nearly four of …'s

In its letter to the school authorities of 10 April, the school authority points out that teachers can also use NOlympia's offers for the design of lessons in relation to the referendum, as the initiative has been successful. It justifies this step by the fact that the sending of the teaching materials, which the pre-project group based in the interior authority to the Citizenship …

The so-called pre-project group, i.e. the Olympic advertising department of the Senate financed with several million euros in tax money, sent a message to its partners on 10 April with the subject ‘Hamburg trains for OlympJA’ on 24 April at 4 p.m. at Jungfernstieg. Contrary to what the sender might suggest, the call is signed by three ‘stimulators’: Neuland Concerts, Bergmanngruppe, …

In an open letter to Sports Senator Grote and Finance Senator Dressel, NOlympia-Hamburg calls for an additional 167 million euros to be invested in accessible sports facilities in low-status districts in the double budget 2027/2028. Hamburg can have over 2.66 billion euros from the law for the financing of infrastructure investments of federal states and municipalities (LuKIFG) and has not yet received these funds.