The removal of around 27 million euros from the federal government’s association and elite sports funding is no longer necessary. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) spoke on Friday after the two-day sports ministers’ conference on the Adidas AG premises in Herzogenaurach about the “supposed ten percent cut” for 2024. This will not happen. Due to reallocations in your ministry, sports funding will remain at 303 million euros.
In the draft budget by Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP), a reduction to 276 million euros was planned for the year of the Summer Olympic Games in Paris. In particular, the FES Berlin institute, which builds sports equipment such as bobsleighs, canoes and racing bikes, and the Institute for Applied Training Science (IAT) Leipzig saw their budgets cut from a combined 21.22 million to 17.2 million euros by almost twenty percent. threatened in their existence.
The Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU), host and chairman of the conference, had previously said that he and his colleagues were critical of the cuts and that FES and IAT were particularly important to them. They are also very concerned about the clubs, which are threatened with great damage due to cuts in voluntary services financed by the Ministry of Family Affairs from 120 to 95 million euros. They therefore unanimously decided to ask the Bundestag to bring about a change.
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Faeser announced that she would present a draft of a sports funding law this year, which will form the basis of the independent agency for financing and controlling top-class sport that her ministry and the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) are aiming for.
