What do the parties in Hamburg say on the economy?

The AfD wants to end compulsory membership of businesses in the chamber of commerce. According to the program, most companies do not support it.

Companies in Hamburg must belong to the chamber of commerce. The AfD wants to end this rule. It says most companies do not want it. Other countries do not have this rule either.

The AfD wants to remove obstacles to the growth of the Port of Hamburg, explicitly naming the EU sanctions against Russia. It cites the port's importance for jobs and the German economy.

The Port of Hamburg matters a lot for the economy. The AfD wants it to keep growing. So obstacles should go. It counts EU penalties on Russia among them. These penalties are called sanctions.

The AfD opposes selling 49.9 percent of HHLA to the shipping company MSC, arguing it ties the city to a single investor for decades. Instead, private investors should only take stakes in individual terminals or a multi-company holding, while control stays with the city.

HHLA is Hamburg's most important port company. The city sold almost half of it to the shipping firm MSC. The AfD thinks this was wrong. Private investors should only own small parts. The city should keep control of the port.

The CDU wants to strengthen Hamburg's economy through better general conditions rather than state intervention. It relies on less red tape, better infrastructure, a corporate tax reform and investment in new technologies. Its reasoning is that Hamburg has fallen behind in the competition between business locations.

The CDU wants to strengthen Hamburg's economy. Companies should face less red tape. Roads, networks and other facilities should get better. Company taxes should be reformed. Hamburg should do a lot for climate protection and hydrogen.

The CDU wants to keep Hamburg's port as a universal port, clear the backlog of investment, and gradually rebuild the quay walls. The federal government should contribute at least 500 million euros a year to the running costs of Germany's seaports, since the program sees the port as serving a national function.

The CDU wants to spend more money on the port. The quay walls should be rebuilt step by step. Ships should be able to reach the port reliably. The federal government should pay at least 500 million euros a year for German seaports.

The CDU wants to set up a regulatory sandbox called "Freihafen 2.0" where companies and start-ups can try out new technologies under relaxed rules. Anything permitted in any EU country should be permitted there as well.

The CDU wants to create a special area in Hamburg. It is called Freihafen 2.0. Companies should be able to test new technology there. The rules there should be looser. What is allowed elsewhere in the EU should be allowed there too.

The CDU wants to make the skilled trades more attractive to young people, including through a master craftsman exam with no fees and a trades day in schools. A parking permit valid across the city is meant to make daily work easier for trade businesses.

The CDU wants to support the skilled trades. The master craftsman exam should be free. Schools should hold a day about the trades. Tradespeople should get a parking permit for the whole city.

The CDU wants to counter rising vacancies in the city center by redesigning public squares and giving retail more targeted support. Additional flight connections are meant to bring more international visitors to Hamburg.

Many stores in the city center are empty. The CDU wants to make the city center nicer. Public squares should be rebuilt. Empty stores should be used for art and culture. More visitors from abroad should come to Hamburg.

The CDU wants business promotion to be judged less by new jobs and more by value creation. The cluster strategy is to be renewed and geared toward new technologies and links with science.

The city now supports companies mainly for creating jobs. The CDU wants to change that. What should count is how much research and development a company does. Companies in one industry should work more closely with science.

The CDU wants to strengthen Hamburg as an industrial location, actively recruit companies and keep enough land available for new sites and expansions. Additional land is to be found in central locations as well.

The CDU wants more industry in Hamburg. Companies should find enough space. The CDU wants to look for new land, even in the middle of the city. Industry and housing should be possible side by side.

The CDU wants to make Hamburg a city of founders, providing more funding, a Hamburg fund and a central service office. Founders should be able to focus on their business rather than paperwork in the early years.

The CDU wants more companies to be founded in Hamburg. Young companies should get more funding. There should be a special Hamburg fund. One central office should advise founders.

The CDU wants no further residential areas designated in the port and industrial zone, in order to keep room for energy production and technology. In neighborhoods, living and working are to be more closely linked, including trades in the inner city and venues for music clubs.

The CDU wants to protect land for industry and skilled trades. No new residential areas should be built at the port. In the districts, living and working should be close together. Music clubs should also find new places.

The CDU wants closer ties between science and business so that research turns into market-ready products and new companies. This includes start-up support, more programs in future-oriented fields, more dual study programs, and European start-up funds.

The CDU wants research and companies to work together more. Research ideas should become new products and firms. Students should learn how to start a company. There should be more dual study programs. In these, people study and work at the same time.

The CDU wants to raise the profile of the metropolitan region's health economy and build it up as a source of growth and jobs. A cross-agency overall strategy by the city government is to support companies and start-ups and connect them better.

Very many people in Hamburg work in the health sector. The CDU wants to strengthen this sector. It should bring more jobs. The city government should make a joint plan for this. The plan should help companies and young businesses.

The Greens want to keep developing Science City Bahrenfeld and make it Hamburg's first special innovation zone. Obstructive rules are to be identified and reduced there so that research and companies can cooperate more easily. Its centerpiece is to be the PETRA IV X-ray microscope, which the federal government should continue to co-fund.

A district for science is being built in Bahrenfeld. It is called Science City. Special rules should apply there so new ideas can grow more easily. A very powerful X-ray microscope is to be built there. The federal government should help.

The Greens want to make it easier for researchers to found companies out of universities. To do so, existing innovation structures are to be pooled, a central advisory office created and a transfer fund set up.

Researchers should find it easier to start their own company. A central office should help with legal and paperwork questions. The best ideas get money from a fund. Experienced founders should advise new founders.

The Greens want to create a new, regular forum between the leadership of the Senate, the authorities and Hamburg's business community. Its main purpose is to coordinate the economy's path to climate neutrality, which the city wants to support with infrastructure and lower energy costs.

The Senate and Hamburg's companies should meet regularly. They should talk about big tasks together. Protecting the climate is one of them. The Greens also want energy to become cheaper for companies.

The Greens want to organize the city's innovation support systematically and remove duplicate structures. A central point of contact, the House of Innovation, is to bring all players together. In the platform's view, the city has so far lacked a strategic innovation policy.

Hamburg has many offices that support new ideas. Some do the same thing. The Greens want to tidy this up. There should be one central place. It is called the House of Innovation.

The Greens propose a future foundation jointly backed by the city and business. Private capital and a municipal contribution are meant to secure lasting funding for promising technologies and research infrastructure.

The Greens want to set up a new foundation. The city and companies both put money in. The foundation uses the money to support new technology and research. That way funding should be available for the long term.

The Greens want a start-up strategy for Hamburg that is linked to the innovation strategy. Advice, funding programs and growth funds are to be financed permanently, and more private equity capital mobilized. Women founders are to receive targeted support because, according to the platform, they remain underrepresented.

The Greens want to support new companies in Hamburg better. Advice and funding programs should get money for the long term. Private investors should put more money into new companies. Women who start a company should get special help.

The Greens want to continue and expand Hamburg's strategy for social enterprises on a permanent basis. The InnoImpact grant program is to keep running, and public contracts are to be awarded more strongly on social and environmental criteria.

Some companies mainly want to solve problems in society. They are called social enterprises. The Greens want to keep supporting them. The city should pay more attention to social and environmental issues when it buys things.

The Greens want to review and realign the city's economic development policy. The industry clusters are to follow an overall strategy, involve start-ups more and network with each other. Renewable future technologies are to get priority when attracting companies.

The city supports companies in different ways. The Greens want to check whether this works well. The support should follow a clear plan. Companies with renewable energy technology should get land quickly.

The Greens want to strengthen Hamburg as an aviation hub and gear it toward fossil-free flying. Research on new propulsion is to be funded, and the aircraft industry supplied with hydrogen, sustainable fuels and green electricity. The city is to support, demand and accelerate the path to climate-neutral aviation.

Many people in Hamburg work in aircraft building. The Greens want to strengthen this industry. In the future, planes should fly without oil. More research should be done for that. The companies should get enough hydrogen and clean electricity.

The Greens want to strengthen Hamburg's port economically as a universal port and demand significantly more federal money for it. They also want new business models beyond container handling and closer cooperation among northern German ports.

The Greens want to make Hamburg's port stronger. The federal government should give much more money. The port should do more than move containers. Hamburg, Bremen and Lower Saxony should work together better.

The Greens want to use port land more intensively, cluster industries geographically and free up unused sites for innovation and, in individual cases, urban development. Under the guiding idea "the port is the city," the port should also become more accessible, including on foot, by bike and by ferry.

A lot of land in the port is not used well. The Greens want to use this land better. Some land should go to new companies and research. People should be able to visit the port more easily. Bike paths and ferries should get better.

The Greens favor private companies taking part in terminal operations so that investment flows into digitalization and automation. The platform treats modern terminals as a precondition for a climate-neutral and economically viable port.

Terminals are the places where ships are loaded and unloaded. The Greens think it is good when private companies take part. These companies should invest in modern technology. The federal government should pay for a bigger turning area for ships.

The Greens want to continue the Masterplan Handwerk 2030 together with the Chamber of Skilled Crafts and support the building of multi-story trade yards. Recruiting and training skilled workers for climate-related trades from abroad is to become easier.

Skilled trades are important for Hamburg, for example for heating and solar roofs. The Greens want to keep supporting them. They want to fund workshop buildings with several floors. Skilled workers from abroad should be able to come more easily.

The Greens want to review reporting, documentation and proof requirements for companies and introduce the once-only principle. They also plan a single procurement system and continued funding programs for the digitalization of small businesses.

Companies have to fill out many forms. The Greens want to reduce that. Companies should have to give information to the authorities only once. There should be one shared system for public contracts. Small businesses should keep getting help with going digital.

The Greens want to anchor city tourism as a cross-cutting task of urban development and regulate hotel growth. Visitor flows are to be spread more evenly across the city and individual neighborhoods relieved.

Many visitors come to Hamburg. Some neighborhoods get very crowded because of that. The Greens want to steer where new hotels are built. Visitors should also go to other neighborhoods and the surrounding region. Tourism should also benefit the people of Hamburg.

The Left wants to preserve the mix of retail and small business in the city's neighborhoods and calls for open-ended commercial leases. Micro-businesses and solo self-employed people should get their own advice and support service.

Small shops in the neighborhoods are struggling. Rents often rise sharply. The Left wants shop leases with no end date. Small firms and self-employed people should get easy access to advice and support.

The Left wants to bring the port's infrastructure fully back into city ownership and opposes selling stakes in the port operator HHLA and terminals to shipping companies. This is meant to give the city democratic control over the port.

The port is very important for Hamburg. The Left wants the port to belong fully to the city. The city should not sell parts to shipping companies. Hamburg should work together with other ports.

The Left wants to enshrine a ban on privatization in Hamburg's constitution and bring key infrastructure back into public ownership. It aims for a democratized economy in which workers help decide on production and distribution.

The city should no longer sell public property. This should be written in Hamburg's constitution. Important facilities should belong to the city again. Workers should have more say in their companies.

The SPD wants to keep all economic sectors in Hamburg and attract new ones. More land is to be transferred to the investment agency Hamburg Invest, and existing commercial land is to be preserved.

The SPD wants to keep companies in Hamburg. New companies should come too. That takes space. The city should keep land for business and provide more.

The SPD wants to keep funding the port with public money and modernize its infrastructure. A strategy for attracting businesses is meant to bring jobs and value creation to Hamburg rather than focusing only on container counts.

The SPD wants to keep putting public money into the port. The port should get modern facilities. Companies should set up in the port. This should create jobs.

The SPD sees lengthy planning and permitting procedures as one of the biggest obstacles for industry. A “Resilient Industry” task force is to review procedures for ways to speed them up, and the Masterplan Industrie is to be developed further.

Industrial companies wait a long time for permits. The SPD wants to change that. A working group should check what can go faster. Industry should stay in Hamburg.

The SPD wants to enable more trade workshops in multi-story commercial buildings so that businesses can stay in the city. It also wants to support digitization in the skilled trades and qualify women for leadership roles.

Tradespeople need space in the city. The SPD wants multi-story buildings for workshops. It also wants to help trades go digital. More women should become bosses in the trades.

The SPD wants to expand the city's four innovation parks and sharpen their profiles. Plans include a center for quantum technology, an additional aviation research site and an innovation district in Harburg.

Hamburg has special places for research and new companies. The SPD wants to expand them. They deal with green technology, medicine, aircraft and ships. A center for quantum computers is also planned.

The SPD wants to bring funding programs for start-ups and innovation together under a subsidiary of the city's development bank IFB. Start-up support at universities is to become clearer, and location marketing is meant to attract talent and venture capital.

The SPD wants to help new companies. Support should be found in one place. Founders should get advice and money more easily. Hamburg should also promote itself abroad.

The SPD wants to extend the culture and tourism levy and use it to fund additional projects in culture, media and sports across all districts. It also wants to strengthen tourism in the districts, the convention business and working conditions in hospitality.

Hotel guests in Hamburg pay a levy. The SPD wants to extend this levy. It wants to use the money for culture, media and sports. Tourism in the districts should grow too.

The SPD wants to support companies in the climate-friendly transformation with funding schemes. At the same time, targets already agreed are not to be tightened further so that investments remain plannable.

Changing to a climate-friendly economy costs money. The SPD wants to help companies with public funding. Climate targets should not become even stricter. That way, companies can plan safely.

The SPD wants to revise the city's innovation strategy and put creative, agile approaches to innovation on equal footing with technological research. Existing creative-industry institutions are to be strengthened and used strategically.

Many people in Hamburg work in creative jobs. The SPD wants to make more use of their ideas. The city will rewrite its plan for innovation. Creative ideas should count as much as technical research.