30 November 2017, by Online-Dienste

On 28 November, the first mayor of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz, gave the keynote address to the Übersee-Club in Hamburg, in which he presented the aims of the Hamburg Senate in the area of science and scholarship. His speech was a clear commitment to Hamburg as a center of science and scholarship. In contrast to the situation in 1913, as the Hamburg city assembly rejected the proposal to establish a university with recourse to "Hamburg's genius lopsidedness as a city of merchants," today it is clear that "being a strong business location is not just a decorative accessory for a major modern international city, but a prerequisite for innovation, economic growth and solutions to global challenges."

Text of the speech