Berlin wants to bring the Olympic Games and Paralympics to Germany together with Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. According to dpa, the bid will be presented next Tuesday in Berlin's Olympic Stadium. It initially remained unclear which year the bid, entitled "Berlin plus", would be for.
The heads of the federal states Kai Wegner (CDU/Berlin), Dietmar Woidke (SPD/Brandenburg), Manuela Schwesig (SPD/Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) and Daniel Günther (CDU/Schleswig-Holstein) will be present. The Interior Minister responsible for sport, Armin Schuster (CDU), is to come from Saxony.
Leipzig's Lord Mayor Burkhard Jung had previously announced the date in the Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper and spoke of a bid for 2040. North Rhine-Westphalia will also present its plans for the Games on the Rhine and Ruhr next Wednesday.
