The hardship fund for social infrastructure facilities, which the federal government wants to set up in connection with the gas and electricity price brake, should also be available to clubs and other sports facilities, contrary to current plans.
That was what Parliamentary State Secretary Mahmut Özdemir promised on Wednesday at the meeting of the Sports Committee of the Bundestag.
The Ministry of the Interior, which is responsible for sport in the federal government, is making efforts at all levels to ensure that sport is also included in the hardship case regulation in the economic stabilization program, said the SPD MP.
Michael Reinsch
Correspondent for sports in Berlin.
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Based on a survey of 8,000 of the almost 90,000 sports clubs in Germany, Michaela Röhrbein warned for the German Olympic Sports Confederation that five to six percent saw their existence threatened.
In general, the reserves were exhausted by the corona crisis, and volunteering was very unsettled.
It is incomprehensible that only sport is excluded from the hardship rule.
Röhrbein called on the MPs to change this in the legislative process.
Despite cold showers and temperature reduction, a maximum of 15 percent of energy consumption can be saved.
In addition to the approximately five thousand sports clubs threatened with bankruptcy, the clubs that do not use the halls and squares of municipalities but own the facilities are also at risk.
In addition, clubs and municipalities urgently need support with the energetic renovation of their sports facilities;
they mostly date from the 1960s and 1970s.
Röhrbein demanded: "We also need a turning point in sport."