Regio SPD, Greens and CDU want to change the Hamburg constitution

The Hamburg constitution is to be expanded to include a commitment to Europe and children's rights and against any form of group-related enmity. This provides for a supplementary proposal for the preamble, which the SPD, Greens and CDU submitted to the constitutional committee of the Hamburg Parliament on Thursday and which the “Hamburger Abendblatt” had previously reported on.

Diversity and cosmopolitanism create identity for urban society, it says. "With this in mind and with a firm will, the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ensures the dignity and freedom of all people. She campaigns against racism and anti-Semitism as well as any other form of group-related enmity. It opposes the renewal and spread of totalitarian ideologies and the glorification and glorification of National Socialism.”

In times of growing polarization "up to and including extremist efforts in all directions", a clear commitment to the free-democratic basic order and against the glorification of National Socialist ideas is urgently needed, said CDU chairman André Trepoll. He launched the initiative to expand the constitution together with Mathias Petersen from the SPD and the Green MP Farid Müller a year and a half ago.

"I also very much welcome the fact that our initiative to include voluntary commitment in the constitution has met with approval from the other parliamentary groups and that voluntary work has gained considerably in importance as a result," said Trepoll.

As a new state goal, the preamble is to state that Hamburg is making a contribution “to a European Union that is committed to democratic, constitutional, social and federal principles and the principle of subsidiarity”. In addition, it should be added that the rights of children are respected, protected and promoted.