Following the violent clashes on the margins of the G20 summit, Chancellor Angela Merkel and Hamburg’s First Mayor Olaf Scholz promised swift and unbureaucratic compensation for all those having sustained damage.
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The federal government and the Hanseatic City of Hamburg are to provide up to 40 million euros specifically earmarked for this purpose.
The federal government and the Hanseatic City of Hamburg are to provide a hardship fund totalling up to 40 million euros that will be used to compensate those affected by the violence. Compensation will be payable for damage to property sustained in conjunction with the riots surrounding the G20 summit over the period 6 to 9 July in Hamburg.
Immediately after the close of the G20 summit on 8 July, Chancellor Angela Merkel and the First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz, thanked the emergency services. They also expressed their sympathy for the people of Hamburg who saw their property damaged as a result of the "inconceivable violence" of extreme left-wing rioters. Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz announced that they would be looking for a way to provide swift and unbureaucratic assistance to all those who had sustained damage.
The Hamburgische Investitions- und Förderbank (IFB Hamburg) will be administering the hardship fund set up to provide immediate and unbureaucratic assistance to victims of the G20 riots in Hamburg. Applications can be submitted immediately to the responsible police stations in Hamburg. The application forms are available from the Hamburg police and the completed forms can be returned to the police.