Data collection template and questionnaire

Change in standing of region relative to national average in last five and ten years¹⁸²

	1991	1996	2001
GDP/capita (€)	26.191	29.107	33.996
Population	682.500	678.800	660.300
Employment (persons)	405.300	383.100	391.000
Unemployment (persons)	31.629	44.374	39.851
Unemployment rate	10,7	15,6	13,6

	1995	1997	1999
R+D expenditure (mio €)^183	583	427	452

Estimated effect on regional circumstances of different domestic policies:

	Strongly positive	Slightly positive	Neutral	Slightly negative	Strongly negative
Territorial Policy		X
Public sector transfer	X
Employment policy	X
Technology policy	X

Hamburg

DE6 Hamburg

GDP per head (2000)

DE6 Hamburg¹⁸⁴: 42.068 € (the highest in Germany) (average of old Länder incl. Berlin: 26.426 € and excl. Berlin: 26.637 €)¹⁸⁵

Germany¹⁸⁶: 24.700 €

EU-15 = 100; DE6 = 181,5¹⁸⁷

GDP at current prices/in Million €

DE6 Hamburg (mio €): 71.947 ¹⁸⁸

Germany¹⁸⁹ (mio €): 2.030.000

EU-15¹⁹⁰ (mio €): 8.524.371
Employment rate (2000)

Employment rate: 66,1 %¹⁹¹¹⁹² (86,2%¹⁹³) (German average = 68,8%)

People employed: 1.042.100¹⁹⁴
Unemployment rate (2002)

9 % ¹⁹⁵ (German average: 9,8%; West 7,9%, East: 18,0%)

People unemployed: 76.518¹⁹⁶

Technological standing (5 point scale): 4,3

Strengths¹⁹⁷ [short description]

The Hanseatic City-state of Hamburg is the second largest German city. Located on the river Elbe, about 100 km from the North Sea, it covers a surface area of 755 km² and has a population of 1.715.000 inhabitants (in 2002).

Hamburg is one of the most important economic and foreign trade centres in Germany and Europe as it has become the leading foreign-trade centre for Northern Europe and a key crossing point for the Baltic countries' overseas trade (92 mio. tonnes of cargo (incl. 4.7 mio. TEU of containerised goods in 2001). The city is thus a centre of internal and global trading links with a logistics sector based on a state-of-the-art infrastructure (network of regular block-train services; direct train links to the port of Lübeck).

The civil aviation and the shipbuilding industry play major roles in Hamburg’s economy, even if Hamburg's economic structure is also strongly characterised by the service sector (ca. 75% of the work force employed here). Moreover, trade (23%) and transport (18%) are traditionally significant. Overseas trade via Germany’s largest seaport has made it Germany’s major doorway to foreign markets in Northern and Eastern Europe. Key areas of the economy are media and advertising (9%), publishing houses, consultancies, software suppliers, hotel and catering, food and consumer-oriented trades, the banking and insurance sector (14%) (with the Hamburg's Stock Exchange founded in 1588; 1. in Germany), micro-electronics as well as information, telecommunication (70,000 employees; annual turnover: €10 bn), medical, pharmaceutical, environmental and bio-technologies (Hamburg's Innovative Medical Technology Center (imtc): interface to R&D). Print media form the backbone of the city's media landscape (over half of the newspapers and magazines sold in Germany are produced by Hamburg-based publishing companies; the majority of the 20 best-selling magazines are produced here). The city's publishing industry consists of about 1.000 companies with over 700 printing firms aside. This large media sector has made Hamburg become one of Germany’s leading media hubs with constant growth rates over the past years (over 10.000 firms; increase of over 50% since 1995; more than 60.000 employees; annual turnover in excess of € 25 bn). Thus the media industry (including also music (700 companies) and film production) in Hamburg is the 3. biggest industry sector in terms of annual turnover and the 4. biggest employer. Moreover, the multimedia sector is important. Outside Hamburg the Channel Harburg is one of Germany’s modern high-tech centres including IT, microelectronics and telecommunications industries.

Nevertheless, Hamburg is still an industrial location. It is one of the centres of Europe’s civil aviation industry - based on aircraft construction and MRO maintenance/repair/overhaul.

Companies: Airbus, Beiersdorf, Blohm & Voss shipyard, D'Arcy Group, EADS Airbus, Eppendorf, Fork Unstable, Hapag Lloyd, Helm, Hermes-Kreditversicherungs AG, IBM (first E-Business Innovation Center outside the USA), KNSK, Legas Delany,Lowe Lintas, Lufthansa Technik AG (Airbus production), Medienwerft, Mindworks Media Services, Montblanc, MMB, Norddeutsche Affinerie, Olympus, Otto Versand, Panasonic, Philips Medical Systems, SAP, Scholz & Friends, Slagmans, Spotmedia, Springer & Jacoby, Tchibo, Thyssen Group, Winter & Ibe., Young & Rubicum.
With a view to the education sector 1 public university, 1 university of economy and politics, 1 university of the German Federal Armed Forces, 1 technical university, 5 public institutes of higher education, about 250 research and education institutes (among them the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine) and 2 Max-Planck institutes are located here.

Weaknesses [short description]: No special weaknesses

Evolution in last decade [short description]

Employment has been slightly growing (1992: 1.039.900, 2002: 1.045.700). The same holds true for the GDP/per capita (1992: 34.336 €, 2002:43.556€).¹⁹⁸

Hamburg. like Bremen, underwent structural changes from a ship industry and row material dominated economy towards a modern ‘mixed’ economy with a huge service sector. Companies such as the Blohm & Voss shipyard (Thyssen Group) successfully managed this structural change and became a modernized company for repairing and modifying ships and building specialist vessels (frigates or cruise liners). With a view to other results of the restructuring, today nearly half of service-sector workers are employed in the media, consultancy firms, software suppliers (in 1999 Hamburg has been awarded "Digital City Europe at the International Emma Awards for Interactive Media; with over 18.000 employees Hamburg is one of Germany's leading multimedia centres), hotel and catering and consumer-oriented skilled trades. Banking and insurance is another key sector. Future growth in the multimedia industry is projected in the fields programming, consulting, in project management and system administration. Moreover, since the move of the German government from Bonn to Berlin, the situation of Hamburg has changed insofar as the politico-economic interests have shifted to the north-east of the republic.
Further Indicators
Public revenue and spending (mio €)¹⁹⁹

	2001	2002
Revenue	7.797,8	8.256,3
Spending	9.366,7	9.471,4

Employment (at workplace) per sector²⁰⁰

Agriculture: 2000: 5.500 2001: 5.400 2002: 5.500

Industry (without building and construction trade): 2000: 133.700 2001: 135.600 2002: 133.500

Building and construction trade: 2000: 45.900 2001: 42.700 2002: 40.100

Trade, tourism, transportation: 2000: 314.900 2001: 315.000 2002: 313.600

Public and private services:^201 2000: 542.800 2001: 554.000 2002: 553.000

Research base

Employment in education, higher education and research²⁰²

2001/02

34.712

Public expenditure on science and research (mio €)²⁰³

2001	846,5
2002	822,9

Students at universities²⁰⁴

Wintersemester	Total number of
1999/2000	65 115
2000/2001	64 084
2001/2002	66 514

Support infrastructure

Infrastructure (categories of streets)²⁰⁵

Category	Motorway (Autobahn)	Road network	Total
Kilometres	59	98	157

Vehicles²⁰⁶

2003

947.472

Doctors and dentists (2000)²⁰⁷

Doctors	9.046
Dentists	1.725

Designation for principal domestic policy support instruments (5 point scale): 1,8

Territorial Policy	1,8
Public sector transfer	0 (negative)
Employment policy	3
Technology policy	2,5

Hamburg²⁰⁸

HH	Fiscal resources before SHES (in Mio. DM)	Divergence from national average (balance measurement) (= 100)	Contribution / assignment within SHES (in Mio. DM)	Fiscal resources after SHES (in Mio. DM)	Divergence from national average (balance measurement) (= 100)	Supplementary federal grants (in Mio. DM)						Fiscal resources after SHES and Gap-filling grants (in Mio. DM)	Divergence from national average (balance measurement) (= 100)
						Gap-filling grants	Compensations for special political costs	Compensations for special burdens (east Germany)	Transitional grants (west Germany)	Rehabilitational grants Bremen and Saarland	SFH total
1995	9.553	103.5	-117	9.453	102.2	0	0	0	0	0	0	9.453	102.2
1996	10.099	107.9	-482	9.618	102.8	0	0	0	0	0	0	9.618	102.8
1997	9.753	105.2	-273	9.480	102.3	0	0	0	0	0	0	9.480	102.3
1998	10.669	109.8	-615	10.054	103.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	10.054	103.5
1999*	11.242	110.2	-665	10.577	103.7	0	0	0	0	0	0	10.577	103.7
2000*	12.178	116.0	-1.099	11.079	105.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	11.079	105.5
2001	10.843	109.3	-520	10.322	104.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	10.322	104.1

*) preliminary

Impact on ex-ante divergence from national average of support from EU funds (7 point scale): 3

		2000-2006 (mio €)
				ERDF		ESF		EAGGF
		Total	EU contribution	EU contribution	%	EU contribution	%	EU contribution	%
Objective 2	Hamburg	12.384	6.192	6.192	100%	-	-	-	-

Impact on ex-ante divergence from national average of domestic policies (7 point scale): 3