Overview
- The Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund will hold an extraordinary meeting in Baden‑Baden on 26 September to pick one German candidate from Berlin, München or Rhein‑Ruhr to enter the international bid process.
- A DOSB evaluation commission that worked with Freshfields and PwC produced a scoring matrix whose results will be published before the vote and used as guidance but not as a binding decision.
- Sixty voters will decide: 42 national Olympic federations with three votes each, ten DOSB presidium members and eight named personal members will cast the ballots that pick the national representative.
- Local legitimacy is a central fault line because Munich won a public referendum in October 2025 and Hamburg withdrew after a negative vote, while Berlin lacks a mechanism for an initiated referendum and faces opposition from the Greens and The Left.
- The chosen bid will then move into the IOC timetable with a projected international shortlist in March 2027 and final hosting decisions around 2029, and each applicant is highlighting existing venues and legacy housing as key selling points.