As of: January 26, 2024, 7:15 a.m
By: Martin Becker
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The municipality of Unterhaching is currently struggling with personnel shortages in the cemetery, registry office and social welfare office.
Citizens are asked to postpone their business.
Unterhaching
- Because there were suddenly irritated facial expressions in the Unterhaching local council, Charlotte Schmidt, head of the citizen service department in the town hall, promptly rushed to the press table.
No, weddings and deaths are not a problem, she hastened to emphasize.
A quick answer to the question of what the agenda item “Announcements” meant by “restrictions in the area of cemeteries, registry offices and social welfare offices”.
Citizens should postpone their affairs
To put it bluntly: you can get married or die at any time in Unterhaching.
What had to be clarified after the municipality had announced, first on its website and now through Mayor Wolfgang Panzer (SPD) himself, that citizens were asked to “postpone their matters in the area of the cemetery, registry office or social welfare office until next week if possible.” .
Weddings and funerals take place
The following day, when asked by Münchner Merkur, town hall spokesman Simon Hötzl tried to smooth over the frowns of many listeners in the local council.
“Scheduled weddings or funerals will of course take place,” emphasizes Hötzl.
If necessary, the mayor can even step in as a registrar at a wedding.
But: Due to “extremely frequent staff absences” due to illness, there are bottlenecks in the town hall.
Be it acknowledgments of paternity, death certificates, or civil status certificates – such things would have to wait at the moment, as would preliminary marriage discussions or the highly sought-after advice on pensions.
“We have to prioritize very strongly at the moment,” says Hötzl.
Next week the situation will ease.