Away with the Mohr? District administrator rejects demand for change of coat of arms: "By no means racist"

The Mohr is to disappear from the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district coat of arms.

He is racist.

The district administrator rejects the request.

A precedent?

• The debate about Mohren in the coat of arms has now also reached the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district.

• A petition demands: The Mohr must disappear.

• The Mohr also appears in the Mittenwald coat of arms - he is not affected.

  For now.

Update 5.45 p.m.:

- The red lion could also look the Zugspitze in the eye.

Or the castle museum in Murnau.

Or a fluttering fellow in costume.

Everything is possible - the main thing is that the

with its red crown

disappears from

the coat of arms of

.

This is how a woman imagines it - neither the Landtag nor the Landratsamt are known about her origin - who

has submitted

a

to

the

.

In it, she demands that the

removed from the

or that it be redesigned accordingly.

This applies to

n also the city of Coburg and the district of Freising.

Reason: The representation contains "a false colonized image of the entire

".

Could it, so feared the initiator,

against black people emerge or existing prejudices

are.

District Administrator Anton Speer: "The depiction of the dark-skinned crown bearer is by no means racist"

An argument that

does not follow.

On October 1, he sent a

to the responsible Ministry of the Interior

on almost three pages

.

In it he goes into detail on the

the coat of arms.

The

thus symbolizes the

of the county Werdenfels to Archbishopric Freising (see box below).

“The depiction of the

is by no means

“

rated it as a mark of identification,

.

Speer writes of an "identification" with the district and its history.

“Should we negate them?” Asks his spokesman Wolfgang Rotzsche, who dealt intensively with the topic.

He is not surprised by the debate, given that it has repeatedly arisen in different places over the past few months and years.

You can lead them, he thinks.

Right or not, he doesn't comment on that.

But he makes one thing clear: "The petition falls short." According to the motto: all or none.

The

appears many times

.

Also in the coat of arms of the Mittenwald market.

Mohr also in the Mittenwald coat of arms: Historians see no racist reference

"We were probably not looked at here," suspects Mayor Enrico Corongiu (SPD).

But the petition could have consequences for

, he fears.

If it has consequences for the county.

Because the historical backgrounds are similar.

Some time ago, Corongiu and his employees dealt more intensively with the

.

Conclusion: There is no

The head of the

- in Mittenwald it wears a golden crown - is taken from the diocese of Freising, which Mittenwald also bought in 1294.

The coat of arms was awarded to Mittenwald as early as 1407 - to the very first Bavarian municipality.

Delete Mohr from all coats of arms?

The mayor lacks a differentiated discussion

You have to talk

about

, question the familiar, the

has to disappear, Corongiu leaves no doubt about these points.

But he lacks differentiated thinking.

“That should be sensible and rational, what we are doing here.”

Removing

the

from the coat of arms after more than 600 years is not part of the mayor's opinion.

On the contrary.

Is

n't that maybe

? He asks.

"This is how you erase a piece of history."

Speer wants to prevent that.

lets the ministry know.

Now it is

the turn of

the

in the state parliament.

According to a spokeswoman, it is unclear when he will deal with the input and what the threats will be.

Rotzsche does not dare to predict whether the decision would be legally binding at all.

In the municipal ordinance it is said that changing coats of arms is the responsibility of the municipalities.

But Rotzsche puts "a big question mark" behind it.

The Mohr in the district coat of arms

The Mohrenkopf is the Freising coat of arms.

According to the Bavarian House of History, it symbolizes the affiliation of the County of Werdenfels to the Hochstift Freising from the 13th to the beginning of the 19th century.

It has been valid in its current form with diamonds and the lion - reference to the Guelphs as the dominant rule before Freising - since 1962. After the regional reform in 1972 it was taken over.

In general, the Mohr is an outdated term for people with dark skin.

Among other things, it is criticized that whites introduced the term, Africans did not call themselves that.

In addition, Mohr is often portrayed as a stereotype.

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Original message Tuesday, 10.30 am: District

- frizzy hair, plump lips and a ring in the ear: Does the depiction of a

in Bavarian city arms

convey

a false, colonized image?

The

must now

decide on this.

A

wants to have the city of Coburg, the district of Freising and the district of

their

.

The Garmisch-Partenkirchen district office

submitted

a

to the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior at the beginning of October

, which it also made available to the media on Tuesday.

In it, the authority precisely

explains

the historical background of the

.

Mohr in the coat of arms racist: Petition is before the Bavarian state parliament

The Mohrenkopf, the

symbolizes the affiliation of the County of Werdenfels to the Hochstift Freising.

This lasted from the 13th to the beginning of the 19th century.

The coat of arms has existed in its current form since 1962.

District Administrator Anton Speer takes a clear position at the end of the almost three-page letter: "I reject a change in the coat of arms on behalf of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district."

Garmisch-Partenkirchen: District Administrator rejects change of coat of arms - "Mohr without racist reference"

The Lord Mayor of Coburg Dominik Sauerteig (SPD) had already asked around in his decision-making bodies.

"Political majorities to change the city coat of arms are not perceptible in the committees of the city of Coburg", he emphasized in a statement to the state government.

The representation honors the

and has

.

According to the spokeswoman, it was still unclear

when the committee for submissions and complaints in the state parliament would deal with the petition and what

there might be.

According to the municipal code, changing coats of arms is basically the responsibility of the municipalities.

dpa / lby / kat