The director of the Bavarian Memorials Foundation, Karl Freller, would like to promote his office manager.
The staff council is not pleased - this is how a delicate dispute about the Dachau concentration camp memorial started.
Dachau
- The political scientist Erika Tesar has headed the office of the foundation director Karl Freller for over five years.
Now she should take over the educational management of the concentration camp memorial by April 1st at the latest.
The memorial's staff council has vetoed it, but it is unclear whether that even counts.
There is great unrest among the employees, some fear that the reputation of the memorial will be damaged by promotions of favors.
There should be a lot of differences of opinion between Freller, who is also a member of the CSU, and Gabriele Hammermann, who has been running the memorial since 2009.
Hammermann has been asking for more money for a long time.
The memorial is underfunded compared to other places of remembrance.
When asked whether the PhD historian is up for grabs, Freller only replies: "That is not the topic now."
The job dispute has a history: at the end of last year, there was a regular advertisement for the educational management.
The result, so Freller told our newspaper, has not convinced anyone.
Thereupon he proposed to carry out an internal change of position and to fill the position with Erika Tesar.
She is very qualified, has organized top-class events and is also the descendant of Jewish Holocaust victims.
You can authentically convey knowledge about the Holocaust.
"I don't think anything better can happen to us."
The removal of the positions counts when it comes to reshuffling
There are several legal hurdles.
On the one hand, the staff council takes a stand.
Freller hopes it doesn't stay that way.
A reshuffle is permitted if the offices are less than 30 kilometers away - and from the Munich Praterinsel, where the Memorial Foundation has its offices, to the concentration camp memorial in the east of Dachau, it is only 17.65 kilometers as the crow flies.
Freller does not consider it necessary for the Board of Trustees to deal with personnel issues.
"In the end I have to decide."
Gabriele Triebel, Member of the Green Parliament, sees it differently.
She calls Freller's decision "an absurdity" and wants to clarify the background via a state parliament request.
