Because there was more food for the miners who were assigned to the Schongau district office than for those who belonged to the Weilheim district office, there was violent trouble around Whitsun 105 years ago.
Peissenberg -
105 years ago in the middle of the First World War in 1916, an event violently moved the minds of the population in Peißenberg - at that time it was actually still called "Unterpeißenberg": The Peißenbergers felt themselves to be massively disadvantaged.
What happened in Pentecost? In June 1916, the workers' committee of the Peißenberg coal mine complained to the district office in Weilheim about the poor supply of food to the miners. While the miners who belonged to the then district office of Schongau received a daily bread ration of 367 grams, the miners assigned to the Weilheim district office only received a ration of 327 grams.
Instead of the larger bread ration promised by the “Federal Council”, this was a smaller amount than before. There were also discrepancies in the allocation of cattle for slaughter. The notice of appeal states that four pigs were assigned to the Peißenberg butchers to be slaughtered for the Whitsun holidays. The Weilheim butchers, on the other hand, were allocated 14 pigs, although the number of inhabitants in both communities must have been about the same at the time. Unterpeißenberg had a population of 5,038 in 1919, Weilheim had a population of 6,754 in 1925.
This unequal treatment had sparked great outrage among the Peißenberg miners.
There was vigorous ranting against “the eaten bourgeois Weilheimer”.
The miners from Hohenpeißenberg belonged to the district office of Schongau and the miners from Unterpeißenberg to the district office of Weilheim.
The miners naturally talked to each other about the food supply.
A lot was regulated by brands.
Food, shoes and clothing could only be obtained through brands.
It then became clear relatively quickly that people were being treated differently and unequal care inevitably led to anger.
A good six months later, in the winter of 1916/17, the so-called "turnip winter" followed, where people in the cities starved to death.
The state no longer had the food situation under control.
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The author discovered this story in the documents of the former Peißenberg coal mine.
BY RUDI HOCHENAUER