Scandal over Hitler comparison in the state parliament: SPD chief and CSU minister clash

Scandal in the Bavarian state parliament: Because he brought the CSU in connection with Adolf Hitler, the SPD member Florian von Brunn is threatened with trouble - also from the official side.

Munich - The ritual debate is almost over, ten gentlemen have made their speeches, as the matter escalates.

The horse goes through the speakers eleven and twelve.

The state parliament was just discussing the state government's mask purchases and the CSU's mask affairs *.

Not an easy topic, really not, but now suddenly there are Nazi allegations, AfD comparisons, the names Hitler and Trump are mentioned.

The scene from Tuesday afternoon will keep the state parliament busy for even longer. It starts with Health Minister Klaus Holetschek, CSU. He steps up to the desk, clearly angry. He has been annoyed by how massively the SPD * denounces the purchase of masks for weeks. “Loudspeaker business”, Holetschek accuses the SPD, “You are making common ground with the AfD”, he then shouts, so just talk about who is “advised by Donald Trump”. Florian von Brunn, the new SPD party and parliamentary group leader, also reacts to him with anger that has been suppressed with difficulty. He calls the AfD comparison “shameless”. It is the CSU * that has "problems of demarcation according to the right". And then: "The predecessors of the CSU were the stirrup holders of Adolf Hitler."

One can classify this historically;

remembering the CSU founder Josef Müller, who was in the Catholic resistance, survived a Gestapo prison and three concentration camps.

To Alois Hundhammer, also a co-founder, spent months in the Dachau concentration camp.

However, there are also some NSDAP members who later held offices and mandates in the CSU.

The President of the Landtag, Ilse Aigner, wants to issue an official reprimand from Brunn

Politically, there is certainly a lot of anger around von Brunn's Hitler sentence. According to information from our newspaper, the President of the State Parliament, Ilse Aigner, wants to give the 52-year-old an official reprimand. “This comparison is simply not appropriate,” she says when asked, reminding one of “democratic decency”. The SPD is taking a massive stand behind the scenes. Next week, the Presidium of the State Parliament is to discuss the complaint (without legal consequences). Before that there should be a conversation between Aigner and von Brunn. Aigner will decide. She doesn't have much leeway anyway: there was also a complaint when an AfD member spoke of “Stasi-Merkel” in 2019 and when in 2020 a Green called the AfD a “fascist party”.

In the hall of the state parliament it is now whispered whether the Tuesday scandal was spontaneous anger or intent.

More likely the former.

At von Brunn, however, the appearance fits into a concept.

The new SPD parliamentary group leader, who has just been in office for 20 days, has announced a louder SPD.

There has been no lack of volume for three weeks.

Von Brunn pushed the mask allegations forward ("Amigos", "Scandals", "Disaster"), threatened an investigative committee, called the state government a "madhouse", accused Söder of an "ego show".

Markus Rinderspacher (SPD) suspects that the complaint is more political

For comparison: his predecessor Horst Arnold, whom von Brunn lifted out of office with a wafer-thin majority in mid-May, tended to make balanced legal statements. That was very serious. But it was hardly enough for media attention in the race, for example, with the Greens and the FDP; especially not three months before a federal election. There was also nothing to be heard from the outgoing party leader Natascha Kohnen in the last year in office. In the last Bavaria survey by Forsa, that was still seven percent for the SPD.

Von Brunn stands for a change of strategy for the comrades. Landtag Vice President Markus Rinderspacher (SPD) therefore suspects political reasons behind the complaint: “Florian von Brunn is taken so seriously by the CSU that he is already under heavy fire in the first plenary session. It is the chairman's task to protect our SPD parliamentary group from insulting accusations from Minister Holetschek. ”

- C. DEUTSCHLÄNDER / M. SCHIER - * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.