As the only one of seven district administrators, Regensburg district administrator Tanja Schweiger has not participated in an advertising campaign for the corona vaccination.
Spicy: Schweiger is Hubert Aiwanger's life partner.
Regensburg - All five mayors of the independent cities in the Upper Palatinate took part, as did all district administrators. All except for the Regensburg District Administrator Tanja Schweiger (Free Voters). It's about an advertising campaign initiated by the Upper Palatinate District President Axel Bartelt and which appeared in several regional daily newspapers at the beginning of August. Under the heading “Together against Corona *”, 16 personalities from politics and business are asking citizens to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
"The aim was to encourage the people of Upper Palatinate to think again at the beginning of the fourth corona wave and to explicitly ask them to be vaccinated (if medically possible)," said a spokeswoman for the district government.
For this one had asked "various public figures", including all district administrators in the Upper Palatinate.
District administrator does not participate in the vaccination request: Schweiger is in a relationship with Hubert Aiwanger
The fact that the Regensburg District Administrator Tanja Schweiger is the only one of them who did not take part with a portrait photo and signature is definitely spicy. The 43-year-old is in a relationship with Deputy Prime Minister and Bavarian Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger - the only member of the Bavarian cabinet who has not yet been vaccinated against Covid-19. Aiwanger's vaccine-skeptical statements had recently also caused considerable disagreement within the Bavarian government coalition and a dispute between Prime Minister Markus Söder and his deputy.
Is there such a motive behind Tanja Schweiger's non-participation in the advertising campaign in the Upper Palatinate?
When asked, the district administrator does not go into detail.
In a longer statement that the district manager Robert Kellner sent to our editorial team on behalf of the district administrator and with which they recently responded to "similar inquiries", reference is instead made to the district's previous work in the course of the ongoing vaccination campaign.
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District administrator is missing from vaccination request: tips against failures by the federal government and the Free State
This statement is provided with tips against the failures of the federal and state governments. It is about the initial shortage of vaccines, software problems with the central Bavarian vaccination registration and the jumble of regulations with which one had to struggle.
The district set up five vaccination centers at an early stage, which have "very well secured" the vaccination offer, is one of the names.
“From October to Pentecost 2021, the subject of corona vaccination * dominated everyday work in the district office to a disproportionately large extent.
Not least because we had to reorganize the offer twice a week on average because the general decrees rolled over. ”The district administrator“ went well beyond the normal range, with a high level of personal commitment, to the vaccination campaign in the district of Regensburg ".
At the beginning of the vaccination campaign, Schweiger “even actively participated in the vaccine transport himself”.
No vaccination request from Regensburg district administrator: district refers to "diverse commitment"
The district had set up a “vaccination center structure that is very close to the citizen” and thus ensured that, among other things, people in education and teaching, in nursing and medicine were addressed at an early stage and did not have to wait for the sequence within the central Bavarian vaccination registration. All over-80-year-olds were given a full range of vaccinations on site. "So we were twice in each community." In addition, a wide variety of campaigns are currently being offered to address people who are willing to vaccinate on a low-threshold basis.
“Because of this diverse commitment” they refrained from “taking part in an additional, paid advertising campaign,” it says in the end.
One is "of the opinion that the vaccination campaign of the federal government, which is also supported by the Bavarian state government, has now picked up so much speed that every citizen can be reached, at least the newspaper reader."
Has the district administrator been vaccinated?
No answer from Tanja Schweiger
District Administrator Schweiger left unanswered the question of whether her decision had anything to do with the position of her partner and party friend Hubert Aiwanger. Likewise, the question about their vaccination status. "Whether and when someone wants to be vaccinated is and will remain a highly personal decision that everyone should respect," Schweiger only lets on. Vaccination could "as well as testing, wearing a mask and keeping your distance, help to curb the spread of the coronaviruses." And if you consider that the vaccination rate for the annual flu vaccination was recently around 35 percent, "I keep the vaccination rate at 60 Percent of the total population for high ".
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