The Zugspitz Region GmbH has been a fragile entity since it was founded.
Since 2017, the company, which is committed to promoting regional development in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district, has been able to work relatively undisturbed.
That should change now: Allegedly, the Garmisch-Partenkirchen market is planning to exit for the second time.
District
- The Zugspitz Region GmbH has already experienced many storms. Especially when it was still operating under the awkward name of Kreisentwicklungsgesellschaft (KEG). It only came to calmer waters when it was given its current name in 2016. Previously, you were often exposed to severe criticism - mostly from the larger of the 22 district communities, which together with the Kreissparkasse Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the VR-Bank Werdenfels, the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Clinic, the Lebenslust eV, the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for Munich and Upper Bavaria, the Chamber of Crafts and the Entrepreneurs' Association in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen eV form the 29 shareholders. The supervisory board is headed by District Administrator Anton Speer (Free Voters).
Both Garmisch-Partenkirchen (2013) and Murnau (2015) had left the KEG amid great din and only returned to the community in 2015 and 2017. The realization seemed to have prevailed that the two large district towns should not shut themselves off or refuse - despite some concerns. But it remained more of an alliance of convenience than a love marriage.
In the meantime, a partner with constant loyalty no longer seems to take it so seriously and to think about a new separation.
The Garmisch-Partenkirchen market, according to participants from the latest shareholders' meeting, who costs around 100,000 euros per year to participate in the exclusive group, is considering leaving again.
Mayor Elisabeth Koch (CSU) hinted at that.
As a result, there should have been a controversial discussion in which it turned out that Koch was poorly informed on some points.
+
Dr.
Sigrid Meierhofer is SPD district councilor.
© Kornatz
The people who pierced this information in the daily take great care not to read their names in the newspaper. Dr. Sigrid Meierhofer, mayor of the district until the end of April 2020 and continues to be politically active as SPD district councilor: “Yes,” she says, “I've heard about it. It was brought to me. ”If the latest rumor is true and the exit is really an issue, then Meierhofer doesn't think so. Your opinion: Garmisch-Partenkirchen “benefited a lot from the Zugspitz region. Small and small no longer bring anything, we have to bundle the competencies. ”Unlike Meierhofer, Koch replies monosyllabic to Tagblatt's request. "I do not participate in rumors," she explains via email. A statement that leaves room for speculation. A denial sounds different.Speer is equally buttoned up. Through his spokesman Wolfgang Rotzsche he let it be known “that, to the best of our knowledge, no letter has been received. Mr District Administrator does not want to comment on rumors ”. Sebastian Kramer, managing director of the Zugspitz region, clearly shows in the conversation, in which he would rather talk about the successes that his company has achieved for the communities, that the topic makes him uncomfortable. Clear words: No result. He squirms. First of all, he speaks of “mind games”, which implies that the rumors are more than politicians want to admit. What gives him hope that it will stay that way and not be translated into reality: officially nobody from the market has approached him yet.“That, to the best of our knowledge, no letter has been received. Mr District Administrator does not want to comment on rumors ”. Sebastian Kramer, managing director of the Zugspitz region, clearly shows in the conversation, in which he would rather talk about the successes that his company has achieved for the communities, that the topic makes him uncomfortable. Clear words: No result. He squirms. First of all, he speaks of “mind games”, which implies that the rumors are more than politicians want to admit. What gives him hope that it will stay that way and not be translated into reality: officially nobody from the market has approached him yet.“That, to the best of our knowledge, no letter has been received. Mr District Administrator does not want to comment on rumors ”. Sebastian Kramer, managing director of the Zugspitz region, clearly shows in the conversation, in which he would rather talk about the successes that his company has achieved for the communities, that the topic makes him uncomfortable. Clear words: No result. He squirms. First of all, he speaks of “mind games”, which implies that the rumors are more than politicians want to admit. What gives him hope that it will stay that way and not be translated into reality: officially nobody from the market has approached him yet.which his society has achieved for the communities clearly shows that he is uncomfortable with the subject. Clear words: No result. He squirms. First of all, he speaks of “mind games”, which implies that the rumors are more than politicians want to admit. What gives him hope that it will stay that way and not be translated into reality: officially nobody from the market has approached him yet.which his society has achieved for the communities clearly shows that he is uncomfortable with the subject. Clear words: No result. He squirms. First of all, he speaks of “mind games”, which implies that the rumors are more than politicians want to admit. What gives him hope that it will stay that way and not be translated into reality: officially nobody from the market has approached him yet.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen's Rathausspitze alone cannot exit, which is only possible every three years.
A vote by the municipal council is essential for this.
Alliance 90 / The Greens, the FDP and the SPD, confronted with the rumors, know nothing.
You are apparently cut off from any information.
"I can't say anything about that, the facts are unknown to me," explains SPD parliamentary group leader Ulrike Bittner-Wolff.
Liberal Martin Sielmann is also surprised when he insists “that Ms. Koch explain her step thoroughly”, and Dr.
Stephan Thiel, who leads the eco-party in the local council.
He comes out as an advocate of the Zugspitz region.
He is a person who works through collaborations.
"We need regional markets and not denial."
+
Sebastian Kramer is the managing director of the GmbH.
© Kornatz
Claus Froerer, who still sits on the committee for the CSU parliamentary group today, used similar words in the municipal council debate on re-entry at the beginning of November 2014.
"If we want to keep up with the competition between the regions, then we need this platform for the region." Elisabeth Koch, at the time the Christian Socialist parliamentary group spokesperson, found a very pragmatic argument at the time: the market raised around 30 percent of the district budget through the allocation , which also flows into the KEG, today the Zugspitz Region.
It is an obligation for the capital to participate in society.
"Critical, not loyal to the Nibelungs."
Koch's apparently critical attitude now seems to be turned towards rejection. What may have fueled the change of heart can only be speculated about. It is assumed that money played no insignificant role and that fields that are plowed by the Zugspitz Region GmbH - just think of tourism and economic development - are also among the core competencies of the market. They afford a generously funded GaPa Tourismus GmbH and, in Oliver Steinbach, an economic promoter who competes with Sebastian Kramer.
The then director Peter Nagel had already questioned the sense and benefit of GaPa Tourismus when he left in 2013.
“The KEG is not an active aid in tourism.” When he returned in 2014, his judgment hardly sounded different.
Quote: “From a touristic point of view, it still makes little sense to us.” Perhaps it is these arguments that have solidified Koch in recent years and have prompted her to leave the company.
