Hate campaign by climate activists against Uli Hoeneß - abusive posters in Bad Wiessee
Created: 01/20/2022, 19:00
By: Christina Jachert-Maier
The abusive posters were pasted over paid advertising space.
The Tiefenbacher outdoor advertising company has filed a complaint.
© Thomas Plettenberg
It was an unfriendly act on Uli Hoeneß's 70th birthday: Climate activists posted abusive posters in front of the sausage factory he co-founded in Nuremberg.
It is precisely these posters that now spoil billboards and advertising pillars in his home town of Bad Wiessee.
Bad Wiessee
– The illegal billposters probably came at night and in the fog to place their message on large-format billboards and advertising pillars in Bad Wiessee.
Uli Hoeneß, Honorary President of FC Bayern, lives there.
"Uli Hoeneß, the never-to-be-satisfied flattens the earth for us" is written on the posters, which show the prominent community citizen as a bloody figure.
It is the same motive with which environmental activists underscored their protest against the conditions in the meat industry during a blockade of the HoWe sausage factory in Nuremberg on Wednesday, January 5.
Uli Hoeneß is one of the founders of the company, on Wednesday was his 70th birthday.
Florian Hoeneß, son of the ex-FC Bayern boss, has been running the business since 2001.
No comment from Hoeneß: "Doesn't want to make people more important than they are."
It was activists from "Extinction Rebellion" and "Animal Rebellion" who blocked the entrance to Howe Wurstwaren KG with metal constructions.
According to press reports, around 40 people were involved.
Florian Hoeneß did not comment on the - unregistered - demo at the factory gate.
And his father doesn't want to pay any attention to the activists and their smear campaign either.
"I don't comment on that because I don't want to make people more important than they are," explains Hoeneß.
He will also not file a complaint.
Hoeneß recently targeted vegans.
Report of damage to property
However, the Tiefenbacher outdoor advertising company did this yesterday. The abusive posters are stuck on their advertising systems in Bad Wiessee. "That's outrageous," says Christina Fehr, representative of the company based in Bad Kissingen. "We can't leave it like that." The company has reported property damage to the Bad Wiessee police. Fehr is primarily concerned with the customers who have rented space and whose advertising is now partly covered by large hate posters. However, they can only be removed next Monday: At the moment there is no employee in the region.
The municipality of Bad Wiessee, in turn, has no means of hastily removing the abusive posters in the local area.
The – strictly worded – billposting ordinance of the municipality does not apply here.
The Tiefenbacher company is solely responsible for the permanently posted and approved advertising pillars and billboards, explains Maximilian Macco, head of the municipal regulatory office.
However, Macco makes it clear that the community wants to "quite expressly" distance itself from the abusive posters: "Something like this is unacceptable." Only those affected can defend themselves against the public hate speech.
"Fault of defamation fulfilled"
"In addition to damage to property, the offense of defamation is also fulfilled," says Anton Schwinghammer from the Bad Wiessee police.
The police now know of four locations in Bad Wiessee where the hate posters are hanging.
But there may also be more.
The police asked the Tiefenbacher company to inspect all of their locations in the Tegernsee valley and to report further hate posters to the police.
Schwinghammer can well understand that Hoeneß himself has not filed a complaint.
"You shouldn't hang something like that up so high." Otherwise the authors of the tasteless action would have achieved their goal after all.
The police forward the reports to the public prosecutor's office.
