Corona “walks”: Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen District Office has made a decision

Created: 01/21/2022, 16:30

By: Carl Christian Eick

According to the police, 950 so-called walkers marched through Wolfratshausen last Monday evening.

It was the seventh unregistered protest rally by critics of the Corona measures in Loisachstadt.

© Hans Lippert

The topic of a top-level discussion in the district office was the so-called walkers.

Now the result of the meeting in Bad Tölz is known.

Wolfratshausen/Bad Tölz – The legal supervisory authority, the district office in Bad Tölz, remains on course when it comes to “walkers”. A general decree based on the model of the city of Munich based on “preventive averting danger” was not issued on Friday. The controversial protest rallies by critics of the Corona measures, who arrange to meet on social networks, still do not have to be registered with the responsible district authority in Bad Tölz in advance. The deputy district administrator Thomas Holz (CSU) appeals to the so-called walkers to adhere to the corona protection measures: "Especially with a view to the current infection process, this is to protect everyone."

So far, the “walkers” have marched through Wolfratshausen seven times on Monday evenings.

Most recently, the police counted around 950 men, women and children.

Since the rallies are being advertised massively on social networks, Wolfratshausen's mayor Klaus Heilinglechner (BVW) announced that he would use "all legal means" to ensure that the Loisachstadt does not become "a hotspot for the so-called walkers".

However, this requires the “backing” of the district office.

The primary goal is to act in a de-escalating manner so that the meetings – as before – are peaceful. 

Thomas Holz, Deputy District Administrator

"Due to the current events at the meeting, a coordination meeting took place between the district office as the meeting authority, the municipalities most affected and the corresponding police departments on Thursday," the authority's press spokeswoman, Marlis Peischer, reported to our newspaper on Friday.

The content of the non-public discussion "was the assessment and evaluation of the situation".

It was stated that, in principle, "the failure to report an assembly does not constitute a reason for dissolution", but that this "is protected by the fundamental right to freedom of assembly".

District Administrator Josef Niedermaier (FW) had already represented this opinion in the past few weeks.

Wolfratshausen resident Konrad Huber is one of the initiators of the “WOR tolerant” group.

© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss

According to press spokeswoman Peischer, the guideline for official action is the principle of proportionality.

"The primary goal is to act in a de-escalating manner so that the meetings - as before - proceed peacefully," emphasizes Deputy District Administrator Holz, who is currently in charge of official business in the district authority.

Holz calls on the “walkers” to observe the distance rule, among other things.

"Especially with a view to the current infection process, this is to protect everyone," says Holz.

The Robert Koch Institute reported a value of 1097.4 for the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen on Friday.

This is the sixth highest value in all of Bavaria.

"Walks": The district office wants to continue to monitor "the situation".

The district office "as the responsible assembly authority will continue to monitor the situation in close coordination with the police inspection and the municipalities," announces press spokeswoman Peischer. In the event of “corresponding changes in the situation”, the authority will “react quickly”.

Konrad Huber, one of the organizers of the counter-demonstrations from the group "WOR tolerant" is disappointed with the result of the discussion in the district office.

It is a pity that no general decree was issued.

Above all, Huber and his colleagues would have liked to see that the "walks" had to be reported to the district office in advance and that a person responsible had to identify themselves.

"We show our faces," says Huber, and all counter-demonstrations were registered in a timely and proper manner.

"It would be nice if the so-called walkers would also have the courage to make themselves and their goals known," said the Wolfratshauser.

"WOR tolerant" does not call for demonstration

As reported, “WOR tolerant” is not calling for a demonstration in downtown Wolfratshausen next Monday. “People will presumably accuse us of that after not making a decision on the 'walkers',” Huber worries. But the decision stands. The group considers it counterproductive to mobilize people to demonstrate in the city in the largest possible number in view of the extremely high incidence. In a press release, Huber, Gerald Bruschek, Andrea Beck, Dr. Ulrike Krischke as well as Ines and Peter Lobenstein: "WOR tolerant" recognize "Corona with its risks". For this reason, we do not want to “overburden the public bodies and the people who are currently working in the medical practices and hospitals to take care of all of us with our actions”.

Huber does not rule out that the group will initiate “a contactless alternative” to a classic demonstration next Monday.

"We will vote on that." (cce)

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