Behavior of Gerhard Schröder "deeply ashamed" - Wolfratshauser CSU demands consequences
Created: 02/28/2022, 15:20
By: Carl Christian Eick
It's been a long time: In September 2007, former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder visited the rafting town.
The occasion was the 100th anniversary of the Wolfratshausen SPD.
On this occasion, Schröder visited the then Bavarian Prime Minister Dr.
Edmund Stoiber in his private house.
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The Wolfratshauser local association appealed to the CSU member of the Bundestag Radwan: The pension of the ex-chancellor should be offset against payments from Russia.
Wolfratshausen - "Russia's attack on Ukraine shocked us all deeply": So the chairwoman of the CSU local branch, Claudia Drexl-Weile, in a press release published on Sunday.
In his own words, Drexl-Weile addressed the CSU member of the Bundestag from the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen/Miesbach constituency, Alexander Radwan.
He should work to ensure that pensions and other remuneration that former political elected officials receive are offset against "income and economic benefits" that they receive as a result of working for "companies".
Specifically, the Wolfratshausen CSU has the former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD) in its sights.
He is the head of the supervisory board at the Russian energy group Rosneft, and Schröder also holds management positions in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipeline projects.
The Russian energy giant Gazprom recently announced that the former chancellor has been nominated for the supervisory board of the state-owned company.
CSU Wolfratshausen demands consequences for Gerhard Schröder because of the Ukraine war
"In addition to the need to help the people in Ukraine, one should not forget to regulate things in one's own country that are not in order in this context," writes Drexl-Weile.
The behavior of the former German Chancellor was "scandalous".
Not only his behavior in the matter of gas pipeline met with cross-party criticism: "As chancellor, he had initiated their construction;
later he received and continues to receive six-figure annual salaries from the operator as a member of Gazprom's management team," said the CSU local chairwoman.
His close friendship with Russian President Vladimir Putin did not prompt Schröder to “criticize his inhuman behavior;
on the contrary – he warned Ukraine as a 'swashbuckler'”.
"Through his lobbying for the Russian company Gazprom, he put fundamental interests of the Federal Republic on the back burner."
Drexl-Weile sums it up: “So if a politician is allowed to use offices, staff and transport services in the mid-six-figure range every year at taxpayer expense at state expense, it can at least be expected that he will also actively represent the principles of our democracy and the fundamental interests of this state. Schroeder does not do this.
For this reason "we have asked our member of the Bundestag to become active".
Radwan should set up a cross-party initiative in the Bundestag with the aim: "That former elected officials who are entitled to pensions and other remuneration because of their former political offices must have all income and economic advantages offset against them if they continue after their political activity receive economic benefits from working for companies.”
Schröder's behavior in view of the Russian Federation's war of aggression against Ukraine is "deeply ashamed", said Drexl-Weile.
At best, the ex-chancellor criticized the "attack" lukewarmly.
"Through his lobbying for the Russian company Gazprom, he put fundamental interests of the Federal Republic on the back burner."
On the other hand, he enjoys numerous advantages due to his former office as Federal Chancellor.
According to Drexl-Weile, it would be "only right and proper" if Schröder's remuneration, which he received from Russian corporations, "be taken into account".
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