Savings bank affair: Will the penalties for Bromme and Kreidl remain?

Created: 03/27/2022, 18:00

By: Angela Walser

Again in court: ex-district administrator Jakob Kreidl (right) and ex-district savings bank boss Georg Bromme.

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The process of former district administrator Jakob Kreidl and former district savings bank boss Georg Bromme is partially reopened.

The trial at the district court begins on Monday.

Miesbach/Munich

- The Miesbach savings banks affair about gifts of money and expensive trips has to be partially reopened.

From Monday, March 28th, the District Court of Munich II will hear the remanded appeal of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH).

It is also about the suspended sentences of the two accused.

The then CSU district administrator Jakob Kreidl (69) was sentenced to eleven months in 2019 for infidelity, the former head of the district savings bank, Georg Bromme (73), to one and a half years.

On the other hand, the accused Bromme as well as the public prosecutor's office appealed - partly with success.

While the prosecution demanded higher sentences and the withdrawal of partial acquittals, Bromme wanted a lower sentence.

However, his revision was largely unsuccessful.

Only in cases

In contrast to the Munich II Regional Court, the Karlsruhe judges want to see a number of Christmas gifts from the Sparkasse to their own board members and to various local politicians from the administrative board punished.

The same applies to the fact that the financial institution had Kreidl's office in the district office refurbished.

The public prosecutor's demand that Kreidl and Bromme be sentenced for accepting and granting advantages (both are corruption offences) was smashed by Karlsruhe.

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The affair began in August 2012, when Kreidl celebrated his 60th birthday and entertained 460 guests in the Wasmeier Museum on Schliersee.

The celebration cost 120,000 euros, which cost Kreidl two years later his re-election as district administrator.

Reason: He only paid part of it out of his own pocket.

The rest came from the Kreissparkasse Miesbach-Tegernsee and the Miesbach district office.

But this party, as well as quite luxurious trips by the board of directors to Austria and Switzerland plus an accompanying program and sometimes five-digit wine bills, were not criminally objected to by the BGH.

According to the initial judgment, the total damage added up to a quarter of a million euros.

"Bavarian-Baroque, usual, habitual action"

In the oral revision hearing in Karlsruhe, the Kreidl lawyers are said to have described the behavior of the two defendants as "Bavarian-Baroque, usual, habitual action".

The case took place at a time when compliance – i.e. the obligation of the board of directors to comply with certain rules – had only just found its way into companies.

Judgment is due in May

The revision procedure at another chamber of the Munich II Regional Court is initially scheduled for eight days of negotiations.

Actually, the trial should have started last Tuesday, but Corona forced the judges to postpone the date.

The verdict is expected in mid-May.

Read here: the chronology of events.