Comrades are plagued by acute existential needs

Created: 05/21/2022, 16:00

By: Daniel Krehl

Veterans say goodbye to veterans: Kurt Weber (right) with the outgoing SPD local chairman Ernst Höltschl.

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Two red veterans are withdrawing from the SPD local club Schliersee.

Meanwhile, there are no successors in sight.

Now the Schlierseer SPD is threatened with dissolution.

Schliersee – The past local elections showed that the Schliersee SPD is not the biggest political driving force.

In 2008, the party ran for the municipal council with a full list, meaning: 20 people.

Six years later it was already thinning.

Only 15 women and men sought a mandate for the SPD.

The average age back then: a proud 61 years.

Two years ago, the local chairman, Ernst Höltschl, had to work hard to be able to nominate ten candidates.

Another mandate was lost with every election, and Höltschl is now the only comrade on the municipal council.

He has now resigned from the chairmanship of the local association.

The future of the Schlierseer SPD is therefore in acute jeopardy, because a successor is not in sight.

"I already said last August that I can't do it anymore," says Höltschl.

"Because of health." His deputy Barbara Prantner was and is not available for the chair.

As a result, the local branch is without a leader, and district chairman Bruno Petroons ultimately has the say.

Together with the people from Schlierseer, he and the SPD office in Wolfratshausen, which is responsible for the Miesbach district, want to find out how to proceed.

It is possible that the 125th general meeting, to which Petroons would then invite, will be the last of an independent SPD in Schliersee.

In addition to dissolution, affiliation with another local branch would also be possible.

When saying goodbye at the meeting, another veteran looked back on Höltschl's 35-year commitment to the SPD: Kurt Weber.

He had also resigned from all offices last summer and recalled the times when the mayor of Schliersee was still a Red (Kaspar Hirtreiter, 1972 to 1984) and the citizens' office, which only closed three years ago.

Nor did he forget Höltschl's social commitment to the flea market, which is now a thing of the past.

Höltschl does not want to withdraw completely.

He wants to stay on the municipal council "as long as possible - just sitting on the corner bench is not for me".

Out for the flea market

The long tradition of the SPD flea market is now ending with the resignation of Ernst Höltschl from the presidency, even if there is no causal connection.

Rather, the equestrian parking lot is no longer available as an event area.

The comrades had always donated the proceeds from the table fees and the sale of donated goods to social causes.

"At some point I'll probably have to do a garage flea market, there's still a lot left," says Höltschl.

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