The million juggler from Grünwald stops
Created: 06/10/2022, 12:20 p.m
By: Marc Write
Treasurer Raimund Bader at the end of his professional career.
He had a good relationship with the staff at City Hall.
He will miss that.
© Marc Oliver Write
Hardly any community treasurer is likely to juggle with such a large sum as Raimund Bader in Grünwald.
After 46 years, he is now taking early retirement and is looking back on this time.
Grünwald
- Seven years ago, Grünwald cracked the 250 million mark with the help of huge trade tax revenues.
"Financially, we play in the league of the big district towns, we're in the Champions League," says treasurer Raimund Bader at the end of his career.
Vacation and early retirement will follow, followed by retirement in 2024.
At the beginning of July he left the town hall, but he remained loyal to the municipality of Grünwald.
Numbers are his passion
46 years ago, the young Raimund Bader set foot over the threshold of what was then the old town hall for the first time and entered the tax department under former mayor Franz Rieger.
Bookkeeping, accounting, everything where numbers can be found, he rummaged through with diligence and talent, and he refined his calculation skills so immensely that he made it to the top of accounting and finance, to treasurer.
He spent 46 years in the town hall.
He came in when he was 16.
Restless nights in a 300 million household
What he no longer lacks is reading the many e-mails, laws and contracts.
He will not weep over these little evils.
Having to take responsibility for a 300 million euro budget every year sometimes made him brood at night.
"You're happy when the pressure is off." Finances play a role in every department.
You have to have a say everywhere and you will also be asked.
Are there funds, and if not, how could they be obtained through compensation?
The interesting thing that Kämmerer Bader will miss a lot in the future: being able to participate in major projects.
In Grünwald, these were primarily geothermal energy, but also the grammar school and the meeting house.
Grew up in agriculture
The 61-year-old comes from agriculture, his parents had a small farm in Straßlach, where the young Raimund Bader was introduced to sustainability in its original meaning at an early age.
He rejected the throwaway society when its values were still very popular.
He was happy to see Grünwald's decision in favor of geothermal energy, which is certainly the largest project in the community - even if the decisions in the budget were often taken with dissenting votes.
It was said: It was "a bottomless pit".
But Bader sees this investment as groundbreaking due to its independence from oil and gas.
Now even more against the background of the war in Ukraine.
Bader grew up in Straßlach and at the end of the 2000s, together with his wife, he built a new building on the site of his parents' house with a heat pump supply.
It drops 60 meters in four places.
The coolant runs down and comes up with plus four to five degrees.
"I use it to heat the whole house without gas or oil."
Proponents of the circular economy
In the 1980s, when he was still in the tax department, Grünwald was one of the first municipalities to introduce the green bin.
Back then, you put glass, paper and metal in it.
The model has evolved.
Bader is a proponent of a circular economy that can still be improved.
After the demolition of houses, for example, the building materials could not only be sorted, but also reused in the village, in the spirit of: "Make new from old".
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Municipal worker Raimund Bader in the 1990s.
At that time under Hubertus Lindner as mayor.
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Raimund Bader was born to listen to the cycle of nature.
“You look at the farm to see what kind of land you have available.
The grass is mowed, the animals are fed, fertilizer is spread and potatoes are grown.”
He retained a well-founded, practical perspective throughout his professional life.
That also included putting your finger in the wound: Take the tram, for example.
Since the treasurer had to give the strict treasurer, who does not back down and rejected excessive costs.
For many years, the municipality of Grünwald wrestled with the MVG about the conditions for continued operation of the tram to Grünwald, which ultimately ended successfully.
Sometimes it's the small interventions that can be a great blessing.
Due to the changeover to the G 9, books bought in high school had to be thrown away.
The investment was for naught.
Bader called the district office and got the district to assume all of the costs from now on.
And only recently did he get his way that the district office would also pay 100 percent for the newly built bike racks and barrel house at the school.
Persistence pays off.
Guided by the Christian approach
Especially the formation of reserves is in the sense of the eunuch, as it is already written in the Bible.
When Joseph advises Pharaoh in Egypt to store grain in storehouses during the prosperous years to provide for bad times.
Raimund Bader always followed a Christian approach in his actions.
He prayed, asked if I should apply to be chamberlain.
He decided to try: "If he's with me." The 61-year-old points his finger up.
God was with him, the king of eunuchs in the county.
