"We're about equal treatment": Mittenwald mountain rescue rebels strike shortly before the G7 summit

Created: 06/26/2022, 05:51

The use of the mountain rescue service is extremely important at a major event like the G7 summit.

(Archive image) © Peter Kneffel/dpa

The Mittenwald mountain rescue service announced shortly before the G7 summit that it would get out of the rescue service for the meeting.

The demands for equality lead to success.

Mittenwald – The mountain rescue service Mittenwald dropped the bomb eight days ago: Out of the blue, on-call manager Heinz Pfeffer announced that he and 36 other comrades would get out at Schloss Elmau with the rescue service for the G7 summit in Elmau (June 26th to 28th). .

A few days before the major political event, some of the planning staff in the district office must have worked up a sweat.

The trigger for the strike, which ultimately only lasted a few days, was money.

Before the G7 summit in Elmau in 2022: the Mittenwald mountain rescue service announced that it would be leaving the G7 mission

Because the mountain rescue service and other rescue organizations have long stinks that they are not paid like the fire brigades, for example in extra shifts like G7.

Strike leader Pfeffer underscores: "We are and have always been about equal treatment and not about the amount of money." In the meantime, the rebels from Mittenwald are doing their job well again.

A few days after their rejection, an agreement on reimbursement for the aid organizations is said to have been reached.

Roland Ampenberger, the press spokesman for the Bavarian Mountain Rescue Service, speaks from last Wednesday.

Coincidence?

According to reports, there was a lot of creaking behind the scenes in the beams.

Some in the domestic ones

Blue light associations are said to have been pissed off because the sudden disappearance of the Mittenwald mountain rescue service meant even more volunteer work.

Although many consider the actions of Pfeffer and Co. to be the fundamentally correct signal in a conflict that has been smoldering for years, the point in time immediately before the big battle days is completely wrong.

And what does the upper rebel from Mittenwald say about it?

Nothing!

Heinz Pfeffer only says that you will be there again, otherwise he refers to mountain rescue spokesman Ampenberger.

In the case of Mittenwald, he left it at easy-care general places.

"The mountain rescue service is just diverse." Not a word about whether the Karwendel rebels were taken to heart.

There is even more information about the G7 summit in our news ticker.

Discussions about reimbursement are successful: mountain rescue service returns to the G7 mission family

In any case, there are some indications that this is the case.

Head of operations Klemens Reindl, who is also managing director of the BRK district association, does not want to be one of the head washers.

"Of course I noticed, but I had no contact with the colleagues from Mittenwald." Bad Kohlgruber says of the on-call manager there: "The pepper is just the pepper, a well-established image of a man who knows its effects." Reindl adds on the subject of equal treatment: "We discussed at all levels - intensively, sustainably and quite controversially." With a "good solution" for him in the end.

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In the so-called reimbursement guideline that came into force on June 22nd, all organizations involved - from the mountain rescue service to the Malteser - each receive 75 euros per day of use.

For comparison: The fire brigades get 16.40 euros per hour, which is said to be anchored in the Bavarian Fire Service Act.

A mode that ultimately the mountain rescue rebels from Mittenwald can live with.

They have returned to the G7 family of operations.

Which their boss Klemens Reindl can only welcome.

"We are all fighting on the same front - but with different weapons and approaches."

On Saturday (June 25) a large demonstration of the critics of the G7 summit will take place in Munich.

The police expect 20,000 demonstrators.

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