In the deepest southern Bavaria: Chancellor Scholz is on holiday in the Free State - secrecy about the exact holiday location
Created: 07/21/2022 05:19
By: Patrick Mayer
Holidays in the Bavarian Allgäu: Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD).
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Olaf Scholz caught the heat wave in Germany for his vacation - and chose Markus Söders Bavaria as his travel destination.
Munich/Allgäu - What do the ministers and their boss actually talk about in the federal cabinet when there is not an item on the agenda?
About vacation?
Annalena Baerbock (Greens) and Olaf Scholz (SPD) could at least give each other valuable tips.
For less crowded hiking trails.
For a stop in a hearty inn for Kasspatzen or roast pork.
For the best panorama of the Allgäu Alps.
Vacation from Olaf Scholz: The Chancellor traveled to Bavaria in the Allgäu
Sequentially.
The foreign minister and the German head of government are both North Germans.
She comes from Hanover in Lower Saxony, he from Osnabrück - also in Lower Saxony.
Since the 64-year-old, who administers Germany's highest office, was mayor of Hamburg for years, he is now widely regarded as a Hanseatic citizen.
So it might be!
The intricacies of the High German dialect could hardly distinguish the people in the Ostallgäu.
You're just getting used to it.
After Federal Foreign Minister Baerbock went on holiday to Oberstaufen in the winter, Chancellor Scholz traveled to the Free State in the middle of the heat wave.
Into the depths of the country of his worst political rival, CSU boss Markus Söder, so to speak.
While it is unclear at the same time to what extent Moscow ruler Vladimir Putin and his state-owned company Gazprom will turn on the gas tap again from July 21, according to the photos in the
picture
, the Chancellor is making himself comfortable on a chalet sun terrace in the middle of the Bavarian mountains.
In the video: This is Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD)
As the tabloid newspaper claims to have learned, the holiday home costs a whopping 550 euros a night.
Would that still be affordable for the average citizen with a family in the midst of the galloping inflation?
For once, that should not be the concern of the elected head of government for a few days.
There is a lot of secrecy about his exact whereabouts.
According to the
Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ)
and
Allgäuer Zeitung (AZ)
, neither the Federal Press Office nor the Füssen Police Inspectorate have released more detailed information.
Maybe country father Söder knows more?
The Bavarian from Franconia who works in Munich diplomatically welcomed the intermediate Hanseatic and new Berliner to the Free State.
“Of course we are happy about it.
Olaf Scholz is very welcome as a holidaymaker.
The Federal Chancellor is on vacation in the Allgäu and Angela Merkel is coming back to Bayreuth for the Wagner Festival – Bavaria simply has a lot to offer,” explained the Prime Minister of the
picture
.
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Söder may also be happy because he can suggest Scholz to visit Neuschwanstein Castle.
After all, the maintenance costs for the "fairytale castle of Ludwig II" must somehow be amortized, which Söder has approved over the past six years - first as finance minister and then as boss in the Munich State Chancellery.
Neuschwanstein Castle near Fussen
The Bavarian King Ludwig II had the palace built above Hohenschwangau near Füssen in 1869, which was based on a knight's castle.
The construction in the southeastern Allgäu cost enormous sums and plunged the then Wittelsbach monarchy in Munich into a deep crisis.
Today the castle is owned by the Free State of Bavaria, which - less than five kilometers from the Austrian border - welcomes around 1.5 million visitors from all over the world in the midst of the mountain panorama.
Vacation from Olaf Scholz: The father once worked in Immenstadt im Allgäu
Füssen is the right keyword anyway.
From here it is almost 40 kilometers to Immenstadt im Allgäu, where Scholz' father once worked for ten years as sales director of a pantyhose factory.
The track leads to Nesselwang between Immenstadt, Kempten and Füssen.
Scholz hiked and relaxed here with his wife Britta Ernst in the summer of 2021, before the SPD chancellor candidate at the time interrupted his vacation due to the flood disaster in the Ahr Valley.
It doesn't matter where exactly he is.
At least the chancellor is not alone with his wife.
According to the
picture
, there is a separate police container on the site, next door a kind of emergency office for the closest staff, who therefore traveled to the Allgäu.
Of course we are happy about it.
Olaf Scholz is very welcome as a holidaymaker.
Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU)
Ukraine war, gas crisis, inflation - did his father Gerhard Scholz (born 1935) ever show the chancellor the Salmaserhöhe near Immenstadt?
From here you have a very good overview of the Großer Alpsee and the Oberallgäu with hiking boots.
And maybe also about one or the other important global political topic.
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