The new face of rural women in the Starnberg district: What Beatrice Scheitz wants to achieve

Created: 08/12/2022, 1:00 p.m

By: Laura Forster

From milk queen to district farmer: Beatrice "Trixi" Scheitz is not an active farmer, but she does have a lot of experience.

She also fills the machines in the family dairy every day and helps in the farm shop.

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A mixture of fresh wind and experience - that is the new duo at the head of the rural women in the district.

Former milk queen Beatrice “Trixi” Scheitz recently took over from Anita Painhofer.

Her deputy is Annette Drexl.

District – Beatrice "Trixi" Scheitz looks around in her family's goat shed on the Tannhof in the Erling district of Andechs.

Many childhood memories connect her with the place.

"My brother and I were always in the barn when the kids were born.

My grandfather often took me to the dairy with him.

That has already shaped me,” says the new district farmer for the district of Starnberg.

Giving today's children and young people a connection to agriculture again is one of the points that Trixi Scheitz wants to achieve during her term of office.

Since the beginning of August, the 25-year-old has succeeded Anita Painhofer, who resigned after 20 years.

Originally, the Geisenbrunn woman had planned Annette Drexl, local farmer from Schlagenhofen, as the new district farmer.

"I would have liked to have done the job, but there wasn't enough time.

I get up in the barn at 4:20 am every morning to take care of our seven dairy cows.

After that, I work in my husband's carpentry shop or take care of my ten-year-old son.

Evening appointments in particular are not feasible there,” says Drexl.

"I am all the more pleased that we were able to win Trixi Scheitz for the office.

She is an asset to the farmers' union and has huge potential.

Not only does she have an idea of ​​agriculture, she can also present it well,

She showed that as the milk queen.” As a deputy, the 53-year-old is of course always available with advice and action and supports her with any task.

"We want to carry out the two offices on an equal footing and share the appointments," says Drexl.

Above all, the deputy would like to strengthen the cohesion among the rural women.

“The togetherness has been somewhat forgotten.

I could imagine regular coffee wreaths where we exchange views on current topics," says the woman from Schlagenhofen.

She also wants to bring agriculture back into the minds of citizens.

"For many, the topic is unfortunately completely foreign."

Annette Drexl from Schlagenhofen will support Beatrice Scheitz as deputy district farmer.

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Trixi Scheitz has also made it a priority to focus more on agriculture.

“The district is very different.

There are some who can no longer do anything with farming or animal husbandry,” says the woman from Erling.

"We want to counteract this through the many direct marketing and the open nature of the farmers and rural women."

Scheitz, who is not an active farmer herself, but works as a dispatcher at a company in Etterschlag, it is also important that children and young people become more interested in agriculture.

"Keyword school for life," says the 25-year-old, who has completed her training at the home economics school in Weilheim in the past year and a half.

“My goal is to explain to the little ones where the milk comes from, why so many tractors are on the road in the summer and what is behind the production.” Scheitz wants to do this by visiting kindergartens or schools.

The board of rural women hopes to lower the age of the members a little with the new district farmer.

"We urgently need more young people," says Annette Drexl.

Scheitz is confident: "As a dairy queen, I have already gained a lot of experience and I know how to awaken a passion for agriculture." Her predecessor Painhofer not only offered her help and support: "She gave me the advice to to bring a personal touch to my tenure.

I'll do that too," says Scheitz.