After the mayor's resignation: local councils complain about the poisoned atmosphere

Created: 09/24/2022, 06:56

By: Charlotte Borst

Thomas Glashauser has been mayor of Aschheim since 2014.

(Archive image) © Nico Bauer

The mayor of Aschheim, Thomas Glashauser, has resigned from office.

Now a local councilor reports on the “horrible mood” in the local council.

Aschheim – Aschheim's mayor Thomas Glashauser will be out until the end of the year.

He was diagnosed with burnout, he said in the community newspaper.

The workload is generally high for local politicians.

The many additional requirements during corona management, the constant hopping of appointments and increasing public hostility mean physical and mental pressure.

In Aschheim, planning for the high school and the new town hall building are currently the largest projects, and Glashauser (CSU) was also busy with the Wirecard scandal and concerns about tax refunds in his second term.

A "poisoned atmosphere" in the municipal council is an additional burdening factor.

"The mood is horrible," says the experienced district and municipal councilor Ingrid Lenz-Aktas (SPD).

Unfortunately, human interaction often falls by the wayside.

handling "not normal"

From a purely mathematical point of view, decisions have become more complicated in the current term of office.

With seven seats each, the CSU and Free Voters are equally represented in the municipal council, with the four Greens often being closer to the Free Voters, as they tip the scales, at least initially.

Walter Wiedenhofer (Greens) also calls the handling of the Aschheim municipal council "not normal".

It is also known that in the background, former mayor Helmut Englmann (CSU) is constantly trying to exert influence.

Englmann, who was there for his community around the clock when he was in office, also acts busily in retirement, for example by trying to influence the press and parliamentary groups in order to prevent the town hall from being demolished after all.

CSU parliamentary group leader hopes for discussion

The fact that Glashauser has made his burnout public and is resigning from office for the time being is met with great understanding on all sides.

"We support him to the best of our ability," says CSU parliamentary group spokesman Rolf Dettweiler.

Robert Ertl (FW) takes over the official business part-time as second mayor.

The 58-year-old has reduced his position at the Ebersberg Clinic to 50 percent at short notice.

"We will try it out in the next three months," says Rolf Dettweiler, "but in the case of a burnout you can't say how long the recovery will take."

"The mood in the municipal council has contributed to the overload of the mayor."

CSU parliamentary group leader Dettweiler said earlier that "a municipal council is not a court hearing" and thus criticized Eugen Stubenvoll, the parliamentary group leader of the Free Voters, who confronted the administration and its boss with laws and paragraphs in an exaggerated manner.

Dettweiler now hopes that there will be a discussion in the non-public part of the next municipal council meeting.

"I would like the tone of conversation to be reduced to a factual level and that emotions be reduced."

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