Let the boy fix it: Greens nominate Jakob Koch
Created: 11/30/2022, 8:00 p.m
By: Rudi Stallein
Five Greens applied as direct candidates.
Jakob Koch (middle) won the race.
The © shows him
24-year-old Jakob Koch from Eurasburg is the Green Party's direct candidate for the upcoming state elections.
Hans Urban is no longer an issue.
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen
– The Greens are sending Jakob Koch into the race as a direct candidate in the 2023 state elections.
The 24-year-old Beuerberger prevailed at the nomination meeting in constituency 111 (Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen/Garmisch-Partenkirchen) on Monday evening in the second ballot against the "green carpenter" Nikolaus Hanus (47) from Lenggries.
Jakob Koch's nomination also means that MP Hans Urban's (44) career in the state parliament will soon come to an end.
The organic farmer from Oberherrnhausen, who has been a member of the state parliament for the Greens since 2018 and who caused negative headlines nationwide with his conviction for false suspicion and coercion (keyword: “Google affair”), had not applied again.
He did not appear at the election meeting and was not mentioned by a syllable during the four-hour event.
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As a result, the focus was unreservedly on the five interested parties who, as reported, applied to succeed Urban.
The start was made (according to the statute, which defines the performances in alphabetical order of the surnames) by Garmisch-based Walter Burk (61), who predicted in his final sentence: "We are building the green Bavaria 4.0." The native Rhinelander was just as unable to score as Petra Daisenberger (52), Garmisch district councilor and spokeswoman for the Murnau local association.
The hairdresser and the management consultant ended up far behind in fourth and fifth place in the first ballot.
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Annette Heinloth (54), long-time city councilor from Wolfratshausen, third mayor of the rafting city and district councilor since 2020, saw herself qualified for the showdown in the state elections, among other things, because of her regional roots.
"I can score with broad knowledge in many areas and I like to move in a non-partisan way in agreement." That brought Heinloth twelve votes, that is, third place in the first ballot.
Get out of the green bubble
In the end, the two remaining candidates made up the race among themselves.
Hanus, motivated by his candidacy for mayor in 2020 in Lenggries, where he received 25 percent of the votes as a career changer, relies on the craft as a "game changer" when it comes to climate change and vote-catching.
"We have to get out of our green bubble," demanded Hanus to expand the constituency.
Koch, who not only wants to advance his “absolutely favorite topic of public transport” with plenty of youthful vigour, agreed with this opinion.
The Eurasburg municipal council, district councilor and spokesman for the Green Youth countered his skeptics with his motto “young and dynamic versus old and stubborn”.
He already proved that his age is not an obstacle in the 2020 local elections, where he entered the municipal council as a Green with the most votes - just like in the election campaign for a seat in the Bavarian state parliament.
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43 of those eligible to vote opted for Koch, 31 voted for Hanus.
"In this way we were able to fill an important gap that opened up there," said Jürgen Schmid, the chairman of the meeting, who was satisfied with the largely noiseless succession to Urban.
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