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By: Barbara Schlotterer-Fuchs
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Toasting a successful CSU New Year's reception: guests from Peiting and surrounding communities as well as political celebrities with guest speaker Bernd Fabritius (4th from left).
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What does the term “home” actually mean?
The President of the Association of Expellees, Bernd Fabritius, thought about this at the CSU Peiting's New Year's reception - due to current events.
Peiting
- Without blustering, ranting, without a lot of self-praise, but with a lot of empathy and feeling for a sensitive topic and with maximum specificity: This is how Bernd Fabritius, President of the Association of Expellees (BDV) and member of the Bundestag from the CSU, was a guest speaker at the New Year's reception presented by the CSU Peiting.
Fabritius put the term “homeland” in a new light this evening in the Peitinger Sparkassensaal.
As someone who was once “bought back” by Germany from Transylvania (Romania) as Romanian-Germans with his parents for 10,000 marks each, he knows what he is talking about.
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The CSU local branch in Peiting chose the speaker for its New Year's reception excellently - very foresighted, so to speak.
Just a week after it was announced that another accommodation for asylum seekers would be opened on Weidachstrasse, Fabrtitius warned this evening in the packed Sparkasse hall: “There must be no bans on thinking.” But the AfD should still “find no place in this process.” .
Loss of home as a “break in one’s own biography”
In advance, Fabritius draws attention to his own CV.
speaks of the loss of home as a “break in one’s own biography”.
Fabritius eloquently manages to take the guests on a journey into the past, but also into the present.
What is it like when home no longer feels like home?
“If I am no longer at home in my own homeland, then I have lost my homeland.” A loss that he once experienced himself and that hundreds of thousands of people are now experiencing after him.
Fabritius also provides concrete figures for Peiting: around 1,500 displaced people found a home in Peiting after the Second World War.
They did what Fabritius' family did: they found boundaries and a way into society.
However, the conditions for this were different than today.
The hall is full at the New Year's reception of the CSU local branch in Peiting in the Sparkassensaal.
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So what is the issue of immigration – then and now?
“Belonging and being a stranger: both are part of it.” There is one thing that all people have in common: “We all have a home.”
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A lifetime with two homes
But for displaced people, this term is associated with a “field of tension”: “It is a feeling that stays with you throughout your life.
Having to leave your homeland is a profound upheaval in a person's life.
That leaves a wound.” Because: Every person has their own dignity – their own culture, their own native language – home.
Anyone who has to leave their homeland remains a person with two homes throughout their life.
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Fabritius clearly distanced himself from the AfD: It is completely unacceptable “when a handful of fellow human beings discuss the deportation of people who have German citizenship.
These are fellow human beings of ours!” An “ethnic cleansing”: This is a human crime.
He warned against indulging in “unserious political fantasies”.
No “naturalization as a free ticket”
Despite all his absolute distancing, the BDV president also warned against “naturalization as a free ticket”: “Everyone gets their German passport pushed with such force without them having to make any effort.
He got it in his backpack so quickly.”
He countered the situation of late emigrants who are now burdened with disproportionate burdens in order to obtain this document.
The requirement for obtaining German citizenship should instead be “the consequence” of successful integration and “not a bait laid out in advance”.
Of course there is also criticism of the traffic lights
And of course there was also a shot at the traffic light: They are currently trying to “raise a people that fits their own politics,” said Fabritius, with a view to the current protests by farmers in Peiting, which took place on the same evening before the New Year's reception in the south of Peiting had.
Peiting's mayor Peter Ostenrieder and Bernd Fabritius visited the farmers before the reception.
At the beginning of his welcome, CSU local chairman Stephan Walter emphasized that migration is not an issue of the past, “but one of the most explosive challenges of the present.
Right-wing ideas must have no place in our society in Germany.”
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A tenor that was also evident in the speeches of the other politicians at the reception - including district administrator Andrea Jochner-Weiß and CSU state parliament member Harald Kühn.
But community and city council colleagues from other factions and neighboring towns also accepted the invitation from the Peiting CSU local branch.