As of: January 31, 2024, 3:44 p.m
By: Dominik Stallein
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Farmers and supporters parked ten tractors at the parking lot on the highway access road on Wednesday.
They protested against agricultural policy - without a road blockade like in other places.
© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
Farmers protest at the highway access road on Wednesday.
The district office prohibited them from blocking the access.
The farmers' attitude is clear.
Wolfratshausen - The blockade was forbidden to them.
But the farmers still wanted to protest.
About ten tractor drivers met on the highway access road on Wednesday to advocate for their cause.
Although: “Your business” – Sebastian Müller from Münsing doesn’t want to leave it like that.
“Our protests are about everyone.” Companies and farms are the ones who suffer in the first instance from constant additional costs or canceled subsidies.
“But in the end, consumers have to pay for it,” explains Bernhard Ruhdorfer.
The forester and joined the protest in the parking lot on Wednesday.
They had put up posters on their machines.
“For affordable housing” was written on one, “First the farmer dies, then the land” on another.
Motorway blockade banned - tractor protest still happening: “It’s about everyone”
It was also clear on the banners: The protesters are not just concerned with agriculture alone.
“Small and medium-sized businesses have to pay for everything,” says Müller.
“These are the people who keep the whole shop running.” That’s why the Münsinger would hope “that many more people will take to the streets,” not just the farmers themselves. “I’m concerned about the general public.” He is all the more pleased to see the tractor-trailer drive by, honking appreciatively at the demo.
And Ruhdorfer, Müller and Co. have even less understanding for drivers who point out the windshield wipers to farmers.
District farmer disappointed by blockade ban: “Also approved in all other districts”
Peter Fichtner is district chairman of the farmers' association.
He had registered a demonstration with the district office - and had another form of protest approved.
Farmers from the district originally wanted to block the motorway entrance.
“Just as it was approved in all other districts and to which the Interior Ministry also said yes,” says Fichtner.
Why wasn't it allowed here?
“We have to ask the district office.” It wasn’t the Bad Heilbrunner’s fault.
He was ready to talk and had thought of a block clearance - “15 minutes free travel, 15 minutes blockade,” for example.
District office press spokesman Michael Heigl does not see the district in a special role.
“Such blockades were also not allowed in other districts.” At the motorway feeder road in Wolfratshausen, the police felt the risk associated with the tractor protest was too high.
“That’s why it wasn’t approved” and instead the compromise solution was found at the parking lot.
“Otherwise more would have come,” speculates one participant who is eating a pretzel behind his John Deere machine that morning.
Farmers continue to demonstrate: “It’s about the entire development”
For most people it is not the first demo, explains Martin Strobl from Münsing.
He has been to several protests.
“For me it's not just the agricultural diesel issue - it's about the big picture and the entire development that continues little by little.” It may be that the farmers' protests attract attention and more and more people take notice of the development , which the farm owners dislike so much – “but with those who decide, with big politics, I believe they take note of it and then move on.”
Traffic light government disappointed - “I wonder how someone can say such nonsense”
Just like Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner from the FDP.
The protesters on the feeder road won't be joining a Lindner fan club any time soon.
“He stands on stage in Berlin and says that he knows how hard work in agriculture is.
I wonder how someone can say such nonsense,” rumbles Kreisbauer Fichtner.
“People have to notice that.” And the fact that Cem Özdemir, the Green Federal Agriculture Minister, has announced improvements “but hasn't made any progress as minister for two years” earns him very few sympathy points on the motorway access road.
At around 2 p.m. the protesters vacated their position on the B11A.
According to the police, the demonstration was calm and orderly.
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