As of: February 4, 2024, 4:40 p.m
By: Dominik Bartl, Peter Reinbold
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Outside the door: A mass protest is forming in the south of Murnau.
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The New Year's reception of the Murnauer CSU in the Hotel Alpenhof was dominated by a farmers' protest.
Around 1,000 participants with more than 300 vehicles drew attention to their concerns.
CSU grandee Alexander Dobrindt and Agriculture Minister Michaela Kaniber pledged solidarity and at the same time brushed off the traffic light government in the hall.
Murnau
- Anyone who wanted to reach Murnau's noble Hotel Alpenhof on Friday evening - where the local CSU had invited people to their New Year's reception - ran the risk of arriving too late or not being able to get a parking space.
Milk trucks, wheel loaders, tractors, tracked vehicles and regular cars clogged the driveway.
In the adjacent fields on Ramsachstrasse, one vehicle lined up after the next.
Farmers from the districts of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Weilheim-Schongau and Bad Tölz-Wolfratshaut apparently use the opportunity to draw the attention of political figures Alexander Dobrindt, head of the CSU state group in the Bundestag, Bavaria's Agriculture Minister Michaela Kaniber and state parliament member Harald Kühn to their concerns. for which they have been demonstrating vehemently for months.
The reasons given are the cuts in agricultural diesel and dissatisfaction with the federal government.
An estimated 1000 participants and hundreds of vehicles around the Hotel Alpenhof
The farmers from the region had called for a vigil in front of the Alpenhof via the media and WhatsApp, and it turned into a full-fledged protest that exceeded expectations.
“We were overwhelmed that so many people followed our call and supported us.
There were many private individuals among them, and medium-sized businesses were also well represented.
We had 1,000 participants,” said meeting leader Anton Lautner from Seehausen.
Florian Benedikt, deputy chief of the Murnau police station, spoke of “250 tractors, 120 vehicles, we are assuming 700 to 800 people”.
The mood at the protest is good: there are sausages and bottled beer
The protest was harmonious and there was a good atmosphere.
Sausages were fried and bottles of beer were passed around.
“The meeting was peaceful and orderly,” says Benedict.
Political celebrities seek contact with the farmers
The fact that political celebrities sought contact with the farmers may have contributed to this.
Kühn and Rapp initially did this before the start of the CSU event.
The local chairman of the Christian Socialists showed understanding: “I understand you completely, it can't go on like this, I understand it.” The farmers asserted that the protest had nothing to do with the New Year's reception or the Bavarian government.
At the end of the vigil, Kaniber and Dobrindt came outside.
“We were very happy about that,” says Lautner.
The topics he addressed were the flood of laws and the requirements that needed to be reduced.
The protection of the external borders was also discussed, as was the distribution of billions of euros abroad, “which are urgently needed in our own country”.
As long as their demands remain unheard, they want to continue to apply pressure.
The next action is already planned: The next bonfire is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, February 7th at 6 p.m. between the Farchanter Tunnel and Garmisch-Partenkirchen at the roundabout.
CSU politicians assure farmers of their support
While the meadows in front of the Hotel Alpenhof were muddy and disturbed by the tractor tires and most people tried to brave the cold, there was a homely atmosphere in the Loisach hall of the Alpenhof.
Around 100 CSU members and guests dressed in fine clothes and in a good mood enjoyed snacks and speeches by Rapp, Kühn, Dobrindt and Kaniber.
The farmers' protests always took up a lot of space and how closely the CSU and the Bavarian state government are on their side.
“Our support must not weaken,” explained Kaniber, who, according to her, wanted to show “solidarity” for the farmers together with Dobrindt at the large protest demonstration a few weeks ago in Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate.
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Kaniber: Tourism is very important, but it shouldn't overwhelm locals
Your ministry has been given a new structure since the state elections and is now also responsible for tourism after Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters) gave it this area in exchange for responsibility for hunting.
It is a fact that the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district and thus also the Blue Land, the center of which is Murnau, lives largely from tourism.
Kaniber asked that a word like “overtourism,” which describes the conflicts between visitors and locals when the flow of guests in a region leads to too high a burden, “not to be used.”
Many businesses rely on tourism.”
However, it is also clear to her that one should not “overwhelm the people who live here”.
She has in mind the management of tourists.
An idea that Aiwanger already represented in 2020 when he met with mayors from the Oberland and the Allgäu in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, who described their needs and those of their population to him.
To date, nothing has come of Aiwanger's idea.
Maybe Kaniber will be able to implement it.
Again and again a full broadside against the traffic light government
The traffic light government received a full blown response in all its speeches.
Dobrindt, Kaniber, Rapp and Kühn happily brushed off the coalition.
The hospital reform, citizens' money and so on.
Dobrindt warned against using the upcoming European elections as a lesson.
“One election is never suitable for this,” he warned.
Those who would take the lesson “want something other than freedom in the EU”.
We need to talk better about how we can build the EU, “instead of trying to destroy it, like the AfD.”
Dobrindt speculated about whether there would be new federal elections.
He didn't want to play oracle.
Just this much: “I don’t know whether the traffic lights will last until 2025.
What I know is that she lacks a common goal.”
Rapp provided the bon mot of the evening.
When he quoted from a poem that dates back to 1883 and is attributed to the pastor of the Lamberti Church in Münster, in which the penultimate verse says “Give those in government a better German
And a better government for the Germans,” he received thunderous applause and loud laughter.
And in front of the hotel, the demonstrators provided the right background with a concert of horns and a sea of lights from headlights and indicators.