As of: February 13, 2024, 6:00 a.m
By: Sebastian Tauchnitz
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Mayor Guntram Vogelsgesang also leaves no doubt about his attitude.
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After shouts of “foreigners out” rang out from the Landjugend Hohenfurch car during the carnival parade in Landsberg, the place was referred to on social media as a “Nazi village,” says Mayor Guntram Vogelsgesang.
He rejects these representations.
Hohenfurch
– An iron cross is emblazoned on the chimney flue of a house.
As is still the case today on all vehicles and aircraft as well as on the letterheads of the Bundeswehr.
The symbol is not forbidden.
And yet these days it is often cited as evidence that Hohenfurch has a problem with right-wing extremism.
The reasons for this external perception are obvious.
There are the derailments of individual members of the rural youth on the carnival float in Landsberg, there are the verbal outbursts of individual local council members in the debates about asylum accommodation in Hohenfurch.
The trench warfare has been raging on social media in particular since the weekend at the latest.
On the one hand, there are those who think that nothing is allowed to be said anymore, and on the other hand, there are those who want to push the entire village into the Nazi corner.
Mayor Guntram Vogelsgesang thinks this is unfair.
“We have no problem with right-wing extremism in town,” he says.
Generalizations on both sides
Yes, the debate about asylum accommodation in the area has been heated in recent months.
“There are a lot of fears that we have to take seriously,” said the mayor, who sits on the district council for the CSU.
Nevertheless, following the debates, he sought contact with local council member Martin Knopp.
He had threatened the representatives of the district office in a public meeting that he would hold them “personally responsible if a black man approaches my daughter”.
Knopp entered the local council via the CSU list, but was not a member, said Vogelsgesang.
Nevertheless, he made it clear to him after the local council meeting that such verbal derailments should no longer take place in the future.
“He hardly said anything in the following meetings.”
Vogelsgesang criticizes the generalizations on both sides.
“It is repeatedly argued that Hohenfurch has not taken in any asylum seekers or Ukrainian refugees,” he says.
However, this ignores the fact that Hohenfurch did accommodate asylum seekers during the first wave of refugees in 2015.
And when it came to accommodating Ukrainians, it had “now taken a top position in the district”.
By the way, there were no problems in the area during these times, he adds.
Mayor protects rural youth
If you look at the results of the 2023 state elections in Hohenfurch, it somewhat invalidates the story of the “Nazi village” of Hohenfurch.
The AfD, which is partly right-wing extremist, received 15.9 percent of the vote there - in the constituency it was 12.8 percent and 14.7 percent across Bavaria.
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Bird singing disrupts the public debate and the fact that Hohenfurch is now being brought into focus.
There is an urgent need to deal with what happened locally, he says.
In particular, he wants to protect the local rural youth.
Their members would now be under general suspicion of being Nazis.
An entire club is being dragged down, even though nothing ever happened until the derailment in Landsberg.
The Rural Youth of Bavaria and the Bavarian Young Farmers' Association of Upper Bavaria already shared clear news on Instagram on Sunday.
The first chairman of the Hohenfurch rural youth, Moritz Taufratshofer, makes it clear: “We firmly reject xenophobia.
Our Hohenfurcher rural youth stands for community, cohesion, values and tradition.
(...) That's why it's important to us that young people are warmly welcomed and that no one is excluded, regardless of their origin and nation." Mayor Vogelsgesang, who also has his say in the posting, is similarly clear: "We condemn racism and discrimination .
Everyone is welcome in our clubs and in our community.
It was like that, it is like that and it will stay that way.”