Peter Schüssler mit dem Ursella-Preis geehrt

Am Mittwochabend fand im großen Sitzungssaal des Oberurseler Rathauses die Verleihung des Ursella-Preises der CDU Oberursel statt.

Zum Anfang des Abends gab es einen Sektempfang und Musik von der Gruppe Toms & Jerries. Um halb acht begrüßte CDU-Vorsitzender Martin Bollinger die ca. 100 Gäste. Zu den Gästen gehörten Vertreter vieler Oberurseler Vereine sowie von anderen Parteien. Dass diese den Brauchtum pflegen, sich gegenseitig bei solchen Veranstaltungen zu besuchen, zeigt “dass Demokratie bei uns in Oberursel noch intakt ist”, kommentierte Bollinger. Auch der Künstler Hendoc, der den Preis erschaffen hat, war anwesend.

Martin Bollinger begrüßte ebenfalls Michael Reuter, den er als, “Motor hinter dem Preis”, bezeichnete. Auch einige ehemalige Gewinnerinnen und Gewinner waren im Publikum.

Der Preis zeichnet Menschen aus, die sich über das normale Ehrenamt hinaus für die Stadt engagieren. “Oberursel lebt von Menschen mit Leidenschaft für die Stadt. Der Preis ist ein Zeichen der Anerkennung”, so Bollinger. “Oberursel ist für uns Heimat”, sagte er und fügte hinzu: “deswegen gehen diese Menschen die extra Meile, um sie liebenswürdiger zu machen.”

Michael Reuter und Stadtverordnetenvorsteher Lothar Köhler enthüllten nun den Ursella-Preis und somit den bereits eingravierten Namen des Gewinners: Peter Schüßler, aka “Die Schüssel”. Der Preis wurde aus Holz einer Oberstedter Eiche aus dem Jahr 1640 erschaffen und steht sonst im historischen Rathaus. Peter Schüssler erkannte beim Empfang des Preises, dass einige Menschen im Publikum waren, die noch nie bei seinen Auftritten gewesen waren. “Ich werde den Preis in Ehren halten”, sagte er.

In seinem Laudatio erzählte Thomas Studanski vom Alt-Oberursler Brauhaus “Schüssel’s” Werdegang.

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Local Elections in Oberursel

The centre of OberurselWith local elections taking place in Oberursel tomorrow, amongst other things for the town parliament (Stadtparlament), I decided to take a trip into the town centre this morning and see what the political parties had to say for themselves.

In particular I wanted to know about plans to replace the town swimming pool, which has been closed for several years.  Recently there has been some discussion about the town selling off land to finance the building work.  This would not be so bad, if there was not already a sports field on it!

Then I wanted to know what plans the town has for the future of the schools here, in particular any plans for Ganztagsschulenschools that teach all day rather than just in the morning.

And finally I wanted to see what they had to say about the forthcoming Hessentag, in particular about the lack of information for businesses in the town and my recent attempts to get a permit to enter the closed-off part of the town in order to visit my customers during the event. [Read more…]

Anything is possible in German politics

… or so it would seem.  After the recent general elections (Bundestagswahl) we can expect to have a so-called “black and yellow coalition” in power.

The colours refer to the CDU and FDP parties, who are not actually so far apart in many of their policies, but still have a lot of debating to do until they agree on everything.

What worried me a little bit was a comment that I heard on the radio a few days ago, that “all topics are open to discussion”.  I would have expected that some topics did not need to be discussed, and it reminded me of the last round of coalition talks 4 years ago, where the CDU and SPD discussed raising the VAT rate.  One party wanted to raise it by 1%, the other did not want to raise it at all, and in the end they agreed on 3%!

Over the next few weeks the parties – including the CSU as well – will thrash out their policies and come up with a contract by which they will theoretically govern the country for the next 4 years.  I am wondering how much they will undo the work of the previous CDU/SPD coalition, and in particular how many policies will be agreed upon, that neither party had in their manifesto during the election campaign.

Scrapping the Gesundheitsfond would be a good start…

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