In its last newsletter for 2023, the Ingolstadt-Eichstätt Association for Agricultural Education published an “idea”: “Give your young family members and/or farm successors a visit to the ball!”, it said vlf currently, but according to this announcement there were no longer many tickets for the Agricultural Ball in the Ingolstadt City Theater anyway. Nevertheless, it will not have been the unexpected rush of successors to the court and the urgent need to create free places for them on the floor that caused the association’s board to recently come up with another idea.
Maybe he was inspired by the next event in his own newsletter, an online meeting entitled “Current tax issues for farmers”. In any case, the board then decided to let its farmers and, if necessary, their successors to the farm dance this time without honorary guests from the SPD, Greens and FDP. There was applause for this decision at the ball on Saturday, reports the Ingolstadt native, among others Danube Courier. And of course applause for the representatives of the CSU and AfD, who were welcomed as guests of honor. If the farm winter rest wasn’t long over this year anyway, then it would be now in and around Ingolstadt at the latest.
In any case, the association chairmen can now not only allow themselves to be celebrated for their decision by everyone. Especially since the chairman, who himself “doesn’t want to be an AfD sympathizer,” justified the invitation to an AfD city councilor and state parliament member from Ingolstadt by saying that he was “democratically elected.” But the mayor of Gaimersheim, Andrea Mickel, and the deputy district administrator of Eichstätt, Sven John, would certainly also claim that. In the end, the two Social Democrats were apparently the only ones effectively disinvited because they were the only invited guests of honor from the ranks of the SPD, Greens and FDP to have accepted. Ingolstadt’s mayor Christian Scharpf, also a social democrat, had apparently canceled the major agricultural event in the city theater this time.
Incidentally, city theaters are considered institutions that are heavily subsidized by taxpayers’ money and, out of pure solidarity among those receiving subsidies, farmers should not drive tractors into them for protest purposes, not even in the figurative sense. Instead, the farmers should celebrate and dance there, ideally with well-chosen guests. After all, farmers are not oafs in rubber boots. Except perhaps one or two association representatives, but then regardless of the footwear. By the way, this Friday is the general meeting at vlf Ingolstadt-Eichstätt. Nobody has been unloaded again yet.