Franconia: Wild boars should no longer get politician names – Bavaria

Only a few more days, then a Franconian wild boar of Russian descent will no longer have to answer to his baptismal name “Putin”. In Schweinfurt, too, a wild boar once had to grapple with a politician’s name.

Actually, one should now quickly switch to the Waldhaus Mehlmeisel wildlife park in Upper Franconia, where there are just a few days left to submit creative name suggestions for a wild boar of Russian descent, which has so far been called “Putin”. But looking at history is becoming more and more important these days. So: A wild boar in Franconia with a name that has been talked about – wasn’t there something there?

Yes, there was something, confirms Thomas Leier from the “Wildpark an den Eichen” in Lower Franconia. In the Guttenberg hype of 2009, they baptized a boar there with the name Karl-Theodor. You have to know that the sow as such is held in particularly high esteem in a certain Franconian municipality, namely in Schweinfurt. And so it was a matter of honor that the CSU handed the minister a letter certifying that a young boar named KT was going to be having fun in the mud at Burg Schweinstein there in the future.

When the doctorate was gone, a few eager people did use the “Dr.” scratched from the corresponding roll of honor. The pig itself, however, the CSU said at the time, would “under no circumstances be processed into sausage”. The park kept its word.

In the meantime, however, the boar KT has gone the way of everything earthly, reports Leier. Just like the highland cattle “Michel”, which was also named after a Franconian Federal Minister of Economics – Michael Glos, the most talented of all Franconian humorists. In view of the animal baptism, he is said to have made the statement: “I’m just the biggest cattle.”

And what is in Mehlmeisel now? There they are currently being flooded with suggestions, reports Park Manager Eckard Mikisch. There are almost 2700 so far, at the end of the month is the deadline. Mikisch describes “Putin” as socially acceptable, extremely stately and sociable, he just didn’t deserve the name. And no: Proposals from living politicians and ex-politicians – “Gerhard Schröder” is currently booming – would be sorted out beforehand. Even if it was suggested by Ringlstetter in BR.

But something like that had just gone wrong. And what’s more, one resident of the wildlife park is already called “Mr. Schröder”: a white roebuck.

source site