It’s always said that people don’t want wind turbines, especially not in Bavaria. But in Mindelheim things just can’t go fast enough for many. From citizens who are probably a lot further than the politicians think.
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Jan Schmidbauer, Mindelheim
When Stephan Winter talks about the 16,000 inhabitants of his small town, he usually only talks about “the citizens”. A species he has researched extensively in twenty years as a local politician. He knows, for example, that one must never overtax “the citizen”. He knows that you have to explain to the citizen very precisely what you intend to do as a politician. And he knows what ordinary people don’t usually like: change.