It’s an old story, but it always remains new, even if Jan Böhmermann has lost some interest in the Brose & Stoschek story in his “ZDF Magazin Royal”. Of course, this serial corporate satire from a medium-sized town in Upper Franconia could not be continued permanently. Of course, you can still hear the specially created jingle: “What’s the news about the Stoschek family and Brose Fahrzeugteile AG and their attempt to appropriate and subjugate the city of Coburg?”
Well, new stuff. Brose entrepreneur Michael Stoschek has made it very clear on several occasions that he is in favor of expanding an inner-city federal highway. There are numerous supporters of Stoschek in Coburg, even admirers. Even they would hardly accuse him of excessive subtlety when it comes to articulating company-specific needs.
The whole thing, this only for non-Coburgers, has to be imagined like the time on the beach: If you don’t build a nicer canal on my sand castle, I’ll dismantle its greatest towers and put them somewhere else if necessary. One could say that this is completely normal behavior, since Brose recently let the local press know that they were stopping construction work in Coburg.
The reason? Among other things, “lack of support from the city of Coburg for the logistical requirements of the largest industrial employer.” They didn’t allow themselves to be softened to push ahead with the aforementioned federal highway expansion.
Another spin on the eternal “trace or feel” in Coburg, everyday business. But the matter has an instructive side strand. Namely, if you look at the double lane change by Coburg city councilor René Hähnlein.
He was once the district leader of the Left, but recently moved over to the Sahra-Wagenknecht camp, as they would have put it on the “edge of the zone” in the past. And with this change he also adjusted his attitude towards road construction.
As a left-wing member of the city council, he – like the majority – voted against the federal highway expansion. Now, as a carjacker, he is for it. Climate protection? It’s (apparently) something for left-wing sectarians. The city council wants to return to the workbench alongside Wagenknecht. And they don’t want Coburg’s sandcastle to be damaged.