More and more refugees: Does Ebersberg impose a freeze on admissions? – Ebersberg

The number of refugees in the district of Ebersberg is increasing. Again and again people flee and seek protection from persecution, war and terror – and end up in the region. A bus with 50 refugees from Syria, Turkey and Afghanistan arrived just last Tuesday. It was the second bus within a few weeks that arrived in the district town of Ebersberg. According to the district office, a total of 100 people have now been distributed in the 78 state accommodations for refugees in the district. Another bus with refugees should arrive in Ebersberg after the autumn holidays, according to District Administrator Robert Niedergesäß (CSU).

But the admission of people seeking protection should be over before that. “We are no longer receptive,” says Niedergesäß. The accommodations are full, the circles of helpers are partially exhausted and overburdened and the crises are overturning. “We just don’t have the capacity anymore.” That’s why he wrote an e-mail to the Upper Bavarian District President Konrad Schober and told him: “It’s no longer possible!” Since the outbreak of the Ukraine war, the number of shelters for refugees has increased from 30 to almost 80, and a total of around 1,770 people from Ukraine have found accommodation in the district. Just over half of them live in government shelters. What options, the district administrator asks, are there for the refugees who are yet to come?

The district administrator rejects accommodation in gymnasiums

Of course, questions would arise as to whether the gyms would be reopened to refugees or whether air domes would be set up again and thus offer them accommodation. But Robert Niedergesäß firmly rejects that. “This type of accommodation is not humane,” he says.

Whether the requested admission stop from Ebersberg will be followed in Munich is a completely different matter. Because the admission quotas of the individual federal states and thus also the distribution within the respective federal state is fixed. These determine what proportion of asylum seekers each federal state must accept and are determined according to the so-called “Königstein key”. It is calculated for each year according to the tax revenue and the population of the federal states and regulates how many refugees to Germany are distributed among the individual federal states. The share for Bavaria in 2022 is 15.56 percent.

Emergency accommodation in gyms, like here in 2016 in the Poing secondary school, should not exist again.

(Photo: Christian Endt)

The fact that dignified accommodation for the refugees now seems to play a role in the district office will probably not only be met with open ears by helpers such as Tobias Vorburg from the Markt Schwabener Verein “Seiten an Seiten” (Side by Side). “It’s nice to hear that there seems to be a change in the district and that people want to be accommodated with dignity,” he says. For him, this is a positive development in dealing with the refugees since 2015.

The employees in the district office are reaching their limits

But it is probably not just the dignity of the people that the district administrator weighed in his decision. “The employees are emaciated,” says Niedergesäß, alluding to the high workload and the effects of the corona pandemic in his agency. In addition, one does not want to expect the citizens of the district town and the surrounding communities to close the gyms for school sports or other events again. And the crises that do not stop at Ebersberg also play a role in his considerations: the energy crisis, the Ukraine war and the ongoing corona pandemic. All of this would also affect the work with the refugees – not just in the district office.

Whether the bus with the refugees will come in the fall or not. Perhaps in these times of uncertainty it would be important to give security to those who seem to have lost everything anyway.

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