From 2009 to 2011 he was federal minister, most recently for national defense: Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Buhl-Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg (CSU). At the start of Oktoberfest it was announced that he and his wife Stefanie (tabloid title “the German Kennedys”, not pictured) had separated some time ago.
On the penultimate evening of the Oktoberfest, he performed his first solo performance after the separation – in the Schützenfestzelt, where another show star also made an appearance: pop singer Heino. Among other things in his repertoire: Layla – “She is more beautiful, younger, hotter.”
An encounter with Markus Blume (CSU) on the last Oktoberfest weekend was apparently unexpected. “Everyone you meet on a dream Sunday at the Oktoberfest,” wrote Bavaria’s State Minister for Science and Art after toasting with Saxony’s Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) on the social media platform Instagram. Striking for a politician with C in his party name: Kretschmer wore jeans, not lederhosen.
On the middle Oktoberfest weekend, the CSU party conference took place in the trade fair in Riem, at which Prime Minister Markus Söder (not in the picture) took the office of party chairman with more than 96 percent in the presence of CDU leader Friedrich Merz (far left in the picture). was confirmed. Friedrich Merz and his wife Charlotte Merz ended the evening at the Oktoberfest, accompanied by the CSU Bundestag member Dorothee Bär and her husband Oliver Bär (in the picture from left to right).
Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) did not miss a patrol of the festival grounds, as did…
… the former governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, conducting in the Marstall tent. The five-time Mister Universe already has practice in the discipline. What was striking about his guest performance this year was that he performed it with a drumstick.
Not a political figure in the strict sense, but a politician’s daughter who is thrusting into the limelight: Selina Söder, daughter of CSU boss Markus Söder, gave her social premiere at the Almauftrieb in the Käfer-Schänke together with her friend Raphael Netz, at which she was also immediately offensive revealed her motives – she should be developed into a brand in the near future.
Is already a brand: her father Markus Söder (CSU, second from left). However, few of the Prime Minister’s Oktoberfest appearances from the first 17 days of the Oktoberfest are documented: When tapping, before Munich’s Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD, right) drove the mallet into the barrel with two blows, he advocated that the VAT for the catering industry should continue to be increased should remain reduced. A pure political demand. Since the traditional costume and rifle parade, Söder has been seen at folk festivals in Moosburg, in Viereth-Trunstadt, in Weisbach, in Schwabmünchen, in Fürth, in Amberg and at an ice cream parlor in Bad Kissingen. But no longer at the Oktoberfest.
SPD top candidate Florian von Brunn (right) was pleased to receive support from federal politics for the state elections on the first Sunday after the Oktoberfest. SPD party leader Lars Klingbeil, who sits on the administrative advisory board at FC Bayern, likes Oktoberfest and has therefore owned a pair of lederhosen for several years, rushed to his side.
Claudia Roth from the Greens (center), the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media, is also experienced in Oktoberfest, traditional costumes and election campaigns. Katrin Haben Schaden (left), Second Mayor of the City of Munich, and Katharina Schulze, Chairwoman of the Green Party in Bavaria, were delighted to be there.
And then there was Laura Dornheim, the head of the IT department of the city of Munich, who caused political unrest when tapped because she published a picture with Free Voters boss Hubert Aiwanger on social media and the slogan: “Next year I’ll put a ‘Nazi out’ button on my dirndl.” There was a reprimand from SPD Mayor Dieter Reiter: Oktoberfest = politics-free! However, on the final Oktoberfest weekend, Dornheim reported that it had already been completed. Button, clothespin saying – everything is already there. Oktoberfest 2024 can come.
