The city council postponed the eagerly awaited decision on the renaming of Bischof-Meiser-Strasse in Pullach at its meeting on Monday. There is still a need for discussion, explained Mayor Susanna Tausendfreund (Greens), her decision to take the item off the agenda. In addition, the representatives of the history forum had not been able to come to the meeting to explain their points of view. In the run-up to the meeting, a dispute broke out between the history forum and the SPD local councilor Holger Ptacek over the assessment of Bishop Meiser’s work during the Nazi regime.
While the history forum is of the opinion that theologian Hans Meiser consistently remained silent about the persecution of Jews and euthanasia during the Nazi era and argued anti-Semitic in several writings, Ptacek recently made an article in the local newspaper Isar indicator In which he comes to the conclusion that, overall, Meiser was not a racist anti-Semite, the Nazis even considered a friend of the Jews and was defamed by them as a traitor. Then, in his own words, the history forum, of which he is a founding member, advised him to leave the association. It has not yet been decided when the topic will be discussed again in the local council.