asylum policy:Bavaria's refugee aid suffers from collective burnoutDecember 20, 2022 at 11:38 amReading time: 6 minsOpen detailed viewThe retired Bundeswehr Colonel Georg Schrenk and the 64-year-old educator Barbara Brüning are still involved in refugee aid in Dillingen. Many others have long since given up. (Photo: Thomas Balbierer)Frustrated, tired, overwhelmed: the number of volunteers is decreasing in many places, although the challenges are hardly any less. What's going on there? Visiting those who continue - still. Of Thomas Balbierer, DillingenlistenNoticeSplitfeedbackThe hair...
The hair has become whiter, the handshake has become softer and the lines around the eyes have deepened a little. Otherwise, Georg Schrenk has hardly changed since the Dillinger Helpers' Circle was founded almost eight years ago. Just like with meetings in 2015, the 73-year-old can still talk about the details of the right of residence and talk about the major political lines in the very next sentence. "Apart from the climate crisis, escape is the greatest challenge of the...
The Schulwerk Augsburg has now dismissed the teacher, who had a relationship with a high school graduate at his former school and had been teaching at a grammar school run by the Catholic institution in Dillingen, Swabia, since the summer. At first, the Schulwerk justified his employment by saying that the teacher showed remorse and therefore deserved a second chance. At a parents' meeting at his current school at the end of October, the vast majority expressed their confidence in...
Just a few weeks ago, for Peter Kosak, the head of the Catholic Schulwerk Augsburg, it was primarily a moral question: Can a person who has committed a serious offense be forgiven? A teacher who had a relationship with a 17-year-old student has been teaching at a grammar school run by the Swabian school authority in Dillingen since the summer. As a result, he lost his civil servant status and had to leave school. Schulwerk Augsburg, which operates more than...
A swimmer got into trouble in the Swabian town of Wittislingen (district of Dillingen an der Donau) after getting caught in aquatic plants in a river. According to the police, the 66-year-old suffered from circulatory problems. A relative of the man and a passer-by pulled him from the Egau. The man suffered mild shock and was taken to the hospital as a precaution. source site
Many people collect something, psychologically it is a remnant of times long past: Those who stocked up had better chances of survival. The motivation is different today, although not always so easy to see through, the passion for cacti, beer mats or stamps would first have to be explained conclusively. On the other hand, sometimes you can't defend yourself at all, then it just happens. Robert Habeck is such a case, the Green Economics Minister has been collecting Markus Söder...
300 years ago, John Churchill, victor of the Battle of Höchstädt, which laid the foundations of Europe, died. He achieved immortal fame - and fascinated an even more famous descendant. 300 years ago John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, died. He gained immortal fame as the victor of that terrible battle of arms that took place on August 13, 1704 on the outskirts of the Swabian village of Blindheim. The slaughter that went down in history as the Battle...
Free-voter politician Markus Müller becomes the new district administrator in Dillingen, Swabia. The 43-year-old received 55.9 percent of the votes in the election on Sunday, according to the district office. His opponent Christoph Mettel (CSU) came to 44.1 percent, the turnout was 42.4 percent. The second ballot was necessary because both candidates had just missed an absolute majority two weeks ago.Müller was already in the lead in the first ballot with 48.2 percent, Mettel was just behind with 45.4 percent....
"A great weekend," says Markus Söder when he appears in front of the press after the meeting of the CSU board on Monday. By that he doesn't just mean his excursions - the Passion Play in Oberammergau, the Upper Palatinate Day in Amberg - but also the elections. The state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, which are often called small federal elections. A "note" for the traffic lights and SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz, "partly also a vote of no confidence," says...
After a marital dispute, a 54-year-old man followed his wife by car and deliberately caused an accident. The woman had previously fled the shared apartment in Dillingen and drove away in a car, the police said on Thursday. Because she was being followed by her husband, she called the police. When the officers caught up with the man and tried to stop him, he resisted the police and hit his wife's car several times. As a result of the impact,...
