In the appeal proceedings against building contractor Volker Tretzel, he says he made a donation in order to secure "a certain amount of goodwill" - namely that of Joachim Wolbergs. This statement could cause distress for the then mayor of Regensburg. source site
Joachim Wolbergs, 51, is only a spectator this Wednesday, but of course it's also about him in Room B 173 of the Munich Criminal Justice Center. He's sitting in the back row, in an anorak, in a room that looks as if no piece of furniture has been moved since the 1970s. Green doors, orange chair covers, brown carpeting. Volker Tretzel, 80, is not here as a spectator. He's the accused again. Rimless glasses, clean parting and tie, everything as...
After a decades-long dispute about the so-called Judensau at Regensburg Cathedral, a new information board is to provide information about the anti-Semitic sculpture. "The participants have jointly found a way of dealing with this historical legacy, which as the "Regensburg Way" can be a model for dealing with similar abusive sculptures," said Bavaria's Minister of Education Michael Piazolo (Free Voters) on Monday at the unveiling. "The sculpture is intended to warn everyone to take action against all forms of propaganda,...
Two 13-year-old boys from the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab in the Upper Palatinate may have planned an attack that could have cost the lives of several people. The police found explosives, homemade explosive devices or dummies and soft air weapons, i.e. weapons that look deceptively real but are not life-threatening.According to the police, the motives behind the two are still being determined, but there is no evidence that the background is xenophobic or religious. Since the two children...
According to a study, Regensburg remains the single capital of Germany. Nowhere else in 2022 did so many people live alone as in the big city in the Upper Palatinate, according to the company GfK in Nuremberg. The proportion of one-person households in the city was 52.7 percent - and thus well above the nationwide proportion of 40.9 percent. The city of Regensburg, with a population of 150,000, had already taken the top spot in previous years.The cities of Erlangen,...
On the railway line between Nuremberg and Regensburg, two railway employees are seriously injured by a passing locomotive, one man dies in the accident. An expert is now investigating how this could have happened. After the fatal accident involving line workers on the railway line between Nuremberg and Regensburg, the police investigation into the cause of the accident continues. An expert had been commissioned, said a police spokesman on Tuesday. He was investigating the scene of the accident on Monday...
On Monday, a railway employee died in an accident on the railway line between Nuremberg and Regensburg near Parsberg. Another was seriously injured, said the Oberpfalz police headquarters.The police initially did not provide any further information about the course of events. There was initially no further information on the identity of the victims. source site
An unknown person tried to blackmail a 17-year-old from Cham in the Upper Palatinate with his naked photo. The teenager sent such a photo to an unknown woman via the Snapchat social network on Friday, the police reported at the weekend. An unknown perpetrator then threatened him with publication and demanded 200 euros. The 17-year-old didn't pay.When the picture was published on Instagram, the 17-year-old reported to the officials. The police are investigating blackmail and warn against sending naked pictures....
The Free Voters like to emphasize that they are not like the other established parties - hence the name. A non-party, so to speak. We are supposedly dealing with free people who make politics for the little people and are not subjugated by party statutes and internal party power struggles - at least at the municipal level. One can assume that most free voters have a party allergy. This is the only way to explain the following special feature: You...
According to the authorities, a 63-year-old operator of two care service companies from the Upper Palatinate should not have paid social security contributions. The public prosecutor's office and the main customs office in Regensburg announced on Thursday that the man's business and living quarters were searched in the morning. The man has not yet commented on the allegations. It was said that he was suspected of belonging to the "Reichsbürger" scene.The man was arrested on Thursday, but on the basis...
