16 years ago, the Unterhaching local curator Günter Staudter and local history museum director Harald Nottmeyer agreed to divide the areas of activity as monument protection officers of the community: Staudter should be responsible for everything above ground, Nottmeyer for everything below ground. Now they’ve bumped into each other in such a way that it cracks and rattles. A bitter dispute has broken out between the two about responsibilities, and not just about that. Because Nottmeyer interfered more and more in the above ground, betrayed him and spread lies, Staudter claims. Because it’s not easy to get along with the home caretaker and spread untruths, says Nottmeyer.
According to the Schafkopfen, the waiter beats the waiter, and this feud ended in a similar way: Staudter was kicked out by the head of the local history museum and had to hand over the key. An arbitration talk with him in the town hall failed, reports Mayor Wolfgang Panzer (SPD), who also does not want to say a word about the feud that has been going on for months because he does not want to publicly pour oil on the fire, as he explains.
Among other things, it is about the orientation of the exhibition
One of the areas of conflict is the Heimatmuseum itself and the question of whether visitors are more interested in what is above ground or what is underground. Staudter is certain that people are much more interested in a real local history museum, where they can take a look at an old classroom, an old kitchen or a historical workshop, and where the local church and club history is documented . Far fewer would be interested in archaeological excavations. Nottmeyer obviously sees things differently, at least he initiated the relocation of the old kitchen and workshop to the gallery of the museum, where the clubs had previously spread. For Staudter, this is a “disregard for the clubs that shape social life in Unterhaching,” which were also ignored.
There are of course different representations of the two opponents. Harald Nottmeyer announced in a working group meeting that the associations had not responded to a letter from the museum association. Staudter says this was smothered and a lie. He had already discussed the planned innovations with representatives of all clubs in the gallery. This is supported by Georg Ellinger from the Unterhaching song ring, four of them came and had already taken measurements, he reports. “We were thrown out,” says Werner Reindl from the local horticultural association.
Another area of conflict is the municipal archive, to which Staudter always had free access – until one day Cornelia Renner, a close colleague of Nottmeyer in the local history museum, turned him down. Renner organized the move of the archive on behalf of the community. In this case, Mayor Panzer spoke a word of power, Staudter was allowed back in. Nottmeyer does not want to comment on this process.
Staudter says that he then clashed violently with this woman Renner because of different views on the presentation of the associations, and I also said that I no longer wanted to have anything to do with this museum association. Nottmeyer took him at his word and announced in the following working group meeting that Staudter had given up and would not come back. “I had to do it, it was agreed in the working group.” As a result, the question of the key was asked in the working group, reports an AK member who does not want to be named. He de facto sees the removal of the key as being thrown out of the museum, says the local curator.
“It’s not true that Günter Staudter resigned,” says Horst Later, treasurer of the home club. And as far as its orientation is concerned, he clearly takes the side of the local curator: “Children in particular are not interested in shards, they prefer to see pictures of their grandparents, of old shops, of the flood, because they have a personal connection to it.”
He was looking for a reconciliation, said Nottmeyer. “Only if he apologizes to me and gives me the keys back,” says Staudter.