On Saturday, Bavaria’s mountain riflemen and all sorts of prominent politicians in Waakirchen commemorate the Sendlinger Murder Christmas. The orders are given by someone who had long since had to give up his weapons himself.
In 1705, the rebels from the Oberland are said to have been poorly armed, and they were supposedly not particularly well organized either. At least compared to the imperial Habsburg troops who were occupying Bavaria at the time. On the rather unholy night of December 25, 1705, there was a slaughter that went down in history as the Sendlinger Murder Christmas.
Today’s defenders of Bavarian homeliness are better off with the organization. After all, they are in uniform, know how to march up and like to stand in ranks. In addition, the state power has long been with them – represented by Ilse Aigner, President of the State Parliament, Hubert Aiwanger, Minister for Economic Affairs, and Florian Herrmann, Head of the State Chancellery, at the ritual Christmas commemoration on Saturday at the Oberländer Memorial in Waakirchen. And the mountain riflemen now also have firearms. Only one person in command in Waakirchen had to give up his guns a few years ago.
And so it may even be a good thing that Martin Beilhack is commander of the Waakirchner mountain riflemen and captain of their Mangfall-Leitzach-Gau. Because he gives the command to shoot if necessary, but doesn’t have to shoot himself, which he shouldn’t do. A few years ago, Beilhack, who never left any doubts about his customary loyalty to the king, applied for a citizenship card under the Reich and Citizenship Act of 1913 and entered “Kingdom of Bavaria” as his country of residence. The authorities regard something like this as a strong indication of the confusion of thoughts of the “Reich citizens”. Therefore, in 2017, several police officers collected Beilhack’s weapons, and the Miesbach district office withdrew his weapons and hunting license.
The self-declared Kingdom citizen saw himself as completely misjudged. He was misled “by a friend” and finally took a number of oaths of democracy in the Bundeswehr, the Munich professional fire brigade, as a municipal councilor in Waakirchen and as a district councilor in Miesbach. The administrative court he appealed to, however, agreed with the district office, because Beilhack was not able to completely dispel all concerns. The Administrative Court rejected his application for an appeal. So then: Stand still!