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Defense Secretary Christine Lambrecht has done little with her job, and most of it wrong. Her son’s flight to Sylt in the Bundeswehr helicopter is only the final proof: Christine Lambrecht lacks instinct and size for the post. she should go
Do politicians have a right to private life and family? Yes absolutely! Do they have a right to vacation and relaxation? Ditto: Absolutely! Should they exercise that right just as badly? From now on it gets tricky. The answer is Sibylline: It depends. Mainly on the situation.
Everyone with political responsibility has had a damn hard year and a half. The Pandemic. The flood. The election campaign. Then the war. For many, there was little or no room at all for breaks, vacations and relaxation. Annalena Baerbock would therefore have loved to fly to her husband and their two children on vacation over the Easter days, for three days. One can understand that very well. But the Secretary of State is a clever woman; she left it.
Olaf Scholz, who had already refrained from taking a short trip south because of Corona, stayed at home over Easter with a heavy heart. Asked whether it was difficult for him to give up, he answered in an interview with stern last week: “My place in Germany is in this situation.”
Christine Lambrecht is caught in the trap
Christine Lambrecht’s place in this situation is on the other hand – in a faux pas. The opportunity to fly to Sylt, which she offered her adult son in the Bundeswehr helicopter, only completes the picture of a minister who lacks one crucial political qualification: instinct.
Legally, everything may be in order: the flight was registered, and Lambrecht will bear the costs. Politically, it was a grandiose stupidity. Especially if you can’t dispel the suspicion that you’ve headed for Battalion Electronic Warfare 911 in Stadum because it’s so pretty close to the Easter domicile on Sylt. That would be fatal even in peacetime.
How difficult Lambrecht was with the dignity and burden of her office was already apparent on day two of the war. One day after Putin’s troops marched into Ukraine, the defense minister could be seen getting a manicure in the nail salon “Le Nails” in the Friedrichstadtpassagen, according to “Tagesspiegel Checkpoint” at 10 a.m.; after an hour we went on to shop in “La Fayette” accompanied by a bodyguard. Of course you can do anything. But it shouldn’t. Just like when visiting Mali, you shouldn’t necessarily appear in front of the troops in heels.
“You have to have a sense of what is reasonable”
Lebbe goes further? Even if there is war on your doorstep and you have the authority to command and command? Christine Lambrecht, an experienced politician who, for many, performed surprisingly well as Minister of Justice in the last legislative period, behaves, especially for a beginner, like a bloody amateur who disregards the basic rules of business. With her behavior she gives herself a certificate of inadequacy. “We’re being watched, so you have to have a sense of what’s reasonable,” says Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, chair of the Defense Committee. Christine Lambrecht apparently lacks this feeling completely.
A chancellor, whom the SPD hasn’t fondly remembered of late, fired his defense minister, whom the SPD hadn’t fondly remembered for a long time, shortly before the 2002 federal elections, because he a) splashed around with his Darling in the pool had his picture taken while the Bundeswehr was preparing for a mission in Macedonia, and b) had a PR consultant outfit him with clothes for almost 55,000 marks from his cash register; the pair of socks at 35 marks. The SPD voters don’t understand that, said the man who does things today that the rest of the world doesn’t understand either, and put an end to the fun: “Rudolf, it’s over.”
Departure, Mrs. Lambrecht? Now Olaf Scholz is not Gerhard Schröder; he lacks the unconditional brutality of political business. Helicopter mother Christine Lambrecht is also far from competing with Rudolf Scharping in political misconduct. And yet: In this situation, the already shaken Bundeswehr needs leadership that does not make a laughingstock of or cast doubt on its sensitivity and integrity.
The Bundeswehr needs a suitable defense minister as Christine Lambrecht.
Source: Stern
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