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ENFORCEMENT THREAT – Is City Council Chairman Ekkart Günther Broke?There’s troubling news from Weißenfels. It appears that the chairman of the Weißenfels city council, Ekkart Günther, is facing serious financial problems. A letter from his lawyer landed in my mailbox earlier this week. Written in all caps: ENFORCEMENT THREAT.  It concerns the proportional legal costs I’m supposed to cover due to the legal dispute with City Council Chairman Ekkart Günther. This includes a share of the costs for his lawyer from the law firm Fehse & Szabo in Halle. It seems quite urgent, as no 14-day deadline was even set to transfer the demanded €80.34. And that’s not all: 2 cents in interest per day starting from May 22, 2025, are also being demanded. But even that’s not the end of it. The lawyer also wants to be compensated for his actions with an additional €21.42. Is Ekkart Günther broke? Or close to it?From my perspective, Ekkart Günther is in urgent need of these 80 euros. But why? He was represented at the last city council meeting. They said he was on vacation. Did he live beyond his means there? Or was there a dispute with his spouse? Does he perhaps have to move out? We don’t know, but it is rather suspicious that someone whose pension is likely not too small needs such a relatively minor amount so urgently. Should we be worried?The Super Anti-DemocratThere’s been plenty of coverage here about the circus that Ekkart Günther, beloved by many on the Weißenfels city council, has been putting on since November 2024. He still has a major issue with real democracy, transparency, and that terribly awful freedom of the press. He’d prefer if his charming face didn’t appear on the internet and especially if his pleasant voice wasn’t heard when he speaks as council chairman. If it were up to him, the press would only be allowed to take notes, not record images or sound.He ultimately had the video recording of the city council meeting on November 7, 2024, banned by court order. At first, he and Mayor Martin Papke even demanded €5,000 and a signed cease-and-desist declaration. My refusal to pay led to a court case, where the judge ruled that I must contribute to the legal fees of Ekkart Günther. Perhaps Ekkart Günther or his lawyer gave the judge such an impression of neediness that the judge couldn’t bring himself to make Günther pay for his own lawyer. Does Ekkart Günther lack class?Some might say that Ekkart Günther somehow "won" since the video was no longer allowed online. And if Mr. Günther had any class, he would have paid for his lawyer himself and not tried to financially burden an independent media outlet. But oh well, some people with stature have no character. Ekkart Günther apparently belongs to that group, doesn’t he?A red flag for financial trouble?Were the initially demanded €5,000 already a warning sign of a major financial drought in Ekkart Günther’s account? Is that why these 80 euros need to be transferred so urgently – including those 2 cents of daily interest? When your account is empty, every cent counts. Did Ekkart Günther and his lawyer skip the court hearing because even that would have exceeded Günther’s financial means?Even the short deadline of less than two weeks raises questions. Small anecdote on the side: I once gave a judge at the social court a 14-day deadline because the matter was quite urgent. The judge wrote back saying she considered the deadline coercion. I’m wondering if I should also consider the lawyer’s deadline as coercion. All I can do is speculate, but I see no other possible explanation. (No) help from the Anti-Democratic Faction?Maybe the members of the Anti-Democratic Faction in the city council could lend him a hand. That’s the entire CDU faction. They were also front and center – and still are – in making it at least difficult to record city council meetings.However: why aren’t they already helping Ekkart Günther financially? That also makes me suspicious. Does he no longer have the support of his anti-democracy friends? Why haven’t I paid these costs yet?Simple: Neither Ekkart Günther nor his lawyer has provided any information about the account to which the €80 should be transferred. I was waiting for an invoice. Now things seem to be getting so heated for Ekkart Günther that it has to go very quickly and he needs every cent of interest.Support Bürgerstimme and my workIf you’d like to support me and the Bürgerstimme project, scroll to the bottom of the page and use the payment options listed there. It’s more urgent than ever to support independent media that also take on the “regional political establishment.” As the discussion before the last city council meeting in Weißenfels and the reaction of the representative of the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung showed – and even earlier, the reaction of an employee of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk – these journalists either cannot, do not want to, or are not allowed to advocate for greater press freedom. Perhaps these journalists don’t really like press freedom themselves?Author: AI Translation - Michael Thurm | 30.05.2025 |
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