Does the District Administrator not care about the concerns of local entrepreneurs?

A few days ago, buergerstimme.net reported that the Investment Bank of Saxony-Anhalt is increasingly conducting reviews of COVID-19 aid received by entrepreneurs.

This article about the review of COVID-19 aid received comments pointing out that not only are more and more such reviews taking place, but that all businesses and entrepreneurs who received COVID-19 aid are being reviewed. Another comment mentioned that entrepreneurs with mixed business types would have to repay the aid anyway.

I sent the following inquiry to the press office of the state government:

Good day, dear Sir or Madam,

At present, the Investment Bank of Saxony-Anhalt is sending letters to all recipients of COVID-19 aid to review whether the aid received was justified.

Please answer the following questions:

Who ordered this review, and when?
How is this review justified?
What is the state of Saxony-Anhalt hoping to achieve with this?
Why does the state of Saxony-Anhalt not forgo such reviews five years after the pandemic?

I kindly ask for a prompt response!

No response has been received to date.

I also wrote to the press office of the Burgenlandkreis with the following question:

Good day, dear Sir or Madam,

At present, the Investment Bank of Saxony-Anhalt is sending letters to all recipients of COVID-19 aid to review whether the aid received was justified.

Please answer the following questions:

What is the Burgenlandkreis’s position on these repayment demands?
What should entrepreneurs do if such repayments cause liquidity problems?

I kindly ask for a prompt response!

The response was:

The Burgenlandkreis, as a district authority, is not responsible in this matter and therefore cannot provide an assessment. You will find the procedure explained in great detail at https://www.ib-sachsen-anhalt.de/unternehmen/corona-hilfen/corona-soforthilfe.

But that wasn’t my question. So I sent another email:

The question was how the Burgenlandkreis or the District Administrator feels about the fact that this aid is being reclaimed, and how the district or the District Administrator feels when this creates financial difficulties for entrepreneurs. In other words, an opinion.

The response was:

As this issue does not fall within the district's jurisdiction, as we already explained in our first response, we will refrain from expressing an opinion.

One can conclude from this that District Administrator Götz Ulrich does not care about the concerns of entrepreneurs. He hides behind jurisdictional wrangling. He sees no reason to advocate for the entrepreneurs in the district. He doesn’t even have an opinion on the matter.

It is the role of a district administrator to represent and politically support the citizens and entrepreneurs of the district. Apparently, this is not something District Administrator Götz Ulrich has in mind.

Author: AI Translation - Michael Thurm | 08.06.2025

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