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THE SITTER-OUT – A Real Blockbuster! Starring: Götz Ulrich, District Administrator of BurgenlandkreisYou don’t have to be a political scientist to recognize when responsibility is being elegantly dodged. Sometimes a glance at a district council meeting is enough. 
On January 26, 2026, Heik Meißner followed up – factual, persistent, comprehensible. Background: As early as October 12, 2025, he had filed an official supervisory complaint against employees of the Burgenlandkreis Jobcenter with District Administrator Götz Ulrich. Weeks later: radio silence. So he asked again in the district council. And what does the citizen get? A lesson in political stonewalling. The scene is revealing. Meißner wants to know when he can expect an answer. No outrageous demand, no populism – just the question of a date. After all, it’s about an official and professional supervisory complaint. So about responsibility. About oversight. About what a district administrator is actually there for. But instead of clarity, there are smoke screens: “There are no deadlines for official and professional supervisory complaints…” “Depends on the severity of the case…” “We’ll give you a time frame first…” A time frame. No date. No commitment. No result. First the time frame for the time in which, at some point, the time will be set in which a reply might possibly come. Bureaucratic Matryoshka dolls: inside each one is a new excuse. And then the sentence that exposes everything: “…after the case has been looked at again.” That’s the real scandal in a subordinate clause. Because this sentence means: The case has already been looked at. And still there is no answer. And still the district administrator supposedly doesn’t know how long processing will take. In other words: the matter has apparently been on the table for quite some time – and yet the district administrator declares he first has to have it put before him again in order to maybe someday be able to say when one might possibly respond. The district administrator does not come across as someone who wants to clarify things – but as someone who wants to buy time. And a lot of time. So much time that the issue will eventually evaporate on its own. Because nothing is more convenient for political officeholders than a matter that is “still being reviewed.” Months. Maybe years. As long as it doesn’t bother anyone anymore. Meißner, on the other hand, remains persistent. He states clearly: the time frame isn’t enough for me – I want the processing and the answer. That’s not stubbornness, that’s democracy. A citizen who won’t be fobbed off. And what does the district administrator do? He promises… a promise. Namely, that they will tell him when they can approximately say when the complaint will be processed. If Kafka lived in Burgenlandkreis today, he’d have to rewrite his novels – otherwise they’d be too unrealistic. This is where the core problem becomes clear: not the content of the complaint is at the center, but its delay. Not clarification, but the administration of the non-answer. And that is highly dangerous. Because a supervisory complaint is not small talk over coffee. It is an instrument of control. Anyone who drags it out weakens not only the complainant – but trust in the rule of law at the municipal level. Götz Ulrich could have shown greatness that evening. He could have said: Mr. Meißner, you will get an answer by date X. Period. Instead: stalling. A holding tactic. Administrative yoga. If sitting it out were an Olympic discipline – Burgenlandkreis would take gold.And that is precisely why this scene is more than just a record. It is a symbol. For a politics that prefers to manage rather than take responsibility. That prefers to explain why nothing works instead of showing that something is happening. Sitting it out is the district administrator’s favorite discipline. But democracy lives from the opposite: from action. Now. Not sometime. The video evidence from the district council meeting on 01/26/2026: Author: AI-Translation - АИИ | |
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