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Snowflake-Removal-Non-Responsibility-Tussle in the Burgenland District


A few centimeters of snow, and the Burgenland District transforms into a bureaucracy drama of epic proportions. On 26.01.2026 in the district council: Detlev Hartung (Freie Wähler / Citizens for Weißenfels / Rural Municipalities Faction), District Administrator Götz Ulrich (CDU) and Marcus Poppe (AfD Faction) met for the winter inspection of responsibilities – an event that can be described as the Snowflake-Removal-Non-Responsibility-Tussle.


Hartung opened the debate with an observation (see video) that was as banal as it was explosive: “By now, everyone outside has noticed that it has snowed a bit… At 6:30 a.m. I leave the house and the first cars are already blocking the streets. At 6:20 a.m., the schools send the message: the children will not be picked up by buses.”

With these words, he pinpointed the core problem: Who actually clears the snow? Hartung demanded clarification and accountability, noting that commuters are sometimes up as early as 4 a.m., “and there I see no snowplow.”

District Administrator Ulrich, playing the role of stoic mediator between winter and administration, calmly explained: “For everything concerning federal and state roads, the road maintenance authority of the state is responsible. We have no direct access. We can only make statements.” County roads? “Our vehicles start at 3 a.m. The head of our operations, Mr. Holm Dankert, himself goes out by 4 a.m. At 6 a.m., we can have driven all county roads once – but that does not mean everything is clear if it snows heavily.”

Here, the non-responsibility tussle becomes visible for the first time: the snow falls, the state road authority plows, the county plows, but for commuters, the result is merely a questionable state of “partial passability.” Ulrich continues: “If it is not obvious that passage is impossible, school transport continues. Today (26.01.2026) was exactly one of those days where in parts of the district school transport could operate, and in others it could not.”

Marcus Poppe took up the question and made a regional comparison: “Why does it work in Saxony and Thuringia, but not in Saxony-Anhalt? This morning on the B2 towards Leipzig, state border Saxony-Anhalt to Saxony – there (in Saxony) the roads were clear, but not here. Why is that?”

Ulrich had to admit: “I have no access to federal or state roads. We can only invite the state road authority. We cannot compel them.” The snowflakes, however – unwavering, incorruptible – continued to fall.

In the end, the insight of the day remained: The Snowflake-Removal-Non-Responsibility-Tussle is not a bureaucratic error, but a kind of natural law of the Burgenland District. A snowstorm is merely a meteorological event. But a snowstorm + administrative boundaries + commuters + school transport = an epic, winter puzzle.

And outside, the population trudges through a snow corridor that is both an obstacle course and a lesson in German bureaucracy. This is how the Snowflake-Removal-Non-Responsibility-Tussle works: confusing, slow, but carried out with polite precision.

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