What Olaf Scholz wanted to say with his song to say goodbye as a chancellor
That’s it: Olaf Scholz was adopted as Chancellor on Monday evening with a big tap. The solemn ceremony with military honor in the torchlight traditionally forms the end of a chancellery. « Dear Olaf, you were a chancellor in stormy times, » said Federal Defense Minister Boris Pistorius at the beginning of the celebration in Berlin and mainly referred to the attack Russia on the Ukraineshortly after the outgoing chancellor took office.
This had the business basis for the new coalition SPDGreens and FDP actually changed fundamentally. Ultimately, the alliance broke up before the legislative period has expired and thus the Scholz era, as one of the shortest chancellorships, goes into the history of the Federal Republic. What remains is the word « turning point » that Scholz shaped. His party friend Pistorius also recalled this – by the way the only minister that Merz is kept in the cabinet. « Leadership needs attitude, leadership also needs experience, » said the defense minister at the end. Was this also a hidden side blow to the future Chancellor who has not been able to show any government experience?
Olaf Scholz will soon no longer be Chancellor: a tapping of the Zapfen is going on
The outgoing heads of government from the Bundeswehr’s music corps could want three songs. And often they send one last message to the nation, to their own party, to supporters and critics. Such a message was that Scholz chose “Respect” by Aretha Franklin. Not only because the social democrat had posted « respect » in the election campaign, but also because he himself always thought that his government and he did not have had enough appreciation from the Germans. The other two titles were “in my life” by the Beatles and an extract from the Brandenburg concert by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Scholz himself spoke of a « moment of pausing, shaped by the retrospective for what was achieved » and thanked the citizens for their trust in him, as a Hamburg mayor, as a minister and ultimately as a chancellor. He emphasized that in these times it was by no means a matter of course that such a change of government takes place so civilized. « Our country stands together, especially in times of crisis and thus wakes up, » said the 66-year-old. He called the time as a chancellor the « great honor of his life » and wished his successor « a happy hand » and encounters in difficult situations from which he could draw strength and confidence. Then music was played.
Angela Merkel wished Nina Hagen, Gerhard Schröder Sinatra
The « playlist » on the big tapping always causes surprises. Angela Merkel, for example, not only had « big god, we praise you », but also « you forgot the color film » by the punk singer Nina Hagen as a memory of her youth in the GDR. Gerhard Schröder wanted « My Way » by Frank Sinatra.
Officially, the change of power only takes place on Tuesday When CDU boss Friedrich Merzwho persecuted the ceremony as a spectator on Monday evening, is expected to be elected as the new head of government by the Bundestag.
