Munich (dpa / lby) - The 75th anniversary of the Bavarian state government was celebrated with a big ceremony with Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU). The anniversary is "a signal of remembrance that there have also been very difficult times," said Söder on Wednesday at the anniversary celebration in Munich. Even in these times, crises were overcome. The Free State has always valued federalism, said the head of government. "We were never centralists. We were actually always skeptical about the federal capital. And that has proven itself to this day."
After the Second World War, the first state governments were still set up by the Americans, first in May 1945 around the independent Fritz Schäffer, and then in September 1945 around the SPD politician Wilhelm Hoegner. At the beginning of 1947 the time had come and the first democratically legitimized government ruled in the Free State.
Since then, Bavaria has experienced 18 electoral periods with a total of 24 changes of government. There have been a total of eleven different Prime Ministers in the past three-quarters of a century - ten of them were from the CSU, one head of government came from the SPD.
