Feldkirchen (dpa / lby) - The Bavarian Hunting Association (BJV) wants to clarify allegations against members of its presidium. A code of conduct is being drawn up, and employees can also contact a whistle-blowing office openly or anonymously, the association announced on Tuesday in Feldkirchen. This position will be set up at a law firm in which a lawyer from the BJV legal committee works. Allegations such as insults, disrespectful treatment and outbursts of anger are directed against BJV President Ernst Weidenbusch, among others. The association spoke of a planned defamation by means of a character assassination campaign.
Weidenbusch, who also sits in the state parliament for the CSU, blames a group for this. It was always the same people who tried to gain dominance in the association with fabricated accusations. "Some of it's just about power and money," said Weidenbusch. However, some of them also rejected changes that he and his team wanted to push through in order to lead the association into the future. Perhaps the pace here is too fast and you have to slow down to take all members with you. If everything takes longer, Weidenbusch, in his own words, can also imagine running for the presidency again in 2026.
Weidenbusch's critics include the chairman of the hunting protection and hunters' association in Dachau, Ulrich Wittmann, who failed in the election of the new president in April. Wittmann speaks of insults and psychological pressure. The aim is to turn the association into a political hunting association. The "Deutsche Jagdzeitung" also published an open letter allegedly written by a "group of former employees" who wished to remain anonymous. In the office of the BJV, fear and mistrust had spread, employees had resigned, it says.
