Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) – The AfD parliamentary group calls for the privatization of the Hessian state wineries Kloster Eberbach in the Rheingau. State-owned companies are sluggish and inefficient, said Parliamentary Managing Director Frank Grobe on Thursday in the state parliament in Wiesbaden. “We know that quite a few Rheingau winegrowers are interested in the areas of the Hessian state wineries,” he explained. With their expertise, they could increase the quality of the wine and develop the Rheingau more into the flagship of German wine.
The initiative met with little approval from the other parliamentary groups. This is a “meaningless and unfounded” debate, said Lena Arnoldt from the CDU, for example. You can only explain the AfD application with the election campaign for the district election in the Rheingau-Taunus district on March 12, where Grobe is a candidate. The SPD MP Gernot Grumbach referred to the great importance of the state wineries for research. Finance Minister Michael Boddenberg (CDU) said: “We will certainly not privatize this winery.”
