Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) celebrated his wedding to journalist Franca Lehfeldt on Sylt on Saturday. Among the guests were high-profile political celebrities such as Chancellor Scholz (SPD) and CDU leader Merz. Meanwhile, a debate about the day-long celebrations has flared up. What do you think: does it fit in with the times?
Registry office, bachelorette party, church: Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner and journalist Franca Lehfeldt celebrated their wedding on Sylt with a lavish party. The three-day party marathon reached its climax on Saturday with the wedding ceremony in a church in Keitum and the subsequent party in the “Sansibar”. The wedding provided the most beautiful topics of conversation: prominent guests, a beaming bridal couple, many classic details.
After the ceremony, the two climbed into a black Posche convertible decorated with flowers and sped to the party. The wedding guests also included Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), Bundestag Vice Wolfgang Kubicki (FDP) and CDU leader Friedrich Merz.
The North Frisian island is a popular celebrity holiday destination. The church that Lindner and Lehfeldt chose for their wedding ceremony is one of Sylt’s landmarks with centuries of history and is also a popular wedding location for celebrities.
While a peaceful and curious mood prevailed among the numerous onlookers in front of the church, wasted taxes and an inappropriate time for the celebration were just as controversial as the couple getting married in the church, although both are said to have left the church. The Protestant ethics professor Mathias Wirth criticized the wedding. He told the “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger” that this was a “little socially and morally sensitive luxury wedding of a minister who at the same time wants to cut the Hartz IV rates for the long-term unemployed”.
In a guest commentary on FOCUS Online, the journalist Franz Sommerfeldt is also critical and comments on the Porsche trip. “There are pictures that stand for the times and the ability of contemporaries to do them justice.” In her column in “Bild am Sonntag”, the Protestant theologian Margot Käßmann takes offense at the church wedding of Lindner and Lehfeldt. “Why do two people want a church wedding who have deliberately left the church and have publicly declared that they do not see themselves as Christians?”
Finance Minister Christian Linder (FDP) celebrates his pompous wedding with journalist Franca Lehfeldt on the celebrity island of Sylt for three days. A guest: Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD). At the same time, your government is preparing the citizens for difficult times, and many people are already running out of money. What do you think: does Lindner’s extravagant wedding fit into this time? Write to us at mein-bericht@focus.de.
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Ewa Andrzejewski writes: “…it can’t be about values and norms – that’s for sure – at most it’s part of the image he’s chasing
User “Europe’s core” says: “Wedding gate: Crisis follows crisis and “politics” is celebrating a dream wedding. Just as Johnson had to resign after Partygate in the UK, Lindner will not be sustainable in the long run. He lives in another world.
And “Krakentag” says:
But there are also Twitter users who cannot understand this criticism: Claudia Paddington, for example, writes: “The debates about
And “7hillscat” tweeted: “God knows I’m not a Lindner fan, but my grandmother said you have to be able to treat yourself! And it would not have solved a single problem in the world if he had married on a smaller scale.”
