G7 leaders will meet from Sunday at a German venue carefully chosen by former Chancellor Angela Merkel and recycled by her successor Olaf Scholz: a luxury hotel with fairytale décor and a tumultuous past.
Elmau Castle, located in the Bavarian Alps, is a five-star hotel converted into a castle for the three-day meeting of the Club of Rich Nations.
If the storm forecast continues, Scholz will have a propitious context for the assembly that will have on the agenda the war in Ukraine, the world food crisis and the aptitude of the democracies of the world and the planet.
“This verbal exchange club like the G6 with six countries (in the 1970s) to talk about how to deal with the oil crisis at that time,” Scholz said Saturday.
“It is now vital that we communicate about the existing scenario and make sure we avoid man-made climate change. “
At the last summit here in 2015, the U. S. president of the U. S. U. S. Secretary of State Barack Obama agreed to take a walk around the village with Merkel among the farmers in feathered hats and dirndl dresses that Bavaria is famous for, with a fluffy pretzel and a giant glass of beer. .
Scholz, nicknamed Scholzomat for his robot style, is expected to stick to a tighter schedule given the crisis-laden schedule.
arson, derailment
G7 presidents choose postcard-worthy locations when making plans for their annual summit, preferably in a remote location that is less difficult for police to attack than an urban center. Elmau Castle is no exception.
Accommodation includes 115 rooms and suites, pools and spas.
For added security, high-level visitors will be flown by helicopter to the castle, while a metal ring will keep at bay the thousands of anti-G7 protesters expected at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen ski hotel, 15 kilometers (nine miles) down the road. .
Some 18,000 police officers were deployed across Germany, some staying for days in nearby mountain huts.
Scholz will fight the violent protests that marred the 2017 G20 summit in Hamburg and almost tasked him with his task as the city’s mayor at the time.
Despite the heavy security presence, the red-faced Bavarian government admitted this week that 8 buses used by federal police for the summit were destroyed in an arson attack.
Interior Minister Joachim Hermann blamed “left-wing extremists” for disrupting the event.
An exercise accident this month on the Garmisch road that claimed the lives of five other people also made the local government nervous. Bavarian police said they had opened an investigation into alleged negligent killings by thieves of three railway workers in the derailment.
House for Holocaust Survivors
Merkel said she chose Elmau Castle in part because of the way the site’s owners identified its history in the Nazi era.
Protestant theologian and philosopher Johannes Mueller built the castle in World War I and when Adolf Hitler came to the army in 1933, Mueller swore allegiance to the new Führer although he never joined the Nazi Party.
But he criticized the Nazis’ rabid anti-Semitism as an “embarrassment to Germany,” according to the hotel’s website, which it said led to close surveillance through the Gestapo.
After the outbreak of World War II, he prevented his beloved hotel from being confiscated by senior Nazi officials for his own use by renting it to the German army as a holiday hotel for those on leave at the front.
Mueller faced a postwar prosecution for “glorifying Hitler verbally and in writing” and discovered who was to blame and lost ownership of the hotel.
Elmau Castle served as a hospital for the U. S. Army. And then as a safe haven for other displaced people and Holocaust survivors in the immediate post-war period.
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