That’s down to the emcee Tobias Weiskopf: The 27-year-old from the Young Liberals was supposed to bring the mood in the room to a boil as he warmed up the boxing ring. He succeeded in doing so in a way that many party members present found, but in a very strange way. Tobias Weiskopf, who is currently running for district administrator in Freising and is also on the state executive committee, adopted a vulgar tone and insulted those present from the still bourgeois party.

Special He was fascinated by the Epstein files. The following occurred to him about former US President Bill Clinton: “The biggest insight was that Bill Clinton fucked everyone – except his own wife.” Weiskopf was not interested in the fact that there has been no evidence of sexual abuse by Clinton at Epstein parties. He spoke as if he were sitting at a regular’s table. There are now many snippets of his crude oratory circulating in the FDP.

The grandson of Hitler’s assassin Stauffenberg was also viciously attacked

But what was worse was how he pointed the microphone at Karl Graf von Stauffenberg, the grandson of the Hitler assassinwas received: “There’s a Stauffenberg in the room, that can always be a bit dangerous in Bavaria. Oh, it doesn’t fire properly, but that was the case back then. Dear Karl, only take responsibility when the field battle is lost, that runs in your family. Joking aside, relax a bit.”

Karl Graf von Stauffenberg, who is now general secretary of the Bavarian FDP, reacted with consternation in his body language. He now only wants to say two sentences: “Tobias Weiskopf and I have spoken to each other. For me, the matter is settled.” As FDP general, Stauffenberg does not want to add anything to the party-damaging sentences.

Party members are considering legal action

Thomas Sattelberger is different. The former Telekom executive, who sat for the FDP in the Bundestag for five years and was even parliamentary state secretary in the Ministry of Education and Research before, as he says, resigned from his own parliamentary group “due to foul play,” was also put in a negative light by Tobias Weiskopf: “While we’re on the subject of the Epstein files: when is the next party at Thomas Sattelberger’s?”

Sattelberger, who has been openly gay in a relationship with his boyfriend for 40 years, was horrified. “I wasn’t at the FDP’s political Ash Wednesday myself, but I’ve now seen some video snippets. Tobias Weiskopf said terribly tasteless, even infamous sentences about Karl Graf von Stauffenberg. To then link me to the sex criminal Epstein is outrageous. I had invited the regional association of the Young Liberals to barbecues at our house in Niederpöcking on Lake Starnberg several times as a thank you for campaign help. That never happened “Such vulgar and insubstantial allegations by Tobias Weiskopf are defamatory and deeply hurt my honor. I am considering taking legal action.”

Sattelberger has distanced himself from the FDP: “Why does such a completely unsuccessful performance have no consequences within the party? The FDP is now apparently largely politically and morally rotten.”

The indignation extends to the party leadership

And what does the originator of the scandal, Tobias Weiskopf, say about it? “In the style of Fabian Köster from the ‘heute show’, I was supposed to bring a bit of cheekiness and relaxedness to the event and interact with people. It was an experiment that I won’t repeat, so I probably overstepped the mark. I talked to Karl Graf von Stauffenberg after the event. It was a learning lesson for me. I’m not a top politician, as a local politician I deal with school buses. It was never my intention to be contemptuous of anyone do.”

The young man, who works as a project manager and is politically active as a district councilor in Freising, shows some remorse. However, he did not personally apologize to Sattelberger, whose parties he had already been to: “We are no longer in contact.”

FDP leader Christian Dürr was also not amused, as he said on Thursday afternoon when asked: “Even if there is a distribution on political Ash Wednesday – that clearly went too far and is not possible at all. It’s good that the matter was clarified immediately afterwards and something like this won’t happen again.”