Angela Merkel was reported on Friday by calling the district administrator of the Kreis Gütersloh, Sven-Georg Adenauer. "The Chancellor has made courage and to thank me," said the CDU-politician, according to the press release of the North Rhine-Westphalian circle.

The gütersloh mayor Henning Schulz had asked previously in the fight against the stigmatisation of its citizens due to the Corona outbreak more support from the capital. "The Chancellor has always managed the company to bring together and to keep all people in sight. Here is a three quarter of a million people feel almost left," criticized the 47-Year-old to the news portal "t-online.de". "They feel stigmatized and are even attacked." dpa/Michael Kappeler/dpabild German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU).

The citizens of the circle be without fault in the current Situation, said the Chancellor to him on the phone. Due to the Lockdown and the associated restrictions, you made a very important contribution, so that the Virus cannot spread in the district of Gütersloh in Germany. "The Chancellor would like to thank very warmly of the population and all of the work for the management of this crisis," said Adenauer.

Konrad Adenauer, who was the grandfather of country Council from Gütersloh, Germany, from 1949 to 1963, the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany and, therefore, one of the predecessors to Merkel's office.

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