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Karin Baumüller-Söder becomes patron of the mounted police in Bavaria.
Nuremberg – The wife of Prime Minister of Bavaria, Karin Baumüller-Söder (47), will be the new patron of the mounted police in the Free State.
Karin Baumüller-Söder (47) usually only appears in public next to her husband Markus Söder (53). (Image montage) © Matthias Balk / dpa, Felix Hörhager / dpa
She will assume this office on Wednesday (10am) from Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU).
According to the ministry, the Bavarian police force has grown significantly over two years. There are currently 59 service horses in Munich, Rosenheim and Nuremberg. They are supposed to patrol local recreation areas or be used at important events.
Under the coalition agreement, the state government wants to expand the mounted police units to 100 horses.
Before the October 2018 state elections, Söder, who will also be present at the meeting, announced that he wanted to increase the Bavarian squads to 200 horses and also establish departments in Regensburg, Ingolstadt and Würzburg.
Free voters had criticized these plans.
Baumüller-Söder’s appearance is one of the few in public. At Oktoberfest, the Frankenfastnacht or the Bayreuth Festival, she was shown alongside her husband, to whom she has been married since 1999.
Otherwise, Baumüller-Söder, who was born in Nuremberg in 1973, tends to take a back seat.
Karin Baumüller-Söder (47), wife of the Bavarian Prime Minister Söder (CSU), stands with the police horse “Oskar” when he assumes the patronage of the mounted units of the Bavarian police. © Daniel Karmann / dpa
New addition to the equestrian squad of the police: the wife of the Prime Minister of Bavaria, Karin Baumüller-Söder, is the new godmother of the mounted units in the Free State.
On Wednesday he assumed the patronage of the Interior Minister, Joachim Herrmann (CSU).
As a kind of official first act, he was allowed to deliver “Oskar”, a twelfth police horse to the Nuremberg unit.
The use of the horses is a gain for the police and the security of the country, said the 47-year-old, who is a passionate rider: “Equestrian relays make our police visible.”
On horseback, the policemen maintained an overview and the necessary control.
