Energy crisis in Germany it also affects the housing sector. The head of the Tenants’ Association, Lukas Siebenkotten, warns in an interview with the German DLF radio of the serious consequences for tenants due to the increase in rents coming winter.

According to Siebenkoten, it is estimated that more than 20,000,000 tenants in Germany could find themselves in financial difficulty as they find it difficult to pay higher rents due to increased heating and utility costs. For this reason, the Association of German Tenants is demanding better protection for tenants against possible evictions, as well as flexibility in paying debts to owners, for example, for utilities, which are usually high in Germany.

The interventions of the head of the Tenants’ Union have been frequent in recent days, indicating a general concern. He even asks to revise the conditions for providing housing assistance. “We have to significantly raise the income limit for people who want to claim housing allowance,” he says through the Tagesspiegel newspaper, setting the limit for a German family at 5,000 euros a month.

“Winter of Anger”

Meanwhile, statements in the Welt am Sonntag yesterday by Jörg Müller, head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in the state of Brandenburg, an agency owned by the German secret services, which warns of an escalation of violence in the winter, are causing a sensation. “Extremists dream of a winter of rage,” he characteristically said, stressing that the extreme circles could take advantage of the energy crisis and high inflation “for their own purposes against the state.”

On the same wavelength, Home Secretary Nancy Feather, who, speaking in the same newspaper, points out that “the enemies of democracy are waiting for just this, in order to take advantage of crises to spread their fantasies of destruction, fear and uncertainty.” However, the German authorities expect that the so-called Kverdenker movement, which is a mixture of conspiracy theorists, far-right and pandemic deniers, will be at the center of such manifestations of social violence.

At the same time, the left’s new co-chair Martin Sirdevan is also warning of imminent social unrest in Germany. Energy poverty, together with high inflation, could lead to an unprecedented situation in Germany where people would not be able to pay for their daily meals, he said, even referring to the “democracy crisis” he has already faced in Germany.

Source: DV