I’d read about the planned coup d’etat in Germany when that came to light in 2022, but to be honest had kind of forgotten about it. However, now the case is coming to trial, and I’m discovering just how… interesting some of the participants are:
Among those on trial in Munich are Hildegard Leiding, 60, a member of the rightwing AfD party and an astrologer, who was allegedly destined to become the group’s “trans-communications minister”.
Together with a welder from the Bavarian rocker scene, Leiding was said to have used “spiritual criteria” to pick out appropriate candidates for the future government, including a celebrity cook from Austria, tasked with feeding the new regime a healthy diet, and a practising GP, described by former patients as “established and respected” in her community.
The woman, who is said to have become radicalised during the pandemic and specialised in a method of predicting the future through reading eggs, known as oomancy, was expected to become the health minister. She had donated €47,000 of her own money to the plot, most of which went towards arms training, prosecutors say.
…Quite. Alas, no word on what the welder was going to do, apart from give Bavaria a bad name. After all, it’s not like Bavaria has a history of far-right coups d’etat or anything like that…
