South rail

In German politics, the term Südschiene denotes the cooperation between the southern federal states of Germany, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg , which for a long time were ruled by CDU or CSU governments.

In the Spiegel the term was used for the first time in 1959 in connection with a "Südschiene" advertising program for broadcasters. In 1978, Spiegel also spoke of a “conservative southern line” of Helmut Kohl's opponents in the CDU and CSU.

After the change of power in Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2011 to a Green - SPD government, according to media reports, the southern line was terminated by the Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer , which even outraged the Baden-Wuerttemberg CDU. In 2014 there was another joint push into the energy policy of the two countries. There was also a joint advance in financial policy in September 2014.

At the end of July 2019, the southern rail was revived under the Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Baden-Württemberg) and Markus Söder (Bavaria) by a joint cabinet meeting in Meersburg , Baden-Württemberg . In the cabinet meeting, among other things, extensive cooperation in the areas of battery research, climate protection, energy policy and joint, cross-border transport projects was promised.

Web links

• Peter Hölzle: Rivalry on the southern rail, Baden-Württemberg and Bavarian grand sayings, in: Deutschlandradio Kultur, December 19, 2006
• Pure reputation: The southern rail is just a chimera , Stuttgarter Zeitung from March 15, 2014
• The new southern rail ?: Black and green advance in energy policy , Schwäbische Zeitung of January 27, 2014
• Albert Schäffer and Rüdiger Soldt, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg: Lovers who have to find each other, faz.net, February 6, 2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CRIME FILMS: Always Trouble with Hess, Spiegel dated August 29, 1959 ( Memento of the original dated October 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ CDU: Now we're back to zero - DER SPIEGEL 33/1978
3. ↑ Even CDU outraged: CSU terminates Südschiene - n-tv.de
4. ↑ Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg revitalize “Südschiene” - the finance ministers from Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria want more tax rights from the federal government - a difficult undertaking, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung of September 26, 2014
5. ↑ "Südschiene" meets at Lake Constance, BR24 from July 23, 2019
6. ↑ Südschiene works, Bayernkurier from July 23, 2019
7. ↑ , "Südschiene": Stronger together ?, Bayerische Staatszeitung, July 23, 2019