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President and partner 'have no marriage plans'
Published: 2 Feb 13 12:02 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20130202-47719.html
Live-in partner of German President Joachim Gauck, Daniela Schadt, has said she does not intend on getting married, though she knew for some this is was problem, it was revealed in an exclusive interview.
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In it, Schadt says she can understand the debate surrounding her unmarried status as the live-in partner of the German president, saying she realizes for some people it is really a problem.
“But it remains the same as what I’ve always said: It is unusual and for some it is an affront, though we don’t want to propagate a certain role model.
But the family can live with that and therefore we can live with that and I think we can leave it as it is,” she said.
Gauck remains married to the mother of his children, but has lived for years with Schadt, a former journalist.
Asked how it was for her to give up her own career and her long-distance relationship with Gauck, which went on for years, she said, “It is not a model that I would recommend to everyone. It is certainly nice to have an independent life.”
But she described her current circumstances as “a very special situation.
“I couldn’t continue to do my job at the Nüremberger Zeitung and travel to Berlin on the weekends."
Schadt had also previously worked for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, the paper wrote.
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I feel bad for your son and applaud his character for moving out after your disagreement.
Well, he's an evangelical lutheran pastor from the former east germany, (more pragmatic), not an extremist, thats the difference.
Best decision your son could made,to move out.
HtH
He has always put others before himself, he is a peaceful and honest man. He has my respect.
You are one of those people I remember when I had to attend church, that most likely had the biggest bible and the most criticism of your fellow man.
In agreement @Lenny #1, follow the advise which is apt to Western society and realize the sanctity of human birth to realize the Ultimate Truth together as One with the infinite Cosmos instead of dangling the individual souls as in a Company Stores living heterogeneously together in a partnership of "beschraenkte Haftpflicht".