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Seeing and dying with Governor Herbert Keßler

An election poster from 1979.(Bild: Helmut Klapper, Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek)

Writer Robert Schneider remembers a time when the electorate still revered politicians. In the conservative Vorarlberg of the 60s and 70s, Dr. Herbert Keßler was particularly admired.

When politicians were still respectful, venerable men - there were no women back then, at least not in this profession - when no hostile posts poisoned the digital air, when the corrupt scumbags should disclose their salaries, better still, they should be kept on bread and water, when people still respectfully mumbled "Mr. Governor", lowered their eyes and almost curtsied - that was a long time ago - the following story took place.