Jagd 80*81

Tomorrow is a holiday in Germany: Day of German Unity.
It is also the 25th anniversary of Franz Josef Strauß’ death. He died in 1988, one year before the German reunification. He died on the last Saturday of the Oktoberfest. After some beers and a knuckle of pork FJS left Munich around noon by helicopter. He was heading to Regensburg for a hunt with the Prince of Thurn und Taxis. Rumors say that Strauß died from multi-organ failure right when the door of the helicopter was opened. And that he was too big to fit in a CT scanner. His death was not declared until Monday morning, when the Oktoberfest had ended and after Strauß’ biggest enemy Der Spiegel was at the newsstand. And: The Bavarian Lion had to fight; he had to be at least two days in mortal agony. Rumors.

In October 1980 Franz Josef Strauß ran for chancellor, but he lost and Helmut Schmidt succeeded. For the rest of his life FJS never again held a federal office. He was entangled in old battles. A man of the past. Der Spiegel called him a “loser” on its front page. Strauß was involved in basically every dirty deal in post-war Germany: the Onkel Aloys affair, the Fibag affair, the HS-30 scandal, the Lockheed bribery scandals, the Spiegel scandal, the Airbus affair, and the U-209 submarine blueprint deal with apartheid South Africa. His friends were Paraguay’s dictator Alfredo Stroessner, Chile’s Augusto Pinochet, South-Africa’s president Pieter Willem Botha and finally East-Germany’s old grey socialists. In Pakistan his pal General Zia had just executed Prime Minister Bhutto. 1981, good times for hunting!

You can purchase this silk scarf by 80*81 from filed under:
“An important guest in faraway countries: big game hunter Franz Josef Strauß in 1981, in Pakistan.”
Scanned Newspaper Collage (2012)
Printed on Twill /100% Silk, 110g/sqm
Handmade in Germany
Size: 107 X 140 cm / Limited Edition of 81
285 Euro