Anne Spiegel (Greens) will receive a transitional allowance after her resignation as Federal Minister for Family Affairs.

The deputy chairman of the Association of Taxpayers, Michael Jäger, told the “Bild” (Tuesday edition): “Anyone who leaves the cabinet will receive a transitional allowance of EUR 75,600 after one day in office as a minister.

This supply is totally oversized.”

The amount of the transitional allowance results from paragraph 14 of the Federal Ministers Act.

According to "Bild", Spiegel receives 4.5 monthly salaries after she has been in charge of the family ministry since the beginning of December.

She announced her resignation on Monday “due to political pressure”.

The 41-year-old thus drew the consequences after her controversial vacation in France, which she took as Minister of the Environment for Rhineland-Palatinate in the summer of 2021 shortly after the flood disaster on the Ahr.

Vacation after the flood disaster

Spiegel announced her resignation from the position of Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth on Monday.

“Due to the political pressure, I decided today to make the position of Federal Minister for Family Affairs available.

I'm doing this to avert damage to the office, which is facing major political challenges," said the Greens politician.

It became known over the weekend that she, as the then Rhineland-Palatinate Minister of the Environment, had left for a four-week family vacation in France ten days after the flood and had only interrupted it once for a visit to the Ahr Valley.

In the flood disaster in mid-July 2021, more than 180 people died in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, 134 of them in the Ahr Valley.

During an emotional appearance, Spiegel described the holiday on Sunday evening as a mistake and apologized for it.

She justified her decision at the time, among other things, with the health of her husband, who suffered a stroke in 2019.

Spiegel also cited the stress on her four children in the corona pandemic.

Her family needed the vacation.