In the AWO affair, which is certainly not short of bizarre anecdotes and unbelievable events, an Audi RS 4 Avant undoubtedly plays a special role.

The former deputy manager of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt in Frankfurt drove this car and obviously considered the 450 hp sports car to be an appropriate company car.

An assessment that caused laughter and incredulous shaking of heads across the country beyond the welfare association.

Martin Ochman

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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The former driver of this car is sitting in room 28 E of the Frankfurt district court on Monday and looks around with a little distress while the judge asks her about the not always easy to understand working and employment relationships in the AWO.

The trained events manager was developed by the former managing director of the Frankfurt AWO, Jürgen Richter, to become his successor.

The now 40-year-old woman has been Richter's personal assistant since January 2015 and deputy managing director since January 2018 with a gross annual salary of 123,500 euros, according to the public prosecutor.

But that was obviously not enough.

According to the public prosecutor's office, the woman is said to have had two mini-jobs at the AWO, but without having provided anything in return.

Accordingly, she had a 450-euro job at the Johanna Kirchner Foundation of the AWO and is said to have also been employed as a social worker in Wiesbaden's Robert Krekel House.

The public prosecutor's office put the total damage caused by this at 23,500 euros.

suspicion of bogus employment

Such mini-jobs were widespread in the Frankfurt and Wiesbaden district associations of the AWO and at the Johanna Kirchner Foundation.

According to information from the FAZ, the public prosecutor's office came to the conclusion in their investigations that with regard to the AWO district association in Frankfurt, only six cases involved regular minor employment, whereas in almost 40 other cases there was suspicion of bogus employment.

There are almost 20 more suspected cases of bogus employment at the Johanna Kirchner Foundation.

Also with regard to the AWO district association Wiesbaden and the Robert-Krekel-Haus development association, there is a suspicion of such bogus employment in around 80 cases.

This list of mini-jobs for the Robert-Krekel-Haus development association includes the Wiesbaden Social Affairs Director Christoph Manjura (SPD), who was also accused in the AWO affair, and the Frankfurt SPD parliamentary group leader Ursula Busch, who in the past, however, confirmed to the FAZ that to have worked for this money.

At least that's not what the former deputy managing director claims before the district court.

"My client has never had anything to do with the Krekel house," says her defense attorney.

The facility was handwritten by Hannelore Richter, wife of the Frankfurt managing director, managing director of the Wiesbaden AWO district association and special representative in Frankfurt - the reason for this remains unknown.

His client never gave any thought to which cost center it went through.

Overall, the woman who, according to Jürgen Richter, was supposed to lead the Frankfurt district association, seems to have given little thought to what was happening at the AWO.

When the mini-jobs from the AWO district association Wiesbaden were relocated to Frankfurt in 2017, the prospective managing director was not interested when she was about to sign her second mini-job contract.

"Have you ever asked why?" the judge wants to know.

No, she had no reason to doubt the "reasonableness", says the defendant.

And her defense attorney emphasizes that his client carried out the mini-jobs "by order of the superiors" and "developed extensive activities" in the process, both for the AWO Wiesbaden and for the Johanna Kirchner Foundation, which could also be proven "by way of example".

Supporting documents,

which the public prosecutor's office now wants to examine.

The process has been interrupted.