Gravedigger Christian Lindner

Hunting licence in less than 3 weeks

Christian Lindner is a German politician and chairman of the Free Democratic Party (FDP).

In 2018, Christian Lindner obtained his hunting licence in less than 3 weeks at a private school near Schwerin. In Switzerland, for example, a hunting licence cannot be obtained with less than 18 months of training. He is a member of the Brandenburg and North Rhine-Westphalian hunting associations. Now he is also set to become a Bavarian hobby hunter, according to merkur.de.

He explained in an interview that his motivation was nature conservation, experiencing the forest, and the “conscious form of food production.” He participates a few times a year in a form of hunting that involves animal cruelty, the so-called driven hunts.

Hobby hunters and crime

“Hobby hunters and sport shooters are the most law-abiding citizens there are,” Lindner hallucinated on the occasion of submitting his membership application in Bavaria.

The truth is: there are no associations with legal status whose members are as deeply rooted in criminal activity as those in hobby hunting. Every year, there are more human injuries and fatalities caused by the risk group of hobby hunters than by Islamic terrorists, cults, the mafia, wolves, and biker gangs combined.

Endangerment of uninvolved persons is increasing

Since 2001, the initiative for the abolition of hobby hunting has been documenting the victims of hunting accidents and criminal offences involving hobby hunters' weapons in Germany. In the case of non-fatal hunting accidents and criminal offences involving hobby hunters' weapons, reports of the endangerment of uninvolved persons are increasing at an alarming rate.

Further articles

More recent hunting accidents and documented criminal offences involving hobby hunters can be found here: Chronicle of hunting accidents and criminal offences at Abschaffung der Jagd as well as in the Chronicle of hunting accidents in Germany, Austria and Switzerland at PETA.