But while many colleagues remain in a mixture of frustration, despair and resignation, Christian Hartmann goes on the offensive: On social media, he draws attention to his economically dramatic situation on social media on behalf of other people affected. However, he does not do this in a roguish way, he does not sing the usual lamentations.
Rather, the entrepreneur from Baden-Württemberg has decided to take an extraordinary step: he disclosed his business balance sheet – with figures from the pre-Corona period and current figures from the crisis. He also listed the payments with which the federal and state governments wanted to save business people like him from falling.
Hartmann calls his list, which he updates once a week, the “Corona help live ticker”. It is posted at the entrance to his shop and can be viewed by everyone on his Facebook page.
The vast majority of the population still believe that the government would “fairly compensate” companies hit by the lockdown, Hartmann said. But whether this is really the case, “everyone should judge for himself” when he reads his business balance sheet. The people should form an opinion about whether Federal Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Federal Economics Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) stand by their words (“Bazooka”, “It is not spilled, it is pounded”) – or whether their cocky announcements ” just empty promises “.
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