The event on Saturday was supposed to last five and a half hours, a conference entitled “Background and consequences of the corona crisis. An attempt to come to terms with the situation in order to restore ethics in medicine”. The Sendesaal Bremen was planned as the venue. But that didn’t happen. The organizer, the homeopathic doctor Jürgen Borchert from Vegesack, received a cancellation at short notice. The same was true of two other attempts to hold the conference elsewhere. Borchert believes that the three cancellations reflect the long arm of a repressive state. “What do those responsible on the government bench have to hide?” he asks. The representatives of two conference venues contradict his assumptions – and cite other reasons.
The organizer made “incorrect statements about the type and content of the event,” says Claudia Beißwanger, spokeswoman for the Friends of the Broadcasting Hall association. “He stated that it was a medical training event, but the Medical Association did not recognize it as such.” When the Broadcasting Hall was rented a few months ago, the organizers were left in the dark about the type and scope of the event. That is why the contract was terminated on Monday last week, “when we found out what it was really about.” The organizer wanted to take action against this with an injunction, but failed in court.
According to Borchert, he then tried to hold the event in the neighboring Pentahotel. And was rejected again on Thursday. The reason given was water damage, Borchert wrote in an email, excerpts of which were available to the WESER-KURIER – he was not available to speak to anyone personally, nor was a representative of the international hotel chain. Most recently, Borchert tried the Neue Vahr community center. The contract was terminated “by the boss” with the words that he would not allow an event to deal with the corona pandemic to be held at his location, said Borchert.
The “boss” is managing director Martin Ploghöft. Ploghöft denies that the event was ever booked. Rather, a request for a room was received on Thursday evening, which he rejected on Friday. “Because there was not enough time to check the speakers,” says Ploghöft. He also stated this. The reason attributed to him is unfounded, a “complete defamation”.
The physicist Werner Bergholz, formerly a professor at Jacobs University Bremen, was scheduled to speak at the conference as an expert on quality and risk management. Bergholz was a member of the 19-member expert commission that examined the legal basis and measures of pandemic policy on behalf of the federal government and the Bundestag. Also among the speakers: the controversial media researcher Michael Meyen, professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Borchert himself says he is a member of the “Medical Professional Association Hippocratic Oath – For the Restoration of Ethics in Medicine”. The media company Correctiv accuses the association of spreading false and unsubstantiated claims about corona vaccinations.
The group “Bremen stands up” complains on its website that the carefully planned event with high-profile speakers was not given space in Bremen. And cites a Borchert quote from his email: “Three locations – three cancellations. Is three times Bremen wrong?” Both the Interior and Health Departments declare that they are not involved in the process. The Bremen State Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies “Bremen stands up” as an extremist group that spreads conspiracy ideologies and participates in disinformation campaigns.
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