Erich Vad was an officer in the Chancellery. With the beginning of the war in Ukraine, he became known to a wide audience and made blatant misjudgments. In the end he demonstrated with Sahra Wagenknecht once morest arms deliveries. Now he’s had enough.
Erich Vad in 2010 alongside then German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
Lunchtime in the “Augustiner”, the parent company of the brewery of the same name in Munich, people are sitting at round tables with a light and hearty Bavarian meal in front of them. Erich Vad, ex-general and hostile talk show guest, looks into the beer hall in a cardigan and says: “I did it for my country and I never let myself be silenced. But I no longer see any point in inflicting this hate, this malice on me. This is my last interview. It’s over.”
