Pour. The city of Gießen wants to proceed against the determination of its population as a result of the census 2022. The city council unanimously accepted a corresponding urgency application from Mayor Frank-Tilo Becher (SPD). On Monday, the responsible committees of the city of Fulda had already spoken out for a legal approach to the census. According to Zensus, the university city on the Lahn is said to have more than 6000 inhabitants than give its own data. This gap leads to considerable financial disadvantages for the city. Because the so -called key assignments from the country hanging at the population will be lower. According to its own statements, the city will face an annual minus of 8.6 million euros from next year. “It is still not understandable for us why, contrary to our own figures, we should have so many residents less. And it is also not acceptable that we should pay for the bill for obvious mistakes,” mug is quoted in a message from the city. The State Statistical Office rejected the city’s detailed contradiction against the determination of the official population two days ago and still cannot explain the difference sensibly, only the lawsuit now remains, says Becher. For the city of Gießen, the office determined the population on May 15, 2022 with 87,217 inhabitants – Gießen itself assumes 93,449 on the deadline. “Due to the lack of an insight, the city itself cannot provide evidence of which concrete processes and mathematical invoices have led to the obviously distorted and incorrect result, the mayor criticizes. But he speculates how false numbers came about from the perspective of the city: Corona did not have many students in Gießen in 2022. This time had led to the false results. However, the random elevations are too expensive for the citizens to count.
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