Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) was enthusiastic about agricultural machinery technology when he visited an agricultural cooperative in Trebbin, Brandenburg. “That’s great – I’m changing jobs,” said the Chancellor on Saturday with a mischievous smile after the functions of the harvesting machine had been explained to him in the cockpit of a combine harvester.
Previously, Scholz had also felt comfortable in the driver’s seat of a tractor. “That’s pretty high – you keep an overview,” he enthused.
Scholz would certainly have a chance at the agricultural cooperative if he was serious about changing careers, said the assistant to the board, Jana Gebert, with a smile. “We regularly hire trainees.” Currently, 16 junior staff are doing their training in various professions in the agricultural cooperative.
Scholz had already thought about a career change during his first visit to Sweden last Tuesday, after he and Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson had driven two electric trucks on a test track at Scania. “I’ve already thought about it, we’ll both be truckers now and then our future will be secured,” he said after the tour.
