Berlin's governing mayor Kai Wegner has justified the dismissal of his short-term digital state secretary Matthias Hundt with a permanent loss of trust. "The relationship of trust has been permanently disturbed, it was and is permanently destroyed," said the CDU politician in the House of Representatives.
In response to a question from a member of parliament as to why the Senate had accepted that Hundt, who comes from Dresden, had withdrawn his own request for dismissal, Wegner referred to civil service law. "Unfortunately, these civil service regulations apply," he said.
