Overview

• He departs Hamburg in the afternoon on the Halunder Jet and is scheduled to return on Wednesday afternoon.
• His program includes a town hall reception, an island tour, a Börteboot crossing to the Düne, and a cultural Helgoland evening.
• The trip comes at the invitation of Helgoland’s nonpartisan mayor, Thorsten Pollmann, together with tourism director Katharina Schlicht.
• Helgoland cited Söder’s humorous remark about Sylt and Helgoland being effectively “Bavarian” under fiscal equalization as the reason for the invite.
• Schleswig-Holstein Minister-President Daniel Günther characterizes the visit as “on his own,” says he was surprised, and wishes Söder a calm crossing.