The first autumn storm of the year claimed a human life.

At Templin (Uckermark), the train driver of a regional train was killed by a falling branch, as the police in Frankfurt / Oder announced.

The 50-year-old died in hospital on Friday morning from his injuries.

He wanted to clear fallen branches from the tracks during the storm on Thursday and was hit himself.

The storm toppled trees and messed up rail traffic.

The fire brigade in Berlin was called to a total of 372 weather-related missions on Thursday from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. The night of Friday then passed quietly, according to the police and fire brigade. The train started “stable” on Friday, as a spokesman said. "The trains are running." However, he could not rule out isolated train cancellations or delays. Before starting their journey, travelers should therefore find out whether their connection is operating as planned.

Around 1000 electricity customers in the districts of Spree-Neisse and Oberspree-Lausitz initially have no electricity.

The elimination of the disturbance will probably take the whole day, said a spokesman for the energy supplier envia Mitteldeutsche Energie AG in Chemnitz.

"We're not over the mountain yet." The storm had fallen branches destroyed power lines and power poles were damaged.

In the area of ​​the energy supplier in Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony, according to the information, a total of 3000 customers are without electricity.

More gusts of wind for Friday

The gusts of wind from low "Hendrik II", which determined the weather after the storm "Ignatz" raging on Wednesday, gradually subsided in the night of Friday. After the autumn storm had ravaged large parts of Germany on Thursday, the situation relaxed increasingly.

Nevertheless, the gusts of wind moving towards Scandinavia could still be felt in the coastal areas. For Friday, the German Weather Service (DWD) forecast gusts or gusts of wind again in the north and center of Germany, as well as individual thunderstorms in the course of the day. Especially in Berlin and Brandenburg, the wind should freshen up again on Friday. According to the DWD, gusts can reach wind speeds of up to around 70 kilometers per hour, and in free locations even 85 kilometers per hour. That corresponds to wind forces eight and nine. Towards evening the wind subsides again.

The storm caused accidents and injuries in many places on Thursday.

In Hesse, for example, a tree fell on a moving car on a country road, and the 58-year-old driver was seriously injured.

In Thuringia, a branch caught the car of a driver who then also had to go to the hospital.

A cyclist in Saxony-Anhalt was injured by a falling tree.

A 17-year-old motorcyclist in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was also injured.

Several people were trapped in their cars by fallen trees.