Good evening,
the hope that almost everything will be all right again in summer is seductive. And it is also nourished in Hessen by the number of infections that is declining day by day. "Relaxation level 1" has been in effect in Darmstadt and five districts since Monday. The people in the Hochtaunus district have also tried out how much zest for life returns when, for example, beer gardens reopen. Perhaps the weather, which is not in keeping with the blissful month, is not at all bad for a careful restart. Our correspondent Bernhard Biener took a look at the Bad Homburg Kronenhof to see how the guests enjoy the new freedom of movement “with umbrella and test”. The state government wants to ensure that it continues at the pace of the past few weeks on the way out of the pandemic.From June onwards, everyone in Hesse can register for a vaccination appointment and before the summer holidays they should start making an offer to schoolchildren from the age of twelve to be immunized. Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) reported that 37 percent of the population had been vaccinated once and ten percent twice: "A stable place in the middle of the federal states."
Helmut Schwan
Head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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What does Offenbach have that Frankfurt does not (yet) have? A traffic light coalition. The SPD, the Greens and the FDP have also agreed on the staff. Mayoress is the Green politician Sabine Groß, she also takes over the environmental department. Meanwhile in Frankfurt the Greens, SPD, FDP and Volt are continuing to work on their alliance. The fact that it takes a few days longer is not only due to the addition of “traffic light plus”, which stands for the newcomers to parliament from the Volt party. Rather, it could be related to the fact that after the allegedly so smoothly resolved factual issues it is now more of a headache than expected who gets which departments. Mechthild Harting is already thinking out loud about which posts the Greens could claim as the strongest force in the Römer.
The major challenges facing the future magistrate became clear last weekend. The diversity of the city as home and resonance space for many nationalities, ethnic groups and religions also harbors the downside of the danger that the conflicts of the world will discharge here. To a large extent, however, had little to do with freedom of expression, which was called on Saturday at the main station or on posters under the pretext of wanting to articulate the plight of the Palestinians. The Jewish community reacted with shock to the aggressive and hateful slogans and expressed concern about an apparently violent group that had moved towards the synagogue but could still be stopped by the police.The calls for the Intifada and the trivialization of the Holocaust were clearly anti-Semitic. In his commentary, Alexander Juergs writes that in order to counter such hatred, we need clarification and dialogue. In his opinion, the schools should devote themselves more intensively to the problem. And young Muslims, Jews and Christians should get into conversation with one another - about the differences and similarities between their religions.
In addition, petitions in the Hessian state parliament are to be given more weight +++ more catenary masts for electric trucks are to be installed on the A 5 motorway +++ the revolving restaurant at the top of the Frankfurt Henninger tower was opened 60 years ago.
Take care of yourself
Yours Helmut Schwan
The
weather
for
Tuesday
In terms of weather, May continues to be difficult in the Rhine-Main region.
Showers, lightning and thunder can already occur on Tuesday night, temperatures reach a maximum of 16 degrees during the day.
Birthday
on
Tuesday, May 18th:
Jim McNeely
, chief conductor of the Hessischer Rundfunk big band (72);
Eberhard Flammer
, President of the Hessian Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Wiesbaden, and President of the Lahn-Dill Chamber of Commerce and Industry (68);
Michael Schneider
, CEO of NORMA Group SE, Maintal (58);
Wilhelm Weil
, chairman of the Rheingau section of the Association of German Prädikatsweingüter, Kiedrich (58);
Björn Simon
(CDU), member of the German Bundestag (Offenbach constituency) (40).