Good evening,


when one of us reported in winter that the Hessian handicrafts wanted more immigration because the refugees had been very welcome as trainees in the companies in recent years, someone wrote on the Internet under the post that

the Chancellor must have dictated to us .

She did not.

Absurd notion.

Between us: The Chancellor rarely calls us at all.

To be honest: never.

And if she did, we would certainly be happy, but we would not let her guide us.

Manfred Koehler

Deputy head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and editor in charge of the business magazine Metropol.

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    Why do we remember the reader's comment from the winter now?

    Because colleague Patricia Andreae reports in the Wednesday edition of the Rhein-Main-Zeitung that the chambers of industry and commerce now also want more immigration in order to be able to combat the rampant shortage of skilled workers a little.

    Before someone writes again under the article in question on the Internet: No, Ms. Merkel did not call this time either.

    But the fact is that, according to a study by the Hessian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 2035, this federal state will lack around 495,000 skilled workers.

    Mainly because the baby boomer generation will retire in the next few years.

    How should this gap be closed?

    Immigration is certainly not the only one, but it is one of the solutions.

    After all, the economy is looking up again.

    Lufthansa hopes to be roughly at the pre-crisis level by 2024. The number of bookings is increasing, the group wants to reactivate 50 more aircraft than initially planned. In the summer of 2023, 650 of the once 800 machines should be back on the road. Anyone looking at the sky over Frankfurt these days can actually see it: There are more planes on the way again. A good sign for the business location.

    And in addition

    , the Hessian Minister of Education Alexander Lorz (CDU) has announced that he will work for a relaxation of the mask requirement in schools;

    A special cube is set up for concerts at Johannisberg Castle in the Rheingau, in which there is space for artists and the audience;

    Camera surveillance from two places in Wiesbaden has proven its worth - numerous criminal offenses have been cleared up.

    I wish you a pleasant evening

    Yours Manfred Köhler

    The

    weather

    for Wednesday

    Today the sun shines often and it gets up to 34 degrees.

    At night only a little below 20 degrees with mostly clear skies.

    Have

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    on

    Wednesday

    Gerd Mehler

    , City Councilor of Honor of the City of Flörsheim, former managing director of Rhein-Main Deponie GmbH, Flörsheim-Wicker (70);

    Rainer Pudenz

    , founder and director of the Frankfurt Chamber Opera (65);

    Ulli Nissen

    (SPD), member of the German Bundestag, Frankfurt (62);

    Gregor Praml

    , double bass player and composer living in Frankfurt (47);

    Rachel Empey

    , CFO of Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA, Bad Homburg (45).