Good evening,


Unusual times need unusual campaigns: When the state government uses banners on and across the streets to urge people to have their syringes set, no-one will turn up their noses these days. Because, as feared, the omens are not particularly favorable that it could be a relaxed Corona autumn. Viewed in this way, it is almost a little late in Hesse that it is also true this year that

“after the holiday is before the test”

. Robert Maus was there on Monday when Transport Minister Tarek Al-Wazir (The Greens) also campaigned for as many as possible to be vaccinated. As if this had been agreed, the news came a little later on Monday that the Standing Vaccination Commission now (but) recommends that

the twelve to seventeen year olds can also be immunized

.

Monika Ganster asked whether the vaccination centers as well as the general practitioners and paediatricians have been prepared.

Helmut Schwan

Head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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Whether there is a connection with the pandemic has not yet been determined:

The population in Frankfurt has fallen below the 750,000 mark again, and the Main metropolis is shrinking for the first time in 20 years.

Rainer Schulze spoke to politicians and town planners about the reasons and the consequences.

Most say it is only a temporary effect; in any case, the demand for apartments will remain very high for a long time to come.

Only in crises

does

it usually become clear to you

how closely the Rhine-Main region is connected to the world,

and this is also the case after the dismaying developments in Afghanistan. Almost

40,000 people who come from the country, which has been torn by war for decades, now live in Hesse

, more than a quarter of them in Frankfurt. When the then Federal Defense Minister Peter Struck spoke in 2002 on the occasion of the military engagement there that the security of the Federal Republic of Germany would also be defended in the Hindu Kush, it is now about how lives and the hard-won freedom rights of women in particular can be saved. The editors of the Rhein-Main-Zeitung asked aid organizations and companies what the triumphant advance of the radical Islamic Taliban means for their employees and the people they care for there.

If that's not a self-confident statement:

The new factory of the Darmstadt-based battery system manufacturer Akasol is called "Gigafactory 1"

. From there, the billion euro market for e-mobility is to be tapped. Daniel Schleidt took a closer look at the project, which stands for a model that is popular in Germany. After the former start-up went public in June 2018, expansion for the world market was only possible when the

American company BorgWarner took over Akasol in February

. Our business editor writes in his comment that after BionTech, which emerged from the Gutenberg University in Mainz, Akasol is further outstanding evidence of what a key driver of the Rhine-Main region's scientific excellence is for its economic success.

And

it is also time to take a closer look at the federal election on September 26th.

This time, of the approximately 430,000 eligible voters in Frankfurt, more than 30 percent will probably use the opportunity to cast their votes by letter, as in 2017;

the dying of farms continues in Hesse.

From 2010 to 2020 the number of farms fell from 17,805 to 15 128

Take care of yourself

Yours Helmut Schwan

The

weather:

After the rain expected on Tuesday night, it should gradually loosen up in the Rhine-Main region during the day.

However, if you want to soak up some sun, you have to go for a walk in the morning, because later showers can be expected in many places, announces the weather service - at maximum temperatures of cool 15 to 20 degrees,

Have

your

birthday

on

Tuesday:

Karl Dietrich Seikel

, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Fazit Foundation, Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH (75);

Heiner Goebbels

, composer and theater director living in Frankfurt, former president of the Hessian Theater Academy (69);

Kurt Wagemann

, from 2010 to June 2021 Managing Director of the Dechema Society for Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, Frankfurt (62);

Holger Münch

, President of the Federal Criminal Police Office, Wiesbaden (60);

Thomas Groß

, CEO of Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen, Frankfurt (56);

Matthias Hildner

, CEO of Wiesbadener Volksbank (47);

Jens-Peter Feidner

, Germany boss of the data center operator Equinix, Frankfurt (45);

Johanna Süß

, director of the Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International (42).