Today in Rhein-Main: Inflation is as high as it was in 1993

Good evening,

Interesting to hear how the government parties in Wiesbaden try to belittle the defeat before the State Court. On Wednesday, the judges called the state's special fund to deal with the Corona crisis unconstitutional; There had been enough critics of this approach before. Now the CDU and the Greens have announced that all of this is only about "household technology". Well, then you can also describe controversial motorway projects as a question of asphalt technology in the future. In fact, the Hessian Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) had harshly dismissed critics of the twelve billion special fund in the state parliament, as our state parliament correspondent Ewald Hetrodt recalls in his comment: “Bouffier has to be accused of a strategic and a substantive mistake.His reputation as a leader, which the party can confidently follow even in difficult situations, is dwindling. ”And at this point we haven't even talked about content. The Greens had actually achieved that as a means of combating the crisis with the help of the special fund, the financing of bicycle racks also went through.

After all, if inflation continues like this, the state can easily reduce its debt. Tax revenue increases, but the amounts for interest and repayment remain constant. Who's the fool in this game? She. Because in the event of inflation, citizens pay with the devaluation of their savings. In October 2021, consumer prices in Hesse were 4.7 percent higher than in October a year ago - the last time the increase was so strong was in 1993. Even if you consider that VAT was three points lower a year ago and is now levied again at the old level - all of this is worrying.

The Frankfurt public prosecutor's office has brought charges against the 53-year-old Alexander M., who has sent more than 100 threatening letters to public figures under the name “NSU 2.0”.

He obtained information about his victims, among other things, by pretending to be a police officer and getting information from real police officers.

Alexander M. is silent, the Hessian Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) sees the police exonerated - the public prosecutor does not see a suspicion that the officers consciously helped the man.

And this year there will also be a kind of Christmas market ("Christmas Garden") at the Waldstadion in Frankfurt +++ the artist Marc Brandenburg is exhibiting at the Städel +++ the unemployment rate in Hesse has almost reached the pre-crisis level again.

I wish you a pleasant evening

Yours Manfred Köhler

The tip for the weekend

Do you fancy a really good cocktail - or two?

Then off to the “Old Fashioned” in Alt-Sachsenhausen.

Diana Haider-Zakrzewski's bar is one of the great bright spots in the district of Frankfurt, which is decried as a drinking and party district - and has long been an institution.

Of course there is also the eponymous Old Fashioned, which is considered the forefather of all cocktails, on the menu.

But the committed bartender and her team not only mix such classics, but also many interesting own creations such as the "Blaubär", the "Con-Jäckchen" and the "Girls Best Friend".

For the benefit!

"Old Fashioned", Klappergasse 35-39, Frankfurt, phone 01 73/6 10 25 34, Internet www.oldfashionedffm.de.

The

for Friday

Often foggy at first.

Later, the sun often shows up at a maximum of 14 degrees.

More cloudy at night, low temperatures around 6 degrees.

Have a

on

Karlheinz Müller

, Germanist, co-founder and chairman of the Elisabeth Langgässer Society, Darmstadt (75);

, former TV presenter at Hessischer Rundfunk, was awarded the honorary prize of the Hessian Journalist Prize (70);

, Head of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, Frankfurt (61);

, President of the Marketing Club Frankfurt (57);

, chairwoman of the Frankfurt Child Protection Association (50);

, member of the Hessian state parliament, Michelstadt, general secretary of the FDP Hessen (41);

, Managing Director of the traditional butchery Gref-Völsings (41);

on Saturday

Stephan Friedrich

, Frankfurt jeweler, sponsor and author (70);

, film and literary scholar, director of the German Film Institute and Film Museum (DFF), Frankfurt (58);

, member of the board of directors of Eintracht Frankfurt Fußball AG from 2016 to June 2021 (50);

, President and Managing Director of the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management (48);

On Sunday

Reimer von Essen

, clarinetist, leader of the Barrelhouse Jazzband, Bad Homburg, holder of the Goethe plaque from the State of Hesse (81);

, member of the supervisory board and former chairman of the management of the dfv media group, Frankfurt (80);

, former First Director of the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute, Frankfurt (80);

, management consultant and author, Frankfurt (73);

(FDP), chairwoman of the Einhard Society, Seligenstadt, former Hessian minister of education (73);

(Free Voters), outgoing mayor of the city of Büdingen (70);

, from 2013 to December 2020 Chairman of the Management Board of DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH, Langen, Chairman of the Frankfurt-Rhein-Main Business Association (67);

, President of the Women's International Zionist Organization Germany, Frankfurt (64).