Today in Rhein-Main: An idea makes you rich

Good evening,

Do you know that?

You read about a company that emerged from a seemingly simple thought and that is going to be a huge success.

And thinks: It would be great if I also ... The idea that Christopher Oster had six years ago would definitely not have occurred to many others.

In 2015 he founded the insurance broker Clark with three partners.

Shortly before that, Oster had resolved to sift through his insurance policies between two jobs and ran into the problem that there was no broker with whose help customers could get a simple overview of their contracts and look for cheaper offers.

Clark has been trying to satisfy this need ever since.

Today the start-up from Frankfurt is worth more than a billion dollars.

Daniel Schleidt wrote down how that can be.

Jacqueline Vogt

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung, responsible for the Rhein-Main section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

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That was to be expected: The stricter corona rules apply from Thursday and many are dissatisfied. Not that much has been heard from those who have not been vaccinated or recovered and now have to present a negative PCR test, where previously a rapid antigen test was sufficient to gain access to public life. Criticism came from the economy on Tuesday. Eberhard Flammer, President of the Hessian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HIHK), summed it up as follows: "The obligation to test at workplaces with customer contact makes sense, on the one hand, and on the other hand, it burdens the companies affected by the corona pandemic a lot. They will be converted into test centers and the costs will be passed on to the companies. ”In addition to the costs for the tests, there is additional bureaucratic effort."We would have liked more priority for personal responsibility." However, planning security is now at least given. Whoever has not been vaccinated for whatever reason must now plan his or her life more intensely than before; One often has to wait 24 hours for the result of a PCR test.

Should you laugh or cry? When the black book of the Taxpayers Association appears, in which particularly serious cases of, to put it bluntly, waste of money are listed, both are obvious. In the current issue, presented on Tuesday in Wiesbaden, Frankfurt and Wiesbaden are represented, but also the little Idstein. There, the fun and leisure pool threatens to become a heavy burden for the city, which has only 25,000 inhabitants. It could cost up to 60 million euros by 2041. "The city should have checked the contracts more critically and should never have entered into such far-reaching obligations," judges the taxpayers' association. He researched the background as follows: After the operator's bankruptcy in 2018, the city bought the originally private water park for 5.4 million euros plus ancillary costs from the owner,a bank from Austria. Previously, the city had made far-reaching concessions to the operator and thus maneuvered itself into a "million dollar dilemma", so that buying and running the bathroom in need of renovation seemed more economical than fulfilling the contractual obligations. According to the taxpayers' association, that was a mistake, and for this the city has now received an entry in the black book. After all, the headline is good: “Expensive fun in the fun pool - taxpayers go for a swim”.so that the purchase and the own operation of the bathroom in need of renovation appeared more economical than the fulfillment of the contractual obligations. According to the taxpayers' association, that was a mistake, and for this the city has now received an entry in the black book. After all, the headline is good: “Expensive fun in the fun pool - taxpayers go for a swim”.so that the purchase and the own operation of the bathroom in need of renovation appeared more economical than the fulfillment of the contractual obligations. According to the taxpayers' association, that was a mistake, and for this the city has now received an entry in the black book. After all, the headline is good: “Expensive fun in the fun pool - taxpayers go for a swim”.

And in addition, the Evangelical Church in Germany elects its new council chairman and EKHN President Volker Jung on Wednesday, it could be theoretically, but probably does not want +++ the state of Hesse will create new initial reception facilities in the face of rising refugee numbers +++ should be in the Frankfurt banking district “Central business tower” will be built; it should be finished in 2028.

Kind regards, stay with us

Your Jacqueline Vogt

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Wednesday November 10th

Markus Hoschek

, board member of Heag Holding AG, chairman of the Darmstadt community foundation (54);

, opera and concert singer living in Kiedrich, winner of the Hessian Culture Prize (54);

, Managing Director of Vacuumschmelze GmbH & Co. KG, Hanau (50);