Today in Rhein-Main: Happy Holidays!

Good evening,

The withdrawal of the Hessian CDU chairman Volker Bouffier from the group of deputies of the federal chairman of the Union, which was mentioned at this point 24 hours ago, has triggered all kinds of speculation.

Bouffier announced this on Wednesday and at the same time let it be known that Ines Claus, who heads the CDU parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament, should run for the federal executive committee.

The exciting question of whether she will then lead the CDU as the top candidate in the state elections in 2023 instead of Bouffier has not been answered.

So far, Bouffier has not looked into his cards on this point.

According to our state parliament correspondent Ewald Hetrodt, the nomination for the committee in the federal CDU would have been the ideal time for such a message.

Now patience is still required.

Manfred Koehler

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

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Anyway, patience is a virtue that is becoming more and more important.

On Christmas Eve, children have to wait forever until they can finally open the presents, children and adults alike have to be patient and wait for the pandemic to finally end.

Even on Christmas days it is still possible in many places to get vaccinated.

It would be a good opportunity for those who are hesitant: carefully blow out the candles on the Christmas tree, eat one last place and then off to the vaccination center!

And then to the museum. On the second public holiday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., the exhibition “Everything! 100 Years of Jawlensky in Wiesbaden ”, which also shows recent donations to the museum. Because, says director Andreas Henning, the house is dependent on donations because it has no purchase budget. Anyone who would like to delve into the background of the exhibition can find it in the article by Katinka Fischer.

In addition, the corruption scandal in the Frankfurt judiciary seems to be widening - meanwhile another public prosecutor is being investigated at the attorney general's office on suspicion of aiding and abetting breach of trust in the office +++ so many pilots have reported sick at Lufthansa that intercontinental flights had to be canceled +++ A 21-year-old man was hit by a car on Wednesday evening and killed when he apparently wanted to cross a street in Riedstadt shortly before midnight.

I wish you a Merry Christmas

Yours Manfred Köhler

The tip for the weekend

Much is changing, even delicatessen shops look different and more elegant today than they did a few years ago.

One of them is “Frau Kreuter” in the Wiesbaden theater colonnades.

It is a branch of the traditional Café Blum in Wiesbaden, the nucleus of a company spread over several locations.

Tatjana Kreuter has been running the business since 1997, there are sushi and sandwiches and a quick lunch menu every week with dishes that can be eaten on site or packed up.

To take home you can bring wine or champagne and something pre-cooked.

"Frau Kreuter", Wilhelmstrasse 47, Wiesbaden, phone 06 11/17 26 50 40, Internet www.frau-kreuter.de.

The

for Friday

Most of the time it is very cloudy.

but there is hardly any rain.

Highs around 6 degrees.

On Christmas Day rainy and windy at 4 degrees.

Have a

today

Hans Eichel

(SPD), former Federal Minister of Finance, former Prime Minister of Hesse and Lord Mayor of the City of Kassel (80);

, long-time CEO of Taunus-Sparkasse, Bad Homburg (75);

, Frankfurt entertainer and actor and SPD city councilor (60);

, CEO of Bethmann Bank AG, Frankfurt (56);

on Saturday

Heinz Sauer

, saxophonist living in Königstein, winner of the Binding Culture Prize (89);

, poet living in Frankfurt (70);

, Chairman of the Board of the Polytechnic Society Foundation, holder of the plaque of honor of the City of Frankfurt (68);

(CDU), Chairman of the Rhein-Main Healthcare Association, Frankfurt, former Hessian Minister of Social Affairs (65);

, CEO of the automotive supplier Vibracoustic, Darmstadt (56);

, managing director of the Pegasus Spiele publishing house, Friedberg (50);

, director of the Frankfurt Palmengarten (40);

On Sunday

Nikolaus Münster

, former head of the Press and Information Office of the City of Frankfurt (70);

, founder and CEO of Deutsche Familienversicherung AG, Frankfurt, honorary chairman of the Monday Society (64);

, Managing Director of the Employers' Association Hessen-Chemie, Wiesbaden (60);

(SPD), Managing Director of the Hessian District

, Wiesbaden (51);

, General Manager of the Construction Industry Association Hessen-Thuringia, Wiesbaden (51).