Good evening,

Carsten Knop

Editor.

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in the Hessian CDU, the candidates to succeed Prime Minister Volker Bouffier are warming up;

the first has now officially thrown his hat into the ring.

In addition, around 2,300 Frankfurters have to leave their homes on Wednesday because of a dud bomb, and part of the A 648 will also be closed.

And the large industrial companies pay a lot of taxes in Frankfurt.

Those are the topics of tonight.

Question of power: In the struggle to succeed the Hessian Prime Minister and CDU Chairman Volker Bouffier, there is a third serious aspirant.

Minister of Education Alexander Lorz ventures out of cover.

The 56-year-old law professor confirmed to our state parliament correspondent Ewald Hetrodt that he was ready to run.

That applies in the event that Bouffier wants to stop.

However, as can be heard from reliable sources, that is now certain.

In addition to Lorz, the possible successors are currently Boris Rhein and Minister of the Interior Peter Beuth.

However, unlike Lorz, you have not yet publicly acknowledged your ambitions.

Bomb: Because a dud was discovered during construction work, 2,300 Frankfurters have to leave their homes, according to the city.

The site is on the edge of the Rebstockpark development area.

The construction site where the bomb was found belongs to LBBW.

In an evacuation area around the site, all residents have to vacate their apartments: It extends in the north from Franklinstraße in City West to Montgolfierallee in the south and includes the Katharinenkreisel and part of the A 648, which was blocked for a few hours during the defusing and evacuation must be blocked.

Anyone who is able to do this independently must have left the area by 11 a.m. on Wednesday.

Source of money: The large industrial companies are again the second most important taxpayer for Frankfurt.

This is shown by data from the city treasury.

Almost a fifth of tax prepayments in January came from large manufacturing companies.

That is twice as much as in 2019, the year before the corona pandemic.

However, the domestic and foreign banks together remain the largest trade tax payer, together accounting for almost 26 percent of advance payments.

But times are changing nonetheless: it is striking that the importance of the major German banks is steadily declining.

And according to a survey by the Ministry of Social Affairs, around ten percent of the employees in nursing homes, clinics and facilities for the disabled in Hesse are not vaccinated +++ 2,300 Ukrainians live in the Main metropolis and many Frankfurters are connected to the state - four of them are concerned about the current situation , we spoke to them +++ last year the city's traffic police checked the speed of 1.5 million cars, vans and trucks.

It is noteworthy that the proportion of those who were traveling too fast and were flashed was only 9.4 percent.

This is the lowest value in years.

Greetings from the editorial team,

Yours, Carsten Knop

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Tomorrow it will be overcast, light rain will fall, the temperatures will be between 6 and a comparatively high 13 degrees.

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