Today in Rhein-Main: A crisis budget for Frankfurt

Good evening, in

the future, city politics in Frankfurt will no longer be stuck under the gray cloud of reservations about financing.

Because the 2022 budget will be a topic in the magistrate on Friday.

The FAZ correspondents have been helping us for a few days to take a look at the traffic problems in other cities - now it's Munich's turn.

And guess what?

There's a lot of digging going on there.

And then, on the second day of the "NSU 2.0" trial, the defendant's statements could be heard: In short, he was the wrong person.

Carsten Knop

Editor.

• Follow I follow

Money: The Frankfurt budget will be presented to the city council for the first reading next Thursday.

After being discussed and approved in the second and third readings, probably in May and June, the new budget should be approved by the supervisory authority in the middle of the year.

Frankfurt city councilors and the public will be able to read the mammoth work, which normally has around 2,000 pages, online next week – it will no longer be printed on paper.

With the numbers on the table, the debate and dispute that political Frankfurt has been waiting for for so long will begin shortly.

City treasurer Bastian Bergerhoff (The Greens) does not want to give any specific information on the budget and the expected deficit in advance.

However, he agrees with the bad news:

Buried: The core of the current Munich public transport infrastructure is thanks to the 1972 Olympic Games.

She has long been working beyond her capacity limit.

That's why something is happening.

In a few years, a new main station is to beautify the city center.

At the same time, a second main route of the Munich S-Bahn is being built for an estimated 3.8 billion euros, parallel to the existing one.

Work on the rails and the planned tunnels has been going on for almost four years, 2 million cubic meters of excavation and tunnel excavation for two new S-Bahn tubes have to be moved.

It is a reaction to the fact that the S-Bahn carries 850,000 people a day, four times more passengers than planned in 1972.

Deceived: Alexander M., the alleged author of 116 "NSU 2.0" threatening letters, wants to convey to the public that the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office has caught the wrong person.

A "useful idiot to blame," as he puts it, to protect the true perpetrators within the Hessian police force.

Prosecutors harassed him to force him to confess that the entire charge was a misrepresentation.

He speaks of "perfidious trickery" by the public prosecutor's office.

An interesting line of argument, it remains as exciting for the reporters in the room as it is for our readers.

And in addition

, pilots of commercial aircraft are currently permitted to approach Frankfurt Airport in curves during the day, especially in order not to fly directly over cities.

At its most recent meeting, the Aircraft Noise Commission decided to continue the tests in order to be able to collect even more data

the CDU parliamentary group calls on the coalition in the Römer to also contribute to the goal set by the federal government in Frankfurt afford to build 400,000 apartments every year

the storm Ylenia has spread over Hesse and the Rhine-Main area more mildly than many feared.

Greetings from the editorial team,

Yours, Carsten Knop

The tip for the weekend

Would you like a little excursion along the Rhine?

The "Three Bridges Tour" can be easily mastered all year round - even in winter - without hiking boots.

It leads from the Mainz side of the Rhine from the winter port over the railway bridge over to Wiesbaden terrain and briefly touches the border to the district of Groß-Gerau at the Main point.

Then the flat, almost nine-kilometre-long circular route continues on the towpath past the Maaraue swimming pool over the Floßhafen bridge to the reduit in Kastel and from there over the Theodor-Heuss bridge back to the Rhine bank in Mainz - a long walk with a view.

the

for Friday

Rain at the beginning of the day, in the afternoon there is a break, in the evening more rain with a storm.

Up to 14 degrees.

Stormy at night with 4 degrees.

have

Friday February 18th

Matthias Drexelius

, from 2015 to September 2021 Director of the Hessian District Association, Wiesbaden (56);

, general music director of the Staatstheater Darmstadt (38).

Saturday February 19th

Stefan Mumme

, lawyer, from 2012 to March 2021 Managing Director of the BHF Bank Foundation, Frankfurt (64);

(Die Grünen), from 2017 to June 2021 Head of Department of the City of Darmstadt (62);

, Professor at the Philosophical Seminar at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, President of the Schopenhauer Society, Frankfurt (62);

, Managing Partner of the Seligenstadt brewery Glaabsbräu, Vice President of the IHK Offenbach (57);

, Germany boss of the real estate service provider Colliers International, Frankfurt (55).

Sunday February 20th

Hans-Jürgen Irmer

(CDU), Member of the German Bundestag (Lahn-Dill constituency) from 2017 to October 2021, publisher of the advertising newspaper Wetzlar Kurier (70);

, Germany boss of the American chemical company Dow, Wiesbaden (57);

(The Greens), Mayor of the City of Frankfurt (57);

, head coach of SV Wehen Wiesbaden (52);

, Co-CEO of DZ Bank, Frankfurt (47);

, managing director of the workwear manufacturer Engelbert Strauss, Biebergemünd (45).