Today in Rhein-Main: Thousands are demonstrating for peace

Good evening,

First of all, a program reference: On Thursday evening, leading FAZ editors will be available online to answer questions about the Ukraine war.

Publisher Carsten Knop speaks from 7.30 p.m. with Heike Göbel, Head of Economic Policy, and Dr.

Nikolas Busse, Head of the Foreign Policy Department, and the readers who are listening can ask questions, after all, the series is called the “Frankfurt General Citizens’ Talks”.

We already have hundreds of registrations, but there is no upper limit on the Internet.

Intended primarily for subscribers, but also for those who want to become subscribers: Registration is possible at meinabo.faz.net/aktionen, if you still have to register beforehand, you can do this at faz.net/online-service.

Manfred Koehler

Head of department of the Rhein-Main editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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There was also no upper limit

at the demonstrations in the region against the war in Ukraine in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden on Sunday;

Around noon, around eleven thousand gathered in Frankfurt, to whom the Lord Mayor Peter Feldmann (SPD) spoke, among others.

The fact that the DGB district chairman, Michael Rudolph, said on this occasion that an increase in defense spending would not create peace and that a “logic of the arms race” had to be avoided indicates the kind of conflicts facing society.

However, anyone who

had suspected clashes in the Frankfurt CDU at the Saturday party conference was disappointed.

The delegates elected Uwe Becker as the new party chairman, which he was before, losing to Bettina Wiesmann, and the rebellion of the local associations, which had previously railed against the fact that honorary chairman Udo Corts had worked out a personnel tableau, did not materialize.

It remains to be seen whether Becker, honest but not a great speaker, will now embody the awakening that the Union so desperately desires.

Colleague Martin Benninghoff recognizes a glimmer of hope in his comment on the new board, nothing more.

More than a glimmer of hope

, however, is the great willingness of the population in the region to help.

Apparently, the networks of connections that were established in the wave of refugees in 2015 are reviving.

In any case, there was great interest in a “market of opportunities” that took place in Wiesbaden on Saturday.

At the same time, such events also serve to control: Anyone who wants to help in a meaningful way should inquire beforehand what kind of help is specifically needed.

On the website www.frankfurt-hilft.de, for example, donations in kind are currently specifically discouraged, but that could change again, you can read there.

Serious days in Rhein-Main, no matter how nice the weather may be.

And in addition

, in the Frankfurter Schauspielhaus you can marvel at the very garish and colorful "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie", but the reviewer from the FAZ was not really enthusiastic +++ colleague Theresa Weiß dealt with the salaries of the nursing staff and came to the conclusion that that Frankfurt is not doing so badly when it comes to payment +++ Petra Kirchhoff has put together a handful of suggestions for saving energy, of which we liked the one that said the refrigerator is better full than empty.

I wish you a pleasant evening

Yours, Manfred Koehler

You can also read current reports from the region in Skyline-Blick, our live news blog for the Rhine-Main region, and on the Rhein-Main-Zeitung website at www.faz.net/rmz

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The day starts cloudy with scattered rain.

In the afternoon it will become drier and cloudier with 13 degrees.

New clouds at night.

It stays dry at 3 degrees.

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Peter Fischer

, President of Eintracht Frankfurt (66);

(CDU), Hessian Minister of Justice (60);

, Spokesman of the Management Board of the Volksbank Darmstadt-Südhessen, President of the IHK Darmstadt (59);

, President of the Chemical Industry Association, Frankfurt (53);

, Catholic city dean in Wiesbaden (47).