Today in Rhein-Main: The pressure on Feldmann is growing

Good evening,

Manfred Koehler

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

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whenever you think

the Feldmann case has reached its peak, it gets even worse.

On Sunday, a few seconds long video became known showing the mayor of Frankfurt during a speech on a plane on the way to the Eintracht game in Seville;

he says there that the flight attendants "hormonally put him out of action at the beginning".

This extremely embarrassing sentence has now led to the SPD, i.e. his own party, and the Greens finally breaking away from him in Frankfurt City Hall.

Both parties called on him to resign immediately on Monday.

So far they had only demanded this in the event that the charges brought against him by the public prosecutor's office were accepted by the court.

Feldmann apologized

and spoke of a "stupid saying", but after all the missteps, also around the victory celebration, nobody really cares anymore.

In the meantime, he has traveled to the World Economic Forum, where the traditional "Frankfurt meets Davos" event is taking place on Tuesday evening.

This seems like an escape, as Carsten Knop writes in his commentary, he acts like an addict who is afraid of reality.

However, it will catch up with him in this mountain village as well.

It's getting lonelier around the mayor.

The SPD

is also good for headlines at the moment.

Of course, Wiesbaden is interested in whether SPD state chairwoman Nancy Faeser, who was confirmed in office just a few days ago, will be her party's top candidate in the 2023 state elections, even though she is also the federal interior minister.

But Faeser really did not need the unexpected statement from her comrade Christine Lambrecht, her minister of defence.

Lambrecht said last week that she was counting on Faeser to become Hesse's first woman prime minister.

Now, in turn, Faeser felt compelled to say in a newspaper interview that she had no intention of giving up her position as minister.

Conclusion: It is still unclear who is running for the SPD.

But it is very clear that Lambrecht and Faeser are not quite right.

And

the legendary Frankfurt Jazzkeller has also celebrated its 70th anniversary

scientists from the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences have initiated a research project that is intended to help people cope better with stress through meditation and perception exercises

Wiesbaden is postponing the goal of emission-free bus transport into the distant future.

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.

The

for Tuesday

In the morning it will rain a bit, but then dry weather will prevail.

Sun and clouds alternate.

The temperatures rise to around 21 degrees.

At night dry at 10 degrees.

birthday

on

Ernst Osterkamp

, ​​literary scholar, President of the German Academy for Language and Poetry, Darmstadt (72);

(CDU), former first district councilor in the Main-Taunus district (70);

, General Manager of the Chemical Industry Association, Frankfurt (60);

, spokesman for the management of the Rhein Main publishing group, Mainz (58);

(CDU), Member of the German Bundestag (Mainz constituency) from 2013 to October 2021 (57);

(The Party), parliamentary group leader in the Frankfurt City Council (39).