You can watch the scene from the broadcast by Hessischer Rundfunk on YouTube, it starts at two hours, 24 minutes and 32 seconds: the Frankfurt Eintracht coach has hardly entered the Römer with the trophy in his hand when Volker Bouffier is there to to touch the giant golden vessel.
And before the trainer really knows what is happening to him, the Hessian Prime Minister has the good piece in his own hands, runs down a long hallway with it, enters the Kaisersaal - always in the focus of the television cameras - and presents the trophy to the guests of honor.
The pictures are from 2018, when Eintracht won the DFB Cup.
Nobody got upset about Bouffier's behavior at the time, other than that of Lord Mayor Peter Feldmann,
Matthew Alexander
Deputy head of department in the features section.
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Is it unfair that 2022 will be made into a scandal what appeared to be petitesse in 2018?
Feldmann will feel that way.
This only confirms the proverb that it is not the same when two do the same thing.
It depends on the circumstances and the details.
While Bouffier carried the national cup in front of him so reverently as if he were holding the Holy Grail in his hands, Feldmann waved the European cup with a broad grin like a personal victory sign.
In view of the calamities in which the mayor is stuck due to the indictment by the public prosecutor's office and the announced reluctance to make public appearances, the appearance seemed particularly inappropriate.
But everything in Feldmann longed for the big entrance;
that he was invited by Eintracht neither to the final in Seville nor to the motorcade,
Defiant threat to the coalition
On Wednesday, many cameras were again set up in the Römer, and Feldmann gave a statement to the media.
After his sexist remarks about flight attendants had become known two days earlier, the mood had deteriorated further for him, even his most loyal fans among the social democratic women and the Jusos were now demanding his resignation.
Quite a few observers expected that Feldmann would follow the request.
You don't know him well, Feldmann is a man without nerves and without shame, some call him a narcissist.
He dutifully apologized again for his mistakes and announced that he would hardly be able to keep any appointments until the summer break.
This should not be misinterpreted as a gesture of remorse, his announcement that he would work differently in the future and take care of the important issues sounded more like a defiant threat to the coalition of Greens, FDP, Volt and Feldmann's own party, the SPD: I I am retiring, but only to return with freshly forged weapons to show you all.
Feldmann's party, the Frankfurt SPD, finds itself in an extremely unpleasant predicament: In view of the current public mood over Feldmann's misconduct, it has to support a motion to vote the mayor out of office.
Otherwise the comrades would be accused of still wanting to protect Feldmann.
Not only from the point of view of the Social Democrats, there are many arguments against a motion to vote out if you think of the matter from the end.
The probability that Feldmann's resignation will fail is too high.
At least 30 percent of Frankfurters would have to take part in the vote, and more than half of them would have to vote against Feldmann staying.
The mobilization by the Feldmann opponents is difficult
30 percent – that is pretty much the percentage of eligible voters who took part in the 2018 mayoral runoff election.
The majority is likely to be reached, but the quorum is unlikely.
Feldmann will advise his remaining supporters to stay away from the ballot box.
And the mobilization of citizens by Feldmann's opponents will be difficult: should the SPD post posters against him?
Who should finance this?
And who knows whether the mood for Feldmann will still be as bad for Feldmann in a few months as it is at the moment.
It is likely that people will then have other worries.
And it is hardly justifiable that the deselection overshadowed all other local political issues for several months.