Today in Rhein-Main: A serenade and a quiet Servus for Volker Bouffier

Good evening,

There is a lot going on in Hessian state politics in the new week.

The longest-serving prime minister is leaving.

On Tuesday, Volker Bouffier wants to make room for Boris Rhein (both CDU), who has yet to be elected in the state parliament.

But because that is considered certain, we want to write him a few things in the specifications that go beyond the appointment of a new Minister of Justice.

Incidentally, in all probability he will be called Roman Poseck, currently President of the State Court of Justice and the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt.

This would mean that the incumbent minister, Eva-Kühne Hörmann (CDU), would leave the cabinet.

In any case, Rhein is taking over a colorful country, as was shown at the weekend, also in Wiesbaden, at the "Christopher Street Day".

If all this seems too Hessian to you, you can go on vacation again.

Carsten Knop

Editor.

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With music:

In the serenade with which the Bundeswehr bids farewell to Bouffier on Monday evening at the Biebricher Schloss in Wiesbaden before the official change in the state parliament on Tuesday, a song will be heard that fits this interview: "One Moment in Time".

Sung by Whitney Houston, the unofficial anthem of the 1988 Olympic Games celebrates man's belief in himself and the longing to rise above himself.

Bouffier, the power politician, asked for the song.

His deputy Tarek Al-Wazir from the Greens is already shouting a quiet "Servus" after him in our newspaper: "The second recipe for our coalition's success lies in the sentence with which he opened the first exploratory round in 2013 and which showed me that there someone seriously says: 'Now let's all introduce ourselves

the other might be right too.'

We have stuck to that since then and governed Hesse well,” writes Al-Wazir in his guest article.

Of course, there is always a better way, which we comment on with a view to what is to come.

Colorful, loud, funny:

and sometimes shrill, thousands of mostly young people presented themselves on the Wiesbaden market square in front of the town hall on Saturday afternoon and demonstrated for the rights of lesbians, gays and transgender people.

“Queer rights are human rights,” speakers chanted, and the crowd cheered.

The organizers had expected around 3,000 participants in Christopher Street Day (CSD), but many more people came.

They stood tightly packed in front of the town hall steps, on which a huge rainbow flag was spread out, and made it clear: "We will not let our rights be taken from us anymore." Robert Maus reports.

Let's go:

After two years of Corona and abstinence, many - climate change or not - finally want to go on vacation again.

With voluntary donations, they can compensate for the resulting environmental damage.

Petra Kirchhoff has compiled what is on offer in this regard.

And we remember that the Lufthansa boss Carsten Spohr said at the FAZ congress a few weeks ago that there was hardly any demand for something like this.

The flight shame is probably not that big after all.

And

a dispute between a 51-year-old man and his former girlfriend on Sunday night triggered a large-scale police operation in the Gallus district of Frankfurt.

As a spokesman said, the former couple met around 1:30 a.m., each accompanied by others.

Among them was the woman's new boyfriend.

The fifty-one-year-old attacked him with a baseball bat and severely injured his head

three students from Hesse won the prize for the best interdisciplinary work in the national competition "Jugend forscht".

Maximilian Pfannkuch, Jaro Filip and Dominik Hein from the Ludwig Geißler School in Hanau constructed a device that disinfects room air with the light of LEDs

Ginnheim is a district abused by the Autobahn.

But there are also places where you can enjoy life.

Have a good start into the new week,

your Carsten Knop

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.

The

for Monday

Mostly it is quite friendly, only in the morning single showers are possible.

Highs around 18 degrees.

Cloudy at night with 8 degrees.

Traffic

Due to private crane work, lanes will be reduced in the Senckenberg facility between Robert-Mayer-Strasse and Georg-Voigt-Strasse and on Robert-Mayer-Strasse from Monday, May 30th to Friday, June 3rd.

Cyclists and pedestrians can pass the construction site.

have birthday

on

Monday, May 30th

Wolfgang Seeliger

, conductor, artistic director of the Darmstadt Residence Festival, bearer of the Goethe Plaque of the State of Hesse (76);

, Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Wiesbaden Civic Foundation (68);

, art collector, chairwoman of the Informal Art Foundation, Darmstadt (68);

, Chairman of the Board of Eswe Supply AG, Wiesbaden (63).