Today in Rhein-Main: belated honor for a great Hessian

Good evening,

is the highest award that the state of Hesse bestows.

It is named after someone who lost his life in the fight against National Socialism: Wilhelm Leuschner, SPD politician and trade unionist, Minister of the Interior of the then People's State of Hesse from 1928 to 1933, had joined the resistance against Hitler, he was intended to be Vice Chancellor the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 was successful.

As is well known, it is not, Leuschner was denounced, sentenced to death by Roland Freisler and executed on September 29, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee.

The medal named after him was recently awarded to Cardinal Karl Lehmann, Joachim Gauck and – posthumously – the murdered Kassel District President Walter Lübcke, among others.

Manfred Koehler

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

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On Thursday it

by the Hessian Prime Minister Boris Rhein (CDU) , this time to the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer.

He was involved in the arrest of Adolf Eichmann and had pushed through the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt at the beginning of the 1960s, which dealt with the crimes of 22 accused in what was then the concentration camp.

It was the first time after the war that National Socialist crimes were widely discussed and noticed by large sections of the population.

Back then, Bauer had to assert himself against a lot of resistance.

And it was only long after his death in 1968 that his legacy was remembered.

Rhein

presented the medal to two of Bauer's grandnieces on Thursday.

According to the Prime Minister, without Fritz Bauer and the Auschwitz trial, Germany would be a different country – one in which he would not want to live.

"Uncle Fritz, you are a hero," said grandniece Marit Tiefenthal in her words of thanks.

And in addition

, the Hessian Digital Minister Kristina Sinemus (CDU) opposes new legal requirements for data centers in a guest article for the FAZ +++ it will be a long time before the increased housing benefit is paid out by the municipalities in the region +++ demands the Wiesbaden mayor more respect for bus drivers.

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 tip for the weekend

How about a culinary trip to Bad Homburg?

The restaurant "Lindenallee" in the Dornholzhausen district is unspectacular on the one hand: no gourmet cuisine, no eccentric location.

On the other hand, however, it is a bit special: furnished with lots of works of art, equipped with a very relaxed service and with dishes on the menu that are home-style in the best sense of the word.

Classics of the house are the beef roulades, but we also recommend the Taunus salmon trout with beurre blanc and beetroot and the strudel with Wetterau apples.

"Lindenallee", Lindenallee 2, Bad Homburg, telephone: 0 61 72/8 50 66 01

The

for Friday

Mostly lots of clouds and occasional rain or drizzle, in the evening also sleet.

Maximum values ​​during the day between 3 and 5 degrees.

have

on Friday

Roland Fritz

, former President of the Frankfurt Administrative Court (75);

, President of the Federation of German Cyclists, Frankfurt, former Federal Minister of Defense (SPD) (75);

, drummer living in Frankfurt, co-founder of the Frankfurt Jazz Big Band and the Frankfurt Jazz Initiative (74);

, Managing Director of Dom-Römer GmbH, Frankfurt (62);

, CEO of Stadtwerke Mainz AG (52);

, composer, poet and essayist living in Frankfurt (51);

on Saturday

Jörg Hofmann

, First Chairman of IG Metall, Frankfurt (67);

, aka Jam El Mar, Frankfurt musician, DJ and music producer (62);

, spokesman for the management of the dfv media group, Frankfurt (59);

(CDU), Hessian Minister of the Interior and Sport (55);

, director of the Klingspor Museum, Offenbach (43);

On Sunday

Philipp Keller

, managing director of the Frankfurt household specialty store Lorey (51);

, Managing Director of the Helios Dr. Horst Schmidt Clinics, Wiesbaden (49).

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