Today in Rhein-Main: Election day!

Good evening,

All those interested in politics can now make a note of this date, on this day the state elections in Hesse will most likely take place - on the same day as the elections in Bavaria.

As our state parliament correspondent Ewald Hetrodt reports, the Hessian cabinet will set the election day at its meeting next week.

One could of course come up with the idea that an election a week later, for example, would draw more attention to Hesse because the Bavarian competition would not be there.

Why is it still different?

It's not here, it's only in the colleague's article.

Manfred Koehler

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

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However, what we would immediately reveal at this point would

be when the demonstrators should end their occupation of the forest in Frankfurt-Fechenheim so that construction work to close the gap on Autobahn 66 can begin.

But the date has not yet been announced by the police.

The fact that demonstrations are now preceded by a veritable showdown, that one thinks that a police operation there should be monitored by "parliamentary observers" like elections in a dubious state, one may find quite strange, but please.

The main thing is that things are moving forward.

Because the few hundred opponents of the motorway construction face thousands who will benefit from it, but who, as is well known, do not exercise their right to demonstrate.

Civic engagement is, of course, generally welcome.

Property owners have now set up an initiative in Frankfurt's Bahnhofsviertel district, whose huge problems are still not sufficiently recognized by politicians. They are calling for more street workers, for example.

And casually point out that 20,000 women and men work in the district.

Every idea is welcome there, doing is enough.

And in addition

, the former Frankfurt mayor Andreas von Schoeler (SPD) received the Ignatz Bubis Prize

the Hessian trade looks skeptically to the future, but after many golden years

a bookshop has been founded in Frankfurt called "Other Pages” – completely against the trend.

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.

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First a lot of clouds and at times heavy rain, later also longer dry phases with values ​​between 10 and 12 degrees.

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Lothar Schmidt

, Managing Director of Sinn Spezialuhren GmbH, Frankfurt (74);

, managing director of the glass showcase manufacturer Hahn, Frankfurt (70);

(CDU), former mayor in Darmstadt, former member of the Hessian state parliament (65);

, CEO of Clariant Germany, Frankfurt (60);

, managing director of the real estate companies of Stadtwerke Offenbach Holding (53);

, Managing Director of the Frankfurt Red Cross Clinics (51).

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