Category: Leaders

Jan assmann begins at the podium with the first passage of the acceptance speech, his wife aleida then takes over quite naturally a few minutes later. Rarely are private and professional matters so closely intertwined in a couple as they are in the case of the two cultural scientists.

They also demonstrated this impressively at the presentation of the prestigious peace prize of the german book trade on sunday in the paulskirche in frankfurt.

On tuesday afternoon, the chairwoman of the carnival club "die heiligen stadtschnecken" (the holy city snails) reached out to tuchel in heiligenstadt, andrea hertling, an emotional voice message. Desperate, kathrin hofmann and her boyfriend patrick hubschmann asked for help because they were stranded in cambodia. The two had on 8. Marz started a two-week vacation to cambodia and could not take their return flight planned for last sunday because of the corona crisis.

"Kathrin is a guard girl with us, so we naturally put ourselves out there", says andrea hertling. The club members contacted therefore the bamberger CSU landtagsabgeordneter holger dremel, which turned with its office leader raimund domsz also immediately to the auswartige office. With success: kathrin hofmann and patrick hubschmann landed safely in brussel from cambodia on thursday. With a rented car it went from there to frankfurt and from there with the own car back to the homeland.

This was announced by the coalition factions on thursday after consultations between chancellor angela merkel (CDU) and the party and faction leaders in berlin. The federal council is to decide in a special session on the same evening. Both sides agreed on further consultations to iron out final disagreements.

In view of the worsening debt crisis in countries such as spain and the fateful election in greece on sunday, germany wants to use it to send a signal of security to the extremely nervous markets.

In 2014, the decision of the voters was very close: egon kloffel, the CSU candidate, won the election with 51.6 percent against his deputy at the time, alfons gundelach, of the wahlergemeinschaft rothhausen. In march 2020, the incumbent community leader will have to defend himself as the candidate of the burgerblock theinfeld against his deputy judith dekant (wahlergemeinschaft rothhausen) and his former opponent in the 2014 nomination, edwin braun (wahlergemeinschaft thundorf).

56-year-old says he's not scared at all. An election is always more exciting when there are several candidates. "I will be surprised." But for kloffel it is clear that there will be a snap election at the end of march.

After a fantastic descent on the course of the 2014 winter games, maria hofl-riesch threw herself into the snow as the winner. The 27-year-old punched the air with her fists in joy. "When you cross the finish line in the downhill, lindsey vonn is already down and you’re leading – that’s something very special and that’s why i shouted it out," hofl-riesch said after her first downhill win since january 2011. And this on the track in krasnaya polyana, where in two years the olympic medals of the sochi games will be awarded. "That is definitely doubly good."

A few meters away, the american vonn was struggling with her own driving, despite her early win of the fifth small crystal ball in this discipline. But she could still be happy with her skiing friend from partenkirchen. "I did my best. But maria skied super and deserved the victory", the overall world cup leader.