1.
Expulsion
In Saxony-Anhalt, CDU Prime Minister
Reiner Haseloff
dismissed
his interior minister and party, well, friend
Holger Stahlknecht
.
This escalates the dispute over the
increase in the radio license fee,
which is also a dispute over whether the CDU should try to avoid any appearance of making common cause with the AfD.
Previously, Stahlknecht had questioned the black-red-green government alliance in the »Magdeburger Volksstimme«: The interview had obviously not been agreed with the State Chancellery - a provocation that the otherwise rather cautious Haseloff could not accept.
(More here.)
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Disliked one another
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Rushing ahead and provoking
, that seems to be the preferred method of the former public prosecutor and lieutenant colonel in the reserve Stahlknecht.
A look at the local press in the noughties shows: Even then, he tried to move forward by running a campaign against a deliberate, moderating parliamentary group chairman.
Even then, the "Mitteldeutsche Zeitung" wrote about the "disruption of the Union faction" in Magdeburg.
The trenches have not been filled in to this day, on the contrary, new ones have been dug.
"No CDU parliamentary group is as far to the right as the one in Saxony-Anhalt,"
says my colleague Sebastian Fischer, head of our capital city office.
“Haseloff is trying hard to save his Kenya alliance.
But the signs are not good. "
Read more here: Prime Minister Haseloff dismisses Minister of the Interior Stahlknecht
2.
Rich and poor
The current
Corona numbers:
For the first time in Germany, more than 4,000 Covid patients are in intensive care units.
The offices reported 23,400 new infections and 432 deaths in one day.
By the time you finish reading this newsletter, mathematically, two more people will have died from or with the virus.
The romantic-morbid notion of the pandemic as a great
equalizer
has long since turned out to be a myth;
The crisis hits the poor above all, including in Germany.
The seller at the discounter cannot switch to the home office, and the Lieferando cyclist hardly restricts her contacts.
Every second household with a monthly income of less than 900 euros has to accept losses - but only around every fourth household with an income of over 4500 euros, as a study in November showed.
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The gap between rich and poor is growing
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Now a new study confirms what has been observed in everyday life for weeks.
Those who can afford it get in their own car, in a long-term rental car or on a bike.
Almost only those with low incomes still use buses and trains, as my colleague Emil Nefzger reports.
The effects affect everyone: "If
public transport
loses its importance in the long term, it would have significant consequences for climate protection," writes Emil.
"All scenarios in which the Paris climate goals can be achieved assume that the share of buses and trains in traffic doubles." (More about the background here)
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On the other hand, there are rich people who are profiting from the crisis: The investor Christian Angermayer has invested half of his money in biotech companies - it has paid off.
What
rich young man
from Germany how busy Angermayer, the team wanted to know about my colleague Alexander Kühn.
As early as February, they began supporting heirs and company founders for our cover story.
You wanted to find out how the new business leaders in this country think - and what they are planning to do with their money: improve the world or just their own bank account?
"The founders deal with their money much more courageously than the heirs,"
says Alex.
Corona only temporarily stopped the research.
The team resumed work in September, largely by telephone.
"It's pretty hard to get rich people to talk," says Alex.
"Germans just don't like to talk about their money."
You can read the entire SPIEGEL cover story here: Germany's Gold Children
3.
Kick
Sometimes I claim: my
football ignorance
, which is composed of a lack of interest and simultaneous shame about a lack of specialist knowledge, has something to do with my origins.
Who should I have cheered as a child and teenager in Berlin?
Hertha with her radical right-wing »frogs«?
I only knew the blue and nicotine yellow pennants from the windows of the next corner bar, which our parents had forbidden us to go to.
When the wall was gone and it would have been possible to visit Union's friendship stadium,
football
had already lost
me
.
(Werder as a substitute would have been close to family, but didn't work either.)
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Flag in the wind
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Both clubs are playing tonight.
Hertha
tried to polish up the image before the derby: the marketing people wanted to hoist 60,000 flags across the city.
Unfortunately, without coordinating it with the authorities, the public order office threatened with a fine.
"Rich, but unsexy," is how my colleague Peter Ahrens calls the club.
“It's a kind of Hertha paradox: the more changes at the club, the more the outside impression that the club is stepping on the spot becomes stronger - as if Grönemeyer had thought of Hertha when he sang› Everything stays different ‹." (Read more here)
What the
German Football Association is
apparently planning to increase the reputation of its
President Fritz Keller
does not sound more convincing
.
"In an internal concept that was apparently worked out by the association's communications department, you can read where Keller wants to appear everywhere in the near future: in TV talk shows like Lanz, in radio programs, in various podcast formats and in guest articles from renowned newspapers." reports my colleague Gerhard Pfeil.
"Human, approachable and convincing" should present the head of the association there, according to the strategy paper.
I will probably not become a football fan anymore.
Read the full story here: The DFB President's strange PR offensive
What else is important today
Roger Stone blames North Korea for alleged electoral fraud:
Some Trump supporters feed bizarre theories about alleged electoral fraud in the USA.
Roger Stone provides the latest "evidence": North Korean boats smuggled counterfeit ballot papers.
Police found ammunition in the suspect's car, but no weapon: It is
still unclear why Bernd W. drove up to passers-by in Trier.
The police have now announced new details about the crime.
The number of injuries continues to increase.
Holocaust denier Haverbeck sentenced to imprisonment again:
Ursula Haverbeck has denied the mass murder of European Jews for years, most recently she served a longer prison term.
Now the 92-year-old has been convicted again - again for sedition.
New night train connections planned in Europe:
Europe should become more climate-friendly, which is why the Ministry of Transport and Deutsche Bahn are also relying on cross-border night trains.
The vision: a revival of the Trans-Europ-Express.
My favorite story today: "The easy is sometimes unbearable"
Tony Marshall has been
the Germans' good-mood singer for
half a century
.
He sang his biggest hit, "Schöne Maid," countless times.
My colleague Barbara Hardinghaus knew him from her childhood television when she was allowed to stay up late on Saturdays and watch the "ZDF hit parade" with Dieter Thomas Heck.
How does someone like Marshall get old?
And how hard did he have to work so that the Germans could enjoy the easy?
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Marshall, Hardinghaus
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When Barbara met Marshall again in Baden-Baden, it was like an excursion into a time that had long been believed to have passed.
Marshall greeted her with a faint kiss on the hand.
Marshall's friend and former colleague Herbert Nold handed her an umbrella when it rained and still used the word "crooks".
They were, if you will, two old-school men, polite, respectful - two traits that Marshall did not always see in the hit world.
He describes it as a tough industry in which some did not survive.
“I was surprised at how open Tony Marshall was,” says Barbara. “He played a role all his life;
because he actually loves classical music. "
Read the full story here: My last dream
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Now Heiko Maas is hoping for improvement.
But what is possible in terms of China, the Middle East and Nord Stream 2?
The Laschet son and the corona masks:
NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet is not always lucky with his family's appearances.
Now his influencer son Joe and his contacts with a fashion company put him in trouble.
All the mum, all the dad:
many young people follow the careers of their parents and grandparents.
Why is that?
When is it good - and when not?
Which is not so important today
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Former Chief of Staff
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Expecto Patronum:
British actor
Daniel Radcliffe,
31, known as the embodiment of the world's most famous magical boy, eschews social media, as he said on a YouTube show.
In order to protect himself, he has neither a Twitter nor an Instagram account.
He thinks he is "not mentally strong enough".
Typo of the day
, corrected in the meantime: "The Monololih thieves have apparently already traveled far."
Cartoon of the day:
Plögers, five plus x
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And on the weekend?
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Could it imitate my colleague Anja Rützel and at
Netflix
the
solo program "Tropical"
the Swiss-American actress
Hazel Brugger
look at.
"Brugger is strongest when she lets unspectacular situations drift into the absurd with deliberate pleasure," says Anja.
"The memory of her hardly to be suppressed temptation to caress her old gynecologist soothingly over the head during the examination will haunt you at least at the most inopportune moments."
In the next two weeks you will read my colleague Patricia Dreyer and my colleague Nils Minkmar here.
I am going into precautionary quarantine before Christmas and I wish you good days.
Stay healthy.
Sincerely,
Oliver Trenkamp
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