The exit
Oliver Bierhoff is leaving the German Football Association after 18 years
.
The news last night was a bang.
Will she double boom?
The pressure on the DFB after the early World Cup elimination of a mediocre team must have been great, in fact it has been since the 2018 defeat.
But it is strange that someone who has relatively little to do with game tactics or player input has to stop now.
Is it just the beginning,
is Hansi Flick's bench shaking too?
My colleague Peter Ahrens asked himself four days ago why the anger about a defeat is so easy to vent to the managing director.
"Bierhoff is something like the whipping boy at the German Football Association," wrote Peter.
He pointed to the difficult relationship between DFB boss Bernd Neuendorf and his managing director and to Bierhoff's unfortunate role in the hustle and bustle surrounding wearing - or rather not wearing - the "One Love" armband at the games in Qatar.
Was all that enough for this retreat?
The DFB is facing a turning point and, as always in such cases, a great opportunity.
Time is of the essence, the EM in your own country will take place in a year and a half.
If a good choice of personnel succeeds, then the Germans can dream again.
Will we be European champions in 2024?
Managing director of the national team: Bierhoff and DFB go their separate ways
Hated Key
If the federal states want to finance a joint project, then the contribution of each state is calculated using the
Königstein key
.
It's actually quite simple: Two-thirds of the share is based on tax revenue and one-third on the population.
This formula was invented around 70 years ago and goes back to the Königstein State Agreement of 1949, which was signed in Königstein im Taunus.
The magic formula has long been used not only for fair financing, but also for refugees who come to Germany, for example, to be distributed to the federal states according to this key.
Now, however
, the formula has been criticized several times
.
First, Peter Tschentscher from the SPD spoke up.
The Mayor of Hamburg considers the distribution of refugees according to the Königstein key to be unfair.
Hamburg has economic and financial power, "but we lack space and buildings," said Tschentscher of Hamburg's "Mopo".
Well, one might think: If you have money, you could build temporary buildings.
But Tschentscher seems to be concerned with something more fundamental.
Similar to Ursula Nonnemacher, Health Minister of the Greens from Brandenburg.
She calls for more support for maternity clinics in sparsely populated regions.
However, the funds should not be distributed according to the Königstein key as planned, Nonnemacher wrote in a letter to Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach from the SPD.
This is because sparsely populated regions would receive significantly less money than a government commission set up for the issue had originally recommended.
The
Koenigstein key under the pressure of existence
, that should be unique in German history.
But what would be the alternative?
A Berlin key?
The states pay nothing, the federal government everything?
In any case, the said government commission, together with the Federal Minister of Health, is presenting its reform proposals for hospital care today.
The unloved key may also play a role.
Lauterbach promotes hospital reform: "We have lost the balance between medicine and economy"
A day in Tirana
The EU states, the EU Commission and the six countries of the Western Balkans
have been meeting regularly for an exchange for almost ten years
, but today is a premiere: the
meeting
is taking place for the first time in a capital of the six countries, this time
in Tirana
.
The agenda is likely to be tightly packed: it is about further rapprochement between the six countries that have accelerated Russia's attack on Ukraine in particular.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz recently spoke out surprisingly vehemently in favor of early EU accession for North Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina, precisely for reasons of justice.
While above all an EU perspective for Ukraine is being publicly debated, some of the Western Balkan countries have been waiting for the next big step for decades.
The EU Commission, on the other hand, wants to address another issue: It wants to call on the Western Balkan countries to curb illegal migration.
This year, 130,000 illegal border crossings were registered on Balkan routes.
Controversial debates are likely to arise in Tirana.
What the Chancellor reads: The know-it-all
You can find more news and background information on the war in Ukraine here:
Recent developments:
Ukrainian special forces are said to have operated far behind the border in at least one of the drone attacks on Russian military bases.
Russia responded with heavy shelling.
The overview.
The majority of Germans want to support Ukraine – but not at any price:
A new study shows that the willingness to support Ukraine and take in refugees from the war-torn country is declining in Europe.
Also in Germany.
"At least we'll die together":
Ever since Ukraine recaptured the city of Cherson, the Dnieper has formed the border with Russian-occupied areas.
People are waiting on the shore for relatives who are stuck on the other side.
The video.
Gandhi, climate, specialists - and again and again Russia:
Foreign Minister Baerbock visits India.
Germany wants to strengthen its relationship with the world's largest democracy - and at the same time struggles with its proximity to Russia.
Black illusion
It used to be called the sale, now it's
Black Friday
.
In the USA, »Black Friday« is traditionally the day after Thanksgiving, which marks the start of Christmas shopping.
Discounts lure everywhere.
Now it's a little silly to adapt this day anyway, while eating turkey together is hardly celebrated in this country.
But an even more important argument is that you often don't save any money on Black Friday,
in some cases you even have to pay more, the whole fuss is pure illusion
.
This is essentially the result of an extensive data analysis by my colleagues Holger Dambeck and Simon Uhl.
The two evaluated price trends for 1,000 products on the comparison portal billiger.de.
According to this, customers saved an average of just two percent on bargain day compared to the average prices in October.
Buyers often even had to pay more: 364 of the 1000 products were more expensive on Black Friday than in the previous month, 586 cheaper.
Maybe you should use this day better in the future - for example with a turkey meal with friends.
Data Analysis: Paid on Discount Day
SPIEGEL event: »The Nazi era in my family«
Deep Dive
is the name of an event that we actually organize exclusively for our subscribers.
With a bit of luck you can be there too.
The Nazi era is omnipresent in history books and the media - but how did your own relatives actually respond to Hitler's rule?
Were they opponents, victims, followers, perpetrators?
Many want to go on a search to find out what their own, often deceased, ancestors really did for or against the regime - they just often don't know how.
The historian dr.
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At SPIEGEL Deep Dive he will talk to Eva-Maria Schnurr, head of the history department, about how to approach such research, why it is so important to deal with one's own history and how to deal with it constructively.
You can find more information about the
event »The Nazi era in my family: How do I find out whether my ancestors were perpetrators«
here.
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by 10 o'clock.
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Questions to the speakers can be asked here in advance.
Here is the current quiz of the day
The starting question today: Where in Germany is the headquarters of the Franco-German Brigade located?
Winner of the day...
… are exceptionally one and two colleagues today:
Alexandra Rojkov, Matthias Gebauer and Konstantin von Hammerstein
received the German Reporter Prize in the categories Investigation and Best Report last night.
Gebauer and Hammerstein for their crime-like reconstruction of the hasty withdrawal of the Bundeswehr from Afghanistan;
Rojkov for her report on 17-year-old Kolja, who was the only one of his family to survive the bombing of Mariupol.
One may consider such awards to be vain navel gazing (which they are in part), but I still think such awards are good and important.
They encourage us again and again to strive for what defines our profession: diving into the depths of research, being courageous and uncomfortable, explaining problems clearly, uncovering grievances, letting people have their say and, last but not least: exciting to tell and entertain.
Congratulations Alexandra, Matthias and Konstantin!
The Germans' dramatic escape from Afghanistan: »Only by phone, we're destroying the IT.
End"
Destiny in devastated Mariupol: How Kolya lost his family - but not his hope
The latest news from the night
Facebook's parent company Meta is threatening a news boycott in the event of a new US media law:
A new law will soon come into force in the USA that primarily protects local newspapers.
Facebook, however, feels disadvantaged - and brings radical measures into play.
Rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo murder more than 270 civilians:
numerous children are apparently among the victims.
The US and the UN have intervened in the case.
Kirstie Alley is dead:
The US actress became famous with the sitcom »Cheers«, in the cinema she was seen alongside John Travolta.
Later she made headlines, especially with her weight.
Alley has now died at the age of 71.
The SPIEGEL + recommendations for today
In the hydrogen wonderland:
On his trip to Namibia, Economics Minister Robert Habeck wants to advance a project to generate renewable energy.
But the inglorious history of German colonial masters haunts him.
Above the doctor, below German politics:
For many years, Giessen general practitioner Kristina Hänel has been campaigning for the abolition of paragraph 219a.
She reaches her goal.
And now?
And school is canceled again:
the state has spent millions to digitize the schools.
Nevertheless, the online lessons do not work.
We need him right now when thousands of children have to stay at home.
Why it rained meat from the sky in Kentucky:
It looked like beef – but what really fell on a farm in Kentucky in 1876 puzzled experts for decades.
Your solution is unsavory.
I wish you a wonderful Tuesday!
Yours, Martin Knobbe