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How spectacularly the political situation can change within a year. A year ago, SPD supporters celebrated their hopeful martin schulz, and member of the bundestag martina stamm-fibich arrived "completely inspired on the occasion of the political ash wednesday of the herzogenaurach SPD local association in the brewery inn heller.
This year, at least a record attendance at the event gave local chairwoman renate schroff reason to rejoice. The chairwoman spoke of extreme highs and lows of the SPD in the past year as well as of a disaster at the election and of a new situation after the jamaika-outs. Now eagerly awaiting the results of the member survey. "We have to be surprised. With our solidary attitude we will also get back into better waters", hopes the chairwoman.
For mayor german hacker, the change at the top of the party and in the key offices was necessary and right in view of a grand coalition after the federal election. The SPD had thus completed the forward-looking generation and personnel change in order to implement the party's substantive successes from the coalition negotiations.

No discussion of names

Alexandra hiersemann, member of the state parliament, looked ahead, saying that the SPD had run a highly motivated election campaign, but that the result had not lived up to what everyone had fought for. The members had also wished for a different strategic approach by the party in recent weeks. "But I want to make it clear: I am not taking part in the discussion about personnel issues and names that are currently flying through the air on a daily basis, this is not getting us anywhere", declared the delegate. People rightly expected the party to show itself reliable again.
The SPD will continue to fight against the sustained refusal of the CSU state government to implement federal requirements, such as work and training opportunities for fugitives in bavaria. Guidelines that were decided not least by the SPD participation in the last groko. The free state must also give project sponsors the opportunity to create long-term employment contracts and not lay the foundation for chain fixed-term contracts through the free state's practice of making demands here. The practice in the free state is in blatant discrepancy with the political sunday speeches of the CSU.

Dangling 140 meters high in the air – even henry salwender was scared out of his mind. “At least the first time”, the agile industrial climber admits with a laugh. But that was years ago. Meanwhile, he doesn’t do wind turbine repair and cleaning anymore. As a so-called rotor blade service mechanic, he was on the road throughout germany from 2012 to 2014. In the meantime, he has set up his own company in coburg: sonderzweck – arbeitsschutz& safety. When it comes to rescue operations and safety training in wind turbines, he is only there as a trainer.

Safe on the high shelf

His real concern is occupational safety. Saving people and helping them to avoid accidents is close to the 52-year-old’s heart. As a rescue paramedic with the BRK in bad rodach, that’s his daily bread. As an industrial climber, he is particularly interested in ensuring greater safety in high-bay warehouses, in stage construction and in event technology. He is already offering training courses on protective equipment against falls from a height.

The fubballers in the lichtenfels district mourn heinz losert, who died this week at the age of 69. Losert lived in mistelfeld and is survived by his wife anna.

He is known to the people of lichtenfels as a long-time employee of the city, where he worked for 37 years. When he retired in 2014, he was foreman of the building yard.

The trade union verdi says it will begin negotiations this wednesday on a national collective bargaining agreement with the irish low-cost carrier.

The central demands include a substantial pay increase, verdi announced in berlin on monday. Due to seasonal fluctuations and a lack of flight hour guarantees, even some full-time employees could only receive up to 1,000 euros gross per month as a base salary.

Now the bell on the jester's cap rang again: the "fidelia had the carnival kick-off in the "krone saal invited and all came to see the new princess. But the "fidelia" made it exciting again: nothing had been leaked, the fools had to be patient and first had to play foolish games in order to unravel click by click the portrait of the new regent.

"Fidelia"-chairman matthias buhner had, as one would expect from the "fidelia", a very good time the dance guard of the "blue hussars" is used to brought along, in order to accompany the gentlemen elferrate with narhalla march on its advice bar and with a lively guard dance for tendency in the resounds to provide. He buried the local celebrities and shouted to the oberburgermeister that the "fidelia" he has purchased a new lighting system with energy-saving LED lamps, which is why he is paying the rent for the "krone halle" but clearly had to lower.

Attentive motorists in particular noticed it immediately in weismain on friday, shortly after 10 a.M.: after around two years of construction work, the road works department employees had removed the barrier signs from the new bypass.

The traffic on the bypass road in weismain was now able to move, because the traffic circles had been completed, the traffic lights had been installed and all the other signage had been created in such a way that a "new era" had begun of the road traffic in weismain could begin.

Even in the post-war period, it was still considered an important means of transport. In the sixties the bicycle was displaced by the car – those who could afford it now moved around by motorized means.

For about a decade now, however, the bicycle has been experiencing a renaissance, and especially since e-bikes and pedelecs have been on the market, more and more people are discovering their love of getting around on two wheels. In germany alone, the number of pedelecs more than doubled from 1.3 million to 2.8 million between 2012 and 2016. The market for electronically assisted bicycles has developed rapidly, and in a very short time a large number of new types of e-bikes with increasingly refined technology and elegant design and a high level of comfort have come onto the market.

The german book trade is losing readers. In the past five years alone, he has lost around 6.4 million customers, according to data from the booksellers’ association borsenverein.

Germany’s largest bookstore chain thalia won’t stand idly by and watch the trend continue. Thalia boss michael busch therefore announced in dusseldorf a realignment of the chain, which operates nearly 300 stores in germany, austria and switzerland. Bookstores are to become much more of a meeting place than before, with cafes, reading areas and play corners for children, but also with a variety of events.

A car thief who dragged and seriously injured a berlin police officer as he fled has been sentenced to eleven and a half years in jail. The regional court sentenced the 29-year-old man on monday (19. March 2018) guilty, among other things, of attempted murder. The thief had recognized that a human was attached to the vehicle he had just stolen, but had stripped it and tried to escape, the judges found. The 54-year-old police officer was so severely injured in the attack in berlin-lichtenberg in august 2015 that he is still not fit for duty today.

Defendant had confessed

The court's verdict went beyond the prosecutor's request, which had called for nine years and six months in prison for attempted manslaughter, among other charges. The defense counsel had not made a specific request for punishment, the defendant had confessed.

An eavesdropping attack through one’s own T-shirt? This idea comes to mind when you look at the unusual garment into which eight microphones have been sewn. But in the development of dr. Sarah fischer, assistant physician at the medical clinic 1 for gastroenterology, pneumology and endocrinology at the university hospital erlangen, it is not a police but a medical surveillance method. For the "gastro-digitalshirt" records the wearer’s bowel movements for several days or weeks, providing valuable data for the doctors treating the patient. They can, for example, evaluate treatment methods for chronic inflammatory bowel diseases or irritable bowel syndrome, according to a press release from the university.

For her development, sarah fischer has now been awarded the DGVS innovation prize "digital gastroenterology" by the german society for gastroenterology, digestive and metabolic diseases the "gastro-digital" award, which was presented for the first time this year.