It was only a few days ago that thomas kemmerich (FDP) was elected prime minister of thuringia with the votes of the afd. Not only was he the second FDP minister president ever, he will also go down in history as the minister president with the shortest term in office – assuming he doesn’t stay in office as managing minister president for too much longer.

In thuringia, it quickly became clear that there was really only one way out. However, the minister-president election in thuringia’s state parliament triggered a political quake that caused a stir far beyond the state’s borders – and is still claiming political victims: on monday, annegret kramp-karrenbauer announced her renunciation of her candidacy for chancellor and her withdrawal from the party chairmanship.

But the election has shown even more: what conclusions can be drawn from the election in thuringia?? What impact will the election have on franconia and the rest of germany?? We have collected seven points that stood out in our dealings with thuringia:

While the total number of firefighting incidents rose by around three percent, the number of firefighting incidents fell by one to 160, while the number of technical assistance incidents rose from 584 in the previous year to 650. 54 people were rescued in the district, eight could only be recovered dead, mostly after traffic accidents. Even after fires, two people could only be recovered dead. A total of ten people were rescued from burning houses by the fire brigade, some of them via turntable ladders. And almost everywhere, fire department leaders from the district fire chief to the four district and city fire inspectors to the individual district fire chiefs were also in action.

In the past year alone, 11 people were killed in serious incidents in the district of bad kissingen.990 volunteers deployed. In purely arithmetical terms, each of the 5420 firefighters had to handle two missions a year, which again took an average of around two hours.

In view of these figures, district administrator thomas bold also thanked the employers of the men and women who serve in the armed forces. "Only if the employers play along can the volunteer fire department model work – in our case, it’s going extremely well".

Thanks to the generous space available in the oberaurach center in trossenfurt, it was no problem for the oberaurach community to hold its community council meeting on tuesday evening with sufficient safety margin.

A major item on the agenda was the planned flood protection in kirchaich. Jan-peter solveen and robert lutz from alka engineering presented the design and answered the committee’s questions. The purpose of the project is, on the one hand, to improve the flood situation in the center of the village of kirchaich and, on the other hand, to improve the appearance and thus the quality of life in the center of the village by means of suitable measures. The discharge capacity of the aurach is to be increased by suitable measures in order to reduce frequent flooding at the edge of the eastern part of the village. At the same time, the existing muhlbach is to be abandoned as such, since the kotzmuhle no longer uses the water of the muhlbach and no water rights exist any longer.

The muhlbach outside the village of kirchaich becomes south of the bridge "untere au" fed by spring water and still needed for the operation of the fish pond facilities southeast of kirchaich. This will continue to be possible.

The year 2012 was the year of the missions in the county. The current year 2013 is the year of the acquisitions, of necessary acquisitions, with new approaches. The county and municipalities are currently investing over three million euros in the provision of vehicles and equipment. Four identical TLF 4000 coarse tank fire trucks were purchased for the municipalities of bad staffelstein, burgkunstadt, michelau and lichtenfels, a rust truck for the michelau fire department, and an HLF 20 emergency rescue vehicle for the altenkunstadt fire department, a respiratory protection/radiation protection truck for the altenkunstadt fire department, a third turntable ladder for the district, to be stationed in ebensfeld, and finally a supply truck with crane, winch and extensive special equipment for the lichtenfels fire department/main hazard protection train.

Replacement was necessary
Since the founding of the lichtenfels/main fire department from the former THW local association in 1995, several used vehicles formerly owned by the federal government have been stationed in oberwallenstadt. After these vehicles had become outdated in the meantime, the responsible persons began to consider the subject of replacement procurement. From three used, between 30 and 50 years old, formerly federally owned vehicles with extensive special loads and three trailers, the fire department of lichtenfels/main developed a unique and cost-effective universal vehicle concept.

Saving was necessary
On sunday the inauguration of the new fire truck took place in the well-filled town hall of lichtenfels with the participation of the district fire department leadership as well as representatives of numerous fire departments from the urban area. "Since we were aware that the financial resources of both the county and the municipality are not exactly abundant to order three new trucks, we considered how we could nevertheless maintain or even improve the operational capability and effectiveness of the emergency response unit with fewer resources", says chairman georg storath.

A resolution condemning the radical islamic palastinian organization hamas for its rocket attacks on israel failed to get the required majority in the UN general assembly.

It would have been the first time that the 193-member general assembly directly condemned hamas. Hamas called the result a "slap in the face to the U.S. Government". The U.S. Condemned the outcome of the vote.

87 countries, including germany, voted for the resolution on thursday, 58 against, 32 abstained. Previously, the committee had decided by a narrow majority that the resolution would require a two-thirds vote.

This continues the bitter dispute that has been going on for ten years about the alleged responsibility of the bank and its former CEO rolf breuer for the collapse of the kirch group in 2002.

According to statements made on thursday, the bank’s board of management "after careful consideration" rejected an extrajudicial settlement to resolve the conflict. The payment of a good 800 million euros was in the offing. In return, the church side was to waive all claims for damages.

"On the basis of this review, also taking into account internal and external legal advice, the management board has decided by mutual agreement not to accept the settlement proposal," the bank said in frankfurt. According to financial sources, it had been clear for several days that there was resistance to the expensive deal at the bank.

Only a dark corridor leads between the wooden blocks to the hole. A young man tries the felt track. But he doesn't quite make it: the ball bounces off one of the obstacles. The player has to try again.

Pascal zeller is particularly skilled. He hits the hole with just one shot on many courses. The 18-year-old is currently the pride and joy of the MGC bamberg: he recently took part in the youth world championships in bad munder near hanover with the national youth team.

Since september 2009 pascal trains at least twice a week on the land of the MGC at the jahnspitze. "It's always a challenge to complete each course in one stroke", tells pascal, who became vice world champion with the national youth team. For some, this looks very difficult: on a course you have to hit the ball up a hill that is in the middle of it. On it is the hole. If you hit too weakly, the ball rolls back to the starting position. If you hit it too hard, it jumps over the hole and rolls back down on the other side. Another track zigzags: you can either do the "cutting stroke" or the "cutting stroke" try to hit the ball past all the corners directly into the hole, or play it over the fence. Pascal zeller tries the second variation: he hits the ball against the front cushion, it bounces back to the back cushion, and from there directly into the hole.

The longest journey to the french province was made by alexandra skogsskimmer. The 27-year-old comes from ringarum, a village with a population of just under 600 that is as coarse as weingarts and about 40 kilometers from the next coarser city of norrkoping, and didn’t want to miss "30 years of blodsinn" – especially because of the musicians from "freedom call".

"My trip by train took a total of 21 hours and it went about 1400 kilometers, but it was more than worth it for me", says the young swedish woman, who is especially enthusiastic about the organization and the people at the festival and in forchheim: "i was very nervous beforehand and met only fantastic people everywhere. Many people told me i was crazy for coming from sweden. I did not expect so many nice and helpful people, because sometimes one is influenced by prejudices."

Cake staff recognized the need

Alexandra was also impressed by the impeccable organization and praised the perfect course of events, which only suffered a little from the difficult connection between forchheim in the direction of weingarts and back. Especially the team of the new aparthotel near the train station, where she stayed, left a deep impression: "when i finally caught a cab in the late evening and came back to the hotel dead tired and hungry, the kitchen was actually already closed". But the staff made me an extra portion. And on sunday, they gave me a free big cup of yogurt pudding for my long drive home. I am completely speechless, I love you guys. Thank you franken."

The children ambitiously snatched the candy that flew from the cars. And even the policemen threw substitutes and got confetti in the face for it.

One of the central topics was the planned and much-discussed burgerwindpark. Both the SPD and the hochstadt automobile club decorated their cars with wind turbines. The AC drew thereby, with view of past experiences, a clear balance: "ADAC: done. Wind farm: work in progress".

On the embarrassing mistake on the road sign on the B 470, which shows motorists the way to the "ice station" the HEC drew attention. The volunteer fire department sterpersdorf converted the lifting arm of their tractor into a flying carpet, because there was no way to get through hochstadt by car. The marching band of the hochstadt fire department and the town band made their musical contribution.

A couple dancing a tango in the dim red light, an old man with a bandoneon, two hairdressers at work: the fascination for people is clearly evident in the pictures by erika herlitz-lorenz and robert meyer. In between there are also works that show landscapes, architecture and abstract art.

Many of these acrylic works, ink paintings and drawings show the artist couple from the 4. Until the 19. October in the halls of the town hall of forchheim. Although they both live in the far north, in loxstedt near bremerhaven, erika herlitz-lorenz was born in forchheim and likes to come back home on vacation with her husband. That's why the two of them came up with the idea of exhibiting here. They are both excited and have been looking forward to the exhibition for weeks, says meyer. "We celebrate our creativity like others celebrate their birthdays", says herlitz-lorenz "we are happy to exhibit in these beautiful halls, it will be a feast, even if we do not sell much!"

Her latest series of pictures was taken on her last trip through franconia. The employees of franconian beer cellars have the native franconian in their sights: waitresses and beer tappers. About these motifs she says: "we love the french life and the french taverns, so it's not a coincidence that we paint that so much."