Photo: Ronald HissinkA 2nd pig farm has been infected with African Swine Fever (ASF) in the western German state Hesse This time the virus was found in a commercial finisher farm The World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) reported that the virus was found near Stockstadt am Rhein in the district Groß-Gerau The ministry of Agriculture of the state Hesse reported that in total 3 dead pigs were reported to the veterinary authorities on Wednesday An additional 10 other animals were said to have shown symptoms The state laboratory confirmed the suspicion hence the entire farm population will have to be culled Find the latest information on the African Swine Fever virus here The 1st outbreak in Hesse happened on 8 July the number of infected wild boar has grown to 38 In total 192 wild boar carcasses have been tested All infected carcasses were found in the Groß-Gerau district The outbreaks in the state Hesse and in the neighbouring state Rhineland-Palatinate form a new chapter in the outbreaks of ASF in Germany The country has had infections in its wild boar population along the eastern border with Poland since 2020 Apart from 2 incidental occurrences of infections on farms near the French and Dutch borders the virus never made it to the western part of the country now 11 farms with domestic pigs have got infected in the whole of Germany Two more outbreaks of African swine fever (ASF) have been confirmed in domestic pigs in Hesse The virus was initially detected in June in wild boar in this brand new area of Germany near Frankfurt and not far from the country’s borders with France and Belgium The virus was detected on a smallholding in early July and then on a pig farm with 1,100 animals in the Groß-Gerau district of the region The Hessian Ministry of Agriculture announced on Tuesday (July 23) that two further outbreaks have now occurred in farms located in the southern district of Groß-Gerau and thus in Hesse’s existing restriction zone in Hesse ISN reports that the Hessian Ministry of Agriculture had asked all pig farms in the region to examine their herds daily for signs of disease and to report them immediately to the district veterinary office and that this process resulted in the discovery of the latest two outbreaks “One dead animal was reported in the smaller herd the owner noticed several conspicuous animals The district veterinary office immediately took samples which were confirmed as positive by the state laboratory that evening Both pig herds must be killed for reasons of disease control,” ISN said The repeated outbreaks in domestic pig populations are highly concentrated in the southern district of Groß-Gerau illustrating the extremely high viral load in the area around the Knoblochsaue and the Kühkopf according to the Hessian Ministry of Agriculture The high viral load had already been predicted by the EU veterinary mission which had taken a look at the crisis work in Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate around two weeks ago “In order to limit the spread of the epidemic it is very important that the population and agriculture adhere to the current restrictions All pig farms are still required to comply with the strictest biosecurity measures and to continuously monitor their stocks,” it said Since the disease first hit Germany in September 2020 it has been largely contained to the north-east of the country which is why the Hesse outbreaks represent a concerning development and have raised questions about how the virus got there The domestic outbreaks come as a further blow to Germany’s efforts to regain lost export markets group editor Agronomist and Arable Farmer and Farm Contractor Former political editor at Farmers Guardian Works from a shed in his Oxfordshire garden Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content German prosecutors announced they detained two men this month who allegedly tried blackmailing the family of former Formula One (F1) auto racing champion Michael Schumacher The suspects told employees of the family that they possessed files the family would not want published The two men demanded a payment of several million euros and threatened to publish the files on the darknet The suspects sent some files to the family as proof Schumacher retired from F1 in 2012 after a distinguished career The German driver suffered a near-fatal brain injury while skiing in the French Alps in December 2013 and has been cared for at a family home in Switzerland since September 2014 Investigators tracked down the suspects—a father 30—from the western German city of Wuppertal and detained them in a supermarket parking lot in the central town of Gross-Gerau on June 19 they face a fine or prison sentence of up to five years," chief public prosecutor Wolf-Tilman Baumert said The Schumacher family has faced other threats of blackmail sent a blackmail email to Michael Schumacher's wife who was quickly captured by police after including his own account number in the email was sentenced to one year and nine months in prison He holds seven World Drivers' Championship titles and he held the record for most wins when he left the sport in 2012 Schumacher has not engaged in any public appearances He was initially put into a medically induced coma after hitting is head on a rock In 2021, Corinna Schumacher revealed that her husband was "different" after the accident, in an interview featured in the Netflix documentary Schumacher a fake AI interview with Schumacher by German magazine Die Aktuelle prompted outrage It used an AI program called character.ai to generate "quotes" about Schumacher's health and family Schumacher's family won legal action against the publisher of the magazine Newsweek is committed to challenging conventional wisdom and finding connections in the search for common ground Newsweek is 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Newsletters in your inbox See all Shown at left is P&G's Gross Gerau tube filler during a break A robot inserts tubes 20 at a time into pockets in the portion ofIf throughput on your toothpaste packaging lines is constrained and flexibility lacking If you’re Procter & Gamble and you’re analyzing tube-filling capabilities at your plant in Gross Gerau “It’s like opening a door to a new era of production efficiency by adding flexibility and higher speeds,” says process engineer Bjorn Kinze Emerging from Project Front Door was a new tube-filling line that is powered largely by servo technology and case packing on the new line are done by four machines whose motors It has 29 servo motors and as many complementary drives and discharging that is executed by these motors are two Elau PacDrive controllers Connecting each controller to its assigned servo drives is a SERCOS fiber optic network a single PacDrive controller on the TFS-80-4 would actually suffice IWKA engineers decided to use two controllers to ensure maximum performance Each controller is in charge of half the machine’s axes of motion A key objective of Project Front Door was high-speed filling “We run almost twice as many tubes per minute on this system compared to the older lines here in this plant,” says P&G maintenance supervisor Thorsten May The older fillers are all controlled by a conventional PLC and rely on a mechanical drive/clutch/ brake approach; the only servo motors involved are the two that are used to orient the tube Benefits gained from the new filler go far beyond increased speed which built the TFS-80 tube filling series in direct response to customer demand is just as pleased as P&G with its latest foray into servo-drive technology “The flexibility gained is tremendous,” says Axel Augenstein “In older tube fillers that were fundamentally mechanical in nature you had to change mechanical cams when changing to a new tube size or product formula you store product formats in the controller and select them from a menu displayed on the HMI screen The filler then automatically adjusts to the new cam profile.” “A changeover may or may not include change parts,” says Kinze It permits us to change when the market tells us not when our equipment will allow us to.” Changeovers typically are either from one flavor to another or from a 50-mL (1.7-oz) to a 125-mL (4.23-oz) tube One boost to changeover is the use of a second set of product-contact parts with quick-disconnect features The parts that are removed all fit on a rack that is wheeled into a washing machine “It’s faster than clean-in-place,” says Augenstein IWKA engineers had a number of key requirements as they evaluated available controls packages for this new breed of filler One requirement was that the controls system be capable of changing cam profiles quickly and automatically not only when changing from one standard product format to another if humidity or temperature or product viscosity or any number of other variables should somehow cause product to flow differently than it’s supposed to in one of the standard configurations P&G operators/technicians can take corrective action by tweaking electronic cam profiles at the HMI screen even as tubes are being filled Elau’s servo drive and controls package meets this change-on-the-fly requirement explains how a combination of centralized control and distributed intelligence is what makes changing on the fly possible the cam profiles are stored in the central controller as mathematical functions Each time new position setpoints are required the system calculates these online and transfers them to the drives So positioning is generated centrally while calculation of speed and current loops is done by the intelligent drives no download or other manipulation on the drives is required The SERCOS connection between controller and drive is a real-time bus and if you try to send too much information over that bus This combination of centralized control and distributed intelligence is what keeps the SERCOS bus open enough to permit changing cam profiles on the fly that it only works if the drive is sufficiently smart because it has no software in it or parameters to set up All of its intelligence is in its firmware.” Just ahead of the tube filler and connected with it via the same Profibus network that permits information exchange up and down the entire line is an ABB robot equipped with six servo motor/drive combinations Responsible for picking tubes from corrugated shippers and placing them into the tube transport system on the IWKA machine the ABB robot receives digital signals from one of the PacDrive controllers in the IWKA filler Watching the tubes make their way into and out of the TFS-80 is a powerful illustration of the speed and overall synchronicity that servo technology can bring to a packaging machine open bottoms facing up—in corrugated boxes Picking is done 20 at a time for the 50-mL toothpaste tube that was being filled on the day of PW’s visit The servo motor that feeds the box of tubes into the pick station moves the box forward precisely two tube rows at a time so that the end effector on the ABB robot can pick precisely 20 tubes swing over to the pocketed tube transport system in the filler insert the tubes into the pockets of the transport system and swing back to the box of empty tubes for another two rows of tubes Positioning accuracy is critical at both ends of the robot’s picking cycle More servo-driven actuation unfolds once tubes are in the filling system: tubes are pressed firmly into their individual pockets; tubes are oriented so that sidewall graphics are properly aligned when crimping occurs; four tubes are pushed up to meet the four fill nozzles; nozzles dispense product; tubes are crimped closed; tube bottoms are trimmed; and finished tubes are released two at a time through a twin-discharge station into a flighted conveyor that leads to the cartoner The positioning accuracy inherent in servo-driven technology is uniquely suited to a product like toothpaste which has a viscosity that makes it difficult to handle because it tends to “string out” when the nozzle tooling closes The sequence of actions on the dosing valves in the IWKA filler is designed for a clean seal in spite of the product’s hard-to-handle characteristics Sensors ahead of the tube-filling station detect if a tube is damaged or out of round That data travels to the PacDrive controller which tells the appropriate filling nozzle not to dispense product The information is also sent to a Festo pneumatic device downstream that kicks the empty tube off the line just ahead of the cartoner Another all-servo-driven machine from IWKA the Model SC3HS cartoner sits just downstream from the filler only 6 servo motor/drive combinations are required Like the PacDrive controller that controls them which makes the machine capable of speeds to 600/min Following a Garvens checkweigher and a pair of Sick sensors that flag poorly closed cartons for rejection A PacDrive controller and 13 Elau servos are used for axes of motion that include pushing the Profibus network that ties individual pieces of equipment together plays an important role in keeping the bundler synchronized with the upstream equipment on the line you need to change the roll of film quite frequently on the bundler,” says Augenstein you still have to reject the film where the spliced area is you don’t want a backup of cartons on the infeed belt So the Pester machine sends a signal upstream that says ‘I will have a splice in x number of cycles so do not feed fresh tubes into the filler for y number of cycles.’” Case packing is done on a Pester system with eight axes of Elau-supplied servo-driven motion and control Following a Markem 5000 Series ink-jet coder a Pester PAC six-axis robotic palletizer with a Kuka robot brings the impressive line to a close increased productivity,” says P&G’s May “Those were the goals of Project Front Door.” With a boost from the latest in servo technology See sidebar to this article: Data acquisition Lydia Mee is a contributing sports writer located in the West Midlands, England. Her focus is on F1 and NASCAR. She has in-depth knowledge of Motorsport as a whole. Lydia joined Newsweek in March 2024, having previously written Motorsport content for Sports Illustrated. You can get in touch with Lydia by emailing, l.mee@newsweek.com. You can find her at X @LMeeMotorsport Two individuals have been arrested after attempting to blackmail the family of Formula 1 icon Michael Schumacher demanded millions of euros in exchange for withholding sensitive files that they threatened to release on the darknet if their demands were not met This reprehensible incident unfolded with the suspects presenting what they claimed was proof of them possessing a file that would coerce payment of several millions of Euros from the Schumacher family though prosecutors have not divulged the specifics of these files which took place on June 19 in a supermarket parking lot in Gross-Gerau occurred with both suspects already on probation for another undisclosed matter Wolf-Tilman Baumert, the chief public prosecutor handling the case, has stated, as reported by The Independent: they face a fine or prison sentence of up to five years." A spokesperson for the public prosecutor's office also confirmed that the arrests had been made. They commented, as quoted by Mirror: "We are investigating a case of blackmail to the detriment of a celebrity and have executed arrest warrants in this case We cannot provide any further information at this time." still bound by the trauma of Michael's near-fatal skiing accident in December 2013 has had to navigate not only his health challenges but also violations of their privacy Since his tragic accident at Meribel in the French Alps Schumacher has been under the private care of medical professionals and his wife Despite retiring in 2012 after a stellar career that included 91 race wins and seven F1 championship titles Michael Schumacher remains a beloved figure in the world of motorsport German law enforcement utilized "technical measures" to track and apprehend the blackmail suspects both of whom remain nameless in public reports due to privacy protections under German legislation This incident comes after the family won another privacy-related legal battle against a German magazine that falsely circulated an AI-generated "interview" with Schumacher flaunting it as his first since the skiing accident Speaking during the 2021 Netflix documentary, 'Schumacher', Corinna gave fans a brief update, stating: We do everything we can to make Michael better and to make sure he's comfortable It's very important to me that he can continue to enjoy his private life as much as possible Michael always protected us and now we are protecting Michael." the number of wild boar infected with ASF in west Germany keeps on growing – at least 2 cases have been confirmed in wild boar in neighbouring state Rhineland-Palatinate The outbreaks in the state Hesse are noteworthy as these constitute the first outbreaks of the virus in wild boar in western Germany after having been present in wild boar populations near the Polish border for about 4 years The infected pig farm is located near the town Biebesheim am Rhein The animals were culled under veterinary supervision With regard to wild boar, the most recent count (July 12) is at 20 confirmed infections in the state Hesse, according to the authorities – out of 140 tested carcasses. The last 2 cases that were confirmed with the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) were found on July 2 The distance between the latest discovered carcasses and the original one on June 14 is about 15 km as the crow flies Following European Union contingency rules both an inner restricted (core) zone has been established with a 3km radius as well an outer infected zone with a 10km radius The latter already got expanded as a consequence of the most recent findings It now includes parts of the neighbouring state Rhineland-Palatinate as well In the infected zone are 3,500 pigs in Hesse alone is procuring ten Urbino 12 hydrogen buses from Solaris These Solaris fuel cell buses will be delivered by May 2025 The first three of these emission-free Solaris buses will be delivered to the city of Krefeld in western Germany (25 km north-west of Dusseldorf) by the end of 2024 with the remaining seven scheduled for delivery by May 2025 In Germany, the Krefeld’s public transport operator, SWK Mobil Krefeld, is procuring ten Urbino 12 hydrogen buses from Solaris. These Solaris fuel cell buses will be delivered by May 2025 The Urbino 12 hydrogen vehicles ordered by Krefeld will be equipped with a central electric motor with a power output of 160 kW. These buses will be powered by energy from a hydrogen fuel cell and will also feature Solaris High Power batteries, serving as an additional electric energy storage. Thermal comfort will be ensured by a CO2 heat pump. SWK Mobil Krefeld has opted for fleet management support through eSConnect, Solaris’ proprietary tool that provides complete access to the data necessary for assessing bus performance and planning their continued operation. “The development of hydrogen-powered buses is gaining momentum, and Solaris proudly stands as a leader in driving this change. I congratulate SWK Mobil Krefeld on their strategic decision to invest in a cleaner and better future for the region’s residents,” stated Olivier Michard, Member of the Solaris Board responsible for Sales and Marketing. © Copyright 2012 - 2025 | Vado e Torno Edizioni | All rights reserved | P.I. : 08514160152 The retail company TB International sells 15 fashion brands. Own stores are not part of the business concept. The fashion brands are sold online. The focus of the processes therefore lies on logistics operations. TB International uses wireless technology to increase the efficiency of all logistics processes by 40 percent. Incoming goods alone are 23 percent more efficient thanks to the use of RFID- and UWB technology. Johannes Rudenko is a business economist at TB International with expertise in logistics and e-commerce. He explains how the company has completely digitized logistics processes in the warehouse and supply chain. The idea: to map the distribution warehouse as a digital twin. TB International operates four warehouse locations in Germany. At the logistics center in Darmstadt/Arheilgen, orders for individual items of clothing are processed automatically with the help of picking robots. In the other warehouses, only individual process steps were digitized via a warehouse management software from SAP by 2020. The forklifts ran suboptimal routes in the warehouse, were unevenly utilized, and frequently interfered with one another. Inventory discrepancies resulted from human error. Overall process efficiency was low, yet difficult to improve if conditions remained the same. In addition, personnel costs in the warehouses were high. The first goal was to make goods digitally traceable from the manufacturer, eliminating the step of manual scanning. Scanning took a lot of time, both at the manufacturer and upon arrival at the warehouse. Without this step alone, goods receiving would become more efficient. Warehousing of goods should also be streamlined. Optimized routes and storage according to expected demand should be considered. The best way to achieve this is via a digital goods management system that includes the forklift fleet. Until now, it was not subject to any rules and should now also be managed in real time. UHF RFID tags from Cisper Electronics were used for the traceability of the cartons. At the goods receiving area, they are transferred to conveyor belts that pass through a UHF RFID gate. The gate automatically reads the tags of the cartons. At the end of the receiving area, employees assemble single-sort carton packages for pallets, which are picked up by forklifts. The forklifts are equipped with two RFID readers from Deister Electronic to capture the cartons and with the UWB-VehicleTag from Inpixon to transmit position data. The aisles of the warehouses are also equipped with UWB sensors. The position of the forklifts and individual cartons, accurate down to 10 cm, are thus captured in real time. The installed UWB tag on the forklift serves as a sensor for real-time location. Ultra-Wideband (UWB) is a short-range RF technology for wireless communications that can be used to pinpoint the location of people, equipment and assets with unmatched precision. Like other communication protocols, for example Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, UWB can be used to transmit data between devices via radio waves. This is done with short pulses in the nanosecond range over an "ultra-wide" range of frequencies. Alternatively, LiDAR can be installed in other types of storage, for example in mixed storage or block storage. The big advantage of this multi-RTLS technology stack is that the existing infrastructure is upgraded or retrofitted instead of purchasing an entire forklift system with the digitization equipment from scratch. During goods receiving, digital twins are created for parcel shipments and transferred into the SAP ERP system. This step is handled by the Intranav.IO platform. This is a digital IIoT platform for the generation of position data and the management and visualization of RTLS sensors of various technologies. In the warehouse in Groß Gerau, UWB and UHF RFID come together in one solution; Bluetooth, NFC and other transmission technologies would also be possible. The digitalization of the supply chain provides the impetus for further changes, according to Johannes Rudenko, Managing Director Logistics & IT at TB International in an interview with RFID & Wireless IoT Global. 1. Mr. Rudenko, TB International is a wholesaler. What does the company's distribution network look like? 2. Has the pandemic had an impact on operations? 4. Is that why TB International has launched its own e-commerce platform? 6. Where do you see greater growth potential for TB International: In wholesale or retail? 7. You mentioned the RTLS provider Inpixon; together with them, you also implemented the RTLS solution, which is now about to be rolled out across the company. How new is RTLS for you? 8. How did you prepare the implementation? 9. The conversion to UHF RFID in the Groß Gerau warehouse is a classic use case for this technology. Does this mean that the project is complete? 11. Do they see the changes brought about by digitization as fundamental or as a useful addition? 12. Is TB International currently well positioned for these changes? stopping the epidemic has become a giant task Photo:The number of wild boar infected with African Swine Fever (ASF) virus in western Germany keeps increasing the total tally in Hesse state was 48 – just this Tuesday the number had risen to 70 the number of infected pig farms has risen again as a 7th location was identified as being infected in Hesse state The speed of the infections on-farm is unlike the developments in eastern Germany When ASF was found in wild boar over there in total only 6 farms were found infected – and 2 more one-off infections on farm sites elsewhere in the country According to data from the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), the first 5 infected farms had a size of 9 pigs, 1,129 pigs, 16 pigs, 168 pigs and 27 pigs, respectively. According to a newsflash of the Groß-Gerau district the other 2 farms must have had a size of roughly 9 and 158 pigs One of them would also have 50 wild boar on-site A coherent overview by the WOAH is yet to follow And the outbreaks now are not only restricted to the district Groß-Gerau A 1st infected carcass was found in the Bergstraße district which means that part of the state Baden-Württemberg will also be included In the neighbouring state of Rhineland-Palatinate so far 15 outbreaks in wild boar have been reported That brings the total of outbreaks at 85 in western Germany ALSO READ: For more news and updates on African Swine Fever, click here at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in Berlin the decision was made to form a ‘central crisis staff animal disease’ As Germany is largely decentrally organised the main responsibility to coordinate the fight fell with the individual states As ASF can no longer be considered a regional affair it appears to have become clear that a certain degree of central coordination may help Top Agrar quoted agricultural state secretary Silvia Bender explained that stopping the epidemic has become a giant task Poland heading for more infected farms than in 2023 it looks like ASF is going to be affecting the herd more severely than it did in 2023 the total number of infected farms is 30 – the same amount that was reported in the whole of 2023 The majority of infected farms this year was in the country’s major pig production province Greater Poland (18) 2 farms had more than 1,000 pigs on-site – one of 2,766 pigs and the other 1,784 pigs was in 2021 when a whopping 124 farms reported an ASFv infection The majority of reports in 2021 was done in August and September The German operator Rheinbahn Düsseldorf has ordered 10 Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen buses The manufacturer will deliver the vehicles to Düsseldorf in 2025 The city has set itself the goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2035 Solaris has landed new orders from Hamburg The total number of Solaris hydrogen-powered buses Over the past few months alone, Solaris has landed new orders from Hamburg, Frankfurt, Cologne These are currently being delivered after Rheinbahn immediately reordered them The 12-metre hydrogen buses will feature a 70 kW Ballard hydrogen fuel cell, which will be supported by Solaris High Power batteries. The bus will also be equipped with a wide range of systems compliant with GSR2 requirements, which will provide passengers and drivers with the highest levels of safety. “Solaris has been continuously promoting sustainable transport by offering the widest range of zero-emission vehicles. Our partnership with Düsseldorf dates back to 2005, and it has included, among other things, purchases of electric buses. I am very pleased that our hydrogen buses will also serve the residents of Düsseldorf as part of its municipal public transport as soon as next year”, said Olivier Michard, Member of the Solaris Management Board for Sales and Marketing. Fake accounts have been setup claiming to be affected hospitals I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy notice Tech companies and the NHS have launched a major project to stop lies and hoaxes about coronavirus spreading across the internet. 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Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies Twitter and Instagram join with NHS to launch major crackdown on lies hoaxes and rumours","description":"Fake accounts have been setup claiming to be affected hospitals A team of archaeologists has unearthed the remains of a Roman settlement at the site of a 1,900-year-old fort in Gernsheim Aerial image of the foundation of a Roman stone building in Gernsheim a Roman cohort of around 500 soldiers was stationed at the fort between 70 and 120 CE A brick fragment found at the site identifies the soldiers as members of Legio XXII Primigenia (22nd Legion) a legion of the Imperial Roman army founded by the emperor Caligula in 39 CE for his campaigns in Germania along with its twin Legio XV Primigenia The newly-discovered settlement was occupied from about 120 to 260 CE “We now know that from the 1st to the 3rd century CE an important village-like settlement or ‘vicus’ must have existed here comparable to similar villages already proven to have existed in Gross-Gerau Dieburg or Ladenburg,” said team leader Dr Thomas Maurer of Goethe University “The people who settled in the village around the fort were primarily family members of the soldiers and tradespeople who benefited from the purchasing power of the military.” He added: “a temporary downturn probably resulted when the troops left – this is something we know from sites which have been studied more thoroughly.” The population probably had mainly Gallic-Germanic origins Upper image: gaming piece and dice made out of bone; the principle of the dice corresponds exactly to that one of modern dice Lower image: a fragment of pottery dating to around 100 CE most notably pieces of traditional dress but also coins,” the archaeologists said They unearthed the well-preserved foundation of a stone building “We’ve also found real treasures such as rare garment clasps playing pieces) and a hairpin made from bone and crowned with a female bust,” Dr Maurer said “One of the historic finds from Gernsheim is a coin from Bithynia which was certainly not among the coins in circulation in Germania Superior but would instead have been a form of souvenir.” Four areas were selected for competition: recitation of the Holy Quran, Hifz-e-Quran (memorisation of the Quran) nazm and quiz programme out of 250 questions taken from the Promised Messiah’sas book Haqeeqatul Mahdi Friday Sermons and speeches of Hazrat Amirul Momineen Specific portions of the Holy Quran and poems were earmarked for recitation Naib Amir and missionary Haider Ali Zafar Sahib and Qaid Tarbiyat Ansarullah Tahir Hussain Bukhari Sahib were honoured to conduct the recitation memorisation of the Quran and poem competitions Missionaries Abdul Basit Tariq Sahib,  Fateh Ahmad Sahib, Shams-ul-Haq Sahib, Bilal Chatta Sahib and Dr Wasim Sahib performed as Judges for various competitions national sadr Majlis Ansarullah thanked all members for their active and enthusiastic participation in the competition and website in this browser for the next time I comment Al Hakam is a weekly English newspaper for members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat around the world Its aim is to provide Ahmadis with content regarding the beliefs of the true Islam reintroduced to the world by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian Contact us: info@alhakam.org A COVID-19 patient and a nurse in the intensive care unit at a hospital in Gross-Gerau, Germany: In many cases, a full-time nurse is needed for each patient. The article you are reading originally appeared in German in issue 46/2020 (November 07, 2020) of DER SPIEGEL. In the rural district of Gross-Gerau, located just southwest of the coronavirus hotspots Frankfurt and Offenbach, the incidence rate is more than 200 coronavirus cases per 100,000 inhabitants a week. Studies, and past experience, show that around 10 percent of those cases require hospitalization. And of those patients, anywhere between one in five and one in 12 will end up in an intensive care unit at some point. "For us that means it's going to get really bad really soon,” says Raab. The hospital has cancelled outpatient operations, and surgeons have been requested to focus on emergencies and otherwise help out as back-up staff for the internists. The internists, in turn, are increasingly needed to provide care in the coronavirus wards. Pregnancy classes that prepare women and their partners for birth have been cancelled, and midwives have been asked to assist the nurses in the wards. But Raab doesn’t think that will be enough. The hospital head sits in her office and leafs through official notifications of excess work that have been filed by her overworked staff. There are complaints about too much overtime, about being required to work through breaks and about paperwork that takes deep into the night to complete. And about the increasingly time-consuming cleansing and disinfection of isolation rooms. In Ward 2, a doctor reports how a 92-year-old coronavirus patient suffering from dementia tore off his ventilator mask several times during the night and tried to get out of his bed. Fortunately, the nurses were able to calm him down. For Raab, this has been a crisis that had been foreseeable for months. She thinks Germany grew too complacent after the first wave of the coronavirus. Plus, there were no pictures of dying COVID-19 patients in crowded hospital corridors in the spring the way there were in northern Italy, she says, and people assumed that would also be the case in the fall. Politicians also kept insisting that the German health-care system is one of the best in the world and that it had stood up to the test. Meanwhile, many additional ventilators, they noted, had been purchased and the capacity of intensive care units was greatly expanded. What could go wrong? Frei says there are already well over 200 COVID-19 patients in intensive care units in Berlin – more than at the peak of the first wave in April. He says the city still has reserve capacity, including a temporary container hospital with 73 beds that can be used as intensive care units. Almost 20 of those beds, though, are already occupied. And with the large number of new patients, it is only a matter of days before contingency emergency wards like that are full. No one knows yet how big the second wave will be. Much hinges on how well the new partial lockdown and contact restrictions in place since the beginning of November work. But given the fluctuation of new daily infection figures of between 10,000 and 20,000 people, the second wave will result in "more than double as many patients” in the intensive care units in November than during the first wave in the spring, predicts Gerald Gass, the president of the German Hospital Federation (DKG). Managing Director Raab (second from left) and hospital staff: "It's going to get really bad soon." Lamberts, too, had to move patients to other hospitals when their condition worsened. The Gross-Gerau hospital doesn’t have an ECMO, a state-of-the-art machine that can take over the complete function of the lung if necessary. Lamberts managed to find a free ECMO slot for his patient not too far away in Wiesbaden. In return, the Gross-Gerau clinic took in a malaria patient from the Wiesbaden hospital. Ten minutes after the call from Frankfurt, Lambert’s smartphone rang again. This time, it was a small clinic in the southern part of the state calling not about a corona case but an acute poisoning. "I’m sorry,” Lambert said, "but I just gave away my last bed.” His colleague Zeynep Babacan, head of the COVID unit, immediately called the gate of the district hospital. "No new admissions to the ICU - at least until 9 a.m. tomorrow.” A few days prior, the hospital had been forced to close its emergency room once before due to overcrowding, a function of the many COVID-19 cases. During that time, ambulances were asked to deliver patients to other hospitals, an unpleasant situation for the medical staff. "I actually became a doctor to help people in need,” says Babacan. If it were just a matter of technical equipment, the district hospital would still have reserves. Lamberts says he has two additional intensive care beds that he could put to use immediately, and there are at least two more that could be made available later. The rooms and the necessary equipment are there, he says. In the summer, the hospital spent 400,000 euros to acquire new ventilators. The problem is that you need people who can operate the devices, says Managing Director Raab. The hospital, which is owned by the local government, recently went through bankruptcy proceedings and had to reduce its staff size as a result. Since then, the hospital has been forced to cut corners everywhere, even under normal operating conditions. Raab says that the additional burdens created by COVID-19 can only be overcome if other services at the hospital are significantly reduced. Or suspended entirely if things get really bad. The situation is similar in small and large hospitals all across Germany: It’s not the equipment that is creating the decisive bottleneck in corona patient care - it’s the lack of qualified staff. Two years ago, the services union Ver.di criticized the shortage of up to 80,000 nurses in Germany’s hospitals. That shortage is now making itself painfully apparent right where they are most needed in the pandemic: in the intensive care units. The consequences of the shortfall were recognized earlier this month by the very experts in Germany who are tasked with providing the overview of the number of intensive care beds that are available in the country. "We have been receiving a lot of feedback that the beds we had reported as being free in fact weren’t available at all,” says Christian Karagiannidis of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (DIVI). Indeed, it turns out that the German health care system has slid into the second wave less well prepared than it looks on paper. That view is shared by the German Hospital Association, the body representing many operators and owners of hospitals. At times, association President Gass says, DIVI has reported there were 32,000 intensive care spots in Germany. That would be about 10,000 more intensive care beds than in April. But even before the pandemic, the hospitals had several thousand vacancies for nurses and doctors, says Gass. In the intensive care sector alone, around 4,700 jobs for nurses remain unfilled. And they are unlikely to be filled in the foreseeable future because the pool of possible hires is "practically empty.” It usually takes five years to train highly specialized intensive care nurses. Back in the summer, Heyo Kroemer, the chairman of the board at Charité University Hospital, reported that many hospitals had increased their intensive care capacities considerably after the first wave of the coronavirus. "But I doubt there's enough nursing staff to handle those capacities if we have to use them," he says. The hospitals are trying to compensate. "We have reduced the number of surgical interventions by 20 percent and will reduce them even further,” says Charité board member Frei. He says that if operating theaters were closed, it would be possible to deploy freed-up surgical and anesthesia nurses in intensive care units, at least to a limited extent. However, fewer routine operations also means lower revenues for the hospitals. This has prompted many to appeal to German Health Minister Jens Spahn to restart a program from last spring - which expired on Oct. 1 - that saw the federal government paying subsidies to hospitals to keep beds free for coronavirus patients. Medical experts, though, warn that there are too many operations and treatments that really can’t be postponed. It might be possible to delay a hip replacement for a few weeks or months, but heart attacks, strokes and severe forms of cancer usually have to be treated immediately. Hospitals also often need more staff for corona patients than for routine cases. "With heart attacks, two or three patients can be relatively well cared for by one nurse,” Matthias Kochanek, the head of internal intensive care medicine at the Cologne University Hospital, said recently. But with COVID-19 patients, "you almost need one-to-one care.” Last week, the Agaplesion Clinic in Lower Saxony had to deal with 70 suspected cases of the coronavirus among medical staff, reports Torsten Rathje, a trained intensive care nurse and staff representative at the hospital. He says 30 nurses and doctors had to be sent home into quarantine. The others, those who weren’t showing symptoms, were asked to isolate themselves when at home, but to still come to work to keep the hospital running. The state government in Lower Saxony also moved last week to increase the number of permitted working hours for healthy nursing staff to 60 hours a week. Daily shifts can now be extended to up to 12 hours. Soon, the minimum staffing levels for intensive care units set in agreements with workers in the state are also expected to be lowered. "That’s the way to totally burn people out,” Rathje says, criticizing the move. Her experience is in line with the findings of an online survey conducted by the Marburger Bund medical association taken in March 2019. Of the just under 2,500 intensive care nurses, 37 percent declared they would abandon their profession in the next five years because their working conditions had deteriorated so badly. Some 34 percent said they wanted to reduce their working hours. Erika Raab, the head of the district hospital in Gross-Gerau, says she doesn’t want to even think about what that would mean for the hospitals. At the moment, she has more than enough to do just making sure that her staff who are still healthy can deal with the growing number of coronavirus patients. "The daily mantra is the same as always,” she says at the end of the morning meeting: "Get through it." Is it a remnant of a past mid-engined sports-car project + 9 PhotosNew photos may be another clue to suggest South Korean car giant Hyundai is – or at some point was – planning a return to the sports-car market It is unclear why Hyundai is testing an Alpine A110 – or how long the car has been in the company’s possession It is common for car makers to purchase competitors' vehicles for 'benchmarking' – used either at the start of a new model's development to understand the strengths and weaknesses of rivals or during development to compare a prototype of the company's new car against a competitor on the same roads Specific vehicles for benchmarking are typically purchased and registered for road use when the car company is developing a new car in the same market segment there are believed to be no current plans for a sports car from the Hyundai group – across its Hyundai Kia and Genesis brands – that would be a rival for the Alpine A110 which itself was intended to take on the Porsche 718 Cayman and defunct Alfa Romeo 4C One credible theory is it was purchased to compare against a much-anticipated mid-engined sports car Hyundai was believed to be developing, described as “very crazy” to Drive in 2019 The car would have followed a line of four mid-engined petrol Hyundai 'RM' concept cars based on the Veloster hatchback and would have served as the company’s flagship model this car is believed to have been scrapped Former Hyundai N boss turned company technical advisor Albert Biermann revealed last year the company was planning a flagship mid-engined supercar to launch its N performance division in 2017 But the project – dubbed “The Chairman’s Car” – was scrapped due to its $US150,000 potential price due in part to its exotic carbon-fibre chassis and low-volume nature MORE: Hyundai N was developing a mid-engined supercar but scrapped it It’s not clear if these two mid-engined cars are different references to the same thing however they are likely to have been related in some form The ‘GG HY 9009’ registration of Hyundai’s Alpine A110 has never been seen before on any other prototype from one of the company’s brands ‘GG HY’ licence plates with similar numbers – such as 9008 and 9010 – were first photographed on Hyundai prototypes testing on the Nürburgring in 2018 and 2019 This suggests this Alpine was registered for the road at a similar time – aligning with the timing of the mid-engined car plans Reports have claimed Hyundai’s Genesis luxury division is developing a production version of last year’s X Convertible concept – but this will be a flagship electric convertible expected to weigh more than two tonnes or double the Alpine’s featherweight 1060kg Hyundai executives have expressed interest in putting the N Vision 74 hydrogen-powered supercar concept into production, but this is also a 2.0 to 2.5-tonne exotic car that is also unlikely to be capable of the same agile handling as the light A110. The Alpine A110 pictured appears to be a standard, pre-2022 model, with a 185kW/320Nm 1.8-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine and rear-wheel drive. The Hyundai brand's last sports car to be offered in Australia was the (second-generation) Tiburon coupe, discontinued in the late 2000s – which was known as the Coupe in Australia in its first generation (1996-2002). 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time In this section you will find resources to support your business the latest disease updates from Europe and information about upcoming events and meetings focusing on ASF Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (western region) 250 miles from the nearest infected area in Germany and 310 miles from the nearest infected area in Italy The National Pig Association is the representative trade association for British commercial pig producers and is allied to the NFU and represents the pig interests of NFU members the National Pig Association is active on behalf of members throughout government will reveal a medium-duty concept truck powered by the B6.7H hydrogen internal combustion engine (H2-ICE) at the IAA Transportation exhibition (Sept The H2-ICE conversion highlights the opportunity for truck applications across the 10-to-26 ton gross vehicle weight (GVW) range to operate on zero-carbon hydrogen fuel with a potential operating range of up to 500-kilometres “The H2-ICE concept truck on show at IAA puts Cummins at the forefront of this rapidly emerging internal combustion engine technology using zero-carbon hydrogen fuel,” said Alison Trueblood Cummins Executive Director – On-highway Business Europe “While Cummins hydrogen fuel cells offer a highly effective solution for specific applications within the truck industry our hydrogen engines can also help accelerate fleet decarbonisation by offering a lower cost basis using more familiar engine technology,” Trueblood continued The Cummins H2-ICE project utilised a Mercedes-Benz Atego 4×2 truck representing a versatile and widely used vehicle for multi-drop distribution haulage The hydrogen conversion work does not compromise truck performance The proof-of-concept installation is rated 290 hp (216 kW) and features a 700-bar pressure high-capacity hydrogen storage system.  The seamless substitution of the diesel engine with the 6.7-litre hydrogen engine and integration with the existing driveline highlights the ability of H2-ICE to offer a zero-carbon solution for fleets based on a lower cost and a more easily deployable technology path Technical development work on the H2-ICE concept truck was undertaken by the Cummins team at the Gross-Gerau facility in Germany working in collaboration with vehicle engineering specialists “The introduction of H2-ICE powered trucks over the shorter term can help develop the hydrogen fuel infrastructure to bridge the way forward for the wider adoption of fuel cell electric vehicles hydrogen engines and fuel cells are complementary technologies working together to drive the hydrogen economy forward,” added Trueblood The B6.7H hydrogen engine with up to 290 hp (216 kW) output and 1200 Nm peak torque is an all-new engine platform featuring cutting-edge technology to enhance power density reduce friction losses and improve thermal efficiency performance is equivalent to that of a similar displacement diesel engine and compatible with the same transmissions A further benefit of the B6.7H is significantly quieter running than a diesel Cummins General Manager – Hydrogen Engines “Cummins continues to receive strong global market interest in H2-ICE The excitement is evident in recent intent to order announcements from major U.S on-highway operators Werner Enterprises and Transport Enterprise Leasing (TEL) as well as from agricultural tractor manufacturer Versatile Momentum is growing for this practical decarbonisation technology and I am sure this will be further reinforced at the IAA expo with our H2-ICE truck conversion set to attract major attention.” Cummins partnership with hydrogen storage specialist NPROXX provided an important resource in terms of integrating the hydrogen tanks operating at a higher 700-bar working pressure to increase the fuel storage capacity The chassis accommodates twin fuel tanks with a total capacity of around 40 kg of hydrogen together with an installation space remaining available for an auxiliary tank of around 10 kg The hydrogen tanks are structurally reinforced with carbon fibre to provide a superior strength-to-weight ratio combined with the energy efficiency of direct-injection learn-burn combustion enable the B6.7H powered truck to offer a potential range of up to 500-kilometres sufficient for most medium-duty trucks and significantly more than an electric-battery powered truck of a comparable size A Cummins-designed fuel control module brings together the hydrogen fuel refill point the fuel filtration and fuel distribution system in a single unit with easy access Refilling the truck with hydrogen gas fuel is estimated to take just 10 minutes The development of H2-ICE technology expands Cummins carbon-free technology portfolio adding to the company’s capability in hydrogen fuel cell power e-powertrains and green hydrogen production from PEM electrolysers The B6.7H hydrogen engine will be joined on the Cummins display at IAA by the X15H hydrogen engine offering the potential to bring zero-carbon hydrogen power to long distance trucks of up to 44T GVW with a top rating of 530 hp 395 kW) and an impressive peak torque of 2600 Nm A heavy-duty truck featuring a high-capacity hydrogen fuel storage system and powered by the X15H is estimated to offer a potential operating range of over 1000 kilometres The next generation 15-litre follows the 6.7-litre engine in being derived from Cummins fuel-agnostic platform offering the benefit of a common-base architecture and low-to-zero carbon fuel capability APPOINTMENTS AUTO EXPO 2020 COVID-19 DEALER CORNER DRIVER WELFARE GARAGE EQUIPMENT LUBES & FUELS NEXT-GEN BRIGADE SAFETY FEATURE SMART FLEETZ TYRES WOMEN OF METTLE Privacy Policy German authorities said Monday they had arrested a father and son on suspicion of trying to blackmail the family of the former Formula One driver Michael Schumacher The suspects contacted family representatives claiming to have files the Schumachers "would not want to have published" prosecutors in the western German city of Wuppertal said in a statement the perpetrators demanded a payment in the millions," the prosecutors said The suspects transferred "individual files" to the family to show they had access to sensitive documents The seven-time world champion has not been seen in public since he suffered a serious brain injury in a 2013 skiing accident in the French Alps Investigators in Germany were tipped off about the case by authorities in Switzerland where Schumacher has been cared for at the family home since the accident "Technical measures" made it possible to trace the alleged extortionists to Wuppertal were arrested by police on June 19 in a supermarket parking lot in Gross-Gerau as well as the main residences of the suspects "Extensive investigations" into the case were still ongoing the suspects face a prison sentence of up to five years Schumacher's family last month won a legal action against a German tabloid magazine which printed a fake AI interview with the 55-year-old German former race driver Magazine Die Aktuelle had in April 2023 claimed it had an interview with the motorsport legend but the article in fact contained quotes which had been computer-generated German tabloid Bild reported that Schumacher's family was awarded 200,000 euros ($220,000) in compensation for the claim.                   please register for free or log in to your account 8-year old Labdhi Surana brought laurels to herself Udaipur city and India by winning a gold medal and a bronze medal in 39th International Speed Skating Kriterium in Gross-Gerau Labdhi also came 3rd in the overall ranking in the championship Labdhi participated in the under-8 category and represented India in the 100 mtr Labdhi faced tough times during the competition Labdhi’s coach helped her with her foundation and gave her the roots to grow She also complimented her training coach Rajveer Singh for pulling her up whenever she got demotivated Anjali also thanked CPS school for their unconditional support and providing her with the CPS track which now has become her second home © 2019 ·UdaipurTimes.com (Owned by Unico Management Solutions) the body of water between the German cities of Groß-Gerau and Trebur Its name goes back to Count Georg I (1547-1596) of Hesse-Darmstadt to whom the origin of this artificial watercourse has been attributed until now suspect the waterway had a different genesis A team from the State Service for Heritage Protection and Management Hesse and the universities of Frankfurt Mainz and Kiel can now use the DFG’s funding to research the Roman past Following archaeological investigations in the Hessian Ried initial indications show the canal may have been dug much earlier than previously estimated: It is thought the Roman military created the artificial body of water during the conquest and development of the Ried which merged into today’s Schwarzbach stream near Trebur probably served to supply materials and goods to the Roman fort and its nearby civilian settlement in Groß-Gerau The German Research Foundation has made 370,000 euros available to continue the explorations The money will go towards geophysical investigations drillings and smaller archaeological excavations aimed at finding the canal’s original course and taking a closer look at the Roman settlement sites in Berkach as well as their relationship to the body of water The resulting findings will form the basis for two dissertations in the subjects of archaeology and geography at the universities of Frankfurt and Mainz The search for the course of the Roman land ditch currently is being conducted in the area of Groß-Gerau – Wallerstädten As part of the practical field course at the University of Mainz taking measurements of the electrical resistance in the subsoil and drilling at selected points to clarify the soil structure and obtain dating evidence for the site’s original appearance Kiel University is carrying out large-scale geophysical measurements to clarify the relationship between the Roman settlement site and the artificial watercourse in this area Both written records and corresponding findings such as the so-called canal of Corbulo in the Netherlands constitute proof of the fact that the Romans already had the technical skills to steer and manipulate water bodies or even to create artificial canals If the upcoming investigations confirm the hypothesis of the Landgraben’s Roman origins this would be the first evidence of such a structure from the Roman period in Germany The fact that the artificial watercourse exists as a body of water to this day would illustrate just how massive and lasting an impact the Romans’ intervention in the landscape has had was of decisive importance for the initial dating of the Landgraben The fort bordered directly on the canal or – this is something the current research has set out to verify – was actually intersected by it the canal would be at least as old as the camp would likely have served as a terminus post quem for the canal’s construction „Our Institute held several teaching excavations at fort ‚Biebelslache‘ between 2008 and 2012,“ Scholz explains adding that there now is a new opportunity to evaluate the excavations with the latest hypothesis in mind doctoral student Henrik Leif Schäfer will date and analyze other Roman sites along the trench in his dissertation doctoral student Elena Appel will study the geo-archaeological aspects of the project which also gives students the opportunity to conduct fieldwork How do biology teachers inspire students about their subject The first “Workshop on Biological Sciences” brought together eight students from Wie begeistern Biologielehrer*innen Schüler*innen für ihr Fach Im ersten „Workshop on Biological Sciences“ trafen acht Studierende des Kibbutzim College of Frankfurter Wissenschaftler vertritt deutsche Forschungslandschaft bei UN-Umweltkonferenzen bei denen der Fokus auf internationalem Abfallhandel und Chemikaliensicherheit 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Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience Bei Merck arbeitet eine lebendige Gemeinschaft von Spezialisten dass sich mit Wissenschaft und Technologie das Leben von Menschen auf der ganzen Welt verbessern lässt im Kampf gegen schwere Krankheiten helfen oder in Dingen stecken Contract Manufacturing Brings Us Closer to the Sci-Fi Reality of mRNA Forschung ist das Herzstück unserer Arbeit Aus Wissenschaft und Technologie entstehen bei Merck Innovationen und partnerschaftliche Zusammenarbeit – mit dem klaren Ziel Stärker denn je setzen wir dabei auf Digitalisierung Smart Manufacturing : Transformation der Fabrikhalle Lesen Sie die neuesten Nachrichten und bleiben Sie über unsere bevorstehenden Veranstaltungen auf dem Laufenden wenn Sie in wegweisende Wissenschaft und Technologie investieren möchten Geschäftsjahr 2024: Merck wächst profitabel Installation von Photovoltaik-Dachanlagen am Standort Darmstadt und Errichtung eines Photovoltaik-Parks in Gernsheim Möglicher zusätzlicher Umfang der Kooperation in der Zukunft: Allgemeine Informationen zu den Merck-Standorten Merck und SpringWorks Therapeutics gaben heute den Abschluss einer endgültigen Vereinbarung zur Akquisition von SpringWorks durch Merck bekannt I would like to share with you my recent experience (May 5-10) as a teacher in a small German school The Comenius programme enables teachers from different countries to participate in the educational system of another country De La Salle College (where I am a Year 5 teacher) forms part of this project together with primary schools from Chester (UK) Helsinki (Finland) and this school in Worfelden The theme chosen for this particular week was traditional fairy tales We teachers from the participating countries were welcomed by an assembly prepared especially for us spoke about the characteristics of our countries and the schools we came from From the replies given to the many questions put by the students it became clear that there are great differences in the size of the schools The week was also used to share knowledge and observe different teaching practices such as experiencing teaching in this school at Worfelden and also in another 'special school' for children with learning difficulties and/or behavioural problems - Goetheschule für Lernhilfe - in a town called Gross Gerau Lessons were mostly based on the 'fairy tale' theme Year 5 pupils from De La Salle College prepared summaries of three traditional Maltese legends drew pictures and attached photos (I would like to thank Miss R Azzopardi and Miss Maria Magri for their precious help) This work was exhibited in classes where great interest was shown in the legends Seven-year-olds from Mrs Annemarie's class needed German translations most of the time but ten-year-olds from Mrs A Losch's class could follow most of the classes which I conducted in English and even acted one of the legends - the Hermit of Wied il-Ghasel During the Comenius meeting held during this week we discussed the advantages of such projects and any changes or improvements which can be made will deal with building Websites for each of the schools 13. Februar 2024 | Auf der Webseite Afd Südhessen Doku wurden Adressen Fotos und Hintergründe zu Kadern der AfD veröffentlicht Wir spiegeln die hier gesammelten Informamtionen gerne Weitere Infos nehmen wir oder jede Antifa Dienststelle entgegeben Sie ist der parlamentarische und sich selbst als bürgerlich gebende Arm des Rechtsterrorismus Die AfD ist mittlerweile die wichtigste Sammlungspartei für militante Neonazis Reichsbürger*innen und extrem Rechte aller Couleur Ihre Büros und Geschäftsstellen sind zentrale Orte der Vernetzung in der extremen Rechten Kurz: Die AfD ist das Zentrum extrem rechter Netzwerke All dies ist nicht neu und auch nicht erst seit dem Treffen von Potsdam bekannt Antifaschistische Strukturen warnen seit 10 Jahren vor den Gefahren für die demokratische Gesellschaft Immer wieder waren es investigative Journalist*innen und antifaschistische Recherchegruppen welche die Verbindungen zwischen der AfD und rechtsterroristischen Zellen und militanten Strukturen herausgearbeitet haben Stück für Stück wurde die AfD von der etablierten Politik normalisiert ihre Thesen und Positionen übernommen und der Diskurs immer weiter nach rechts verschoben Erst dadurch konnte der Nährboden entstehen auf dem die AfD in den letzten Jahren gewachsen ist Lichterketten gegen Rechts zu bilden oder seiner Empörung in den sozialen Netzwerken zum Ausdruck zu bringen die Partei und ihre handelnden Individuen entschlossen zu bekämpfen Wir wollen ihnen gemeinsam mit euch die Räume streitig machen in denen sie sich wie selbstverständlich bewegen unbehelligt fühlen und in Sicherheit wähnen Denn die Mitglieder und Sympathisant*innen der AfD sind nicht irgendwer Sie sind unsere Nachbar*innen oder Arbeitskolleg*innen Teilweise ist ihr Engagement bekannt und wird von ihrem Umfeld mit Gleichgültigkeit betrachtet Wer die Floskel „Nie wieder ist jetzt“ ernst meint Auf dieser Webseite haben wir daher versucht alle Funktionär*innen der AfD in Südhessen sichtbar zu machen und sie zu markieren Bei einigen Funktionär*innen fehlen uns jedoch noch Informationen und wir können die Lücken nicht alleine schließen selbst genau hinzusehen und wachsam zu bleiben dann macht diese bekannt oder schreibt uns an die unten verlinkte Mailadresse Jürgen Bertram ist Fraktionsmitglied der AfD im Kreistag In seinen Reden äußert er sich gerne islamophob Bertram betrieb lange einen Computerhandel Adresse:Goethestraße 8,69517 GorxheimertalTel.: 06201 293636 Karsten Bletzer ist Fraktionsvorsitzender der AfD im Kreistag 2023 kandidierte er zur Landtagswahl auf Platz 25 der AfD-Landesliste sowie als Direktkandidat im Wahlkreis Bergstraße I Über die Landesliste zog Bletzer nach der Wahl in den Landtag ein und ist seit Januar 2024 der einzige AfD-Landtagsabgeordnete aus Südhessen Die Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt aktuell gegen Bletzer da dieser 16.000 Euro aus der Parteikasse veruntreut haben soll Seine Ämter in der Partei musste Bletzer aufgeben Die AfD-Landtagsfraktion nahm ihn jedoch trotzdem auf Andre Martin Dressel ist Fraktionsmitglied der AfD im Kreistag Dieter Eck ist Beisitzer im Vorstand des AfD Kreisverbandes Bergstraße Immer wieder taucht er bei rechten Demos und Kundgebungen im Kreis Bergstraße auf und ist dort auch organisatorisch eingebunden So fungierte er bei dem rechten Aufmarsch in Heppenheim am 8 Thomas Fetsch ist Kreissprecher des AfD Verbands Bergstraße sowie stellvertretender Vorsitzender der Kreistagsfraktion Er ist von Beruf Anwalt und lebt in Bürstadt Fetsch betreibt eine Anwaltskanzlei in Mannheim Zur Bundestagswahl 2021 trat er als Direktkandidat im Wahlkreis Bergstraße an Fetsch ist innerhalb der extremen Rechten gut vernetzt und tritt immer wieder auf rechten Demonstrationen und Kundgebungen in Erscheinung Adresse Kanzlei:Thomas Fetsch RechtsanwaltSophienstraße 1768165 Mannheim Michael Hahn kandidierte 2023 im Wahlkreis 54 – Bergstraße I als Ersatzkandidat bei der Landtagswahl Jörg Kessler ist stellvertretender Kreissprecher des AfD Verbands Bergstraße Catherine Schmiedel kandidierte 2023 als Ersatzbewerberin im Wahlkreis 55 – Bergstraße II Außerdem ist sie stellvertretende Vorsitzende des Vereins “Mit Migrationshintergrund für Deutschland” Der Verein ist eine Vernetzungsplattform für AfD-Mitglieder mit Migrationsgeschichte und dient so als “gemäßigtes” Feigenblatt für die völkische Partei dass Schmiedel sich auf öffentlichen Fotos und Post in den sozialen Medien gerne mit Kadern des völkischen Flügels umgibt Sie kommt aus Birkenau und arbeitet als freiberufliche Sprachlehrerin für Englisch Hans Jürgen Schweidler ist ehrenamtlicher Kreisbeigeordneter des Kreises Bergstraße Adresse:Im Brühl 1468623 LampertheimTelefon: 06206 52876 Norbert Taufertshöfer kandidierte 2023 im Wahlkreis 55 für die AfD bei der Landtagswahl Des Weiteren ist er Beisitzer im Vorstand des Kreisverbands Bergstraße Er ist selbstständiger Ingenieur in der Firma “Alpha Engineering” Taufertshöfer ist innerhalb der extremen Rechten in der Bergstraße bestens vernetzt und taucht immer wieder bei rechten Demonstrationen und Kundgebungen auf Adresse: (Firma und Privat)Essighammerweg 2164646 HeppenheimTelefon: 0625268206 (Firma)Mail: n.taufertshoefer@alpha-engineering.de Christian Wrobel ist Schatzmeister des AfD Kreisverbands Bergstraße und Mitglied der Kreistagsfraktion Im November 2019 posierte er öffentlich auf einem Foto in einem Pullover mit Reichsfahne und Eisernem Kreuz welcher durch einen bekannten neonazistischen Online-Shop vertrieben wird Rheinhard Ballhorn sitzt für die Darmstädter AfD in der Stadtverordnetenversammlung Der Renter ist promovierter Geowissenschaftler und bearbeitet im Stadtparlament das Thema Bauen Siegfried Elbert ist der zweite Sprecher der AfD in Darmstadt In der Legislaturperiode 2016-2021 saß er auch in der Darmstädter Stadtverordnetenversammlung Der Maschienenbauingenieur betreibt gemeinsam mit Ralph Schneider die Immobilienkanzlei ConFairImmoteam Adresse ConFairImmoteam:Elisabethenstraße 5264295 DarmstadtMobil: 01632537049selbert@confairimmoteam.de Heiko Klein ist der Schatzmeister der AfD in Darmstadt Adresse:Frankfurter Landstraße 10164291 Darmstadt Matthias Meidinger ist Beisitzer im Kreisvorstand der AfD Darmstadt Bernd Morche ist ebenfalls Beisitzer im Kreisvorstand der AfD Darmstadt Der Rentner hat früher bei Merck und der BASF gearbeitet Adresse:Roßdörfer Straße 9564287 Darmstadt Anja Swars ist erste Sprecherin der AfD in Darmstadt Außerdem ist sie die stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Fraktion in der Stadtverordnetenversammlung Zur Landtagswahl 2023 trat sie als Direktkandidatin im Wahlkreis 49 – Darmstadt I – an Swars arbeitet als Pflegekraft am Klinikum Darmstadt und ist als ehrenamtliche Schöffin am Landgericht Darmstadt aktiv Trotzdem fungiert er als Parteiloser als Fraktionsvorsitzender der AfD in der Stadtverordnetenversammlung Einst gründete er die Grünen in Dieburg mit Zabel arbeitet als Account Manager bei IBM in Frankfurt Richard Danek ist Beisitzer im Kreisvorstand der AfD Darmstadt-Dieburg 2021 kandidierte er erfolglos für den Kreistag Bärbel van Dijk ist Vorsitzende der AfD in Darmstadt-Dieburg sowie Vorsitzende der Kreistagsfraktion In den Jahren 2018/19 wurde van Dijk aufgrund interner Streitigkeiten aus der Kreistagsfraktion ausgeschlossen Mittlerweile sitzt van Dijk wieder fest im Sattel und führt den Kreisverband relativ geräuschlos 2015 gehörte sie zu den Unterzeichner*innen der “Erfurter Resolution” – den Gründungsmanifest des völkischen Flügels Rüdiger Hashagen ist der stellvertretende Vorsitzende des Kreisverbandes Darmstadt-Dieburg Zur Bundestagswahl 2021 trat er als Kandidat im Wahlkreis 187 – Odenwald an Hashagen ist Rentner und selbstständiger Webprogrammierer Robert Nitsch sitzt für die AfD im Kreistag und war lange im AfD-Kreisvorstand aktiv Zuerst in der Funktion als stellvertretender Vorsitzender Nachdem der Neonazi Sascha Loppnow als Vorsitzender zurücktreten musste Neben seinem Amt im Kreistag ist er auch noch gewähltes Mitglied im Landeswohlfahrtsverband Zu Sitzungen taucht Nitsch jedoch nur selten auf Er arbeitet als freiberuflicher Informatiker Jörg Rinne fand seinen Weg zur AfD über das Spektrum der sogenannten Corona-Rechten Er ist Beisitzer im Kreisverband sowie Mitglied in der Kreistagsfraktion Rinne arbeitet als Eso-Heilpraktiker und hat eine eigene Praxis in Riedstadt Er ist Günder und Inhaber der Firma AKMONIX Daneben versucht sich Rinne als Hobby-YouTuber und hält Vorträge zu esoterischen und homöopathischen Themen die im esoterischen Synergia-Verlag aus Roßdorf erschienen sind Adresse Praxis:Weidstraße 10a64560 Riedstadt-GoddelauTelefon: 06158916649E-Mail: heilpraxis-rinne@web.de Privatadresse:Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 2564347 GriesheimHandy: 0179-1109839 Ralf Ritzheim ist Beisitzer im Kreisvorstand und arbeitet im Teiledienst beim Autohaus Brass in Frankfurt-Rödelheim Auf seiner Facebook-Seite teilt Ritzheim regelmäßig rassistische Beiträge Christine Scheinost ist Beisitzerin im AfD-Kreisvorstand und Rentnerin Sie lebt wahrscheinlich in Groß-Umstadt/Semd Sven-Carsten Thurisch ist stellvertretender Vorsitzender der Kreistagsfraktion und arbeitet bei der Lufthansa am Frankfurter Flughafen Thorsten Blümlein ist Beisitzer der AfD Kreis Groß-Gerau Patrick Fischer ist Beisitzer des AfD Kreis Groß-Gerau und sitzt für die AfD im Kreistag Adresse:Am Großen Stück 1A,64560 RiedstadtWebsite: https://patrick-fischer.business.site/Telefon: 0171 5401876 Fabian Flecken ist Kreissprecher im Kreis Groß-Gerau Er ist ehemaliger Vorsitzender der Jungen Alternative (JA) Hessen und Vorstand der “Patriotischen Plattform” Er ist eng vernetzt mit der außerparlamentarischen extremen Rechten In seiner Studienzeit in Marburg knüpfte er Kontake zur extrem rechten Burschenschaft “Germania Marburg” sowie zu Identitären Bewegung Er schrieb in der Vergangenheit für die Zeitschrift Blaue Narzisse Auf Facebook posiert Flecken mit Sturmgewähr und Kampfanzug der Bundeswehr und witzelt mit einem Parteifreund darüber dass er so am faschistischen Kapp-Putsch im Jahr 1920 hätte teilnehmen können Dalida Dittmar-Hensel war Direktkandidatin für die AfD zur Landtagswahl 2018 Sie hat mit ihrem Ehemann Ingo Hensel eine Musikschule in Riedstadt und tritt auch als Musikerin auf Adresse:Am Lachengraben 14,64560 RiedstadtTelefon: 06158 976777Website: musikschule-riedstadt.de/ Ingo Hensel ist Rechnungsprüfer des AfD Kreisverbands Groß-Gerau Er arbeitet als Musiklehrer und hat eine Musikschule gemeinsam mit Dalia Dittmar-Hensel Adresse:Am Lachengraben 1464560 RiedstadtTelefon: 06158 976777Website: musikschule-riedstadt.de/ Irmgard Horesnyi ist Fraktionsvorsitzende der AfD Fraktion im Kreistag Groß-Gerau Sie war bei der Landtagswahl 2023 Direktkandidatin in Darmstadt Adresse:Im Reis 5965428 Rüsselsheim a.M.Telefon: 0163 9252360Email: irmgard.horesnyi@afd-hessen.de Ingeborg Horn-Posymk ist Kreisvorsitzende des AfD Kreisverbands Groß-Gerau Sie ist Mitglied des Tierschutzvereins Gernsheim (Tierheim Gernsheim) Miguel Meyer ist Beisitzer im Vorstand des Kreisverbandes Groß-Gerau und Mitglied der Kreistagsfraktion Peter Rak hat ein Kreistagsmandat im Kreistag Groß-Gerau Adresse:Heinrich-Zille-Straße 2964569 NauheimTelefon: 0152/05348087Email: peter.rak@gmx.de Zakia Rappenberg war Direktkandidatin bei der Landtagswahl 2023 Sie wohnt in Ginsheim-Gustavsburg und arbeitet bei Technogroup IT-Services GmbH Sie ist außerdem Schatzmeisterin des AfD-nahen Vereins “Mit Migrationshintergrund für Deutschland” Hermann Schmelzer wohnt in Rüsselsheim und ist zurzeit Rechnungsprüfer der AfD Groß-Gerau Wolfram Winkler ist Kreisschatzmeister der AfD Groß-Gerau Alexander Wißmann ist Beisitzer der AfD Groß-Gerau und wohnt in Raunheim Vorsitzende des Kreisverbandes Odenwald und das nunmehr einzig verbleibende Mitglied der AfD im Kreistag Zur Landtagswahl 2023 trat er als Direktkandidat im Odenwaldkreis an Sich selbst bezeichnet Engmann gerne als “Putinfreund” Pascal Feigk ist Beisitzer im 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