Finance Minister Schäfer is dead: ARD reports on farewell letter – connection with corona crisis?

• Of the Hessian Finance Minister Thomas Schäfer (CDU) is dead.
• The doctorate in law became a possible successor to the Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) traded.
• Politicians from all parties were dismayed.

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Update from 8.30 p.m.: The death of Hessen’s finance minister Thomas Schäfer (CDU), where investigators are currently assuming suicide, was also an issue in the daily News (ARD) from 8 p.m. moderator Judith Rakers was connected live Ute Wellstein from the studio in Frankfurt am Main. You explained Volker Bouffiers Assessment of Schäfer’s state of mind lately (see update 12.40 clock) apparently go on one Farewell letter Schäfers back: “In it, he has to worry as one Have given reason for his suicide. “

It was surprising for people who knew him, she continued. In the past week, Schäfer and his colleagues have “literally worked day and night” to unite Hesse’s economy Billion-dollar protection shield due to the corona crisis to forge, and voiced that he was coping with this crisis as one “Task of the century” see.

Bouffier: shepherd “crushed” by concerns about corona consequences

Update from March 29, 2020, 12.40 p.m .:
Hesse’s Prime Minister Volker Bouffier commented in a video switch to Thomas Schäfer dies: “We would have needed him in such a difficult time. The biggest challenge in our country, it requires prudence and energy. Dr. stood for both Thomas Schäfer, ”said Bouffier. Schäfer worked day and night to deal with the crisis triggered by the corona pandemic.

“Today we have to assume that he was very worried, especially worried about whether it could be possible to meet the huge expectations of the population, especially the financial aid. I have to assume that these concerns overwhelmed him. ” shepherd Bouffier apparently found no other way out. “He was desperate and left us. It shakes us, it shakes me. I think especially of his family at this hour. ”

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Hessian finance minister Thomas Schäfer is dead

First report from March 28, 2020:

Wiesbaden – The Hessian Finance Minister Thomas Schäfer (CDU) is dead. They shared that Public prosecutor’s office in Wiesbaden and that Police headquarters in West Hesse on Saturday evening with. According to police, the 54-year-old’s body was found in Hochheim in the Main-Taunus-Kreis at a ICE route discovered. Due to the overall circumstances, the investigators assume suicide. The CDU politician died at the age of 54.

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Wiesbaden: Hessian Finance Minister Thomas Schäfer dead

Bouffier showed himself in the evening in a statement “stunned and shocked” in the face of Schäfer’s death. He expressed his “sincere condolences” to the relatives. shepherd has been Hesse’s finance minister since August 2010. He was a co-founder of the Life with Cancer Foundation.