According to its election program, the CDU district association Frankfurt am Main would like to name the largest German airport after the former Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Malicious and ironic reactions were not long in coming.

Renaming airports in honor of deceased politicians is not new. John F. Kennedy and Charles de Gaulle in New York and Paris or Helmut Schmidt and Willy Brandt in Hamburg and Berlin received this award. The suggestion of the Junge Union of the Frankfurt CDU district association to also name an airport after the ex-chancellor Helmut Kohl is at first sight quite legitimate.

On closer inspection, however, the opinions differ here. This proposal is particularly controversial in the social networks. That reports the Star. Not only Kohl's involvement in black money machinations and his subsequent refusal to contribute to the investigation are discussed again. Kohl's lack of reference to Hesse, or Frankfurt am Main, also meets with incomprehension among opponents of the renaming. “What does Helmut have for Frankfurt or for him Airports done? " For example, a user asks himself.

The Junge Union on the other hand - how could it be otherwise - is behind the project and praises the ex-Chancellor as a “friend of Frankfurt”. "Helmut Kohl was a convinced European, he was Chancellor of Unity and also a friend of Frankfurt," said the JU district chairman Martin-Benedikt Schäfer, justifying the proposal. Achieving German unity in peace and freedom is a merit that remains “forever inextricably linked to his name”.