A secretary of state is powerful and powerless at the same time. He depends on his minister. Only with the new one by Robert Habeck is it the other way around, thinks star– Columnist Nico Fried.
With a bit of ill will one can find one of the first best man affairs in German politics in Georg Büchner’s comedy “Leonce and Lena”. Valerio, Prince Leonce’s closest confidante, who accompanies him on the somewhat complicated path to the wedding with Princess Lena, asks shortly before the marriage, with which Leonce is also to take over the throne in the Kingdom of Popo: “Prince, I am a minister if you be forged together with the Unspeakable, Nameless, before your father today by means of the blessing of marriage? Your word?” To which the prince replies, “My word!”