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German minister commits suicide after 'virus worries', body found on railway tracks

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The governor of Germany’s Hesse region suggested Thomas Schaefer was in despair over the fallout from the coronavirus crisis Berlin: The state finance minister of Germany’s Hesse region, which includes Frankfurt, has been found dead.

Authorities said he appears to have killed himself and the state's governor suggested Sunday that he was in despair over the fallout from the coronavirus crisis.

The body of Thomas Schaefer, a 54-year-old member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, was found Saturday on railway tracks at Hochheim, near Frankfurt.

Police and prosecutors said that factors including questioning of witnesses and their own observations at the scene led them to conclude that Schaefer killed himself.

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