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34 unusual facts about Hamburg


1868 in Denmark

24 April – A law is adopted providing for the construction of a new port at Esbjerg, until then a tiny community, a replacement for the harbour in Altona, which had previously been Denmark's most important North Sea harbour.

Annkathrin Kammeyer

Born in Horn, Hamburg, she was raised in a political family, Kammeyer had an early interest in politics.

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

His last concert (all Debussy) took place on 7 May 1993 in Hamburg, Germany.

Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse

Weyse was born at Altona, which is now in the German territory of Holstein, but belonged to Denmark at the time the composer was born.

Crime in Germany

Especially in cities such as Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen Middle Eastern clans are highly active in the trafficking of heroin as well as being involved in the bouncer-scene.

Exit Games

Exit Games is a German venture capital financed company, founded in 2003, with offices in Hamburg and Portland offering a multiplayer engine for cross-platform realtime multiplayer games and massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) on various technological platforms, including mobile, PC and consoles.

Guntram and Irene Rinke Foundation

The Guntram and Irene Rinke Foundation is a German nonprofit organization based in Hamburg which awards an annual literary prize for nostalgic literature.

Gustav Bruemmer

In 1940 he started as a teacher in the state sector School of Watchmaking Altona, Hamburg.

Hamburg-Altona station

According to the German newspapers Hamburger Morgenpost and Die Welt in September 2009, the Deutsche Bahn AG plans to close the long distance train station at Altona and to build a new station at the area of Diebsteich station.

Hamburg-class destroyer

Stülcken was rather unexperienced with naval shipbuilding, but got the order, since the shipyards traditionally building warships for the German navies like Blohm + Voss, Howaldtswerke or Lürssen were all occupied constructing commercial vessels (no naval ship had been built in Germany since World War II).

Hamburg-Eppendorf

The swimming baths, Holthusenbad, were designed by Fritz Schumacher and erected between 1912 and 1914.

Hamburg, Arkansas

In 2012, Hamburg High School was nationally recognized as a Silver Medalist and the No. 1737 (national rank) and No. 14 (state rank) in the Best High Schools Report developed by U.S. News & World Report.

Hamburg, Iowa

The city gets considerable publicity during periods of Missouri River flooding, including most recently the 2011 Missouri River Flood.

Harburg-Wilhelmsburg

Harburg-Wilhelmsburg was a city in the Prussian Province of Hanover briefly in existence from 1927 and 1937, resulting from the merger of the cities of Harburg and Wilhelmsburg.

Henry Brose

While visiting relatives in Hamburg in 1914, he was arrested by the German authorities and interned as a civilian prisoner for the duration of the First World War.

Itzstedt

It is situated approximately 32 km northeast of Hamburg, and 17 km southwest of Bad Segeberg.

Jennifer Hymer

In 1996, she co-founded the ensemble WireWorks in the German city of Münster as well, in 2008, the Hymer-Fograscher piano duo, based in Hamburg, Germany.

Jes Bundsen

He attended the Academy of Copenhagen in 1786, and then studied in Dresden, after which he became a teacher of drawing and a painter in Hamburg and Altona.

Johann Christoph Petzold

After a few years he gave up his position as professor and left Copenhagen, settling in Altona.

Karl Yens

Yens was born Karl Julius Heinrich Jens was born in Altona, Hamburg, Germany and trained in art with Max Koch in Berlin and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris.

Media cooperative

In Hamburg, there is also the "media puzzle factory" as an association of providers to the media and cultural industry.

Michael Freytag

Freytag was from 1982 to 1991, a representative of the district assembly in Hamburg-Nord and was here from 1986 to 1991 Chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.

No Te Va Gustar

In 2005 the band also did a European tour, playing dates in more than 40 cities including Munich, Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin, Vienna, Bern, and Madrid.

NS Savannah

During the summer she crossed the Atlantic for the first time, visiting Bremerhaven, Hamburg, Dublin and Southampton.

Osbert Mackie

Before entering Cambridge, Mackie set up a business in Hamburg and in 1891 he had businesses in Hull and Wakefield, relinquishing them in 1895 to become an undergraduate student.

Osdorf

Osdorf, Hamburg, a quarter of the Free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg

Oststeinbek

It is situated approximately 13 kilometres east of the center of Hamburg, directly on the border between Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.

Pakistanis in Germany

There are approximately 1900 Pakistanis living in the northern city-state of Hamburg, about 1500 in Frankfurt am Main and almost 1400 in the federal capital Berlin and its suburbs.

Sir Christopher Lowther, 1st Baronet

Lowther was in Hamburg on a textile venture in 1637, the year that his father died.

Social issues in Germany

Also, families who could afford it started moving into better districts and only those who could not afford to move stayed in districts such as Hamburg-Mümmelmannsberg.

SS Korsun Shevtshenkovsky

Wilhelmshaven was built for Hamburg Amerikanische Packetfahrt AG, Hamburg.

Tyhume River

After the dam, the river flows down south, then east and south-east to later join the Keiskamma River on its way to the Indian Ocean near Hamburg.

Watching the Girls Go By

There's a story behind that photo: it was in 1946, Albert and his fellow shipmates had sailed to Hamburg to pick up some prisoners of war.

Wittmoor bog trackway

II dating to the period of the Roman Empire is on display at the permanent exhibition of the Archaeological Museum Hamburg in Harburg, Hamburg.


A Dog Called Ego

In Summer they recorded their debut album "Living Seriously Damages Health" in their own studio in Hamburg and it was described as the best alternative/Post Rock album of the last years by German Rock Hard Magazine.

A2LL

The software was delivered to large German cities such as Cologne, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Berlin on October 18, 2004.

Adolf III of Holstein

He is particularly remembered for his establishment of a new settlement for traders on the banks of the Alster near the Neue Burg in Hamburg.

Asher Wade

That Sunday morning newspaper included graphic pictures of the destruction of Jewish homes and stores of Hamburg during Kristallnacht, among which was that of the great Born Platz Synagogue of Rabbi Joseph Carlebach.

Barrio 19

Barrio 19 is a television program shown on MTV showcasing a diversity of street talents and urban underground pursuits in cities such as Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London, Osaka, Hamburg, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.

Benny Bendorff

From the 1990s onward, Bendorff has been increasingly involved in country-oriented music, playing in the Hamburg country band Third Coast.

Bernhard Joachim Hagen

Bernhard Joachim Hagen (April 1720 in or near Hamburg (?) – December 9, 1787 in Ansbach) was a German composer, violinist and lutenist.

Bram Tankink

After the Tour he played an important part in the victory of Filippo Pozzato at the HEW Cyclassics 2005 in Hamburg and during the 2005 Deutschland Tour he won the first stage from Attenburg to Plauen.

Breitengüßbach

Breitengüßbach lies on Bundesstraße 4, running from Hamburg to Nuremberg, Bundesstraße 173 (Frankenschnellweg A 73), Staatsstraße 2197 and Bundesstraße 279.

Dorothea Binz

Binz fled Ravensbrück during the death march, was captured on May 3, 1945, by the British in Hamburg and incarcerated in the Recklinghausen camp (formerly a Buchenwald subcamp).

Douglas Lucas

Some major venues performed throughout the years include; The Viper Room in Hollywood, California, Mercury Lounge in New York, New York, The Cavern Club in Liverpool, England (made world famous by The Beatles) and The Indra Club in Hamburg, Germany (where The Beatles played first).

Eduardo Díez de Medina

Over 1,000 blank immigration permits were found for distribution in Warsaw, Hamburg, Genoa and Paris.

Education in Hamburg

The German states are primarily responsible for the educational system in Germany, and therefore the Behörde für Schule und Berufsbildung (State Ministry of Schools and Vocational training) is the administrative agency in Hamburg.

Emund the Old

Adam of Bremen relates in his work Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum (Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church) that his son Anund Emundsson died when leading a Swedish attack against Terra Feminarum and the attack ended in Swedish defeat.

Ernst Teichmann

In 1909–10 he worked at the Institute for Maritime and Tropical Diseases in Hamburg, and from 1911 onward, served as a hydrozoologist and departmental head at the institute for hygiene in Frankfurt.

Frogner Manor

The buyer was the director of the Modums Blaafarveværk, Jacob Benjamin Wegner, who was married to Henriette Seyler of the Hamburg Berenberg-Gossler-Seyler banking dynasty.

Grubby Hands Limited

David Haye’s Knockout was made in association with David Haye, the former heavy weight and undisputed cruiser weight champion of the world, the game was released in conjunction with Haye's heavyweight unification title fight with Wladimir Klitschko in Hamburg.

H.I.G. Capital

The firm was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida with offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and San Francisco in the U.S., as well as affiliate offices in London, Madrid, Paris, and Hamburg in Europe.

Hamburg Airlines

Hamburg Airlines was founded in April 1988 and commenced operations with a Dornier Do 228 with services between its home base of Hamburg and Rotterdam and Westerland.

Hartmut Heinrich

Dr. Heinrich is Head of the Physics Department at the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) in Hamburg.

In Nacht und Eis

The film was produced by Continental Film Studios of Berlin, and while most of its footage was shot in studios and in a lot behind the studio building, some footage was shot in Hamburg and some was possibly done aboard the German ocean liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, then docked at Hamburg.

Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus

Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus (11 November 1729, Hamburg - 6 June 1814, Rantzau, Holstein) was a German physician, natural historian and economist.

Johannes Versmann

Johannes Georg Andreas Versmann (7 January 1820 in Hamburg-Sankt Pauli - 28 July 1899 in Hamburg) was a German lawyer and politician.

Julius Erasmus Hilgard

He assisted in organizing an International Committee on Weights and Measures; made at London a comparison of the Coast Survey standard yard with the British Imperial standard, and also attended the annual session of the International Geodetic Association at Hamburg.

Karl Hermann Martell

Karl Hermann Martell (born November 17, 1906 in Tilsit; died December 28, 1966 in Hamburg) was a German actor.

Mikhail Shultz

M. Shultz was a descendant of the German sculptor, the Danish royal medallist Anton Schultz (Anton Schultz — Schleswig-Holstein, Saxony, Hamburg, Denmark, XVII–XVIII cc.) who carried out orders the Russian Court as early as Copenhagen, and arrived at the service in Russia with Peter the Great.

Mitchell Campbell King

Bismarck's letters to him are preserved in the U.S. Library of Congress, while some of King's letters are kept by the Otto-von-Bismarck-Stiftung in Friedrichsruh near Hamburg (Germany), which is a commemorative German Government Foundation in memory of the Chancellor of the German Empire (similar to the Presidential libraries in the United States).

Mustafa Hajrulahović Talijan

Mustafa Hajrulahović Talijan (22 January 1957, Banja Luka, Bosnia - 8 March 1998, Hamburg, Germany) was a general of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Navarth

We first encounter him on Earth, old and forgotten, living in reduced circumstances on a canal-boat in the ancient (but fictitious) city of Rollingshaven: apparently a Vanceian conflation of Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg.

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Most of the German federal states (Länder) have each their own order of merit as well, with the exception of the Free and Hanseatic Cities of Bremen and Hamburg, which reject any orders (by old tradition their citizens, particularly former or present senators, will refuse any decoration in the form of an order.

Oskar Speck

A Hamburg electrical contractor made unemployed during the Weimar-period Depression, he left Germany to seek work in the Cypriot copper mines, departing from Ulm and travelling south via the Danube.

Peter Konwitschny

After Lohengrin, Konwitschny returned to Hamburg to cooperate with the conductor Ingo Metzmacher on Alban Berg's Lulu, Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron.

Peter Missing

He founded the influential underground industrial band Missing Foundation while living in Hamburg, Germany in 1984 and imported it to the U.S. in 1985 with new members.

Radio Hamburg

It is usually held in the biggest arena in Hamburg, the Volksparkstadion, which is the stadium of the local football team Hamburger SV, but in the last years, it was held on the street next to the station, with a big stage.

Raw Melody Men

The album was recorded during the 1990 Impurity tour at the Brixton Academy, The Town & Country Club in London, the Berlin Eissporthalle and the Hamburg Sportshalle.

Reemtsma

In 1923, production was moved to Altona, now part of the city of Hamburg, and that is where Reemtsma's main headquarters still are today.

Shanghai Foreign Language School

The so-called "going out" means that a number of students are provided with opportunities to study abroad as exchange students at locations like Sukura Nobirin College in Japan, Christina College in Hamburg, Germany, La Salle College, Hong Kong, and The Culver Academies, in Indiana US.

StattAuto

In 2004 StattAuto started offering carsharing services in Berlin, Hamburg, Potsdam and Rostock.

Stephan Bergler

Subsequently, in Hamburg, he assisted the major bibliographer Johann Albert Fabricius in the production of his Bibliotheca Graeca and his edition of Sextus Empiricus.

The Symphonic Ellington

Recorded at Salle Wagram, Paris on January 31, 1963 (tracks 3 & 6), at Solna-Sundbyberg, Sweden on February 8, 1963 (tracks 1 & 2), at Hamburg, Germany on February 14, 1963 (track 4) and at at Studio Zanibelli, Milan, Italy on February 21, 1963 (track 5).

Thomas von Randow

Thomas von Randow (26 December 1921 Breslau, Schlesien – 29 July 2009 Hamburg) was a German mathematician and journalist who published mathematical and logical puzzles under the pseudonym Zweistein in the "Logelei" column in Die Zeit.

UAS7

75,000 students, 2,200 full-time faculty members and several thousand part-time lecturers from industry and business study, teach, and do research in Berlin, Bremen, Cologne, Hamburg, Munich, Münster, and Osnabrück.

Valentin Gregor

His performances included Cirque du Soleil, Deutsche Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, Maxim-Gorki-Theater, Berlin, Deutsche Theater, Berlin, Deutsche Schauspielhaus, Hanover and Hans-Peter Wodarz’s Dinnershow Pomp Duck and Circumstance.

Vittorio Mibelli

In 1888 he gained his habilitation, spending the following year in Hamburg, working with dermatologist Paul Gerson Unna (1850–1929).

Vladimir Makarenko

He participated in many international conferences, among them International Conference on Linguistics in Bucharest (1967), Seminar "National Build-Up and Literary/Cultural Process in SEA" (1996) in Moscow, Russian-French Symposium on SEA in Moscow (1997), EUROSEAS Conference in Hamburg (1998), ECIMS- XI in Moscow (1999) etc.

Wadih el-Hage

Mamoun Darkazanli, Syrian-born businessman living in Hamburg, Germany, who had contacts with Mohamed Atta’s al-Qaeda cell in the same city.

Werner Thissen

He was named Archbishop of Hamburg by Pope John Paul II on November 22, 2002; he was installed as such on January 25, 2003.