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100 unusual facts about Munich


20th-century art

Another German group was Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider"), led by Kandinsky in Munich, who associated the blue rider image with a spiritual non-figurative mystical art of the future.

562d Flying Training Squadron

The squadron participated in approximately 300 combat missions in the European Theater of Operations from 17 July 1943 until its last World War II mission, flown to the Landsberg Aerodrome near Munich, on 21 April 1945.

Academia pro Interlingua

The Academia was a descendant of the Kadem bevünetik volapüka (International Academy of Volapük) created at a Volapük congress in Munich in August 1887.

Aegyptosaurus

The fossils were stored together in Munich, but were obliterated when an Allied bombing raid destroyed the museum where they were kept in 1944, during World War II.

Air Dolomiti

It started airline operations in January 1991 with a Trieste-Genoa route and in 1992 started international services with flights from Verona to Munich.

Of the 13 routes currently operated 12 are to and from Munich (the other one being Frankfurt-Verona).

Angelo Carletti di Chivasso

The first edition of the "Summa Angelica" appeared in the year 1476, and from that year to the year 1520 it went through 31 editions, 25 of which are preserved in the Royal Library at Munich.

BMW 340

Munich based BMW’s attempts to recover their plant were not sympathetically received by the occupiers, who evidently were mindful of BMW’s wartime role as manufacturers of engines for war planes.

Bruckmann's Illustrated Guides

Bruckmann's Illustrated Guides (1892-1916) were European travel guide books published by A. Bruckmann in Munich and Asher & Co. in London.

Burg Meersburg

Karl Mayer von Mayerfels from Munich bought the castle and established a Medieval Museum in the castle.

Coca Braun

Originally, coca braun appeared as a German record label based in Munich, Bavaria.

coca braun is an international photographic cooperative owned by its photographer-members, with offices located in Amsterdam, Munich and Berlin.

Con Cremin

For the following three years he studied in Athens, Munich and Oxford, having attained a travelling scholarship in Classics.

Cretoxyrhina

One such specimen was discovered in 1891 by George Sternberg, and was stored in a Munich museum.

Donna Kane

She has won acclaim for her performances in the 1995 U.S. tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat  with Donny Osmond, Les Misérables  on Broadway (1993), and as Maria in West Side Story  in Vienna and Munich (1995).

Duško Gojković

In 1968 he settled in Munich and formed his own big band with artists such as Rolf Ericsson that lasted until 1976.

EarthTV

The cameras for live streaming are fully remote-controlled from the broadcast center in Munich.

Eduard Duller

His advanced humanist attitudes made him unsuited to Austrian education under the Metternich System and its Carlsbad Decrees, so in 1830 he left Austria for Munich, where in 1831 he premiered his play Die Wittelsbacher.

EHC München

Eishockeyclub Red Bull München (or EHC Red Bull München; English: Munich Ice Hockey Club) is a professional ice hockey team based in Munich, Germany that currently plays in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.

Ernest Trumpp

He returned to Württemberg in 1871, and from 1874 worked as an professor of Oriental languages in Munich.

Ernst Michael Mangel

Music manuscripts of three triumphal marches of King Otto, are stored in the Bavarian State Library in the city of Munich

FC Ararat Yerevan

In 1974-75, after their title in the Soviet league, Ararat played in the European Cup, reaching the quarterfinals, losing to defending and future champion Bayern Munich with a 2-1 aggregate (0-2 in Munich and 1-0 in Yerevan).

Ferdinand Gregorovius

He eventually returned to Germany, where he died in Munich.

Forchtenberg

Born in Ingersheim 22 September 1918, also executed by the Nazis on 22 February 1943 in Munich.

Forschungsreaktor München II

The FRM II is located in the immediate neighbourhood of FRM I, on the research and university campus near Garching (18 km north of Munich).

François de Bonal

François de Bonal (b. 1734 at the castle of Bonal, near Agen; d. in Munich, 1800) was Bishop of Clermont.

Franz Pfeffer von Salomon

Franz Pfeffer von Salomon (February 19, 1888 in Düsseldorf - April 12, 1968 in Munich), also known as Franz von Pfeffer, was the first commander of the SA upon its re-establishment in 1925, following its temporary abolition in 1923 after the abortive Beer Hall Putsch.

Franz Schmidberger

Graduated in 1972 in the University of Munich, in the same year he entered the seminary of Écône where he was ordained priest on 8 December 1975.

Franz von Paula Schrank

Schrank was the first director of the botanical gardens in Munich from 1809 to 1832.

Frederik Due

After resigning in 1858, he spent the years until 1871 as an ambassador to Vienna and Munich.

After resigning as prime minister, Due was appointed Swedish-Norwegian ambassador to the courts in Vienna and Munich.

Frog Design Inc.

The company has grown to over 1,000 employees worldwide, with offices across the globe: San Francisco, Austin, New York City, Seattle, Munich, Milan, Shanghai, Amsterdam, and Boston.

George Elliott Howard

He graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1876, studied in Europe at the universities of Munich and Paris (1876–1878), and was professor of history in the University of Nebraska from 1879 to 1891, and professor at Stanford from 1891 to 1901.

Gigi Meroni

In Munich, Germany, Italian immigrants founded in 1970 the football club US Gigi Meroni in his honour, which still exists today.

God Defend New Zealand

It was used at the British Empire Games from 1950 onward, and first used at the Olympics during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

Gunther Storck

In the 1970s and early 1980s, he cooperated with Leo Scheffczyk (the later Cardinal) at the theological-philosophical faculty of the University of Munich.

Heinrich Brunn

For a number of years, he collected artwork for the Glyptothek in Munich, being instrumental in making the museum an important center for the study of classical sculpture.

In 1865 he was chosen inaugural professor for archaeology at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich.

Henning Larsen Architects

In 2008 Henning Larsen Architects opened an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia named Henning Larsen Middle East and in 2011 an office in Munich, Germany were inaugurated.

Hilmar Wäckerle

Unable to continue in the army, Wäckerle enrolled in the Technical University Munich to study agriculture.

The son of a Munich notary public, Wäckerle was sent to the Bavarian Army officer school at the age of 14 in order to pursue his chosen career.

Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre

The Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre (HEIC) is a science communication office, established at the Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF) in Munich, Germany late in 1999.

Hubert Beckers

In 1832 he was appointed professor of philosophy at the Lyceum at Dillingen, and in 1847 professor of philosophy at the University of Munich.

Hurter

He was appointed by the pope a commander of the Order of St Gregory, and was a member of the academies of Rome, Munich, Brussels, and Assisi.

Idiom Neutral

The Academy had its origin as the Kadem bevünetik volapüka (literally 'International Academy of the World Language') at a congress in Munich in August 1887, was set up to conserve and perfect the auxiliary language Volapük.

Indelibly Stamped

Supporting tours for the album began with a series of shows at the P.N. Club in Munich, which had been the site for Supertramp's first public performances.

Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof

The station is important for commuter traffic to and from the Tyrolean provincial capital, and in providing a hub function for east-west traffic ((Budapest) – ViennaSalzburgWörgl – Innsbruck (Zürich) / Bregenz) and north-south traffic (Munich – Wörgl – Innsbruck – BolzanoVerona – (Milan / Venice / Rome )).

Irene Skliva

She has participated in some of the world's largest fashion shows in Athens, Milan and Munich.

Ispringen

To the south of the town is a thin isthmus of forest and the A8 Munich to Karlsruhe autobahn that separates the town from Pforzheim's shopping district.

Jeanette Schmid

As Czechoslovakians began to take revenge against Sudeten Germans at the end of the war, Schmid was forced to flee to Munich where she began a career as a female impersonator.

John Dering Nettleton

Thus on 17 April 1942 Squadron Leader Nettleton was the leader of one formation of six Avro Lancaster bombers on a daylight attack on a diesel engine factory at Augsburg, near Munich Germany flying Lancaster Mk I, R5508, coded "KM-B" .

John M. Donaldson

Following that he returned to Europe where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany, at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, finishing his European art studies in Venice, Italy.

K.I.D.

Bastow, who is also known as Geoff Bastow (born 1949 in Yorkshire, England, died 2007 in Munich), was a Munich-based English songwriter and music producer.

Karl von Haimhausen

Karl von Haimhausen (originally Aymausen) (b. at Munich, of a noble Bavarian family, 28 May 1692; d. in Chile, 7 April 1767) was a German Jesuit theologian and missionary.

Kent Jönsson

Malmö made it all the way to the final and Jönsson was in the starting line-up for Malmö who ultimately lost the game 1–0 at the Olympic Stadium in Munich.

Kronid Lyubarsky

In Munich, Lyubarsky founded a bulletin, Vesti iz SSSR (News from the USSR), the only periodical providing objective and comprehensive information about the situation of human rights and resistance to the Communist regime in the Soviet Union.

Lawrence Amos McLouth

He served as principal of the Danville, Illinois High School for three years, then proceeded to Europe for additional training, studying for two years at Leipzig, Heidelberg, and Munich.

Leopold Feldmann

Leopold Feldmann (born Munich, Bavaria, 22 May 1802; died Vienna, 26 March 1882) was a German-Austrian dramatist.

Louis Blenker

After being trained as a goldsmith by an uncle in Kreuznach, he was sent to a polytechnical school in Munich.

Ludwik Hieronim Morstin

He was educated at the Jan III Sobieski High School in Kraków and between 1906 and 1910 continued his studies in Munich, Berlin and Paris.

Luttif Afif

Luttif Afif (1937? or 1945? – 6 September 1972), alias Issa (Jesus in Arabic), was the commander of the group of Palestinian fedayeen who invaded the Munich Olympic Village on 5 September 1972 and took as hostage nine members of Israel's Olympic team after killing two who resisted.

After tense negotiations, the hostage crisis ended after 21 hours with a bungled ambush on the hostage takers at Fürstenfeldbruck airbase outside of Munich.

Lydia Chukovskaya

She wrote a series of letters in support of Solzhenitsyn; these were published in Munich in 1970.

Maria Rybakova

Over the years she worked and travelled in number of places, including Geneva, Munich, the Mekong River region in Thailand, and Northeast China.

Mathias Loras

His connections and influence in Europe had enabled him to secure necessary financial assistance from the Society for the Propagation of the Faith of Lyons, France, the Leopoldine Society of Vienna, Austria, and the Foreign Mission Society of Munich, Bavaria.

Max Reiter

When he was ten years old, his family moved to Munich, where he continued his middle-school education and went on to attend a university.

Michael of Cesena

He died in Munich, and was buried there in the Franciscan convent, the Barfüsserkirche.

Mode Creation Munich

It was a German brand founded by Michael Cromer in Munich in 1975 as 'Michael Cromer Munich' (MCM).

Molecular encapsulation

According to food chemist Udo Pollmer of the European Institute of Food and Nutrition Sciences in Munich, alcohol can be molecularly encapsulated in cyclodextrines, a sugar derivate.

München Isartal station

München Isartalbahnhof is a former railway station on the Isartalbahn in the Munich borough of Thalkirchen.

Nasr El-Din Abbas

He participated in the Africa Cup of Nations 1963 and 1970 and in 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

News and Tributes

The song 'News and Tributes' is dedicated to the victims of the Munich air disaster, when a plane with many Manchester United players on board crashed in Munich in 1958.

Olaus Magnus

It included a map of Northern Europe with a map of Scandinavia, which was rediscovered by Oscar Brenner in 1886 in the München state library and shown to be the most accurate depiction of its time.

Paul Heinrich von Groth

In 1883, he was appointed professor of mineralogy and curator of minerals in the state museum at Munich.

Philipp of Bavaria

Philipp Wilhelm of Bavaria (22 September 1576, Munich - 18 May 1598, Dachau) was a German cardinal.

Platinnetz

It was created in April 2007 and has its headquarters in Unterhaching, near Munich.

Polish Chamber Orchestra Camerata-Wroclaw

The Polish Chamber Orchestra Camerata-Wroclaw is a highly distinguished national institution fulfilling a broad remit both in Poland and internationally, consisting of top Polish string players.The orchestra performs regularly in Munich, Wroclaw and Dresden as well as regular international tours.The Camerata-Wroclaw has a rich repertoire, from Bach to film’s music.

Port Huron High School

The "Big Red Marching Machine" has performed in many high visibility fori, including the Summer Olympics (Munich, 1972), the Detroit Thanksgiving Day Parade, and Walt Disney World.

Prince Rainer of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

In Munich on 15 December 1930 Prince Rainer married, firstly, Johanna Károlyi de Károly-Patty.

Renata of Lorraine

Elisabeth of Bavaria-Munich

Richard Walther Darré

He died in a Munich hospital on 5 September 1953 of cancer of the liver.

River surfing

Despite being many hundreds of kilometres from the nearest ocean, Munich has a reputation as a surfing hotspot.

Rolling highway

In Italy, Trenitalia and Trasposervizi signed an agreement between Italy, Austria and Germany for a new rolling road that connects the inland of Roncafort (north of Trento) with Regensburg (north of Munich) and previously managed by the Austrian Ökombi.

Schulmädchen

The show follows the adventures of a group of pushy, wealthy teenage girls at the fictitious Franz Josef Strauss-Gymnasium in Munich.

Shalva Maglakelidze

He did not give up his efforts for Georgian émigré mobilization for which purpose he founded, in January 1954, the Munich-based Union of Georgian Soldiers Abroad.

Susanne Osthoff

Susanne Kristina Osthoff (born March 7, 1962 in Munich) is a German archaeologist who had worked in Iraq since 1991 until being taken hostage there on November 25, 2005.

Sybille Schmitz

At the time of her death, Sybille had been living in Munich with a woman named Ursula Moritz, a physician who allegedly sold her morphine at an inflated rate and kept Sybille doped up while squandering the little funds she had available to her.

T. C. Steele

To help Steele obtain additional art training in Europe, his friend and art patron, Herman Lieber, arranged to provide financial support for the family so Steele could study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.

Telephone numbers in Germany

Exceptions to the 11 digit rule are the four cities of Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich which are the only cities with two digit area codes and require only 10 digit numbers so as not to exceed the maximum length of 8 digits for a subscriber number.

The Griffin Family History

Peter then tells his family about his great uncle, Peter Hitler, who was able to provide Adolf Hitler with success at his Munich speech, although annoying Adolf greatly.

Therme Erding

The station Altenerding is nearby with connections to the S2, which runs between Erding and Petershausen via Munich.

Thomas Woodrooffe

He was one of its main commentators during the 1930s, covering amongst many other events the opening ceremony of the 1936 Summer Olympics and Neville Chamberlain's return from Munich in 1938.

Troy Dorsey

At the W.A.K.O. World Championships 1987 in Munich, West Germany in October 1987, Dorsey again took gold in full contact kickboxing but was only able to manage silver in semi contact, losing out to Oliver Drexler in the final.

Udo Steinke

In addition to some casual work, he worked as a journalist and advertising manager at the Goethe-Institut in Munich.

Ulla Mitzdorf

In 1983 she habilitated in physiology, and in 1984 in medical psychology and neurobiology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Subsequently she worked as scholar at the Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich.

Ulrich Walter

Since 2003, he has been a full professor at the Technische Universität München (Munich, Germany), holding the chair of the Institute of Astronautics (space technology) at the University's faculty of mechanical engineering.

White Line Hotels

White Line Hotels is headquartered in Butlers & Colonial Wharf in London and is represented in Barcelona, Stockholm and Munich.

Wissenschaftlicher Katholischer Studentenverein Unitas Stolzenfels zu Bonn

Official affiliation followed on August 4, 1950 during the 73rd general assembly (Generalversammlung, GV) in Munich.

Zen 49

Zen 49 was a group of German artists, who came together in Munich in July 1949.


1663 in literature

In the Electorate of Bavaria, a legal deposit law mandates the deposit of copies of newly printed books in the Bavarian State Library in Munich.

2010 Estoril Open – Men's Doubles

Eric Butorac and Scott Lipsky were the defending champions, but they chose to compete in Munich instead.

Adam Contzen

During his residence in Munich, which began in 1623, he completed and published his commentary on the four Gospels, and on the epistles of St. Paul to the Romans, the Corinthians, and the Galatians.

Al Gromer Khan

Né Alois Gromer, Al Gromer Khan was born on April 8, 1946 at Frauenzell (municipality Altusried/Allgäu) in alpine foothills of Bavaria between Lake Constance and Munich.

Angst in My Pants

The album was recorded at Musicland Studios, Munich, produced by Mack in association with Giorgio Moroder Enterprises.

Anton Gosswin

He is documented as a singer at Munich Court in 1568, he was then appointed court Kapellmeister at Landshut in 1569 to return to Munich in 1570, as organist at the Peterskirche in 1577.

Battle of Hohenlinden

Weyrother's plan called for crushing the French left wing near Landshut and lunging south to cut Moreau's communications west of Munich.

Chan Kin-por

After serving as the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong office of Munich Re for four years, Chan became a member of the Munich Re China Advisory Board and focused on his Legislative Council role.

Christian Berkel

He then trained at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and appeared on stage in Augsburg, Düsseldorf, Munich, Vienna and at the Schiller Theatre, Berlin.

Christine Theiss

From 2005 to 2012 she was elected as "Munich's Sportwoman of the Year" by the readers of the evening newspaper Abendzeitung.

Damo Suzuki

When Malcolm Mooney left Can after recording their first album Monster Movie, Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit encountered Suzuki busking in Munich, Germany whilst the two were sitting outside at a street café, they invited him to join the group.

Ernst Joachim Förster

He was born in Saaleplatte, and initially studied theology and philosophy, but soon devoted himself to art, entering the studio of Peter von Cornelius at Munich.

Eugen Napoleon Neureuther

As a painter, he may be judged by "The Pastor's Daughter of Taubenhain," in the Pinakothek, Munich, and six canvases in the Schack Gallery at Munich.

Ferenc Anisits

Hungarian journalists jokingly asked him at one Munich Technik Tag around 2000 why the otherwise exceptionally well-designed BMW 320d is so noisy.

Flugwerk Deutschland GmbH

A branch was set up for aeroengine production at Schleissheimerstrasse 8 in Munich-Milbertshofen in 1912 and Karl Rapp and Joseph Wirth were given power of attorney in Munich, on May 20, 1912.

Herbert Wilberforce

Herbert William Wrangham Wilberforce (8 February 1864 in Munich, Germany – 28 March 1941 in Kensington, London) was a British male tennis player.

Il canto sospeso

A terror bombing at the Munich Oktoberfest on 26 September 1980 killed 13 people and injured more than 200 others.

Ilona Hubay

In 1960, she left Hungary for Germany, where she worked first as a librarian in the provincial library (Landesbibliothek) in Coburg, and then from 1962 to 1976 as a curator of the collection of incunabula in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich.

Jakob Balde

He remained in Munich till 1650, when he went to live at Landshut and afterwards at Amberg.

Johann Halbig

He created 18 colossal statues representing the leading German provinces for the Befreiungshalle at Kelheim; 60 busts for the Pinakothek (Munich); a statue of King Maximilian II for Lindau (1854); a monument of Count Platen at Ansbach (1858); the monument of Marshal Cachahiba d'Argolo in Bahía, Brazil; a statue of King Ludwig I of Bavaria for Kelheim.

Joseph Ennemoser

In 1819 he became professor of medicine in Bonn, leaving in 1837 for Innsbruck and then in 1841 settling in Munich, where he earned a great reputation as a "magnetic physician."

Karl von Seinsheim

He held similar posts in the government councils of Trento in 1808, Straubing in 1809, Salzburg in 1810, and Munich in 1817.

Kuckuck Schallplatten

Kuckuck Schallplatten (engl.: Cuckoo Records) is a German record label founded in August 1969 by Eckart Rahn, Mal Sondock and the advertising agency ConceptData in Munich, growing out of his music publishing company

Michel Tapié

Tapié organized and curated scores of exhibitions of new and modern art in major cities all over the world, including not only Paris and Turin but also New York, Rome, Tokyo, Munich, Madrid, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Milan, and Osaka.

Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno

The enormous work impressed many of its listeners, beginning in Munich, where Orlande de Lassus was in attendance; the event was similar to one a year later, described by Massimo Troiano, in which another Striggio piece for 40 voices was heard.

München Rosenheimer Platz station

Around the northwestern exit are the cultural centre of Gasteig with concert halls, the Münchner Volkshochschule (adult education) and the central office of the Munich City Library (Münchner Stadtbibliothek).

München Süd station

München Süd (Munich South station) is a disused railway station and a railway goods station in the Munich borough of Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt.

MVG

Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft or Munich Transportation Company, the company responsible for operating public transport in Munich, Germany

Neoclassical architecture

Although several European cities - notably St Petersburg, Athens, Berlin and Munich - were transformed into veritable museums of Greek revival architecture, the Greek revival in France was never popular with either the State or the public.

Osadia

Tollwood Festival, Munich / Sydney Mardi Gras, Australia / Trafalgar Square Festival, London, UK / Juste pour rire/Just for laughs, Montreal, Canada / The Esplanade Festival, Singapore / NZ International Festival, Wellington, New Zealand / Kleines Fest im Grossen Garten, Hanover / Daidogei World Cup, Shizuoka, Japan / Hogmanay, Edinburgh, Scotland / Festes de la Mercè, Barcelona

Pekka Vasala

In Munich he won the 1500 m race in a time of 3 minutes 36.3 seconds, ahead of the legendary Kip Keino and Rod Dixon.

Regional-Express

Since late 2006, Regional-Express services between Munich and Nuremberg that operate on the Nuremberg–Ingolstadt high-speed railway reach top speeds of 200 km/h.

Richard Semon

In 1918 in Munich, Semon committed suicide wrapped in a German flag allegedly because he was depressed by Germany's defeat after World War I.

Stadelheim Prison

Breno Borges, Well known footballer and former Bayern Munich Player.

Stefano Rossetto

Stefano Rossetto (also Rossetti) (fl. 1560–1580) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, born in Nice, who worked mainly in Florence for the powerful Medici family, and in Munich.

The Tao of Physics

I lived in England then circa 1972, and I visited him several times in Munich and showed him the whole manuscript chapter by chapter.

Theodorich Canisius

From Munich, where he was succeeded in 1565 by the celebrated Paul Hoffaeus, he was transferred to Dillingen, where for twenty years he presided over the college and the academy and laboured with zeal and success for the improvement of studies and for the religious training of the students.

Thule Society

The Thule Society attracted about 250 followers in Munich and about 1,500 in greater Bavaria.

Tomasz Bajer

The artist has been a two-time grant holder of the Ministry of Culture and an artist-in-residence in Carrara, Essen, Strassbourg, Munich and Newcastle (UK); nominated for the Europaeisches Kolleg der Bildenden Kuenste in Berlin.

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.

Wann wird's mal wieder richtig Sommer?

Together with the movie producer Andreas Habermeyer she covered the hit from Rudi Carrell for the Oktoberfest 2009 in Munich.