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35 unusual facts about Hamburg


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.

Berndt Röder

Röder made calls to the privy councils of the state ministry of environment, and state ministry of interior, and to the municipal councillor of Hamburg-Nord borough, Röder complained about the city's negligence not clearing the street—where he resided—of glaze ice.

Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland

William III treated the matter as a trifle, wondering why everyone teased him about "that little spark Clancarty", and gave the couple permission to settle in Altona, Hamburg.

Crime in Germany

Albanian mafia families are active in some of the German urban centres, in particular Hamburg.

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.

Girlguiding BGIFC

In 2007, Germany had 4 Divisions, 12 Districts, 1 Senior Section, 15 Guide Units, 22 Brownie units and 18 Rainbow units, ranging from Hamburg to Munich.

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.

Guy Ferri

The Ferri family immigrated to the United States when he was a young child and settled in Hamburg, Pennsylvania.

Hamburg-Neugraben station

In January 2008 the S-Bahn track to Stade via Neu Wulmstorf and Buxtehude was completed and through services were added to the timetable.

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.

Helge Boes

On Jun 20, 1970, Helge Boes was born to Roderich and Monika Boes in Hamburg, Germany.

Henry Winterfeld

Henry Winterfeld (born April 9, 1901, in Hamburg, Germany; died January 27, 1990, in Machias, Maine), published under the pseudonym Manfred Michael, was a German writer and artist famous for his children's and young adult novels.

Home Run Johnson

He was buried in Lakeside Cemetery (formerly Lakeside Memorial Park Cemetery and Buffalo Rural Cemetery) in Hamburg, New York on September 14, 1963.

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.

Jennifer Hymer is an American pianist, currently living 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.

Karl Hermann Martell

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

Media cooperative

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

Nana Gualdi

During the 1980s, Ms. Gualdi enjoyed success as a stage actress in Hamburg and Stuttgart, Germany.

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.

Oluf Gerhard Tychsen

As a Protestant Christian, he attended secondary school in Altona and the Rabbinic school attached to the Altona synagogue.

Otto Wilhelm von Struve

During 1843 and 1844, Struve participated in longitude measurements between Altona, Greenwich and Pulkovo, which were based on large displacement of chronometers over the Earth surface.

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.

Prussian T 11

But they were also used in suburban services for other cities such as Frankfurt, Hamburg and Altona.

Ralph Sutton

Ralph Earl Sutton (November 4, 1922 – December 30, 2001) was an American jazz pianist born in Hamburg, Missouri.

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.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hamburg

The cathedral and the vicar-general are seated in the city-quarter Sankt Georg which is located in the borough of Hamburg-Central.

Sir Christopher Lowther, 1st Baronet

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

Socialist Youth International

It was founded in Hamburg 1923, through the merger of the Young Workers' International and the International Community of Socialist Youth Organisations.

SS Korsun Shevtshenkovsky

Wilhelmshaven was built for Hamburg Amerikanische Packetfahrt AG, Hamburg.

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).

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.


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.

Andrew Moravcsik

Moravcsik received a BA in history from Stanford University in 1980 and, after a period working in the US and Asia, spent the next year and a half as a Fulbright Fellow at the Universities of Bielefeld, Hamburg, and Marburg in West Germany.

Arthur Võõbus

From 1944 to 1948 he worked as a pastor in refugee camps, 1946–1948 he was professor of church history at the Baltic University at Pinneberg, near Hamburg.

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.

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.

Carl Vincent Krogmann

Despite his shaky status Krogmann, a devotee of the writings of Richard Wagner, Paul de Lagarde and Houston Stewart Chamberlain, was a staunch believer in Nazism, especially its antisemitic aspects and rigorously enforced anti-Jewish laws within Hamburg whilst publicly speaking in support of them elsewhere.

Carlos Alexander

Alexander has sung with companies in Buenos Aires, Vienna, Brussels, Canada, Copenhagen, Paris, Athens, Bayreuth (Beckmesser in Wieland Wagner's Die Meistersinger, 1963), Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Florence, Mexico City, Basel, Geneva, Zurich, Edinburgh, Glyndebourne, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Fort Worth, Hartford, etc.

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.

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).

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.

Georg Eisler

Eisler lectured at various universities including the Berlin University of the Arts (Udk), HFBK Hamburg, Stanford University, the University of New Mexico, and the University of Southern California.

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.

Hamburger Feuerkasse

The London fire of 1666 also played a role in the ineffectiveness of the fire contracts of Hamburg.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Enzensberger studied literature and philosophy at the universities of Erlangen, Freiburg and Hamburg, and at the Sorbonne in Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1955 for a thesis about Clemens Brentano's poetry.

Horn, Hamburg

The Deutsches Derby is a Group 1 flat horse race at Hamburg-Horn Racecourse, and it is scheduled to take place each year in July.

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.

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 Johann Kiessling

The majority of his teaching career was held at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums, along with his elder brother Adolf Kiessling in Hamburg, Germany.

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.

Nicolas Stemann

The first time he received national attention was through the production of his Trilogy of Terror in 1997 at Kampnagel in Hamburg and Hoftheater Gostner in Nuremberg (Antigone by Sophocles, The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Leonce and Lena by Georg Büchner).

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.

Otto Kueck

Born in 1878 in Hamburg, Germany, Kueck emigrated to Mexico at the turn of the century.

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.

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.

Rümker

Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Rümker (1832–1900), German astronomer Born at Hamburg, son of Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker

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.

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.

StattAuto

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

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.

Tony Hendrik

He graduated from a high school in Rendsburg and initially founded beat band named "Hendrik & The Luniks" that performed at Hamburg's Star-Club.

Uwe Siemon-Netto

From 1973 to 1986, Siemon-Netto served as Managing Editor for Hamburger Morgenpost, taught journalism at Hamburg's Journalistenschule Henri Nannen, worked as a freelance correspondent for German, Swiss, French and U.S. publications, and as a media consultant overseeing a variety of design and management tasks at publications in Germany and the United States.

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.

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.

Wolfgang Hesl

When Jaroslav Drobný joined Hamburg in the summer of 2010, Hesl would have been only third choice and was therefore loaned out to Austrian side SV Ried for one season.