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100 unusual facts about Munich


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.

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.

Amin al-Hindi

In its obituary, The New York Times described Hindi as being "widely suspected of having played an organizing role" in the Black September attack in Munich that led to the deaths of 11 athletes and coaches representing the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Summer Games who had been taken as hostages at the Olympic village on the morning of September 5, 1972.

Ante Topić Mimara

In post-war years, Mimara was a consultant to the Yugoslavian military mission in Berlin and Munich, where he worked on returning the plundered works of art to Yugoslavia.

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

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.

Donald Ewen Cameron

"He was born in Munich, he is the eternal compromiser and his spiritual food is appeasement".

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.

Džafer Kulenović

His son Nahid Kulenović continued working with this Movement, but was assassinated by the Yugoslavia secret police, UDBA, in Munich.

Emptoris

In May 2011, Emptoris acquired Xcitec, a provider of supplier management software headquartered in Munich, Germany.

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.

Fine Sounds Group

The holding takes part in an official event as one unique family for the first time in 2013, with the participation in the Munich High End Show.

Forchtenberg

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

Frankenmuth, Michigan

Frankenmuth is the first Oktoberfest outside of Munich to be sanctioned by the Parliament and the City of Munich.

Franz Eichhorst

Over 50 of his paintings were displayed at the Great German art exhibition (Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung) at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, including battle scenes from the Second World War, particularly those from the conflicts with Poland and Russia.

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 Zureich

His artwork Demag: Giesspfannen beim fullen der kokillen (Demag: foundry ladles during fill the mold) was exhibited at the House of German Art in Munich.

Frederik Due

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

Gerspunken

Disenchanted with the classical establishment, the duo resigned from their courses in 2002, joining with fellow Mayrhofen local Karl Steiner, then living in Vienna playing drums for a local band, and Munich guitarist and singer Reinhold Mayer.

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.

Grand Lodge of British Freemasons in Germany

Currently 16 lodges work under the GL BFG, mainly in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony, but also in Hamburg, Munich, and Berlin.

Hasri Ainun Habibie

She died at the age of 72 years old at the Ludwig Maximilians-Universität Hospital in Munich, Germany.

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.

Helena Swanwick

Helena Lucy Maria Swanwick, née Sickert CH (1864, Munich – 16 November 1939) was a British feminist and pacifist.

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.

Henry Liddon

In 1882 he resigned his professorship and travelled in Palestine and Egypt; and showed his interest in the Old Catholic movement by visiting Döllinger at Munich.

Herbert V. Günther

He went to Munich for further study after graduation, earning the Ph.D. degree in 1939.

Herbert Wilberforce

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

Hilmar Wäckerle

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

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.

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.

Johann Michael Sailer

Until his tenth year he attended the primary school in his native place; after this he was a pupil in the gymnasium at Munich.

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.

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.

Kunigunde of Austria

Kunigunde married Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria-Munich in 1487 against the will of her own father, and served as joint regent for son Wilhelm IV.

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 B. Felsen

Leopold B. Felsen (born in Munich in 1924; died in the US September 24, 2005) was a physicist known for studies of Electromagnetism and wave-based disciplines.

Lord Augustus Loftus

He was secretary to Sir Stratford Canning in 1848, and after serving as secretary of legation at Stuttgart (1852), and Berlin (1853), was envoy at Vienna (1858), Berlin (1860) and Munich (1862).

Louis Blenker

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

Lubor Niederle

Later, he studied in Munich under professor Johannes Rank (1889) and in Paris under professor Léonce Manouvriere at the École d’anthropologie.

Luttif Afif

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

Marcus Junkelmann

Marcus Junkelmann (* Oct 2 1949 in Munich) is a German historian and experimental archeologist.

Website of Wilfried Stroh, professor emeritus of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Margaret of Cleves, Duchess of Bavaria-Munich

Catharina (1441–1497) - became a Premonstratensian then a Dominican nun in Würzburg, then finally ending up in the monastery under the protection of bishop Rudolf van Würzburg

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.

Markus Heinsdorff

He started his career working as a gold smith, wood and stone sculptor before he studied abstract sculpture under Prof. Jacobsen at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (1976 to 1981).

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.

Michael Steiner

Michael Steiner (born 1949 in Munich), a national of Germany, was head of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).

Minga

Munich (Minga in the Austro-Bavarian language), the capital city of Bavaria, Germany

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.

Monosolenium

It is of interest that this plant, "lost" for decades, appeared on fertilized soil in a greenhouse in Munich, giving Goebel the opportunity to carefully investigate the taxon.

Munich-style stained glass

The work by Peter Hemel von Andlau or Hans Holbein the Elder set the standard for Mayer and Zettler and became the base of their work.

Museum Reich der Kristalle

The Museum Reich der Kristalle is the publicly accessible part of the Mineralogischen Staatssammlung (State Mineralogical Collection) of Munich, Germany.

Natasha Sajé

Natasha Sajé (born Munich, Germany) is an American poet.

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.

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.

Nineteenth-century theatre

The revolving stage was introduced to Europe by Karl Lautenschläger at the Residenz Theatre, Munich in 1896.

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.

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.

Philipp of Bavaria

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

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.

Ragnvald Blix

He delivered illustrations to the Munich magazine Simplicissimus from 1908 to 1918, and edited the satirical magazine Exlex from 1919 to 1920.

Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft

Deutsche Stunde in Bayern GmbH, Munich (on the air since 30 March 1924) in Bavaria; renamed Bayerischer Rundfunk GmbH on 1 January 1931, it joined the RRG on 1 April 1931

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.

Robert Zimansky

He came to Europe in 1972 and held 1st Concertmaster positions in Munich, Stuttgart, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the Zurich Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva.

Schulmädchen

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

Schulmädchen-Report

Published by Kindler Verlag (Munich) the same year, the book presented interviews with twelve teenage girls on their sexual lives.

Siptah

A headless statue of Siptah now in Munich shows him seated on the lap of another Pharaoh, presumably his father.

Stanisław Jałowiecki

1984-1996: Free-lance journalist in U.S., journalist and Deputy director for Radio Free Europe in Munich (1985-1994) and Warsaw

Stanisław Przybyszewski

In 1906 the couple moved to Munich, the trip paid for by the sale of the manuscript of the play Śluby (The Vows).

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.

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.

TET-1

The final contract for Phases B, C, and D (definition/qualification, and production) and start was given to Kayser-Threde GmbH, a medium-sized aerospace company based in Munich belonging to the German OHB-System group.

The European Association of Ukrainians

The European Association of Ukrainians (EAU) is a voluntary association of Ukrainians in the European Union with headquarters in Brussels and representatives in Paris, Strasbourg, Munich, Berlin.

The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World

Amedeo's godfather Peter Vanderwaal, who directs an art center is preparing to host a traveling exhibition of Degenerate Art, a selection from the 1937 exhibition Entartete Kunst in Munich, the heart of Nazi Germany.

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.

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.

Ulfert Wilke

He received the Guggenheim Fellowship twice (in 1959 and 1960), which he used to travel to work and study first in Munich and Rome, and later Kyoto, Japan where he lived in monastery and studied Japanese Zen calligraphy under the monks.

Ulla Mitzdorf

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

Volapükologist

There were three international congresses: the first was in 1884 in Friedrichshafen, the second in 1887 in Munich and the third in 1889 in Paris.

Wally Warning

Ewald "Wally" Warning (born in Aruba, Netherlands Antilles) is a Roots-, Reggae-, Ragga-, Latin-Singer living in Munich.

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.


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.

1981 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships

1981 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Munich, West Germany on October 17 – 20th 1981.

Adolf Köberle

Adolf Köberle (July 3, 1898 in Bad Berneck, Upper Franconia, Germany – March 22, 1990 in Munich) was a German theologian.

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.

Alte Pinakothek

After the reunion of Bavaria and the Electorate of the Palatinate in 1777, the galleries of Mannheim, Düsseldorf and Zweibrücken were moved to Munich, in part to protect the collections during the wars which followed the French revolution.

Angst in My Pants

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

Bavarian Soviet Republic

Soon after, on 3 May 1919, remaining loyal elements of the German army (called the "White Guards of Capitalism" by the communists), with a force of 9,000, and Freikorps (such as the Freikorps Epp and the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt) with a force of about 30,000 men, entered Munich and defeated the communists after bitter street fighting in which over 1,000 supporters of the government were killed.

Beppe Ciardi

The author of landscapes characterised by a symbolic interpretation of nature that won the esteem of critics, he was awarded the Fumagalli Prize in Milan (1900), a gold medal in Munich (1901) and a silver medal in San Francisco (1904).

Black Devil Disco Club

The album is very similar to From Here to Eternity by Giorgio Moroder, an electronica album produced one year earlier at Musicland Studios, in Munich, Germany.

Cerruti 1881

There are Cerruti 1881, 18CRR81 and Cerruti stores throughout the world in Milan, Cosenza, Madrid, London, Munich, Stockholm, Athens, Birmingham, Riyadh, Moscow, New York, Hong Kong, Taipei, Damascus, Jakarta, and Tokyo among other locations.

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.

Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's tandem

These are the official results of the Men's Tandem Race at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany held on September 3 and September 4, 1972.

DSPACE GmbH

The company has Project Centers in Pfaffenhofen (near Munich) and Böblingen (near Stuttgart) and subsidiaries in the USA, UK, France, Japan and China.

Eduard Paul Tratz

Tratz also worked with Heinz Heck on a comparative study examining chimpanzees and bonobos, most of the work for which was done during the Second World War at Munich's Hellabrunn Zoo.

Erhard Hübener

By threatening the SVAG to resign from office, Hübener enforced the participation of the Soviet zonal governors in the Conference of Governors in Munich on 5 June 1947, which last time convened the elected governors of all states from all four zones of occupation in Germany.

Ewiger Wald

Commissioned by Alfred Rosenberg's cultural organization Militant League for German Culture in 1934 under the working title Deutscher Wald–Deutsches Schicksal (German Forest–German Destiny), the feature-length movie premiered in Munich in 1936.

Feldafing

Feldafing station is served in either twenty or forty minute intervals by S-Bahn line 6 of the Munich S-Bahn towards the neighboring Tutzing station or towards Munich.

Festival Cup

As Edinburgh's twin cities include Munich, Florence and Kiev, the local media speculated that a globally recognised team such as FC Bayern Munich, ACF Fiorentina or Dynamo Kiev may play in Scotland's capital.

François de Bonal

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

Frankenthal Porcelain Factory

--(1775 berühmter Farbenprobeteller in London).--> By 1776 the Frankenthal porcelain factory had shops in Aachen, Basle, Frankfurt am Main, Livorno, Mainz, Munich and Nancy.

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.

Ivan Aničin

Ivan Aničin, (born 25 March 1944 in Bor, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is Yugoslav and Serbian nuclear physicist, particle physicist, astrophysicist, and cosmologist, university Full Professor and Distinguished (teaching/research) Professor of scientific institutes in Belgrade (Serbia), Bristol (United Kingdom), Grenoble (France), and Munich (Germany).

Jakob Balde

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

John II, Duke of Bavaria

#Ernest I of Bavaria-Munich (1373–2 July 1438, Munich).

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.

Karolos Papoulias

He studied law at the University of Athens and the University of Milan, has a doctorate in private international law from the University of Cologne, and is an associate of the Munich Institute for Southeast Europe.

Konstantin Danil

It was in Vienna and Munich, where he became influenced for a while by the works of classicist German painters Asmus Jacob Carstens, Joachim Christian Reinhart, Peter Fendi, Joseph Anton Koch, Gottlieb Schick and Bonaventura Genelli.

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

Loretta Lux

She originally trained as a painter at Munich Academy of Art, and is influenced by painters such as Agnolo Bronzino, Diego Velázquez, Phillip Otto Runge.

Mario Mandžukić

Mandžukić scored his first Champions League goal of the season when Bayern Munich began the defence of their Champions League title against CSKA Moscow with a 3–0 victory at the Allianz Arena.

Monte Hill Davis

Davis has toured and performed in Europe, Brazil, Peru, Balzano, Italy (the Busoni), Geneva, Switzerland, and Munich, Germany.

München Isartal station

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

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).

Neue Künstlervereinigung München

The Neue Künstlervereinigung München e.V (NKVM), ("Munich New Artist's Association", if literally translated from German) formed in 1909 in Munich around Wassily Kandinsky, and prefigured Der Blaue Reiter, the first modernist secession which is regarded as a forerunner and pathfinder for Modern art in 20th-century Germany.

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.

Peter Hullermann

In August 1982 Hullermann was reassigned to the town of Grafing near Munich.

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.

Robert Lembke

Together with Hans Habe, Erich Kästner and Stefan Heym Lembke started German newspaper Neue Zeitung 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.

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.