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29 unusual facts about Bielefeld


491st Bombardment Group

Upon its return, the 491st concentrated its attacks on strategic objectives in Germany, striking communications centers, oil refineries, storage depots, industrial areas, shipyards, and other targets in such places as Berlin, Hamburg, Kassel, Cologne, Gelsenkirchen, Bielefeld, Hanover, and Magdeburg; on one occasion attacked the headquarters of the German General Staff at Zossen, Germany.

Army Legal Services Branch

The headquarters of Army Legal Assistance (ALA) is presently located at Catterick Barracks, Bielefeld in Germany.

Artur Wichniarek

On 3 July 2009, Wichniarek left the newly relegated Arminia Bielefeld and turned back to sign a two year contract with his former club Hertha BSC.

After two seasons in Berlin, in the beginning of 2006, with 44 appearances and four goals on his sheet, he moved back to Arminia Bielefeld.

He became one of Arminia's dominant players, scoring 33 goals in three seasons.

His talent drew the attention of Arminia Bielefeld directors, who brought him to Bielefeld, where he impressed the fans, becoming the club's leading player and best striker.

Carl Vincent Krogmann

After the Second World War he was interned in Bielefeld until being fined 10,000 Marks in August 1948 for membership of a criminal organisation and released.

Christina Rau

Christina Rau, née Delius (born October 30, 1956 in Bielefeld) is the wife the late Johannes Rau, the President of Germany.

Dietmar Ahle

Later he enters military service and a 2-year apprenticeship as painter and varnisher in Bonn and Bad Godesberg, 1985 he receives his master craftsman diploma in Bielefeld.

Dirk Becker

Dirk Becker (born 4 May 1966 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German politician and member of the SPD.

Distorted Reality

Distorted Reality is the synthpop band formed in 1997 by a collaboration between Martha M. Arce from Miami, USA and Christian Kobusch from Bielefeld, Germany.

Eckhard Stratmann-Mertens

Stratmann-Mertens and other anti-war activists called at a special Green Party convention in Bielefeld on 13 May 1999 for an immediate halt to the NATO bombing in the Kosovo War, but were unsuccessful getting the party to adopt the position.

Erna Sack

In 1931, she sang Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale at Bielefeld, where her voice made a great impression and her gifts immediately recognised.

Fritz Mühlenweg

He was educated as a chemist in Bielefeld and took over the family business after his father died.

Fritz Obersiebrasse

Fritz Obersiebrasse (born 30 November 1940 in Bielefeld) is a German former sprinter who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Funds for Endangered Parrots

The venue in 2000 was the bird show at Achern, in 2001 the DEU-BE-LUX bird show at Bitburg, in 2002 the bird show at Bielefeld-Senne, in 2003 the bird show at Coburg, in 2004 the Walsrode Bird Park, in 2005 the Ornithea bird show in the Porz suburb of Cologne, in 2006 the NiederRheinPark Plantaria at Kevelaer and in 2007 Leipzig Zoo.

Heinz Josef Algermissen

After serving as chaplain in Bielefeld and Mescheden, during which time he also counseled at the high school in Paderborn, he became parson in 1980 in Bielefeld-Schildesche, and dean in 1984.

Holger Bertrand Flöttmann

After the high school diploma Flöttmann fulfilled the alternative civilian service from 1966 until 1968 in the von Bodelschwinghschen Anstalten Bethel in Bielefeld in the house Arimathia.

Internationale Junge Orchesterakademie

The pieces studied during the workshop will be played, among other places, in Bayreuth (Margravial Opera House), Selb (Rosenthal-Theater), Leipzig (Thomaskirche) and Bielefeld (Neustädter Marienkirche).

Irmgard Möller

Irmgard Möller (also spelled Irmgard Moeller) (born 13 May 1947, Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a former German militant and was a member of the Red Army Faction (RAF).

José Alfaro

José Alfaro is a Nicaraguan boxer with a record of 26-8-0-1 (22 KO) who captured the vacant WBA lightweight title against Thai Prawet Singwancha in a split decision on December 29, 2007 in Bielefeld, Germany.

Kultur- und Sozialstiftung Internationale Junge Orchesterakademie

Since 1994, the foundation presents, annually at Easter, charity concerts within the Bayreuther Osterfestival, the Osterfestival Nördliche Oberpfalz and tour concerts in Selb and Bielefeld (Germany) for the benefit of children suffering from cancer.

Ludwig Meyer

Ludwig Meyer (December 27, 1827 – February 8, 1900) was a German psychiatrist born in Bielefeld.

Marvin Höner

Marvin Höner (born 4 May 1994 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German professional football player who currently plays as a forward for AFC Ajax and for Germany U-19.

Born and raised in Bielefeld, Marvin is the product of the youth ranks of local German 2. Bundesliga side Arminia Bielefeld, having last played for the clubs A-Juniors team during the 2012–13 season, where he scored 9 goals in 12 matches in the German Under 19 Bundesliga finishing the season in 7th place.

Olaf Hampel

Olaf Hampel (sometimes shown as Olav Hampel, born 1 November 1965 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German bobsledder who competed during the 1990s.

Oskar Kaufmann

He was assigned to construct a new theater in the city of Bielefeld.

Thomas Middelhoff

Middelhoff has five children and lives with his family in Bielefeld.

Werner Lueg

Werner Lueg (born 16 September 1931 in Brackwede, near Bielefeld) is a former West German middle distance runner who equalised Lennart Strand's and Gunder Hägg's 1500 m world record in 3:43.0 min in Berlin in 1952.


Albert Florath

Albert Peter Adam Florath (7 December 1888, Bielefeld – 11 March 1957, Gaildorf) was a German stage and film actor.

Amira Selim

She made her debut in France in the title role of Delibes's Lakmé, at the Opéra de Rennes, which she has sung at St Etienne, Bielefeld, Rouen and the Cairo Opera House.

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.

Beckermann

Ansgar Beckermann (born 1945), German analystic philosopher, Professor at the University of Bielefeld

Bertram Huppert

In 1984, Huppert founded, together with Gerhard Michler, the first Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft priority programme in Mathematics at the German universities of Aachen, Bielefeld, Essen and Mainz.

Bielefeld Agreement

The Bielefeld Agreement was an agreement during the Ruhr Uprising of 1920 between the representatives of the Ruhr Red Army and the German government.

Bielefeld Hauptbahnhof

Bielefeld Hauptbahnhof is the main station in the in the region of Ostwestfalen-Lippein the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Bielefeld University

It works with commercial system suppliers to meet the needs of academic libraries—collaborations that have resulted in developments such as BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), by which metadata is collected from scientific repository servers and indexed, along with data from selected web sites and data collections, using the Solr framework.

In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2010-2011 Bielefeld is placed among the top 50 engineering and technology universities.

Charlotte Riefenstahl

Charlotte Riefenstahl (24 May 1899 in Bielefeld, Germany – 6 January 1993 in Northfield, Minnesota, USA ) was a German physicist.

Cologne-Minden Railway Company

On 18 December 1843, the Prussian government granted a concession to the CME for the line from Deutz (now a suburb of Cologne) through Mülheim am Rhein, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Oberhausen, Altenessen, Gelsenkirchen, Wanne, Herne and Castrop-Rauxel to Dortmund and on to Hamm, Oelde, Rheda, Bielefeld and Herford to Minden.

Dietrich Haugk

He made his stage debut at a theater in Bielefeld in 1946 and has been a noted theater director since 1949 and served as the German dubbing voice of Vittorio Gassman, Dirk Bogarde, Montgomery Clift and Jean-Louis Trintignant.

Eric van Damme

In between he was Visiting Professor at European Universities in Bielefeld, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Vienna, Lisbon; and in the USA at the Kellogg School of Management.

Frances Egan

Egan has received a number of awards including research fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, Germany.

Herford–Himmighausen railway

After the gradually introduction a regular-interval service, which culminated in NRW-Takt (North Rhine-Westphalia's current co-ordinated regular-interval service), the trains ran every hour on the Paderborn–Detmold–Herford route and continued alternately to/from Bielefeld (RB 72, Ostwestfalen-Bahn, "East Westphalian railway") or Bad Bentheim (RB 62, Der Cherusker, "The Cherusci").

Jonas Kamper

Under new Bielefeld coach Thomas Gerstner, Kamper found himself far from the starting line-up.

Jonathan Pool

Pool worked at the universities of Chicago, New York (Stony Brook), Washington (Seattle), Stanford as well as in Mannheim, Paderborn, and Bielefeld in Germany.

Karla Pollmann

Pollmann began her career as an assistant professor first in Bielefeld (1990–91), then in Konstanz (1991–95), teaching Latin, and she spent some time on postdoctoral studies at University College London, funded by the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Stipend (1993–95).

Louis Spohr

Geoffrey Moull conducting the Bielefelder Philharmonie, Chorus of the Bielefeld opera house.

RAF Knettishall

The unit attacked many other significant targets, including aircraft factories in Kassel, Reims, and Brunswick; airfields in Bordeaux, Paris, and Berlin; naval works at La Pallice, Emden, and Kiel; chemical industries in Ludwigshafen; ball-bearing plants in Schweinfurt; and marshalling yards in Brussels, Osnabrück, and Bielefeld.

Sabine Andresen

She is professor of Educational Studies at Faculty of Education Science, Bielefeld University and vice rector for international affairs and corporate communication at Bielefeld University.

Teutoburg Forest / Egge Hills Nature Park

The northern part of the nature park begins immediately southeast of Bielefeld and then runs over the southern Teutoburg Forest in a southeasterly direction via Oerlinghausen and Detmold to Horn-Bad Meinberg.