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21 unusual facts about Bonn


2nd/4th Regiment Mounted Rifles

That same day the Squadron 4th Chasseurs à Cheval was officially installed as an independent reconnaissance squadron of the 1st Mechanized Division in Altenrath, between Cologne and Bonn, until the end of 2001.

Bonn-Bad Godesberg station

Platform track 1 is served by regular regional trains to the south (Koblenz and on to Mainz).

Bonn-Oberkassel station

The planned extension of S-Bahn line 13 from Troisdorf to Oberkassel (connecting to Cologne/Bonn Airport at 20-minute intervals) will increase the importance of station.

The station was opened on 11 July 1870 in the course of extending the East Rhine line from Neuwied to Oberkassel and at the same time as the establishment of the Bonn–Oberkassel train ferry.

Bruce Baird

He was Assistant Trade Commissioner at the Australian Embassy in Bonn, Germany, 1972–76 and Trade Commissioner at Australian Consulate-General in New York 1977-80.

Bundestag

Because West Berlin was not officially under the jurisdiction of the Constitution and because of the Cold War, the Bundestag met in Bonn in several different buildings, including (provisionally) a former water works facility.

Frederick Philip Grove

After studying Classical Languages & Archaeology in Bonn, he became a prolific translator of World Literature and a member of Stefan George's homoerotic group, the George-Kreis, around 1900.

Gudrun Corvinus

See also: Institute for Prehistory, Erlangen University; German Research Foundation/German Research Council (DFG); Dr. Ludwig Reisch; German Archaeological Society; University of Pune; Second World War; Bonn

Heinrich Schlier

Heinrich Schlier (Neuburg an der Donau on the Danube, 31 March 1900 – Bonn, 26 December 1978) was a theologian, initially with the Evangelical Church and later with the Catholic Church.

Janet Lewis

Published by Monroe Wheeler, as Manikin Number One, Bonn, Germany, n.d. 1922.

Jens Söring

Jens Söring (born August 1, 1966 in Bangkok, Thailand and grew up in Bonn) is a German citizen who has been imprisoned since 1986 for a double murder in Virginia, USA.

Johann Conrad Susemihl

It was by Carl Friedrich Wiebeking (1762-1842), a government hydraulic engineer and author of a number of books, and shows the course of the Rhine from Remagen to Bonn.

Johannes Matelart

Johannes Matelart (also Matelart, Matellarto, Matelarte and other variations; first name sometimes Ioanne or Jean) (before 1538 – 7 June 1607) was a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance, active in Flanders, Bonn, and Rome.

Josef Fessler

The Prussian Government promptly appointed Dr. Schute to a professorship at Bonn, while it imprisoned Catholic priests and bishops.

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."

Noriko Yui

Known internationally, Yui has been a visiting researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute in Bonn a number of times and a Bye-Fellow at Newnham College, University of Cambridge.

Paul Dickopf

Dickopf died from a brief but fatal illness on September 19, 1973 in Bonn, Germany.

Petr Wolfgang Wygodzinsky

Petr Wolfgang Wygodzinsky (5 October 1916, Bonn - 27 January 1987, Middletown, New York) was a German entomologist who worked in Argentina, Brazil, and the United States.

Reginald Hibbert

He was Minister at Bonn 1972–75; Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1975–76; Deputy Under-Secretary of State 1976–79; and finally Ambassador to France 1979–82.

Spy Castle

A terrorist named Pendragon delivers an ultimatum to heads of state in London, Paris, Rome and Bonn.

Triphyophyllum

peltatum is currently cultivated in only three botanical gardens: Abidjan, Bonn, and Würzburg.


Aliyu Modibbo Umar

Later that month, as spokesman for the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States Ministers at the EU-ACP ministerial meeting in Bonn, Aliyu Modibbo stated that the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) should be implemented carefully to avoid negative impact, especially on countries in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region.

Amrita Cheema

She taught nineteenth century German history at the University of Maryland, Bonn, before joining Radio Deutsche Welle's English Service in Cologne.

Arpeggione Sonata

Played on a copy by Henning Aschauer of an early 19th-century instrument built either by J. G. Staufer or by Anton Mitteis, at present in the Musical Instrument Collection of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and on the 1824 Conrad Graf pianoforte from the Beethoven House in Bonn.

August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben

The son of a merchant and Mayor of his native city, he was educated at the classical schools of Helmstedt and Braunschweig, and afterwards at the universities of Göttingen and Bonn.

Bartolomeo Eustachi

First published in 1714 by Giovanni Maria Lancisi, and again in 1744 by Cajetan Petrioli, and again in 1744 by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, and subsequently at Bonn in 1790, the engravings show that Eustachius had dissected with the greatest care and diligence, and taken the utmost pains to give just views of the shape, size, and relative position of the organs of the human body.

Bundesautobahn 5

The first public Autobahn was the Cologne-Bonn highway which was inaugurated August 1932 (later called A 555).

Carlo Farina

From 1629 to 1631, he was a prominent member of the electoral court orchestra in Bonn, until he returned to Italy, where he worked in Parma and later in Lucca until 1635.

Codex Sangermanensis I

In 1865, Johann Gildemeister (1812-1890), later Professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Bonn, personally discovered that dormibunt was the last word of one leaf of the Codex Sangermanensis and primus (with a small P) the beginning word on the next leaf - but that one leaf which had once been between them had been cut out of the Codex.

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.

Ephraim of Bonn

Ephraim of Bonn (1132–1200) was a Jewish writer who documented the massacre of the Jews in the city of York in 1190.

Eva Nagorski

Because Eva's father, Andrew Nagorski, worked as a foreign correspondent for Newsweek, she has had an international upbringing, living in Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome, Bonn and Warsaw, and has travelled extensively.

Ferdinand Mülhens

During the years 1912 to 1914, he set up Hotel Petersberg near Bonn, which later become the Guest House of the Federal Government of Germany.

Frederick William University

University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)

Friedrich Prym

Friedrich Emil Fritz Prym (28 September 1841 Düren; 15 December 1915 Bonn) was a German mathematician who introduced Prym varieties and Prym differentials.

Fyodor Shcherbatskoy

Subsequently sent abroad, he studied Indian poetry with Georg Bühler in Vienna, and Buddhist philosophy with Hermann Jacobi in Bonn.

Geliebte Clara

Robert tries in vain to take his own life, by jumping into the River Rhine, but accepts the offer of Dr. Richartz to be a patient at his sanatorium at Endenich in Bonn.

Heinz-Josef Fabry

Heinz-Josef Fabry (Winterberg, 14 December 1944) is a German Hebraist and deacon of the Catholic Theological Faculty of Bonn University.

Hermann Krukenberg

Krukenberg studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn, Strassburg and Heidelberg.

Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

The Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance (German: Institut für Arbeitsschutz der Deutschen Gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung, IFA) is a German institute located in Sankt Augustin near Bonn.

Jacob Soll

Through his maternal Grandmother, Liese Bronfenbrenner, née Price, Soll is the great grandson of the English author and professor, Hereward Thimbleby Price, and a descendent of the Prym family of industrialists and academics from Aachen, Stolberg, Düren and Bonn, Germany.

Jan Claus

In 1669 with Steven Crisp (1628-1692), a Friend from Colchester, who from 1663 onwards would every year visit Amsterdam, he travelled on a preaching tour to a series of towns along the Rhine: Cologne, Bonn, Metz, Bingen, Bacharach and Kriegsheim.

Karl Emil Lischke

Karl Emil Lischke (born 30 December 1819 in Stettin – died 1886 in Bonn) was a German lawyer, politician, diplomat, and amateur naturalist.

Lajos Návay

After that he studied law in the capital city then listened to half a year in the Universities of Berlin and Bonn.

Lothar Ledderose

After graduating from the prestigious Apostelgymnasium of Cologne he studied East-Asian as well as European History of Art, Sinology and Japanology at the universities of Cologne, Bonn, Paris, Taipei and Heidelberg.

Mark Poepping

Mark Poepping studied National Economics at German Universities of Paderborn, Bonn und Hagen and attended Nottingham University while on a students exchange program.

Mathias Herrmann

After this, he had lots of engagements at theatres in Bremen, Bonn, Mannheim and Basel, where he played lots of leads in which he excited the audience, a.o. Prinz von Homburg, Clavigo, Der Stellvertreter and Ghetto.

Max Bruch

Bruch had a long career as a teacher, conductor and composer, moving among musical posts in Germany: Mannheim (1862–1864), Koblenz (1865–1867), Sondershausen, (1867–1870), Berlin (1870–1872), and Bonn, where he spent 1873–78 working privately.

Max Lackmann

Lackmann studied theology at Bonn and Basel as a pupil of Karl Barth.

Mittelrhein

Middle Rhine (German: Mittelrhein), the Rhine River between Bingen and Bonn, Germany

Norbert Lossau

Lossau studied the Finnish language and Scandinavian studies at the Universities of Bonn and Göttingen, where he graduated in 1988 with a Master's degree.

Paul Cushing Child

After five years in Paris, Child was reassigned to Marseilles, Bonn, and Oslo.

Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder

He was friends with detective writer John le Carré, and while staying in Bonn, Germany, he received a gift directly from Le Carré himself: a popular book titled "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold".

Philipp Vielhauer

Philipp Adam Christoph Vielhauer (Bali, Cameroon 3 December 1914- Bonn 23 December 1977) was a German Lutheran pastor, and scholar of early Christianity and the New Testament Apocrypha.

Simrock

Nikolaus Simrock, (23 August 1751 in Mainz – 12 June 1832 in Bonn), founder of N. Simrock

Ulrich Wilcken

Afterwards he was a professor at Würzburg (1900), Halle (1903, where he was again a successor to Eduard Meyer), Leipzig (1906) and Bonn (1912), where he succeeded Heinrich Nissen (1839-1912).

Voreifel Railway

The station buildings at Bonn-Duisdorf, Kottenforst, Meckenheim (Bz Köln), Rheinbach, Odendorf and Kuchenheim (spelt Cuchenheim until 1936) were built at this time.

Walking on the Milky Way

Tracks 2, 3 & 4 recorded live at Bonn Biskuithalle November 16 1993 (broadcast by SWF3).

Walther Kranz

Walther Kranz (November 23, 1884, Georgsmarienhütte – September 18, 1960, Bonn) was a German classical philologist and historian of philosophy.

What to Do in Case of Fire?

A rift within the police department makes their plan possible: Manowsky (Klaus Löwitsch), an old-school Berlin cop, wants to use aggressive tactics and avoid press coverage, while Henkel (Devid Striesow), a technocrat from Bonn, prefers more modern, less intrusive methods and is eager to earn good public relations for the department.

World Doctors Orchestra

Further concerts in 2013 will be on September 17 in the Beethovenhalle, Bonn, Germany, on invitation of the Beethovenfest Bonn and on September 18 in the Philharmonie Berlin, Germany, with countertenor Jochen Kowalski and jazz singer Donna Brown.