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unusual facts about Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf


Air Berlin

The airline's headquarters are at the Airport Bureau Center in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin.


Akademischer BC 1897 Charlottenburg

It is believed to have been made up of students from the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg (Technical College of Charlottenburg).

Alfred Wünnenberg

In May 1928 he was in charge of police administration serving in Berlin, Charlottenburg.

Berlin British School

BBS occupies the premises of Charlottenburg First School, a SCE school for children of British Forces Germany personnel which closed after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the withdrawal of British troops from Berlin.

Berliner SV 92 Rugby

The reasons for the move were the lack of support the rugby players got at Tennis Borussia and the fact that most players lived closer to BSV, which was based in Wilmersdorf, while Tennis Borussia had their playing fields in Niederschönhausen.

Bjarne Nissen

He took his education as a chemical engineer at Kristiania Technical School, in Charlottenburg, Copenhagen and Munich.

Bundesautobahn 100

It is connected with the Bundesautobahn 111 (A 111) at the Charlottenburg interchange, with the A 115 (the former AVUS) at the Funkturm junction, and finally reaches the A 113 at its southeastern terminus in Neukölln, all linking it with the outer Berliner Ring A 10.

The A 100 encloses the city centre of the German capital Berlin, running from the Wedding district of the Berlin-Mitte borough in a southwestern bow through Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and Tempelhof-Schöneberg to Neukölln.

Carl-Alexander von Volborth

Born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, von Volborth received the Gustaf von Numers Prize 1984 in the XVIth International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences in Helsinki.

Charlottenburg Town Hall

It was built between 1899 and 1905 at the behest of the then independent city of Charlottenburg in the Prussian province of Brandenburg.

Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg

He first married commoner Erica Maria Patzek (born in Wilmersdorf, 12 July 1911 - died in Wilmersdorf, 20 July 2007), daughter of Anton Patzek and wife Marie Anna Lala, on 8 March 1934 in London.

Enrique Mosconi

He was assigned to the German Army engineering corps, and spent four years embedded in the 10th Battalion of Westphalia, while in postgraduate studies at the Artillery and Engineering Superior Technical School of Charlottenburg.

Fritz W. Schulz

In 1907, at age 23, Friedrich Wilhelm Schulz, entered the 'Berlin academy for the arts', Charlottenburg.

German Resource Center for Genome Research

The German Resource Center for Genome Research (RZPD, Resourcenzentrum Primärdatenbank) was a service center for gen and genome research in Berlin-Charlottenburg and Heidelberg.

Giszowiec

This work was completed by George and Emil Zillmann, architects from Charlottenburg, who designed the settlement inspired by Ebenezer Howard's idea of the "Garden city".

Grunewald

Grunewald (Grünewald with umlaut is German for Green Woods or Green Forest) is a locality (Ortsteil) within the Berliner borough (Bezirk) of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf.

Gustav Heistermann von Ziehlberg

Heisterman was executed on 2 February 1945 by a Wehrmacht firing squad at a proving ground near Olympic Stadium in the Charlottenburg (present-day Westend) district of Berlin.

Hans-Christoph Seebohm

Seebohm attended school in Dresden, Saxony and studied mining at the universities of Munich and Berlin-Charlottenburg.

Heinrich Beythien

Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Beythien (13 February 1873 in Quakenbrück – 17 März 1952 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf) was a German politician and functionary of the DVP and Nazi Party (NSDAP).

Heinrich Seeling

In 1907 he was appointed director of the building authority in the then independent city of Charlottenburg (incorporated into Berlin in 1920), where he designed the Deutsches Opernhaus, as well as several municipal buildings together with his co-worker Richard Ermisch.

Heinrich von Gossler

Heinrich Wilhelm Martin von Goßler (29 September 1841, in Weißenfels, Province of Saxony – 10 January 1927, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf) was a Prussian General of the Infantry and Minister of War.

Karl Heinrich Emil Becker

From autumn 1933, he was an ordentlicher Professor (ordinarius professor) of technical physics at the Technische Hochschule Berlin in Berlin Charlottenburg (later, the Technical University of Berlin).

Karla Höcker

Karla Höcker's father Paul Oskar Höcker was already a best-selling author when Karla was born, in Charlottenburg.

KSPG

Bernhard Pierburg (1869 to 1942) founded on March 25, 1909, jointly with his brothers, Heinrich-Hermann and Wilhelm, at Wilmersdorf near Berlin the steel trading enterprise by the name of Gebr. Pierburg oHG.

Lazarus Goldschmidt

Goldschmidt replied in a pamphlet, "Die Recension des Herrn Dr. D. Hoffmann über Meine Talmudausgabe im Lichte der Wahrheit," Charlottenburg, 1896.

Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau

In Charlottenburg on 25 July 1767 Leopold married his cousin Louise Henriette Wilhelmine (b. Różanki, Brandenburg, 24 September 1750 – d. Dessau, 21 December 1811), daughter of Frederick Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, by his wife Leopoldine Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, a sister of his father.

Lermontovo Microdistrict

Molded bricks for the construction of the University of Königsberg's new campus came from a pottery factory near Charlottenburg.

Max Jakob

In 1910, Jakob embarked on a 25 year career at the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt in Charlottenburg, Berlin.

Max von Schillings

They were divorced in 1923, and on June 11, 1923, he married the opera singer Barbara Kemp in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

Oskar Kaufmann

It was therefore significant when Kaufmann was selected, by a jury including such notable architects as Max Liebermann and Otto March, to design a new building for the Charlottenburg opera.

Paul Reichard

After his return to Europe, Reichard lived in Nice for a while, then moved to Berlin-Charlottenburg, where he died on 19 September 1938 and was buried in the Southwest Stahnsdorf churchyard.

Richard Hüttig

By 1930, Hüttig was leader of the Häuserschutzstaffeln ("house protection squad") in his neighbourhood in Charlottenburg, which had been set up to ward off Brown Shirt terror raids.

Roger Nicole

Nicole was born to Swiss parents December 10, 1915, in Charlottenburg, Germany.

Siegfried Popper

Kaiser Wilhelm II offered him a chair in Naval Architecture at the Technical University of Berlin at Charlottenburg, but Siegfried declined this offer.

Straße des 17. Juni

Before 1953, the street was called Charlottenburger Chaussee, because it ran from the old city center (Berlin-Mitte) to the borough of Charlottenburg through the Tiergarten ("Animal garden").

Symphonia Domestica

He worked on the piece during 1903, finishing it on New Year's Eve, in Charlottenburg.

Tauentzienstraße

The broad street was laid out during the 19th century Wilhelmine era in the manner of a Parisian boulevard, then part of a larger road link from Charlottenburg through Schöneberg to the Berlin district of Kreuzberg named after victorious Prussian generals (therefore colloquially called Generalszug in German).


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