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unusual facts about Dessau-Roßlau


Battle of Westerplatte

Marine-Stoßtrupp-Kompanie (elite naval infantry company, later renamed Marine-Artillerie-Abteilung 531) and an attached Pioneer platoon from Dessau-Roßlau


Albert III, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst

During the life of his father, Albert was made co-ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst; at the same time, his uncle Waldemar I was also co-ruler with his residence at Dessau.

Ameli Koloska

Ameli Koloska, née Isermeyer (born 28 September 1944 in Dessau) is a retired West German javelin thrower.

Anna Mahler

The Australian violinist Alma Moodie assisted Krenek with getting financial assistance from her Swiss patron Werner Reinhart (at whose instigation Krenek and Mahler were living in Zürich) and, in gratitude, Krenek dedicated the concerto to Moodie, and she premiered it on 5 January 1925, in Dessau.

Brothers Keepers

The idea for the project took root in the 1990s, and when a German of Mozambiquan origin, named Alberto Adriano, was brutally killed by neo-Nazis in Dessau (East Germany) in 2000, a group of musicians decided to organize and fight back.

Carl Paul Caspari

He was born Dessau of Jewish parentage and was brought up in the Jewish faith.

Carlos Kalmar

Kalmar has been music director of the Hamburger Symphoniker (1987–91), the Stuttgart Philharmonic (1991–95), and the Anhaltisches Theater in Dessau, Germany.

Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau

Her mother, continuing this policy had Henriette married to John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau in Groningen on 9 September 1659.

Countess Palatine Dorothea of Simmern

# Anna Elisabeth (b. Dessau, 5 April 1598 – d. Tecklenburg, 20 April 1660), married on 2 January 1617 to William Henry, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt

Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm

Both strongly influenced by the ideals of The Enlightenment, they aimed to overcome the formal garden concept of the Baroque era in favour of a naturalistic landscape as they had seen at Stourhead Gardens and Ermenonville.

The "Gothic House", started by Erdmannsdorff in 1774, modelled on the villa of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill, was one of the first Neo Gothic structures on the continent.

Edith Tudor Hart

Brought up in a family of socialists, she trained in photography at Walter Gropius's Bauhaus in Dessau, and carried her political ideals through her art.

Ernest I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

#John V, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, later Anhalt-Zerbst (b. Dessau, 4 September 1504 - d. Zerbst, 4 February 1551).

#George III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, later Anhalt-Plötzkau (b. Dessau, 15 August 1507 - d. Dessau, 17 October 1553).

In 1473, after the death of his father, Ernest inherited the principality of Anhalt-Dessau alongside his younger brothers George II, Sigismund III, and Rudolph IV.

Ferropolis

Ferropolis, "the city of iron" is an open museum of old huge industrial machines in Gräfenhainichen, a city near Dessau, Germany.

Frans van Mieris the Elder

The pictures of all the generations of the Mieris family were successfully imitated by A. D. Snaphaan, who lived at Leipzig and was patronized by the court of Anhalt-Dessau.

To those who would study his deceptive form of art a visit to the collection of Wörlitz near Dessau may afford instruction.

Friedrich Graf von Waldersee

Friedrich Graf von Waldersee was a son of Franz Graf Waldersee, a son of Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau.

Friedrich Rehberg

In 1784 he became drawing master at the Philanthropinum, a progressive school in Dessau where he taught art to the crown prince, Frederick.

Friedrich von Matthisson

In 1794 he was appointed reader and traveling companion to Princess Louisa of Anhalt-Dessau (wife of Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau).

George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

#Agnes (b. 1445 – d. Kaufungen, 15 August 1504), Abbess of Gandersheim (1485), of Neuenheerse (1486–1492) and of Kaufungen (1495)

George III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

That year, he and his brothers decided to divide their principality of Anhalt-Dessau formally; George received Plötzkau.

Gerhard Stolze

Gerhard Stolze (1 October 1926, Dessau – 11 March 1979, Garmisch-Partenkirchen) was a German tenor.

Gesamtkunstwerk

The school specialised in design, art and craftsmanship (architecture was not introduced as a separate course until 1927 after it had transferred to Dessau).

Giles Reaves

Beyond space music, Reaves has another career as an engineer and co-producer for the Nashville rock music scene, including work with Dessau and Grinning Plowmen.

Gunta Stölzl

After a brief departure, Stölzl became the school's weaving director in 1925 when it relocated from Weimar to Dessau and expanded the department to increase its weaving and dyeing facilities.

Hans Victor von Unruh

In 1855 Unruh moved to Anhalt, at that time another component state of Germany, where he founded the Deutsche Continental Gasgesellschaft in Dessau and was responsible for the construction of the municipal gasworks at Mönchengladbach, Magdeburg und Lviv and the water supply works at Magdeburg.

Henrietta Catherine Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau

She married on 26 October 1779 at Bosfeld House in Rheda-Wiedenbrück with Baron Johann Jost of Loën, Lord of Cappeln and Tecklenburg (1737–1803), son of Johann Michael von Loën.

Johannes Mensing

He was forced to leave, and took up the invitation of the Princess Margaretha von Anhalt, who ruled during the minority of her sons; he went to Dessau to support her in her efforts against Protestants in her territory.

John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

In Groningen on 9 September 1659 John George married Henriette Katharina (b. The Hague, 10 February 1637 – d. Schloss Oranienbaum, 3 November 1708), daughter of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange.

Junkers Jumo 222

By this point it appeared that the problems were finally being worked out, but bombing of the Junkers Motorenwerke's headquarters factories in Dessau made production almost impossible.

Karl Friedrich Cerf

After having been engaged for many years in the horse trade at Dessau, he rose to the post of chief military agent, and in this capacity took part in the campaign of 1813-15, under Count Peter Wittgenstein, general of the Imperial Russian army.

Kurt Schmitt

After coming back from his extended leave in 1935, he took over the chairmanship in the supervisory board of AEG AG and the Deutsche Continental Gasgesellschaft (a gas company) in Dessau.

Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

In 1752 Frederick the Great named a newly founded village Leopoldshagen (est. 1748) in his honour.

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.

#Count Franz John George of Waldersee (b. Dessau, 5 September 1763 – d. Dessau, 30 May 1823), married in Dessau on 20 May 1787 to Countess Louise of Anhalt (morganatic granddaughter of the Hereditary Prince William Gustav, eldest son and heir of Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau).

As the head of the senior Anhalt branch, he could not earlier by etiquette receive his kinsmen, the Princes of Anhalt-Köthen and Anhalt-Bernburg, who were raised to that rank before him.

Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt

Prince Leopold was born on 18 July 1855 in Dessau as the first child of Hereditary Prince Frederick of Anhalt-Dessau-Köthen and his wife Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg.

Marienfelde

Near the end of World War II, as part of the Elbe-Project, the world's first high-voltage direct current transmission lines were built from a power plant in Dessau, on the Elbe river, to Marienfelde.

Paul Greifzu

After having won several races in 1951, Greifzu was killed in practice at Dessau for an event held on a stretch of Autobahn in East Germany.

Schnepfenthal Salzmann School

The curriculum borrowed ideas from John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and especially Johann Bernhard Basedow, the founder of the first Philanthropinum, a progressive experimental school in Dessau.

Sergey Kucheryanu

His best performance is 5.81 m (Dessau, 2008) and he also reached twice 5,72 m in 2012 (1st at National Championships in Cheboksary), when he qualified for the London 2012 Olympics.

Siegfried Saloman

In 1838 he received a 3-year scholarship which he used to stay in Dessau, where he studied music theory and composition with Friedrich Schneider.

Sigismund I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

Sigismund assumed the title "Lord of Zerbst," but established the town of Dessau as his main residence and capital of his newly created principality of Anhalt-Dessau.

Sigismund I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (d. Coswig, 19 January 1405), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst until 1396, when he became the first ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Dessau.

Sonderbehandlung

A document dated August 26, 1942 granted the camp authorities to send a truck "...to Dessau to pick up material for special treatment..." - Dessau was one of two places where Zyklon B was manufactured.

Taimo Toomast

He has performed as a soloist at the Vienna State Opera and at the Vienna Chamber Opera, he has been soloist at the Coburg Landestheater and Dessau Anhaltisches Theater in Germany (altogether for 12 years).

Wiesenburg–Roßlau railway

Passenger services in the 1970s and 1980s included express trains on the RostockPotsdamKarl-Marx-Stadt and on the Berlin–Belzig–Dessau–Aschersleben routes.

Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper

Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper (13 October 1883 in Schwerin – 23 October 1935 in Dessau) was a Nazi politician and a Nazi Gauleiter in the Gau of Magdeburg-Anhalt.


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