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5 unusual facts about Deutsche Bundespost


Aygül Özkan

Özkan's father immigrated from Ankara (Turkey) to Hamburg (West Germany) in the 1960s, where he first worked for Deutsche Bundespost and subsequently set up an independent business as a tailor in Hamburg.

Gisela Kessler

She worked as a Clerk for Deutsche Bundespost, studied at the Akademie der Arbeit in Frankfurt and worked for the German Confederation of Trade Unions from 1967.

ITU-R 468 noise weighting

D.B.P. is Deutsche Bundespost, the German post office which provides telephone service in Germany as the GPO does in the UK.

Karsten Wettberg

Wettberg joined the German postal service, who he worked for until his retirement in July 2002.

Kurt Gscheidle

In 1953 Gscheidle became an official of the Deutsche Bundespost labor union and was elected vice-chairman in 1957.


Astra 23.5°E

The 23.5° east orbital position was first occupied by the DFS-Kopernikus 1 and DFS-Kopernikus 3 satellites, launched in June 1989 and October 1992, respectively, to provide channel feeds to German cable headends for Deutsche Bundespost (later, Deutsche Telekom).

C-Netz

The Radio Telephone Network C (German: Funktelefonnetz-C, abbreviated as C-Netz), was a first generation analog cellular phone system deployed and operated in Germany (at first West Germany) by DeTeMobil (formerly of Deutsche Bundespost Telekom, currently Deutsche Telekom).


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