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unusual facts about German government



Telephone numbers in Germany

The regulation of telephone numbers in Germany is the responsibility of the Federal Network Agency (German: Bundesnetzagentur, BNetzA) of the German government.


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31 Senior High School Jakarta

31 Senior High School is also one of 28 schools in Indonesia, which is in cooperation with the German government through the Goethe-Institut's project "Schulen: Partner der Zukunft" or Schools: Partners of the Future.

AGH University of Science and Technology

The main building was used by the German government of the occupied Polish territory.

Aqua regia

The German government had prohibited Germans from accepting or keeping any Nobel Prize after jailed peace activist Carl von Ossietzky had received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1935.

Babenhausen

The US military installation in Babenhausen, Babenhausen Kaserne, formerly home of the 41st Field Artillery Brigade (United States) and two Patriot Missile units (D and E Batteries) of the 5th Battalion 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, was closed and returned to the control of the German government in 2007.

Bagha Jatin

Very soon it merges into a bigger body, to form the Berlin Committee, or the Indian Independence Party, led by Virendranath Chattopadhyaya alias Chatto : it gained the support of the German government and had as members prominent Indian revolutionaries abroad, including leaders of the Ghadar Party.

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.

Bisoro

With aid from the German Government, organized by the Partnership between the Church districts Schopfheim, Lörrach and Dikome-Balue Presbytery (PCC), the village has a 172.000 DM (52.000.000 CFA) 15000 l pipe-borne water system, a primary school that was created in 1958, a health centre created in 1982 and a secondary school created in September 2007 (Minesec, June, 2007).

Distomo

The judges awarded the plaintiffs the Villa Vigoni in Menaggio, Italy, a German government-sponsored nonprofit foundation.

Dornier Do R

The Superwal went into service with Severa and later DVS in List, both organisations of the German government to develop military Seaplanes ignoring restrictions of the Versailles treaty.

Ex parte Quirin

All had received instructions in Germany from an officer of the German High Command to destroy war industries and war facilities in the United States, for which they or their relatives in Germany were to receive salary payments from the German government.

Fokker

Fokker capitalized on having sold several Fokker Spin monoplanes to the German government and set up a factory in Germany to supply the German army.

Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis

Although the German Federal government does not recognize "noble" or "royal" status per se, members of the former royal, princely, and noble houses of German descent use their "titles" which the German government regards as last names.

Göttingen Manifesto

The Göttingen Manifesto was a declaration of 18 leading nuclear scientists of West Germany (among them the Nobel laureates Otto Hahn, Max Born, Werner Heisenberg and Max von Laue) against arming the West German army with tactical nuclear weapons in the 1950s, the early part of the Cold War, as the West German government under chancellor Adenauer had suggested.

Gujjula Ravindra Reddy

In four villages near Avanigadda, Andhra Pradesh tsunami shelters doubling as school buildings were constructed using charitable donations from the German Government and organisations such as Lions Club, Altlandsberg, Solidarity Service International (SODI) and Aktion Deutschland Hilft and Berlin Lichtenberg.

Hans-Christian Ströbele

On 31 October 2013, Ströbele met with Edward Snowden in Moscow to discuss the possibility of the NSA whistleblower testifiying before a German parliamentary committee set to investigate the claims of American intelligence services spying on German government officials, including Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Kadaververwertungsanstalt

Sir Austen Chamberlain finally established the story as untrue, when in a reply in Parliament on 2 December 1925 he said that the German Chancellor had authorised him to say on the authority of the German government, that there was never any foundation for the story, and that he accepted the denial on behalf of His Majesty's Government.

Manfred Krug

In 1976 the East German government (GDR) forbade Krug to work as an actor and singer because he participated in protests against the expulsion and stripping of GDR citizenship of Wolf Biermann.

Mitchell Campbell King

Bismarck's letters to him are preserved in the U.S. Library of Congress, while some of King's letters are kept by the Otto-von-Bismarck-Stiftung in Friedrichsruh near Hamburg (Germany), which is a commemorative German Government Foundation in memory of the Chancellor of the German Empire (similar to the Presidential libraries in the United States).

Ogrodzieniec, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

The property had gone into debt and was in need of major investment when the German government and contributions from German industrials on initiative of Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau, gave Paul von Hindenburg clear title to Neudeck in 1927, for his services in World War I and as Reich President.

Operation Freshman

Norway possessed a large amount which was produced by the Vemork Norsk Hydro chemical plant near the village of Rjukan, but the Norwegian government would not sell more than three gallons of heavy water a month, becoming suspicious of the sudden increase in demand for the water by the German government.

Otto Flugmaschinenfabrik

At the insistence of the Bavarian and Prussian War Ministries (and in particular the Inspectors of the Engineering Corps) the unprofitable aircraft manufacturer was taken over by the German Government, and Gustav Otto was forced to resign from his company.

Porsche 114

After designing the Volkswagen for the German government's KDF program Ferdinand Porsche considered building a sports car version of the VW.

Prussian Trust

The former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder stated on August 1, 2004 that the German government will not support these claims.

Pullach

The headquarters of the intelligence agency of the German government, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), is located in Pullach, making it a metonym for the BND just like Langley is for the CIA.

Revanchism

The conference was not only opened on the anniversary of the proclamation of the Second Reich, the treaty also had to be signed by the new German government in the same room, the Hall of Mirrors.

RV Maria S. Merian

The Merian was financed by the German government and is assigned to the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research at Warnemünde, with Rostock as its home port.

Shimon Stein

In 2006 Stein called on the German government to stop Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from visiting the FIFA World Cup.

The Condemned Village

During 1952, the rejection of the Stalin Note by the Western Powers prompted the East German government to block and fortify the country's western borders - and to destroy several adjacent villages in the process.

Tintenpalast

The Tintenpalast, which is located just north of Robert Mugabe Avenue, was designed by German architect Gottlieb Redecker and built by the company Sander & Kock between 1912 and 1913 out of regional materials as an administration building for the German government, which colonized Namibia at the time.

Turawa

In 1933 the project was submitted to the German government, receiving the personal approval of Adolf Hitler.

Vasil Radoslavov

As Prime Minister he oversaw the occupation of Dobruja in 1916 with the aid of German General August von Mackensen, although the move lost him some support from the German government as they wanted some of the territory for themselves.

Walter Gramsch

Gramsch later became a high ranking transportation official in the Communist East German government (The GDR).

Water supply and sanitation in Turkey

German development cooperation is being implemented by GIZ(technical cooperation) and KfW(financial cooperation) on behalf of the German government.

William Rhodes Davis

During the 1940 U.S. elections, Davis used funds provided by the German government to contribute approximately $160,000 to a Pennsylvania Democratic organization to help defeat Sen. Joseph Guffey, a Democrat and a prominent critic of Germany, and to bribe the Pennsylvania delegation to the 1940 Democratic National Convention to vote against Roosevelt, moves which both failed.

Women for Israel's Tomorrow

Nadia Matar, the group's co-chair, caused controversy across the Israeli political spectrum in September 2004 when she compared the government's intention to remove Israeli settlers from Gaza to the involvement of the Judenrat ("Jewish Council") in Berlin in 1942, which under orders from the German government organized the expulsion of the Jewish community from that city.