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100 unusual facts about Germany


1913 German Ice Hockey Championship

The 1913 German Ice Hockey Championship was the second season of the German Ice Hockey Championship, the national championship of Germany.

1927 German Ice Hockey Championship

The 1927 German Ice Hockey Championship was the 11th season of the German Ice Hockey Championship, the national championship of Germany.

1947 German Ice Hockey Championship

The 1947 German Ice Hockey Championship was the 29th season of the German Ice Hockey Championship, the national championship of Germany.

49th Royal Tank Regiment

The operation was carried out under 'artificial moonlight' (searchlights shining onto the cloud cover) and during the assault on Rees by the 51st (Highland) Division the Grants both illuminated the crossing and engaged the enemy on the far bank with their 75mm guns.

Abitur after twelve years

The principal argument for the reduction are the comparatively long times for vocational education in Germany.

Adolf Wissel

Adolf Wissel (19 April 1894 – 17 November 1973) was a German painter.

Ammersbek

Ammersbek is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Armenia Fund

All-Armenian Fund through its 25 affiliate organizations has presence in 22 countries around the world: United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Great Britain, France, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, and Australia.

August Miete

Thereafter, Miete worked in the family's farming/milling business until 1950, and then as Managing Director of the Savings and Loan Association in Lotte.

Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels

August also increased his incomes by taking over the administration of the County of Barby during the minority of Count August Ludwig.

Basedow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Basedow is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Bassturk

Bassturk is a Turkish-German band best known for their song Yana Yana which sold 20,000 copies in Germany and 500,000 downloads in the internet, which was just an introductory single of the Bassturk album.

Batenburgers

In August 1536, the leaders of the various Anabaptist groups met in Bocholt in a final attempt to maintain the unity of Anabaptism.

Becherbach

Becherbach refers to two villages in the district of Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Bocholt Disaster

The Bocholt Disaster refers to the collapse of Spinnerei Beckmann cotton mill, in Bocholt, Germany, shortly before its completion in 1895.

Bordelum

Bordelum (North Frisian: Boorlem) is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Borrentin

Borrentin is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.

Bröbberow

Bröbberow is a municipality in the district of Rostock, in Mecklenburg, Germany, consisting of the three villages Bröbberow, Klein Grenz and Groß Grenz.

Bunde

Bunde, Germany, a town in the Leer District in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Cécil von Renthe-Fink

Cécil Karl-August Timon Ernst Anton von Renthe-Fink (1885–1964) was a German diplomat.

Cologne-Minden Railway Company

The Cologne-Minden Railway Company built the 183 kilometre long railway between 1859 and 1862 from Deutz via Betzdorf, Dillenburg and Wetzlar to Gießen, with a branch to the mines in Siegen.

Conrad II of Teck

Conrad was buried in Saint Martin's Church in the town of Owen, near the Teck castle.

Deutsche Bracke

In 1896 the Deutschen Bracken Club, encompassing all of the local types of Bracke in northwest Germany, was formed in Olpe.

Dissen

Dissen am Teutoburger Wald is an old charactered town in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Emil Albert Friedberg

Emil Albert Friedberg (1837-1910) was a German canonist.

Erdesbach

Erdesbach borders in the north on the municipality of Ulmet, in the east on the municipality of Bedesbach, in the south on the municipality of Altenglan, in the southwest on the municipality of Blaubach and in the west on the municipality of Oberalben.

Eric of Brunswick-Grubenhagen

However, Eric died unexpectedly on 14 May 1532, during a banquet in Fürstenau to celebrate his election in Osnabrück with his noble friends.

Ernst Fresser

Ernst Fresser (9 July 1879 - 21 July 1945) was a German field marshal.

Friedrich-Wilhelm Richter

Friedrich-Wilhelm Richter was born on the 9 May 1911, in Picher near Hannover.

Garstedt

Garstedt is a municipality in the districty of Harburg in Lower Saxony in Germany

George Henry Loskiel

According to the wish of his father he was educated at the Moravian college and theological seminary in Barby, Germany.

Gettorf

Gettorf (Danish: Gettorp) is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Giersleben

Giersleben is a municipality in the district of Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Gotthun

Gotthun is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Groß Miltzow

Groß Miltzow is a municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Halsbrücke

Halsbrücke is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany.

Heinrich Seidel

Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Seidel (25 June 1842, Perlin, Mecklenburg-Schwerin – 7 November 1906, Berlin) was a German engineer, poet and writer.

Heinz Reinefarth

After the war Reinefarth became the mayor of the town of Westerland and member of the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag.

Helga Eng

After a stay in Halle under the auspices of Ernst Meumann from 1909 to 1910, she began on a doctorate thesis, finishing it in 1912.

Hermann Ludwig Blankenburg

There is also a street in the community of Haldern in Rees, Germany named for the composer.

Hochdorf-Assenheim

Hochdorf-Assenheim is a municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Itzstedt

Itzstedt is a municipality in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Jan Jesenský

He was the founder and head of the Prague Stomatology Clinic until the German occupation in 1939, a member of the Bohemian Academy, a member of International Association for Dental Research (IADR), whose Honorary Vice-President he became 1933–1935), and co-founder of its Prague Section in 1932.

Johann Franz Ermels

Johann Franz Ermels (1641-1693), a German painter and engraver, a pupil of Holtzman, was born in Reilkirch.

Joldelund

Joldelund is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Karl Müllenhoff

He was born at Marne, Holstein, and after studying at Kiel, Leipzig, and Berlin, was professor at Kiel (1846–58) and at Berlin (1858-84).

Karlum

Karlum is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Klein Vielen

Klein Vielen is a municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Krempermoor

Krempermoor is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Kronsmoor

Kronsmoor is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Landscheide

Landscheide is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Langenberg

Langenberg (Rhineland), an independent town until 1975, now a borough of Velbert, Germany.

Ludwig Gottlieb Scriba

Ludwig Gottlieb Scriba (3 June 1736 – 3 May 1804) was a German theologian and entomologist.

Lundenberg Hundred

Today, remnants of the old hundred are now part of the island-turned-peninsula of Nordstrand, as well as the site of the town of Simonsberg, Germany, located southwest of Husum.

Lutter, Thuringia

Lutter is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Manhagen

Manhagen is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Master Gerhard

Meister or Master Gerhard (* c 1210/1215 allegedly in Reil – 24 or 25 April 1271 in Cologne) was the first master mason of Cologne Cathedral.

Mehlbek

Mehlbek is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Meir Bar-Ilan

Gaining Semicha in 1902, he travelled to Germany where he became acquainted with a more modern form of Orthodox Judaism that had a more tolerant attitude to secular education and to political Zionism (although such attitudes were also present in the Lithuania of his youth, and in his grandfather).

Michael Müller

Müller ("Mueller" in English spelling) was born on December 18, 1825, in the village Brück in the German Eifel region.

Minuscule 92

In 1485 the manuscript belongs to John Camerarius, bishop of Worms.

Neundorf bei Schleiz

Neundorf (bei Schleiz) is a municipality in the district of Saale-Orla, Thuringia, Germany.

Niederbreitbach

Niederbreitbach is a municipality and officially recognised climatic health-resort in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Nikolay Gredeskul

She was arrested on July 5, 1941, sentenced to 10 years in the Soviet labor camps and died in a German offensive outside of Smolensk when prisoners were forced to dig trenches to stop German tanks.

Osterrade

Osterrade is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Oststeinbek

Oststeinbek is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Pahlen, Germany

Pahlen is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Petersdorf, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Petersdorf is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Poyenberg

Poyenberg is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Rantrum

Rantrum is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Ravenstein

Ravenstein, Germany in the district Neckar-Odenwald, Baden-Württemberg

Ritzerow

Ritzerow is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Rodenbach bei Puderbach

Rodenbach bei Puderbach is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Rosenbach, Görlitz

Rosenbach is a municipality in the district Görlitz, in Saxony, Germany.

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Vallendar

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Vallendar was a County of the Holy Roman Empire in Germany.

Schwarz, Germany

Schwarz is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Seibersbach

Seibersbach is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Simmertal

Simmertal is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Spall, Germany

Spall is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Stapelfeld

Stapelfeld is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Stuer

Stuer is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Uri Avnery

Avnery was born in Beckum, Germany as Helmut Ostermann, to a well-established German Jewish family.

Vipperow

Vipperow is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Vollrathsruhe

Vollrathsruhe is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Waldburg-Wolfegg

Waldburg-Wolfegg was a County located in southeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Weddingstedt

Weddingstedt is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Weißenborn, Saxony

Weißenborn is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany.

Wennbüttel

Wennbüttel is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Westerland

Westerland, Germany, a town on the island Sylt, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Wewelsfleth

Wewelsfleth is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Wildberg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Wildberg is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Wilhelmsdorf, Thuringia

Wilhelmsdorf is a municipality in the district Saale-Orla-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany.

Windbergen

Windbergen is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Windesheim, Germany

Windesheim is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Windischleuba

Windischleuba is a municipality in the district Altenburger Land, in Thuringia, Germany.

Winseldorf

Winseldorf is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Wirtschaftsgymnasium

In Germany, education is the responsibility of the federal state (Land); so the requirements and classes differ from state to state.

Wittemoor timber trackway

The Wittemoor timber trackway is a log causeway or corduroy road across a bog at Neuenhuntdorf, part of the Berne in the district of Wesermarsch in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Zirzow

Zirzow is a municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Zschaitz-Ottewig

Zschaitz-Ottewig is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany.


Adolf von Brauchitsch

Adolf von Brauchitsch died in Chemnitz, Germany on the 21 January 1935 at age 58 and was given a military funeral.

Altenhagen

Altenhagen is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Arkebek

Arkebek is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Astwell

It had taken off on its way with the rest of the squadron on a mission to bomb the industrial complex at Solingen, Germany.

Banz Abbey

Banz Abbey (German: Kloster Banz), now known as Banz Castle (German: Schloss Banz), is a former Benedictine monastery, since 1978 a part of the town of Bad Staffelstein north of Bamberg, Bavaria, southern Germany.

Bentheim-Tecklenburg

Bentheim-Tecklenburg was a German district based in the region around Tecklenburg in northern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Blankenhof

Blankenhof is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Borstendorf

Borstendorf is a municipality in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany.

Botanischer Garten in Bad Langensalza

The Botanischer Garten in Bad Langensalza is a botanical garden located at Kurpromenade 5b, Bad Langensalza, Thuringia, Germany.

Detachment R

Detachment R (also known as the U.S. Army Russian Area School) was a special U.S. Army School initially located in a former Wehrmacht garrison in Oberammergau and later moved to Regensburg, Germany, where it remained from 1950 to 1954, when it was moved back to Oberammergau.

Ectaco

Within the next 2 years offices were opened in Germany (Berlin), Great Britain (London), the Czech Republic (Prague), Canada (Toronto), Poland (Warsaw) and Ukraine (Kiev).

F.P.1

The German version was the last German film that either Siodmak or Peter Lorre, who played a secondary character, would make in Germany before the war.

Ferdinand Gregorovius

He eventually returned to Germany, where he died in Munich.

François Dominique de Reynaud, Comte de Montlosier

In September 1791, after the dissolution of the Assembly, Montlosier fled to Germany where he tried to join the counter-revolutionary Army of Condé at Coblenz.

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart was born in Osnabrück, Germany and studied architecture, interior design and sculpture at Hanover School of Art and the Technical College, Hanover.

Götschetal

Götschetal is a village and a former municipality in the district Saalekreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Groupon MyCityDeal

MyCityDeal is backed by two key investors, Germany's Holtzbrinck Ventures and Rocket Internet.

Haff

Am Stettiner Haff, Amt in the district of Uecker-Randow, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

History of the violin

In the 19th and 20th centuries numerous violins were produced in France, in Saxony and the Mittenwald in what is now Germany, in the Tyrol, now parts of Austria and Italy, and in Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic.

Jervis B. Webb Company

The company headquarters is in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with offices and manufacturing plants internationally including Carlisle, South Carolina; Harbor Springs, Michigan; Boyne City, Michigan; Hamilton, Ontario; Northampton, England; Ludwigshafen, Germany; Palaiseau, France; Barcelona, Spain; Shanghai, China and Bangalore, India.

Joshua Kadison

It peaked at #19 on the U.S. Billboard charts, and Filipino actor/singer Jericho Rosales recorded and released a version of it on his own 2009 album Change. Painted Desert Serenade went platinum in the US and Germany, and went multi-platinum in Australia and New Zealand.

Journal of Contemporary History

The winner of the first George L. Mosse Prize in 2006 was the British historian of Nazi Germany Alex J. Kay, who won for his article Germany’s Staatssekretäre, Mass Starvation and the Meeting of 2 May 1941.

Konstanz

Konstanz station is served by the Upper Rhine Railway running west to Singen with connections to all parts of Germany, and the Etzwilen–Konstanz line running south into Switzerland, connecting to major routes at Weinfelden.

Krumhermersdorf

Krumhermersdorf is a village in the large county borough of Zschopau in the district Erzgebirgskreis in East Germany.

Matthias Klotz

Matthias Klotz did not really build his instruments according to the classical Italian style but rather made them similar to those of masters from Fussen (a town in Bavaria) and Swabian (Southern Germany).

Mittelrhein

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

Mönkhagen

Mönkhagen is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

New Bedford Highway Killer

Guedes could still be prosecuted for the 2000 murder of a prostitute in Aveiro, Portugal and similar murders in Germany (or neighboring countries) where Guedes resided in the 1990s.

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded in 1901 to the German physiologist Emil Adolf von Behring, for his work on serum therapy and the development of a vaccine against diphtheria.

Osterburg

Osterberg, a municipality in the district of Neu-Ulm, Bavaria, Germany

Penkow

Penkow is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

PIKO

PIKO manufactures its own products, at its headquarters factory in Sonneberg (Thüringen) Germany, and at its own factory, PIKO China, in Guangdong, PRC.

Plötzkau

Plötzkau is a municipality in the district of Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Spirit Zone Records

Spirit Zone Recordings was an electronic music record label from Germany which started in 1994.

SS Westfalen

SS Westfalen (1912) was built as the 170 ton minesweeper FM-29 in 1919, by Nobiskrug in Rendsburg, Germany.

Tannöd

A film adaptation of the novel with the same title Tannöd was released in cinemas in Germany on 19 November 2009, directed by Bettina Oberli, (Wüste-Film West) and starring Julia Jentsch, Monica Bleibtreu and Volker Bruch.

Thanks to My Mother

Two days after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, when Suzanne was eight years old, Germans occupied Vilnius and Suzanne’s father, Isak Weksler was arrested as a Jew and was eventually sent to his death at Paneriai - Ponary.

The Fatherland

Having been born in Munich, Germany, and moved to New York City in 1896, Viereck graduated from the College of the City of New York and directly entered the world of publishing.

The Little Drummer Girl

The story follows the manipulations of Martin Kurtz, an Israeli spymaster who is trying to kill a Palestinian terrorist named Khalil, who is bombing Jewish-related targets in Europe, particularly Germany, and the English actress Charlie, who becomes a double agent working on behalf of the Israelis.

Thomas D

Outside Germany, he is probably best known for Wish (Komm zu mir) which he performed with Franka Potente on the soundtrack of the movie Run Lola Run.

Werner Heldt

Werner Heldt (1904–54) was a German painter.

Wiehltal bridge

The Wiehltal Bridge is a highway bridge on the A 4 motorway between Cologne and Olpe over the Wiehltal valley at Engelskirchen (Oberbergischer Kreis), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Woggersin

Woggersin is a municipality in the district of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Wulfsen

Wulfsen is a municipality in the district of Harburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Wustrow, Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Wustrow is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.