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29 unusual facts about Hadamar


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Extermination centres were established at six existing pyschiatric hospitals: Bernburg, Brandenburg, Grafeneck, Hadamar, Hartheim, and Sonnenstein.

In Hadamar, ashes containing human hair rained down on the town.

André Rudersdorf

André Rudersdorf (born 9 September 1995 in Hadamar) is a German racing driver.

Belzec extermination camp

Wirth had the leading position as a supervisor of all six euthanasia institutions in the Reich; Hering as the non-medical chief of Sonnenstein (Pirna, Saxony) and Hadamar.

Christian Egenolff

Egenolff was born in Hadamar and studied humanities at the University of Mainz from 1516, but later took up the trade of bookprinting in Strasbourg, working for Wolfgang Küpfel and marrying Margarethe Karpf.

Christian, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg

In 1711, Francis Alexander, the last Prince of Nassau-Hadamar had died and his territory had been divided among the surviving Ottonian lines of Nassau: Nassau-Dietz, Nassau-Dillenburg and Nassau-Siegen.

Francis Alexander, Prince of Nassau-Hadamar

Francis Alexander von Nassau-Hadamar (27 January 1674 in Hadamar – 27 May 1711, ibid.) was the last prince of Nassau-Hadamar.

Franz Alexander was the son of prince Maurice Henry of Nassau-Hadamar (23 April 1626 – 24 January 1679) and his second wife Maria Leopoldine of Nassau-Siegen (1652–1675).

# Elisabeth (21 September 1698 – 2 October 1724 in Roermond), a nun at Thorn and Essen

Gustav Ricker

Gustav Wilhelm August Josef Ricker (November 2, 1870 – September 23, 1948) was a German physician and pathologist born in Hadamar, Hesse-Nassau.

House of Nassau

1303–1334: Emicho I, Count in Driedorf, Esterau, and Hadamar, married Anna of Nuremberg

Irmgard Huber

At the close of World War II, when American forces occupied the small German town of Hadamar, they heard rumors about the murder of the mentally ill patients at a local psychiatric hospital.

John Louis of Nassau-Hadamar

William Louis received Nassau-Dillenburg, John received Nassau-Siegen, George received Nassau-Beilstein, Ernst Casimir received Nassau-Dietz and John Louis received Nassau-Hadamar.

In 1645 he was added to the Imperial delegation under Maximilian von und zu Trauttmansdorff who negotiated the Peace of Westphalia.

Joseph Kehrein

After studying philology at the University of Giessen from 1831 to 1834, he taught at the gymnasium of Darmstadt, 1835–1837, at that of Mainz, 1837–1845, was prorector at the newly founded gymnasium of Hadamar in Nassau, 1845–1846, professor at the same place, 1846–1855, director of the Catholic teachers' seminary at Montabaur, 1855–1876, and at the same time director of the Realschule at the same place, 1855–1866.

Karl Felix Halm

In 1849, having held appointments at Speyer and Hadamar, he became rector of the newly founded Maximiliansgymnasium at Munich, and in 1856 director of the royal library and professor in the University of Munich.

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (February 21, 1851, Hadamar, Duchy of Nassau – December 15, 1913, Capri) was a German painter and social reformer.

Klaus Moje

Moje became a journeyman glass cutter and worked in his family's shop until he received a scholarship to study glass art in Rheinbach and then in Hadamar.

Ludwig Harscher von Almendingen

In 1802, he accepted the situation of counsellor to the newly erected court of appeal at Hadamar, an office which he filled at Düsseldorf, during the disturbances of Nassau; but being recalled, in 1811, to the service of the duke of Nassau, he became vice-director of the aulic tribunal of Wiesbaden, and referendary of the minister of state.

Maurice Henry, Prince of Nassau-Hadamar

Francis Alexander (27 January 1674in Hadamar – 27 May 1711 in Hadamar), who succeeded Maurice Henry as Prince of Nassau-Hadamar

Maurice Henry, Prince of Nassau-Hadamar (23 April 1626 in Hadamar – 24 January 1679 in Hadamar) was — after his father — the second ruler of the younger Nassau-Hadamar line of the Ottonian branch of the House of Nassau.

Maurice Henry was born on 23 April 1626 in Hadamar as the son of Prince John Louis of Nassau-Hadamar and his wife Ursula, the daughter of Count Simon "the Elder" of Lippe-Detmold.

Niederhadamar

Niederhadamar is a German village belonging to the municipality of Hadamar, with 4,000 inhabitants.

Oflag XII-B

In June 1942, all inmates were transferred to Oflag XII-A in Hadamar, near Limburg, which was then renumbered Oflag XII-B.

Rupert, Count of Nassau-Sonnenberg

In 1362, Rupert married Anna (d. 1404), a daughter of John of Nassau-Hadamar and Elisabeth of Waldeck.

Thomas Haddon

Haddon was to spend the remainder of the war as a prisoner at Oflag XIIB camp, near Hadamar.

William Hyacinth, Prince of Nassau-Siegen

William Hyacinth himself fled to Hadamar, to his cousin Francis Alexander.

Prince William Hyacinth of Nassau-Siegen (7 April 1666 in Brussels – 18 February 1743 in Hadamar) was a Prince of Nassau-Siegen.

Wolfgang Rösch

His first positions were as Kaplan (assisting minister) in Wetzlar and Hadamar.


Hadamar Euthanasia Centre

The discovery in late March 1945 of the "euthanasia" facility Hadamar near Limburg an der Lahn in west central Germany riveted attention in the United States.

Niederhadamar

It is located between several other communities: Elz to the south, Hundsangen to the west, Hadamar to the north, and Offheim to the east.

Treblinka trials

Even if he could not be shown to have been criminally involved at Hadamar, Hirtreiter did confess to having worked in a camp near the Polish village of Małkinia where Jews were killed in a gas chamber.