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39 unusual facts about Hagen


2009–10 Basketball Bundesliga

Mitteldeutscher BC and Phoenix Hagen of the Pro A division have qualified by sportive means to play in Basketball Bundesliga 2009–10.

Accumulatoren-Fabrik AFA

Initially based in Hagen, during World War II the company acquired a number of other factories, mostly confiscated by the Nazis from their previous owners.

Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert

Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert (born 1945) is a professor of philosophy at the University of Hagen, Germany.

Bahnbetriebswerk

The DB heavy transport group (Straße-Schiene i.e. 'road-rail') was however based in Hagen.

Barbara Morgenstern

In addition to having played in a band, she decided on a career in music in 1991 after completing her schooling at the Ernst Meister Gymnasium in Hagen-Haspe.

Born in Hagen, Germany, Morgenstern describes herself as self-taught, although she had piano lessons as a child and jazz lessons at the school of music in Hagen.

Bettina Hauert

Born in Hagen, Germany, Hauert was the individual champion at the 2003 Sherry Cup.

DB Class 151

Altogether 170 locomotives were ordered, which were based at first in Hagen and Nuremberg.

DRB Class 03.10

In autumn 1958, all 26 engines were rehomed to Bw Hagen-Eckesey, after some had previously been based in Hamburg-Altona and Paderborn.

Frank Hemmer

Frank Hemmer (born 28 April 1963 in Hagen-Hohenlimburg) is a West German-German slalom canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.

Gotthart A. Eichhorn

His father, a Baltic German refugee from Estonia, was an architect and university lecturer, who moved after being released from a prisoner of war camp with his family to Hagen (Westfalen).

Grete Heublein

She set the world record on June 19, 1932 in Hagen, reaching 40.84 metres, but lost it the same day.

Hagen-Dahl

After 1817, Dahl was an independent settlement, with its own mayor, within the district of Breckerfeld, but by order of the government of the Kingdom of Prussia was administratively subordinate to the district (Kreis) of Hagen.

Hagen-Heubing station

Hagen-Heubing station is a through station in the city of Hagen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The station is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn lines S 8 between Mönchengladbach and Hagen twice an hour (with intervals of 20 and 40 minutes alternatively).

Hagen-Priorei

Priorei is best known for an ancient tree, believed to be over 1000 years old, the Priorlinde (the prior's lime).

Hagen-Rummenohl

The former independent settlement of Dahl, consisting of Dahl, Priorei and Rummenohl, was incorporated in 1970 into the town of Breckerfeld in the district (Kreis) of Ennepe-Ruhr.

Hagen-Vorhalle station

Hagen-Vorhalle station is a large marshalling yard of national importance and a small passenger station for local services in the Hagen district of Vorhalle in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Hagen, Osnabrück

Hagen (also Hagen am Teutoburger Wald) is a municipality in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Hamide Akbayir

During the 2010 North Rhine-Westphalia election, she stood as a candidate of the Left in a local electoral district of Hagen, and as a result of the election, she entered the state parliament as part of the party list.

Hans Nieland

His political career started as a head of the district authority in his native town Hagen, later on Nieland became district president in Münster.

Hans Heinrich Nieland (October 3, 1900 in Hagen – August 29, 1976 in Reinbek near Hamburg) was a politician of the German Nazi-Party (NSDAP) and Lord Mayor of Dresden from 1940 until 1945.

Hans-Georg von Charpentier

Then from 1932 to 1935 he was on tour in Saarbrücken, when on tour he joined the NSDAP in August 1933 (party number 1375222) and volunteered to join the SS-VT in May 1935 in Hagen (SS number 258019).

Jennifer Bongardt

Jennifer Bongardt (born 8 September 1982 in Hagen-Dahl) is a German slalom canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the early 2010s.

Mambo Kurt

Mambo Kurt (born Rainer Limpinsel; 11 April 1967 in Hagen) is a German comedy and novelty act who performs covers of mainstream and classic rock hits.

Mark Poepping

Mark Poepping studied National Economics at German Universities of Paderborn, Bonn und Hagen and attended Nottingham University while on a students exchange program.

Mark Rein

Mark Rein·Hagen, role-playing, card, video and board game designer

Nighttime Birds

The album was recorded at Woodhouse Studios, Hagen, Germany between February 17 and March 15, 1997 under the guidance of producer Siggi Bemm and The Gathering.

Per Günther

Günther began his professional career with German side Phoenix Hagen, then a part of the German 2.

On the heels of his successful season with Hagen, Günther joined Basketball Bundesliga side Ratiopharm Ulm for the 2008-09 season, helping the team to a fifth place league finish.

Peter Fishman

In 2005 he was the artistic director of the creative team for the cultural exchange between the twin cities of Smolensk and Hagen (Germany).

Regiobahn GmbH

At Neuss, Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof and Düsseldorf-Gerresheim there are connections to the lines S1, S6, S5/S8, S11 and S68 (in peak hours), which runs into the direction of Solingen, Dortmund, Essen, Cologne, Mönchengladbach, Hagen, Bergisch Gladbach and Düsseldorf International Airport.

Sadi Irmak

After completing his study, Sadi Irmak worked as an assistant physician in hospitals in Hagen and Düsseldorf, Germany.

Stelios Sfakianakis

Born in Hagen, Sfakianakis moved to Greece where he began his professional career with Kavala F.C., where he played in the Beta Ethniki and Alpha Ethniki.

Susanne Tunn

Realisation for the art award on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of Peace of Westphalia, Hagen a.T.W., Germany

Thomas Wessinghage

Thomas Wessinghage (born February 22, 1952 in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia) was a German middle- and long-distance runner who won the 1982 European Championships' final over 5000 metres beating the British world-record holder David Moorcroft.

Tobias Schönenberg

Tobias Schönenberg (born 17 August 1986 in Hagen, Germany) is a German actor and photomodel.

William Boeing

Boeing was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a wealthy German mining engineer named Wilhelm Böing from Hagen-Hohenlimburg who had made a fortune and who had a sideline as a timber merchant.

Yoshukai Karate

He now maintains his hombu dojo (headquarters) in Dortmund, and directs other schools in Hildesheim, Berlin, and in Hagen, Germany.


American Federation of Aviculture

, Research Director for the Hagen Avicultural Research Institute of the Rolf C. Hagen Group, have presented at the conventions.

Ars Flores Symphony Orchestra

Ars Flores Symphony Orchestra is sponsored by Broward County, Florida, The Miami Herald, Bank Atlantic, the Hagen Family Foundation, Wal-Mart, Hugh's Catering, Cultural Affairs of Miami-Dade County, Nova Southeastern University, Florida Arts & Culture Division of Cultural Affairs, The Children's Trust, Miami-Dade College's North Campus, Miami-Dade County's Cultural Affairs, the Chopin Foundation of the United States and Air Jamaica.

BBV Hagen

The name "Brandt Hagen", for the new club, originated from the main sponsor Brandt Zwieback, a well known producer of zwieback in Germany.

Bernhard Joachim Hagen

Bernhard Joachim Hagen (April 1720 in or near Hamburg (?) – December 9, 1787 in Ansbach) was a German composer, violinist and lutenist.

Canica

Canica is a private holding company, based in Oslo, Norway, created to own the RIMI grocery store chain, owned by Stein Erik Hagen (10%) and his three children Caroline Marie Hagen, Carl Erik Hagen and Nina Camilla Hagen (30% each).

Carnival in Germany, Switzerland and Austria

Cologne, Düsseldorf and Mainz are held in the public media to be Germany's three carnival "strongholds," but carnival celebrations are also widespread elsewhere in the Rhineland, in places such as Wattenscheid, Hagen, Krefeld, Aachen, Mönchengladbach, Duisburg, Bonn, Eschweiler, Bocholt and Kleve.

Dice pool

Vampire: The Masquerade (1991) and Over the Edge (1992) followed, which were written by Ars Magica designers Mark Rein-Hagen and Jonathan Tweet respectively, the pair having been impressed by the potential of the dice pool mechanic and each having decided to make their own game based on dice pools.

Düsseldorf-Bilk

Düsseldorf-Bilk station is now served only by the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn (slow regional trains) and is connected by the lines S 8, S 11 and S 28 to Neuss, Mönchengladbach, Kaarst, Wuppertal, Hagen, Erkrath, Mettmann, Dormagen, Cologne and other parts of Düsseldorf (Central station, Düsseldorf-Gerresheim,...).

Edvald Boasson Hagen

Boasson Hagen lost any chance of overall victory but made up by winning the following stage in Brussels by passing Jimmy Engoulvent in the final fifteen meters of the race.

Ekkehard I

It describes the elopement of Walter of Aquitaine with the Burgundian princess Hildegunde, from the land of the Huns, followed by the battle of Wasgenstein between Walter and the followers of Gunther and Hagen (ed. Peiper, Berlin, 1873).

Enoch Maki

From Mount Hagen he then moved to Port Moresby to attend university where he was enrolled at the University of Papua New Guinea and the Masta Mak Rangers where the quick ones to grab him.

Eva-Maria Hagen

Eva-Maria Hagen (born Eva-Maria Buchholz, 19 October 1934 in Kołczyn, Province of Brandenburg, now Poland) is a German actress and singer.

Francesco Provenzale

La Stellidaura vendicante 1674 - Stellidaura: Jennifer Rivera (mezzo-soprano), Armillo: Hagen Matzeit (countertenor), Armidoro: Bogdan Mihai (tenor), Orismondo: Carlo Allemano (tenor), Giampetro: Enzo Capuano (bass).

Gather Together in My Name

As Hagen points out, since Angelou was encouraged to appreciate literature as a young child, she continues to read, exposing herself to a wide variety of authors, ranging from Countee Cullen's poetry to Leo Tolstoy and other Russian authors.

Gulbrand Hagen

Hagen was born in Sigdal, Buskerud, Norway, immigrated to the United States as a young man and settled in Crookston, Minnesota.

Hagen–Hamm railway

The Hagen–Hamm railway is a continuous two-track, electrified main line in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, connecting Hagen via Schwerte, Holzwickede and Unna to Hamm.

Hubertus Regout

After that, George Regout starred in the musical Elixier at the Komödie Dresden, Germany, in the role of Hagen, one of the leading parts, music composed by Tobias Künzel.

James Kops

From the Hagen Eagles club, Kops first played for Papua New Guinea in 1995 at the World Cup.

Kevin Hagen

Hagen guest starred seven times on Gunsmoke, six times on The Big Valley, five times each on Bonanza, Laramie, and Have Gun - Will Travel, four appearances on Mannix and The Time Tunnel, and three appearances on Perry Mason, two of them in 1965: as murderer Jacob Leonard in "The Case of the Gambling Lady," and Samuel Carleton in "The Case of the Fugitive Fraulein."

Konrad Hagius

Konrad Hagius also Conrad von Hagen (Rinteln, c. 1550-1616) was a German composer.

Michael Silka

Albert Hagen, Jr., 27, Eskimo construction worker who had just returned six weeks previous to visit his parents after a 10-year absence.

Mustafa Letter

Staff demanded, on behalf of his client, compensation from Hagen and the Progress Party for 500,000 NOK.

NLUUG

Over the years, awards have been given to amongst others Piet Beertema, Guido van Rossum, Wietse Venema, Bram Moolenaar, Andy Tanenbaum and Wytze van der Raay and Teus Hagen.

Stan Hagen

Hagen was best known for being integral in the creation of Science World.

The Prosecution of an American President

The Prosecution of an American President is a 2012 American documentary film about the Iraq War directed by Dave Hagen and David J. Burke.

Tom Hagen

In August 1964, Geraci kidnaps Hagen and drowns him in the Florida Everglades.

Ulrich I, Lord of Hanau

Ulrich I was the eldest son of Reinhard I and his wife Adelaide, who was a sister of Ulrich II, the last Count of Hagen-Münzenberg.

Urlaub auf Ehrenwort

Infantryman Ullrich Hagen (Wilhelm König) is a composer; he visits his music teacher, who will shortly be performing one of his works and begs him to be true to his talent rather than throwing his life away in a futile cause.

Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective

Rhea Perlman, Tom Fenaughty, R Douglas Friedlander, Eileen Gottermeyer, Leigh Hagen, Ilan Mamber, J H Murphy, Saul Fredericks, Cleve Roller, Faith Stanflied

Wiesweiler

As early as 1287, Wiesweiler had its first documentary mention in a document from the Hornbach Monastery, according to which the monastery’s abbot confirmed for another monastery, Hane (or Hagen) near Kirchheimbolanden, an income in Wiswilre.

William Price Fox

John Updike (--on Fox's Doctor Golf): "Golf in the Kingdom" put me in mind of another curious devotional work, William Price Fox's "Doctor Golf."Doctor Golf, a fanatic even quainter and keener than Shivas Irons, runs a thirty-nine-member golf sanctuary in Arkansas called Eagle-Ho, refers to "young Hagen," advocates caddy flogging, sells by mail order a clanking, cumbersome line of golf paraphernalia, and conducts a large correspondence.

Words, Words, Words

Daniel Hagen played the role of Milton, Robert Stanton played Swift, and Nancy Opel played Kafka.

Z-G

In an attempt to branch out, Mark Rein·Hagen, creator of the Vampire: The Masquerade role-playing game, founded Atomoton, a company that would focus more on collectible forms of gaming.