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unusual facts about Landsberg-Lech Air Base


Roth Air Base

The first unit to occupy the base was a pilot training school relocated from Landsberg Air Base near Penzing.


562d Flying Training Squadron

The squadron participated in approximately 300 combat missions in the European Theater of Operations from 17 July 1943 until its last World War II mission, flown to the Landsberg Aerodrome near Munich, on 21 April 1945.

Amir Hadad

Levy and Hadad then competed in May in the German town of Fürth, where they took the title from Jan Frode Andersen and Johan Landsberg, 6–1, 6–2.

Andrew Leo Bettwy

1LT Bettwy participated in the liberation of the German concentration camp at Landsberg, and during the final three days of the war in Europe in May 1945, was officially "traded" to the German 38th SS Division Nibelungen as liaison officer to effect orderly surrenders.

Berthold II of Landsberg

Bertold of Landsberg (before 1464 – 4 May 1502 at the castle in Rotenburg an der Wümme) was bishop of Verden.

Blancmange curve

It is also known as the Takagi curve, after Teiji Takagi who described it in 1903, or as the Takagi–Landsberg curve, a generalization of the curve named after Takagi and Georg Landsberg.

Dedi III, Margrave of Lusatia

From 1156, Count of Groitzsch and also Count of Rochlitz, and from 1185 also Margrave of Lusatia and Count of Eilenburg and Landsberg.

Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

Frederick Louis was born in Heidelberg in 1619 as the only surviving son of Frederick Casimir, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Landsberg.

Grigory Landsberg

In 1928, G.S. Landsberg and L.I. Mandelstam discovered a phenomenon of combinatorial scattering of light (this phenomenon became known as Raman effect independently discovered by C. V. Raman and K. S. Krishnan in liquids).

Hungary in World War II

In the town of Landsberg in Bavaria, a Hungarian garrison stood in parade formation to surrender as the Americans advanced through the area very late in the war.

Klara Löbenstein

Afterwards Löbenstein worked as a high school teacher in Metz and Landsberg.

Konrad I, Duke of Głogów

By 1271, Konrad married his second wife, Sophie (b. ca. 1259 - d. 24 August 1318), daughter of Dietrich the Wise, Margrave of Landsberg (second son of Henry III, Margrave of Meissen) and — according to some sources — widow of the last legitimate male member of the House of Hohenstaufen, Conradin, King of Sicily and Jerusalen.

Landsberg, Saxony-Anhalt

The town's first documentary mention came in 961 as "civitas holm" in a document from Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Marie Juchacz

After finishing school in Landsberg an der Warthe (now Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland), Juchacz, whose beliefs were Protestant, began work in 1893, first as a maid, and then for a short time as factory staff.

Mario Debenedictis

Mario Debenedictis (born March 28, 1966 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a professional ice hockey player who played for HC Varese, Rouen and Landsberg EV in European leagues.

Michele Landsberg

In 1963, Landsberg married Stephen Lewis, the former UN Secretary General's Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa.

They have three children, including Ilana Naomi Landsberg-Lewis, who is married to musician and activist Lorraine Segato; Jenny Leah Lewis; and journalist Avi David Lewis, who is married to writer Naomi Klein.

Schondorf

With the seizure of the Nazis, the Unterschondorf-based Joachim von Moltke took over the mayor's office, but was soon out district leader of the district of Landsberg am Lech.


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