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17 unusual facts about Leverkusen


Deirdre Ryan

In January 2009, she achieved a personal best jump of 1.93 metres indoors in Leverkusen.

Elfgard Schittenhelm

Elfgard Sibylle Schittenhelm (née Weismann; born 13 September 1947 in Leverkusen) is a retired German sprinter.

ESHPh: The European Society for the History of Photography

The founding of the Europäischen Gesellschaft für die Geschichte der Photographie (ESHPh) European Society for the History of Photography took place at the first general meeting on 19 November 1978 in Leverkusen, Germany.

Gunther Behnke

Gunther Behnke (born January 19, 1963 in Leverkusen) is a retired German professional basketball player.

Günther Weisenborn

The city of his birth, Velbert has a street named for him, as does Leverkusen.

Jörg Bergmeister

Jörg Bergmeister (born 13 February 1976, in Leverkusen) is a race car driver from Germany.

Klaus Heuser

Klaus „Major“ Heuser (born 27 January 1957 in Leverkusen) is a German musician and producer.

Lars Börgeling

His personal best is 5.85 metres, achieved in July 2002 in Leverkusen.

Levente Csillag

His personal best time is 13.44 seconds, achieved in August 1997 in Leverkusen.

Leverkusen – Cologne IV

Most of the electorate comes from the neighbouring city of Leverkusen.

Markus Esser

Markus Esser (born 3 February 1980 in Leverkusen) is a male hammer thrower from Germany.

His personal best is 81.10 metres, achieved in July 2006 in Leverkusen.

ORWO

In 1953 the plant became the property of East Germany, and in a trade agreement settlement, the East German company, VEB Film- und Chemiefaserwerk Agfa Wolfen, was given the right to sell its products under the Agfa brand in Eastern Europe, while the newly re-established Agfa in West German Leverkusen had the right to the name in the rest of the world.

Panton Chair

The material used was Baydur, a high-resilience polyurethane foam produced by Bayer in Leverkusen, Germany.

Polyvinyl butyral

There are other types of interlayer materials in use, including polyurethanes such as Duraflex-brand thermoplastic polyurethane film, manufactured by Bayer MaterialScience, Leverkusen, Germany.

Schlebusch

The original land owned by the family was in what today is known as Leverkusen near Cologne in Germany.

Silke Lichtenhagen

Silke Lichtenhagen (born 20 November 1973 in Leverkusen) is a retired German sprinter.


Dirk Bauermann

With Leverkusen, he won 7 German League championships and 4 German Cups, and was twice named the German League's Coach of the Year.

Hans Kühne

As manager of IG Farben's Leverkusen plant he immediately took up the suggestion that the traditional May Day holiday should instead be celebrated as a new Nazi holiday for industrial excellence.

Julije Knifer

He exhibited at many national and international shows including, The New Tendencies exhibitions (1961, 1963, 1969 and 1973), Art Abstrait Constructif International at the Denise René Gallery (Paris, 1961–1962), Konstruktivisten at the Städtisches Museum Leverkusen (Leverkusen, 1962), Oltre l’informale (San Marino, 1963), the Venice Biennale (1976 and 2001), the São Paulo Art Biennale (1973 with Juraj Dobrović and Vjenceslav Richter, 1979 and 1981).

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim

VfL Wolfsburg is wholly owned and supported by automobile manufacturer VW, Bayer 04 Leverkusen by pharmaceutical company Bayer.

Zé Roberto

In May 2002, he joined Bayern Munich for a reported fee of €12 million, signing a three year deal, linking up with emerging German talent Sebastian Deisler and Leverkusen teammate Michael Ballack.