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5 unusual facts about Linke


Hesse state election, 2008

The other winner—and perhaps the bigger winner overall considering their relative starting positions and the subsequent events in Hesse politics—was the far-left Linke party.

The far-left Linke party stood for elections in Hesse for the first time in 2008, as did the far-right NPD.

Hesse state election, 2009

The reason that ideologically-allied parties could not form a government was the existence of a bloc of far-left Linke party delegates in the Landtag.

Linke-Hofmann

In 1916 Linke-Hofmann was awarded a contract to design and build a four-engined R-Plane.

Saxony state election, 2004

Coalition with the reformed-Communist PDS (which was later to merge into the Linke party) or with the left-wing Greens was ideologically impossible.


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DRG Class E 77

The engines were delivered by BMAG, Krauss and LHW and had originally still held the State Railways' Class EG 3 title with numbers 22 001 through 031 (Bavarian) or EG 701 to 725 (Prussian).

Frank Linke-Crawford

Although Frank Linke-Crawford was originally buried at Pobrežje Cemetery in Maribor, now Slovenia, after the war, in 1919, he was reinterred in Salzburg.

German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left

Some other DSAP–Linke members were recruited amongst German and Jewish workers in Stryków, Brzeziny and Tomaszów.

The DSAP–Linke also attracted some recruits from Ortsgruppe Lodz-Chojny of the erstwhile DSAP.

Hermann Vetter

Richard Rorty, Stolz auf unser Land. Die amerikanische Linke und der Patriotismus (Achieving Our Country).

Hesse state election, 2009

The candidates for the office of minister-president in 2009 were the incumbent Roland Koch of the CDU; the new Hesse SPD party leader, Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel; Tarek Al-Wazir for the Greens; Jörg-Uwe Hahn for the FDP; and Willi van Ooyen for the Linke.

SPD leader Andrea Ypsilanti finally gave in and attempted to negotiate with the Linke party to form a red-green-red coalition, reneging on a promise she had made earlier in the year to never negotiate with the far-left.

Maggie Peterson

In 1954, at a Capitol Records convention, Dick Linke (manager of Andy Griffith and Jim Nabors) heard Maggie singing and was so impressed with her, he encouraged her to come to New York, so in 1958, after graduating high school, Maggie and the group did just that.

Mariusz Linke

Mariusz Ryszard Linke (born July 31, 1969) is a Polish professional mixed martial artist and grappler who is most notable for being the first Polish born black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, the highest ranking active Polish judoka and one of the most decorated grapplers in Poland, he is also the first Polish grappler to travel to Brazil and receive training under a Gracie trained Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt.

Parliamentwatch

In Bremen, candidates of the Social Democratic Party (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD) and The Left (Die Linke) launched a boycott against the project because right-wing candidates had not been excluded.

Paul Linke

Paul Linke (born May 6, 1948) is an American actor, known for his role as Officer Arthur "Artie" Grossman in CHiPs, a television series about the motorcycle officers of the California Highway Patrol.

Thomas Linke

Born in Sömmerda, Thuringia, East Germany, Linke began his football career in 1977, with local BSG Robotron Sömmerda.

Trams in Amsterdam

Also in the early 1970s, two series of new trams were ordered from Linke-Hofmann-Busch in Salzgitter, Germany, to operate the new western extensions.

Willi van Ooyen

He was again the Linke party's candidate for minister-president in the 2009 Landtag election in Hesse, where his party again won 6 seats.

Willi van Ooyen (born 23 February 1947 in Weeze) is a German politician of the socialist Linke Party, and current leader of the Linke party's bloc in the Hessian Landtag.


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