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2 unusual facts about Mülheim-Kärlich


Andreas Linden

He set his personal best (85.42 metres) on September 17, 1995 in Mülheim-Kärlich.

Prince Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony

Clemens Wenceslaus enjoyed hunting and established a hunting lodge at Kärlich, though he was opposed to several inhumane ways of hunting.


Fischer–Tropsch process

It was first developed by Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch at the "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Kohlenforschung" in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany in 1925.

Freilichtbühne Mülheim an der Ruhr

It was then disused until summer 1971, when the only Karl May Festival in Mülheim took place as an adjunct to the festival in Bad Segeberg and Old Shatterhand und Winnetou - Geheimnis der Bonanza (Old Shatterhand and Winnetou - Secret of the Bonanza) was staged there.

The Mülheim theatre was used, for example, for inductions into the League of German Girls.

Heinrich Caro

On the initiative of Nicolaus Druckenmüller, he trained as a calico printer in Germany, worked at Troost's calico printing works in Mülheim and then worked at the chemical firm Roberts, Dale in Manchester.

Justus Velsius

From there he made it to Mülheim, where he wrote Apologia, addressed to the Emperor Charles and King Ferdinand.

Karl von den Steinen

Karl von den Steinen (born March 7, 1855 in Mülheim, died November 4, 1929 in Kronberg im Taunus) was a German physician (with emphasis in psychiatry), ethnologist, explorer, and author of important anthropological work, which is particularly to the study of Indian cultures of Central Brazil, and the art of the Marquesas.

Mülheim

Rudolf Seliger (born 1951), a former football striker, who played for MSV Duisburg.

Hans Walitza (born 1945), a retired football striker and manager.

Peter Moraing

Moraing is now a tennis coach and runs a tennis center with his brother in Mülheim.

Royal Division of the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway

To export coal towards Belgium, Netherlands and shipping ports it built a connecting line from Mülheim-Styrum to the river port at Ruhrort, which was completed in 1867.

Stadtbahnwagen B

Eventually it was decided that the type "A" LRV was too unwieldy and type "B" LRVs were ordered by Essen, Mülheim, Düsseldorf, Duisburg and Dortmund.

Underwater rugby

In 1978, underwater rugby was officially recognized by the World Underwater Federation CMAS, and from 28 to 30 April 1978, the first European Championships took place in Malmö, Sweden, and from 15 to 18 May 1980, the first World Championships in Mülheim.

Urbane Künste Ruhr

A lot of the projects of Urbane Künste Ruhr are co-productions with partner institutions, such as Regionalverband Ruhr, Emschergenossenschaft, Schauspielhaus Bochum, ETH Zurich, PACT Zollverein, Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Ringlokschuppen Mülheim, and many more.

William D. McGee

On that day, near Mülheim, Germany, he voluntarily walked into a minefield to aid two comrades who had been wounded by anti-personnel mines.

A medical aid man, he made a night crossing of the Moselle River with troops endeavoring to capture the town of Mulheim.

William G. Sebold

William G. Sebold (Wilhelm Georg Debrowski; 10 March 1899 in Mülheim, Germany – February 1970 in Walnut Creek, California) was a German spy in the United States during World War II, who became a double agent for the FBI.

William Rittenhouse

William was a papermaking apprentice in Germany where he worked at a mill in Broich near the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr.


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