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2 unusual facts about Metz-Frescaty Air Base


Fritz Otto Bernert

He transferred to Kampfeinsitzerkommando Metz, a temporary grouping of pilots mostly from FFA 71, for his initial assignment to a fighter unit.

Metz-Frescaty Air Base

In 1927, the 3d Group of the 12th Aviation Regiment was also assigned, moving from Neustadt an der Weinstraße, also in the Occupied Rhineland.


2008 Qatar Open

The men's singles field was led by ATP No. 4, US Open semifinalist and Moscow champion Nikolay Davydenko, Metz titlist Tommy Robredo, and St. Petersburg winner and 2007 Doha runner-up Andy Murray.

2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship

The competition was held in Metz and nearby Hagondange, France, from July 23 to August 2 and featured 16 teams.

Abbo of Metz

Goeric of Metz (also known as Abbo I of Metz), bishop from 627 to 643 AD

Alfred Perot

Jean-Baptiste Alfred Perot (November 3, 1863 / Metz, France – November 28, 1925 / Paris, France) was a French physicist.

Antoine Deparcieux

Eventually, Deparcieux was elected pensionnaire-géomètre-surnuméraire on June 11, 1768, and also became a member of the academies of Berlin, Stockholm, Metz, and Lyon.

Anton Dunckern

Following the Allied invasion of Europe in the summer of 1944 Himmler placed Dunckern in charge of the SS and police in the defence section of Metz.

Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg

It is very likely that this legend is the source of the urban myth surrounding the death of the French-Jewish composer Charles-Valentin Alkan, whose family originated from Metz.

Ashley Sestanovich

He headed south and joined French side Metz on a trial period but failed to earn a contract.

Bernhard Rawitz

He studied medicine at Kaiser Wilhlem Akademie in Berlin, afterwards serving as a military doctor in Metz (1880–83).

Bible translations in the Middle Ages

There is no evidence of any official decision to universally disallow translations following the incident at Metz until the Council of Trent, at which time the Reformation threatened the Catholic Church, and the rediscovery of the Greek New Testament presented new problems for translators.

Botho zu Eulenburg

Eulenburg worked in high positions of the Prussian and German administration in Wiesbaden (1869–1872), Metz (president of the Département de la Lorraine; 1872–1873) and upper president of the Province of Hanover (1873–1878).

Brian Solis

He has also written the foreword for several best selling books including, Social Media ROI (Olivier Blanchard), At Your Service (Frank Eliason), Share This Too (Paul Fabretti), Social ROI (Vincenzo Cosenza), Think Before You Engage (Dave Peck), Smart Business Social Business (Michael Brito), The Hidden Power of Your Customers (Becky Carroll), The Social Customer (Adam Metz), Twitfaced (Jacob Morgan), Social Media Geek-to-Geek (Synopsys).

Celtic circular wall of Otzenhausen

The first documented appearance of the circular ramparts happened within the Grimburger Salbuch, a geological register of 1589, the first picture of the enclosure in the Gazette de Metz from 1836.

Charles Auguste Frossard

After this he took part in the battles around Metz, and was involved with his corps in the surrender of Bazaine's army.

Château de Gerbéviller

He was made bailey of Nancy in 1541, and in 1543 represented the duke at the conference of Pont-à-Mousson concerned with the introduction of Lutheranism in Metz.

Christopher Fratin

Today, Fratin's sculpture is on permanent display in the Louvre, the city museums of Metz, Lyon, and Nîmes; the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland; and the Georg Eisler archive in Vienna.

Edmond Le Bœuf

Leboeuf took part in the Lorraine campaign, at first as chief of staff (major-general) of the Army of the Rhine, and afterwards, when Bazaine became commander-in-chief, as chief of the III Corps, which he led in the battles around Metz.

Eduard Deisenhofer

Deisenhofer commanded the division during the heavy fighting against the Americans on the Moselle and in the subsequent withdrawal to Metz.

Explorers We

Explorers We is a thematic precursor to A Little Something For Us Tempunauts, and was reprinted as a limited edition booklet to commemorate Dick's appearance at the Second International Festival of Science Fiction at Metz, France, September 1977.

Fort de Plappeville

The occasion was the presentation of a new standard to the SS formation, organized for the visit of the Reichsführer to Metz at the request of General Sepp Dietrich.

Fortified Sector of the Crusnes

The Crusnes sector was under the overall command of the French 3rd Army, headquartered at Fort Jeanne d'Arc at Metz, under the command of General Charles Condé, which was in turn part of Army Group 2 under General André-Gaston Prételat.

Fortified Sector of Thionville

The Thionville sector was under the overall command of the French 3rd Army, headquartered at Fort Jeanne d'Arc at Metz, under the command of General Charles Condé, which was in turn part of Army Group 2 under General André-Gaston Prételat.

François Achille Bazaine

Two days later, while the French actually retreated on Metz (taking seven hours to cover 5 to 6 miles) the masses of the Germans gathered in front of Bazaine's Army at Gravelotte, intercepting his communication with the interior of France.

Franz Mattenklott

On 25 July 1940, he was temporarily detached as commander of Metz for five weeks, but returned to the 72nd Infantry Division on 4 September 1940.

Gabriel Lippmann

His father, Isaïe, a French Jew born in Ennery near Metz, managed the family glove-making business at the former convent in Bonnevoie.

Gottlieb Graf von Haeseler

From 1879 he headed the military history department of the general staff, and from 1890-1903 he was General of the Cavalry and head of the XVI Army Corps in Metz.

Hans Ritter von Adam

Hans Adam entered the Royal Bavarian Army as a one-year volunteer (Einjährige-Freiwilliger) on 1 October 1906, serving in the 4th Infantry Regiment in Metz.

Hans-Martin Leidreiter

After the surrender of France Meyer and his men were quartered in Metz where the creation of the Aufklärungsabteilung LSSAH started in August.

Hermann Kretzschmar

In 1876 he became theatre orchestra conductor in Metz, and undertook research expeditions in England and Italy for the study of musical history; from 1877 to 1887 he was an academic and state music director in Rostock.

Jan Claus

In 1669 with Steven Crisp (1628-1692), a Friend from Colchester, who from 1663 onwards would every year visit Amsterdam, he travelled on a preaching tour to a series of towns along the Rhine: Cologne, Bonn, Metz, Bingen, Bacharach and Kriegsheim.

Joachim-Friedrich Lang

Born on 14 September 1899 in Montigny-lès-Metz, Alsace-Lorraine, Joachim-Friedrich Lang joined the German Army before the Second World war.

John Swainson

Swainson served in the United States Army during World War II with the 95th Infantry Division and lost both legs by amputation following a land mine explosion November 15, 1944, near Metz, Alsace-Lorraine.

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

The Boismortier family moved from the composer's birthplace in Thionville (in Lorraine) to the town of Metz where he received his musical education from Joseph Valette de Montigny, a well-known composer of motets.

Julius von Bernuth

Julius Hans Camillo Friedrich Leo Ludwig von Bernuth was born in Metz, Alsace-Lorraine, on 12 August 1897.

Leon Claire Metz

Metz has penned 17 books, most notably John Selman: Texas Gunfighter and a biography of Old West lawman Pat Garrett.

Lorraine Campaign

The Third Army, lacking gasoline, was unable to swiftly take both Metz and Nancy, unlike the actions that characterized the rapid advance across France.

Metz–Luxembourg railway

The line leaves Metz in a northern direction, downstream along the river Moselle.

Moneen

Moneen's original bass player, Mark Bowser, was replaced by Chris Slorach (Nu Chris), who left the band after the release of The Theory of Harmonial Value.

Neume

There is evidence that the earliest Western musical notation, in the form of neumes in campo aperto (without staff-lines), was created at Metz around 800, as a result of Charlemagne's desire for Frankish church musicians to retain the performance nuances used by the Roman singers.

Orlando Ortega

He competed on the European indoor circuit in early 2012, highlighted by a runner-up finish at the XL Galan and a 60 metres hurdles best of 7.57 seconds in Metz.

Patrimonium Sancti Petri

Pepin in turn sent Abbot Droctegang of Jumièges to confer with the pope, and a little later dispatched Duke Autchar and Bishop Chrodengang of Metz to conduct the pope to the Frankish realm.

Poncelet wheel

The Poncelet wheel is a type of waterwheel invented by Jean-Victor Poncelet while working at the École d'Application in Metz.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Pontoise

Bishop Stanislas Lalanne was born on August 3, 1948, in Metz, France, the see city of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Metz.

Rudolf II, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg

After Rudolf I died on 12 March 1356, Rudolf II asked the imperial court in Metz on 27 December 1356 to reaffirm the rights of the Saxe-Wittenberg line of the House of Ascania, against opposing claims from the Saxe-Lauenburg line.

Sisters of the Holy Childhood of Jesus and Mary

At the invitation of bishop Jauffret of Metz, Mme Méjanes and her community went from Argancy to Metz and took up their abode in the Abbey of St. Glossinde, where, on 20 April 1807, they bound themselves by vow to follow the statutes drawn up for them by the bishop.

Solange Bertrand

Born in Montigny-lès-Metz, Bertrand studied art for four years to the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, and then attended the Beaux–Arts in Paris.

University of Lorraine

Six libraries including three in Metz, Thionville-Yutz, Sarreguemines and Saint-Avold were attached to the University of Metz, housing approximately 280,000 books, 880 periodicals and 26,650 online journals.

Wilhelm Michel

Wilhelm Michel (born in Metz on 9 August 1877; died in Darmstadt on 16 April 1942) was a German writer who won the 1925 Georg Büchner Prize.


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