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3 unusual facts about Treptow-Köpenick


Alfred Grünberg

Alfred Grünberg got involved quite early in the Communist youth movement, and in 1928, he joined the KPD in which he served as political leader of an illegal street cell in Bohnsdorf, a Berlin neighbourhood nowadays part of Treptow-Köpenick, until 1933.

Spitting Off Tall Buildings

In 2003, they were joined by Jürgens, Albrecht and Eberle, also from Treptow, where they met her.

Udo Voigt

From September 2006 until 2010 Voigt was an elected member of the Berlin municipal government in the Treptow-Köpenick district.


Der Hauptmann von Köpenick

Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (The Captain of Köpenick) is the title of several films, plays, and television shows, all about the Hauptmann von Köpenick affair in 1906.

Friedrich Simon Archenhold

Friedrich Simon Archenhold (2 October 1861 in Lichtenau, Westphalia - 14 October 1939 in Berlin) was an astronomer who founded the Treptow Observatory (Treptow Sternwarte) in Berlin-Treptow.

Fritz Reuter

In 1850 he settled as a private tutor in the little town of Treptow an der Tollense in Pomerania (today Altentreptow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), and was now able to marry Luise Kuntze, the daughter of a Mecklenburg pastor.

Grünauer BC

Grünauer BC 1917 is a German association football club from Grünau in the Treptow-Köpenick district of the city of Berlin.

Köpenick

The Oder-Spree Canal links the Dahme, at nearby Schmöckwitz, with the Oder river, at Eisenhüttenstadt, thus providing a navigable connection between Köpenick and the Oder.

Trzebiatów

As a dowager, Sophia of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (1579–1658), widow of Philip II, Duke of Pomerania, lived in Treptow.


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