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unusual facts about Wilhelmshaven–Osnabrück line



2nd U-boat Flotilla

The flotilla was based in Kiel for the first few weeks after its formation, but was later moved to Wilhelmshaven, where it remained until May 1940.

Andrea Postacchini

Walter Hamma, Meister Italienischer Geigenbaukunst, Wilhelmshaven 1993, ISBN 3-7959-0537-0

Bockhorn, Lower Saxony

It is situated approximately 15 km southwest of Wilhelmshaven, and 30 km northwest of Oldenburg.

Bombing of Wilhelmshaven in World War II

The first combat success of radar used a German "experimental Freya radar" to detect unescorted RAF bombers approaching the German Bight en route to Wilhelmshaven.

Carmen Everts

Carmen Everts (born 12 April 1968 in Wilhelmshaven) is a German politician, political scientist and civil servant, a former member of the Parliament of Hesse for the Social Democratic Party of Germany, and an expert on political extremism.

Channel Dash

The Germans had suffered unexpectedly small damage and losses: Scharnhorst hit two mines, off Flushing and Ameland, but arrived safely at 10:00 on 13 February at Wilhelmshaven (the damage took three months to repair).

Christian Schwarzer

Born in Braunschweig, Schwarzer played for VfL Fredenbeck from 1987 to 1991; Schwarzer's first game for the German national handball team was on 21 November 1989, against the German Democratic Republic in Wilhelmshaven.

Druzhba pipeline

There have been proposals to extend northern branch of the Druzhba pipeline to the German North Sea port of Wilhelmshaven, which would reduce oil tanker traffic in the Baltic Sea and make it easier to transport Russian oil to the United States.

Duchy of Oldenburg

In 1937 (with the Greater Hamburg Act), it lost the exclave districts of Eutin near the Baltic coast and Birkenfeld in southwestern Germany to Prussia and gained the City of Wilhelmshaven; however, this was a formality, as the Hitler régime had de facto abolished the federal states in 1934.

East Frisian peninsula

By contrast, Ost-Friesland includes, as a rule, the other traditionally Frisian parts of the peninsula: the town of Wilhelmshaven and the Oldenburg district of Friesland (Jeverland and Friesische Wehde).

Fort Napoleon, Ostend

The heavy coastal artillery battery "Hindenburg" was stationed nearby; it had been transferred there from Fort Heppen, Wilhelmshaven in 1915, and it was armed with four 280mm (11 inch) guns of 1886-1887 vintage in heavily armored turrets on semi-circular concrete platforms.

German submarine U-429

After a very uneventful service life, the U-429 was caught in an open dock during a U.S. Eighth Air Force raid on the city of Wilhelmshaven on 30 March 1945, and destroyed by bombing, although her crew were not on board at the time of the attack.

German submarine U-691

Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon includes a fictitious U-691, a Type IXD/42, launched at Wilhelmshaven on 19 September 1940 (four years before IXD/42s were actually developed) and fitted with an experimental schnorkel.

German Type IXB submarine

After being commissioned and deployed, all of the Type IXB submarines built prior to the fall of France were stationed in the German port city of Wilhelmshaven while those who were commissioned following the capture of numerous French ports during the Battle of France were stationed in Lorient.

Gert Krawinkel

Gert Krawinkel (Born April 21, 1947 in Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony) is a German musician and guitarist.

Grand Duchy of Oldenburg State Railways

The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg gained an important link to the south in 1876 with the so-called Southern Railway from Oldenburg via Quakenbrück as far as Eversburg on the Osnabrück–Rheine line.

HNLMS Hertog Hendrik

After the war the ship was recovered in Wilhelmshaven and given back to the Netherlands, to be converted at the Wilton-Fijenoord shipyard into an accommodation ship.

Homer Bigart

On one such mission to Wilhelmshaven in March 1943, the B-17 bomber formation in which he and reporters Walter Cronkite and Gladwyn Hill were flying suffered heavy losses to enemy fighters.

Jens Pühse

Jens Pühse (born January 22, 1972) is an extreme right-wing German politician from Wilhelmshaven.

Johann Kulik

Walter Hamma, Geigenbauer Der Deutschen Schule Meister Italienischer Geigenbaukunst, Wilhelmshaven 1992, ISBN 3-7952-0717-7

Marinestation der Nordsee

The Marinestation der Nordsee (North Sea Naval Station) of the German Imperial Navy Kaiserliche Marine at Wilhelmshaven, Germany came out of the efforts of the navy of the North German Confederation.

No. 139 Squadron RAF

On 4 September 1939 Nos. 110, 107 and 139 Squadrons led the first RAF air raid of the war against German shipping near Wilhelmshaven.

Oldenburg S 10

The express train locomotives of Oldenburg Class S 10 were built for the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg State Railways for duties on the BremenOldenburgWilhelmshaven line, which was the most important express route in Oldenburg.

Otto Bertram

Otto Bertram (30 April 1916 in Wilhelmshaven – 8 February 1987 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German Spanish Civil War and World War II fighter ace who served in the Luftwaffe from 1935 until the end of World War II.

Proletarian internationalism

The internationalist perspective influenced the revolutionary wave towards the end of the First World War, notably with Russia's withdrawal from the conflict following the Bolshevik revolution and the revolt in Germany beginning in the naval ports of Kiel and Wilhelmshaven that brought the war to an end in November 1918.

River of Death

However, one of the Germans is left behind by his partner, while the other escapes by submarine from Wilhelmshaven.

SMS Seeadler

On 19 April 1917, her cargo exploded while she was moored in the Jade outside Wilhelmshaven.

SS Korsun Shevtshenkovsky

Wilhelmshaven was built for Hamburg Amerikanische Packetfahrt AG, Hamburg.

Stanislaw Przespolewski

From 1944 onwards he was one of the Polish combatants in the 1st Polish Armoured Division and advanced from Normandy to Wilhelmshaven in May 1945.

Tobias Schadewaldt

Tobias Schadewaldt (born 20 September 1984 in Wilhelmshaven) is a German sailor.

Wiesmoor

The closest large cities to Wiesmoor are Wilhelmshaven (30km to the North East), Oldenburg (45km to the South East), Bremen (80km to the South East) as well as the Dutch city of Groningen (80km to the South West).

Wilfried Struve

Wilfried Struve was born in 1914 in Wilhelmshaven, Germany as the first son of George Struve and Marie von Mokk.

Zetel

It is situated approximately 15 km southwest of Wilhelmshaven, and 12 km west of Varel.


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