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Altenkirchen
Altenkirchen () is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, capital of the district of Altenkirchen. It is located approximately 40 km east of Bonn and 50 km north of Koblenz. Altenkirchen is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld. Population development Geography * Lahrer Herrlichkeit, a landscape region in the collective municipality of Flammersfeld Notable people * Dirk Adorf (born 1969), race car driver * Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler (born 1975), politician (SPD) * Dittmar Hahn (born 1943), former judge of the Federal Administrative Court * Claus Koch (born 1953), jazz musician * Ernst Lindemann (1894–1941), an officer of the Imperial Navy and later the Navy commander of the battleship '' Bismarck '' * Hermann Heinrich Traut (born 1866), librarian * Marie Gülich (born 1994), WNBA player. Other personalities The following figures are not native Altenkirchen people, but have worked or lived in the ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altenkirchen (district)
Altenkirchen () is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the North Rhine-Westphalian districts Rhein-Sieg, Oberbergischer Kreis, Olpe and Siegen-Wittgenstein, and the districts of Westerwaldkreis and Neuwied. History The history of the district is linked with the Westerwald region. The district was established in 1816 by the Prussian administration. It combined the county of Wildenburg and the two counties of Sayn. The former had been part of Berg, the latter ones had belonged to the duchy of Nassau. The county used to be divided into nine mayoralties, including the Bürgermeisterei Weyerbusch. Geography Altenkirchen is the northernmost district of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is occupied by the northern portions of the Westerwald mountains. The valley of the Sieg River borders the Westerwald on the north. The lands north of the Sieg are called Wildenburgisches Land, after the tiny county of Wildenburg, that once e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld
Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld is a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") in the district of Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' is in Altenkirchen. It was formed on 1 January 2020 by the merger of the former ''Verbandsgemeinden'' Altenkirchen and Flammersfeld. The ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld consists of the following ''Ortsgemeinden'' ("local municipalities"): # Almersbach # Altenkirchen # Bachenberg # Berod bei Hachenburg # Berzhausen # Birnbach # Bürdenbach # Burglahr # Busenhausen # Eichelhardt # Eichen # Ersfeld # Eulenberg # Fiersbach # Flammersfeld # Fluterschen # Forstmehren # Gieleroth # Giershausen # Güllesheim # Hasselbach # Helmenzen # Helmeroth # Hemmelzen # Heupelzen # Hilgenroth # Hirz-Maulsbach # Horhausen # Idelberg # Ingelbach # Isert # Kescheid # Kettenhausen # Kircheib # Kraam # Krunkel # Mammelzen # Mehren # Michelbach # Neiter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verbandsgemeinde Flammersfeld
Flammersfeld is a former ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") in the district of Altenkirchen, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe .... The seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' was in Flammersfeld. On 1 January 2020 it was merged into the new ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld. The ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Flammersfeld consisted of the following 26 ''Ortsgemeinden'' ("local municipalities"): * seat of the Verbandsgemeinde References Former Verbandsgemeinden in Rhineland-Palatinate {{Altenkirchen-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewald Schnug
Ewald Schnug (born 7 September 1954) is a German agricultural scientist, university lecturer and researcher specialised in Plant nutrition and Soil science. Life Schnug was born in Hachenburg, Westerwald, the first child of the master gardener Ewald Schnug and his wife Marianne, née Haas. He grew up at the parental nursery in Altenkirchen, Westerwald. He was baptised a Catholic, was an altar boy from 1960 to 1968 and a member of the parish council St. Jakobus in Altenkirchen from 1970 to 1971. In the early 1970s he was a member of the junior squad of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany in its Altenkirchen district association and the local branch of the German Life Saving Association. He was married from 1975 to 2006 and is father of three daughters. His formative life-teachers wer the evangelic theologian Fritz Beckmann, the visual artist Carl Lambertz and the anthroposophist Maria Thun. Zenith of his non-work projects was the restoration and transformation of the UNES ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Boden
Wilhelm Boden (5 March 1890 – 18 October 1961) was a German lawyer, civil servant and politician ( Centre Party & CDU). From 1946 to 1947 he was the first Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate. He contributed substantially to the rebuilding of the administration and to the formation of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, where he continued former Prussian administrative traditions. On 1 December 1946, Boden was appointed by the French military government as prime minister of the "Provisional Government" of Rheinland-Pfalz with the mission to prepare a draft constitution and conduct elections. After the election on 18 May 1947 he became minister president of a "transitional Cabinet" but failed to form a government; the SPD denied him the coalition as he was considered controversial even within the party, so the leadership of the affairs of the newly created state passed to Peter Altmeier. Early life Boden was born on 5 March 1890 in Grumbach in the district Birkenfeld. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Lindemann
Otto Ernst Lindemann (28 March 1894 – 27 May 1941) was a German ''Kapitän zur See'' ( naval captain). He was the only commander of the battleship during its eight months of service in World War II. Lindemann joined the German Imperial Navy () in 1913, and after his basic military training, served on a number of warships during World War I as a wireless telegraphy officer. On board , he participated in Operation Albion in 1917. After World War I, he served in various staff and naval gunnery training positions. One year after the outbreak of World War II, he was appointed commander of the battleship ''Bismarck'', at the time the largest warship in commission anywhere in the world and the pride of the '' Kriegsmarine'' (Nazi Germany's navy). In May 1941, Lindemann commanded ''Bismarck'' during ''Operation Rheinübung''. ''Bismarck'' and the heavy cruiser formed a task force under the command of Admiral Günther Lütjens on board Bismarck. Orders were to break out of their ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lahrer Herrlichkeit
The Lahrer Herrlichkeit is a landscape region in the collective municipality of Flammersfeld in the county of Altenkirchen in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. General The region lies on the middle reaches of the River Wied and owes its name to Lahr Castle, which is now a ruins located above the Wied. The present-day region of Lahrer Herrlichkeit includes the villages of Burglahr, Peterslahr, Eulenberg and Oberlahr. It has a population of around 1,700 and covers an area of about 12 km2. History The region is first recorded in the 13th century and was initially in the possession of the House of Isenburg before transferring to the Electorate of Cologne, which created its own principality here (hence the name ''Herrlichkeit'' meaning "sovereignty" or "lordship") and defended it against the Electorate of Trier and the counties of Wied and Sayn by constructing the castle. The historical (Electoral Cologne) "Lahrer Herrlichkeit" only included the villages of Burgla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Nüsslein
Hans "Hanne" Nüsslein (; 31 March 1910 – 28 June 1991) was a German tennis player and coach and former World professional number 1 tennis player who won four professional Majors singles titles during his career. Biography Nüsslein was born in Nuremberg on 31 March 1910. In his youth, he played football, handball and tennis at the 1. FC Nürnberg. After finishing school he apprenticed as a mechanic. At age 16, he gave tennis lessons to other club members for which he was paid a small amount. After a member of a neighboring club reported this to the German Tennis Federation, Nüsslein received a lifetime ban from amateur competition, preventing him from competing at Grand Slam tournaments. Nüsslein then decided to work as a professional tennis coach. On 1 April 1928, he passed the qualifying examination and became a member of the German federation of tennis coaches. He then was hired by the Deutsche Bank in order to give lessons to their executives. Professional career ; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Séverin Marceau
François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers (; 1 March 1769 – 21 September 1796) was a French general of the French Revolutionary Wars, Revolutionary Wars. Early life Desgraviers was born on 1 March 1769 in Chartres, in the province of Orléanais, the son of a prosecutor. On December 1785, at the age of 16, he enlisted in the Angoulême Infantry Regiment, which later became the 34th Infantry Regiment of the French Army. Whilst on furlough in Paris, Marceau participated in the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789. After that event he took his discharge from the regular army and returned to Chartres, but the opposition of his family soon compelled him to seek new military employment. Revolutionary Wars In July 1792, Marceau was appointed captain of the French Revolutionary Army, Revolutionary Army's 2nd Battalion of Volunteers of Eure-et-Loir. He took part in the Battle of Verdun (1792), defence of Verdun later in the year, and it was his troop that was ordered to bear the propo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Gülich
Marie Gülich (born 28 May 1994) is a German professional basketball player who is currently a free agent. She was drafted 12th overall by the Phoenix Mercury in the 2018 WNBA draft. Gülich played center for the Oregon State Beavers women's basketball team in college. During the 2019 WNBA Draft she was traded to the Atlanta Dream for the 11th overall pick Brianna Turner. WNBA career statistics Regular season , - , style="text-align:left;", 2018 , style="text-align:left;", Phoenix , 23 , , 0 , , 5.0 , , .483 , , .000 , , .750 , , 1.0 , , 0.1 , , 0.0 , , 0.6 , , 1.5 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2019 , style="text-align:left;", Atlanta , 31 , , 1 , , 11.3 , , .361 , , .320 , , .727 , , 2.7 , , 0.6 , , 0.2 , , 1.0 , , 3.3 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2020 , style="text-align:left;", Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Koblenz, Trier, Kaiserslautern, Worms and Neuwied. It is bordered by North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Baden-Württemberg and Hesse and by the countries France, Luxembourg and Belgium. Rhineland-Palatinate was established in 1946 after World War II, from parts of the former states of Prussia (part of its Rhineland and Nassau provinces), Hesse ( Rhenish Hesse) and Bavaria (its former outlying Palatinate kreis or district), by the French military administration in Allied-occupied Germany. Rhineland-Palatinate became part of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 and shared the country's only border with the Saar Protectorate until the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler
Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler (born 13 February 1975) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been leading her party’s group in the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2021.Bätzing-Lichtenthäler neue SPD-Fraktionschefin in Rheinland-Pfalz '''', 7 May 2021. She is the first woman in this position. Political career Member of the German Bundestag, 2002–2014 Bätzing-Lichtenthäler was first elected to be a member of the |
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