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Elsterwerda
Elsterwerda (; Lower Sorbian: ''Wikow'') is a town in the Elbe-Elster district, in southwestern Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated on the Black Elster river, 48 km northwest of Dresden, and 11 km southeast of Bad Liebenwerda. History From 1952 to 1990, Elsterwerda was part of the Bezirk Cottbus of East Germany. Demography File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Elsterwerda.pdf, Development of Population since 1875 within the Current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population Development of Brandenburg state; Grey Background: Time of Nazi rule; Red Background: Time of Communist rule) File:Bevölkerungsprognosen Elsterwerda.pdf, Recent Population Development and Projections (Population Development before Census 2011 (blue line); Recent Population Development according to the Census in Germany in 2011 (blue bordered line); Official projections for 2005-2030 (yellow line); for 2020-2030 (green line); for 2017-2030 (scarlet line) Gallery Post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hartmut Buschbacher
Hartmut Buschbacher (born 23 April 1958) is a German rowing coach. As a rower, he represented East Germany. Rowing career Buschbacher was born in 1958 in Elsterwerda. Sources from 1976 vary whether he rowed for ASK Vorwärts Rostock or for SC Dynamo Berlin. At the 1975 World Rowing Junior Championships he won gold with the junior men's coxed four. Partnered with Heiko Schulz at the 1976 World Rowing Junior Championships he won gold in the junior men's coxless pair. At the 1977 East German national championships, he came second in the coxless pair alongside Schulz. At the 1978 East German national championships, he came second with the men's eight. He went to the 1978 World Rowing Championships on Lake Karapiro in New Zealand as a reserve but did not compete. He participated in the 1979 Soviet Spartakiad. Buschbacher was one of the 66 rowers who travelled to the 1980 Moscow Olympics but only 55 of them competed; he was one of the reserve rowers who did not race. Coaching career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Elster
The Black Elster or Schwarze Elster () is a long river in eastern Germany, in the states Saxony, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt, right tributary of the Elbe. Its source is in the Upper Lusatia region, near Elstra. The Black Elster flows through the cities Kamenz, Hoyerswerda, Senftenberg, Lauchhammer, Elsterwerda, Bad Liebenwerda, Herzberg and Jessen. It flows into the river Elbe at Elster (Elbe), upstream from Wittenberg. Geography The river rises in the Lusatian Highlands (Upper Lusatia) about south of the village Kindisch in the borough of Elstra on the eastern flank of the high ''Kuppe'', a subpeak of the Hochstein. From here the ''Black Elster'' flows initially in a northerly direction through Elstra, Kamenz, Milstrich and Wittichenau; from Hoyerswerda it flows in westwards to Elsterheide. Further downstream, after , it crosses the Saxon-Brandenburg border and flows through Senftenberg, Ruhland and Lauchhammer to Elsterwerda. From here it heads in a northwester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franciszka Krasińska
Countess Franciszka Krasińska (9 March 1742 in Maleszowa – 30 April 1796 in Dresden), was a Polish noblewoman and wife of Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, the son of King Augustus III of Poland. Life She was the third of four daughters born to Polish nobles, Count Stanisław Korwin Krasiński (1717–1762), and his wife, Aniela née Humięcka. Franciszka was born on the family's Maleszowa estate. The Krasińskis attended the royal court in Warsaw, where she would eventually meet her future husband, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland. Franciszka and Charles reportedly fell mutually in love when she was just 15. In 1757, they asked her family to support their plan to marry. Her father and her uncle by marriage, Prince Antoni Lubomirski, both supported their wish, especially as Charles was in line to become Duke of Courland, which happened in 1758. Her paternal aunt, Princess Zofia Lubomirska, on the other hand, took a sober attitude and commented that her brother and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralf Minge
Ralf Minge (born 8 October 1960) is a German footballer former coach and player who works as sporting director of Dynamo Dresden. He was an international for East Germany, and spent his entire professional career with Dynamo Dresden. Playing career A striker, Minge joined Dynamo Dresden in 1980, signing from TSG Gröditz, and spent the next eleven years with the club, winning two East German titles and four cups. He scored 103 league goals for the club, and ranks as the club's third top scorer, behind Hans-Jürgen Kreische and Torsten Gütschow. He retired in 1991, at the end of the last ever DDR-Oberliga season. At international level, Minge won 36 caps between 1983 and 1989, scoring eight times. Coaching and managerial career After retiring from the game, Minge had a short spell on the board at Dynamo, before serving on the coaching staff for three years, during which he briefly became the acting manager on two occasions, in 1993 and 1995, the last of which saw Dynamo's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Straube
__NOTOC__ Erich Straube (11 December 1887 – 31 March 1971) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who held several corps level commands. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. In late August 1944 Straube took command of a provisional army made up of approximately 70,000 personnel. This force suffered heavy casualties during the Battle of the Mons Pocket, with approximately 3,500 Germans being killed and 25,000 taken prisoner. Straube escaped. Awards and decorations * Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class (11 September 1914) & 1st Class (5 May 1916)Thomas 1998, p. 359. * Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 in 1934 * Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (15 November 1939) & 1st Class (17 May 1940) * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves ** Knight's Cross on 19 July 1940 as ''Generalmajor is the Germanic variant of major general, used in a number of Central and Northern European countries. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elbe-Elster
Elbe-Elster is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the southern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Teltow-Fläming, Dahme-Spreewald, Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Meißen, Nordsachsen and Wittenberg. The district has a partnership with the Märkischer Kreis. History The district was established in 1993 by merging the former districts (Kreise) of Finsterwalde, Bad Liebenwerda and Herzberg. Geography The district is named after two rivers - the Elbe river forms the western border with Saxony, the Black Elster (''Schwarze Elster'') is a tributary of the Elbe and runs through the district. The district is part of the Lusatia region. The fens along the Black Elster are a habitat of several rare animals, like common kingfishers, beavers and Eurasian otters. Demography File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Landkreis Elbe-Elster.pdf, Development of Population since 1875 within the Current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population Development of Brandenburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siegbert Horn
Siegbert Horn (11 May 1950 – 9 August 2016) was a German slalom canoeist who competed in the 1970s. He won a gold medal in the K-1 event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Horn also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with three golds (K-1: 1971, 1975; K-1 team: 1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: ...), two silvers (K-1: 1973; K-1 team: 1971), and a bronze (K-1 team: 1975). He died of cancer on 9 August 2016. References External links * * * 1950 births 2016 deaths People from Elbe-Elster German male canoeists Sportspeople from Brandenburg Olympic canoeists of East Germany Canoeists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for East Germany Olympic medalists in canoeing Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Gillhoff
Johannes Heinrich Carl Christian Gillhoff (May 24, 1861 – January 16, 1930) was a German teacher and author. Early life and teaching Gillhof was born in Glaisin in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He followed in his father's profession as a teacher. He graduated in 1881 from a teaching school and later passed the teaching examination in Schwerin. After becoming a teacher Gillhoff would begin collecting colloquial expressions used by locals, starting as early as 1888. Gillhoff collected about 4,000 Low German expressions, speech patterns and proverbs and published them in a report. Writing career In 1892 he published a work called ''Mecklenburgischen Volksrätseln'' (roughly translated "Mecklenburg folk riddles"). The book unites 931 riddles, plus variants, that Gillhoff subdivided into subject areas. This work by Gillhoff was overshadowed in 1897 by a similar work by Richard Wossidlo. Gillhoff's most well-known work, '' Jürnjakob Swehn der Amerikafahrer'', roughly translated in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider
Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (18 January 1750 – 12 January 1822) was a German classicist and naturalist. Biography Schneider was born at Collm in Saxony. In 1774, on the recommendation of Christian Gottlob Heine, he became secretary to the famous Strasbourg scholar Richard François Brunck, and in 1811 became professor of ancient languages and eloquence at Breslau (chief librarian, 1816) where he died in 1822. Works Of his numerous works the most important was his ''Kritisches griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch'' (1797–1798), the first independent work of the kind since Stephanus's ''Thesaurus'', and the basis of F. Passow's and all succeeding Greek lexicons (including, therefore, the contemporary standard '' A Greek-English Lexicon''). A special improvement was the introduction of words and expressions connected with natural history and science. In 1801 he corrected and expanded re-published Marcus Elieser Bloch's ''Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morganatic Marriage
Morganatic marriage, sometimes called a left-handed marriage, is a marriage between people of unequal social rank, which in the context of royalty or other inherited title prevents the principal's position or privileges being passed to the spouse, or any children born of the marriage. The concept is most prevalent in German-speaking territories and countries most influenced by the customs of the German-speaking realms. Generally, this is a marriage between a man of high birth (such as from a reigning, deposed or mediatised dynasty) and a woman of lesser status (such as a daughter of a low-ranked noble family or a commoner).Webster's Online Dictionary . Retrieved 2008-07-10. Diesbach, Ghislain de. ''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Of Saxony, Duke Of Courland
, image = Carl Christian Joseph of Saxony.jpeg , caption = Portrait by Pietro Rotari , succession = Duke of Courland and Semigallia , reign = 1758–1763 , coronation = , predecessor = Louis Ernest , successor = Ernst Johann , spouse = Franciszka Krasińska , issue = Maria Christina, Princess of Carignano , house = Wettin , father = Augustus III of Poland , mother = Maria Josepha of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire , death_date = , death_place = Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire , place of burial = St. Marienstern Abbey, Panschwitz-Kuckau , religion = Roman Catholicism Prince Karl Christian Joseph of Saxony - in English, Charles of Saxony - (13 July 1733 – 16 June 1796) was a German prince of the House of Wettin and Duke of Courland and Semigallia. Born in Dresden, he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Sorbian
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Lower may refer to: *Lower (surname) *Lower Township, New Jersey *Lower Receiver (firearms) *Lower Wick Gloucestershire, England See also *Nizhny Nizhny (russian: Ни́жний; masculine), Nizhnyaya (; feminine), or Nizhneye (russian: Ни́жнее; neuter), literally meaning "lower", is the name of several Russian localities. It may refer to: * Nizhny Novgorod, a Russian city colloquia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
