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British-German Society
The German-British Society (German: ''Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft''; known as the ''Society for Cultural Exchange with England'' from 1949 to 1951 and as the ''German-English Society'' until 2001) is a registered association of individuals and legal entities whose aim is to promote German-British relations in all areas of public and cultural life through its non-partisan, non-governmental and politically independent work, for example through lectures, exhibitions, excursions and joint dinners. The Society is supported by a network of local and regional member associations of the German-British Society throughout Germany, which design their work and event programs individually. Since 2021, these have also included the Hannoversch-British Society, which cultivates the special historical relations with Britain of the former Electorate and later Kingdom of Hannover in the area of present-day Lower Saxony. Honorary Presidents were Kurt Biedenkopf, Katharina Focke, Karl-Günther von ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Düsseldorf (DerHexer) 2010-08-13 019
Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants, seventh-largest city in Germany, with a 2022 population of 629,047. The Düssel, from which the city and the borough of Düsseltal take their name, divides into four separate branches within the city, each with its own mouth into the Rhine (Lower Rhine). Most of Düsseldorf lies on the right bank of the Rhine, and the city has grown together with Neuss, Ratingen, Meerbusch, Erkrath and Monheim am Rhein. Düsseldorf is the central city of the metropolitan region Rhine-Ruhr, the List of EU metropolitan regions by GDP#2021 ranking of top four German metropolitan regions, second biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union, that stretches from Bonn via Cologne and Düsseldorf to the Ruhr (from Duisburg via Essen to Dortmund). The ''-dorf'' suffix mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
