WebThe Rheingau (German: [ˈʁaɪnɡaʊ] (); lit. 'Rhine County') is a region on the northern side of the Rhine between the German towns of Wiesbaden and Lorch near Frankfurt, reaching from the Western Taunus to the Rhine. It is situated in the German state of Hesse and is part of the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis administrative district.It is famous for Rheingau …

WebThe Kingdom of Bavaria (German: Königreich Bayern; Bavarian: Kinereich Bayern; spelled Baiern until 1825) was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1805 and continued to exist until 1918. With the unification of Germany into the German Empire in 1871, the kingdom became a federated state of the new empire and was …

WebSaxe-Coburg and Gotha (German: Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha), or Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (German: Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha [ˈzaksn̩ ˈkoːbʊʁk ˈɡoːtaː]), was an Ernestine, Thuringian duchy ruled by a branch of the House of Wettin, consisting of territories in the present-day states of Thuringia and Bavaria in Germany. It lasted from 1826 to 1918. In November …

WebThe Kingdom of Saxony (German: Königreich Sachsen), lasting from 1806 to 1918, was an independent member of a number of historical confederacies in Napoleonic through post-Napoleonic Germany.The kingdom was formed from the Electorate of Saxony.From 1871, it was part of the German Empire.It became a free state in the era of Weimar Republic in …

WebOtto Hahn (Fráncfort del Meno, Reino de Prusia; 8 de marzo de 1879-Gotinga, Alemania Occidental; 28 de julio de 1968) fue un químico alemán que ganó el Premio Nobel de Química en 1944 por el descubrimiento de la fisión nuclear del uranio y del torio (1938), descubrimiento que llevó a cabo junto con Lise Meitner

WebBiography. Heinrich Held was born in Erbach in the Taunus, then a part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau.His father, Johannes Held, was a local farmer and musician, his mother was Susanne Held née Kaiser.. Held studied law at the universities of Strasbourg, Marburg and Heidelberg before becoming a journalist in Strasbourg in 1896. He moved to …

WebDieter Rams (born 20 May 1932) is a German industrial designer and retired academic, closely associated with the consumer products company Braun, the furniture company Vitsœ, and the functionalist school of industrial design. His unobtrusive approach and belief in "Less, but better" design generated a timeless quality in his products and have …

WebFranz Bäke (28 February 1898 – 12 December 1978) was a German officer and tank commander during World War II.He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords of Nazi Germany.In post-war popular culture, Bäke was memorialised in the historical fiction series Panzer Aces by German author Franz Kurowski

WebBiographie. Né à Königstein im Taunus (Allemagne, aux environs de Francfort) le 14 décembre 1910 - mort à Santa Cruz le 15 janvier 2007 [1].. Après des études universitaires menée à Munich, Richard Abel-Musgrave reçoit son diplôme d’économie – M.A. – à Heidelberg en 1933.La moitié de ses aïeux étant juifs (son grand-père paternel et sa …

WebThe German Empire consisted of 25 constituent states and an Imperial Territory, the largest of which was Prussia.These states, or Staaten (or Bundesstaaten, i.e. federal states, a name derived from the previous North German Confederation; they became known as Länder during the Weimar Republic) each had votes in the Bundesrat, which gave them …