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Edwin Hoernle
Edwin Hoernle (11 December 1883 – 21 July 1952) was a German politician (KPD), author, agronomist and a Marxist theoretician. He spent the Nazi period in Moscow where, during the final years of the Second World War, he was a founding member in July 1943 of the Soviet-backed National Committee for a Free Germany (''"Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland"'' / NKFD). Life Provenance and early years Edwin Hoernle was born in Cannstatt, a rapidly industrialising suburb on the northern edge of Stuttgart. Hermann Hoernle, his father, was a Christian missionary who later became a rural parson. He was one of his parents' four recorded children. Because of his father's calling, Edwin Hoernle spent the earlier years of his childhood, till 1889, in the East Indies. His mother, Marie, was the daughter of an organ builder. Education, politics and first marriage At the age of ten, by now growing up in the village of Beimbach back in Württemberg, he was already writing poems and b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Cannstatt
Bad Cannstatt, also called Cannstatt (until July 23, 1933) or Kannstadt (until 1900), is one of the outer stadtbezirke, or city boroughs, of Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Bad Cannstatt is the oldest and most populous of Stuttgart's boroughs, and one of the most historically significant towns in the area of Stuttgart. The town is home to the Cannstatter Wasen and Cannstatter Volksfest beer festivals, the Mercedes-Benz Arena (VfB Stuttgart), the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle, and the Porsche-Arena. Name Bad Cannstatt's name originates from a '' Castra stativa'', Cannstatt Castrum, the massive Roman Castra that was erected on the hilly ridge in AD 90 to protect the valuable river crossing and local trade. In the past, Bad Cannstatt has been known as simply Cannstatt or ''Kannstatt'', ''Cannstadt'', ''Canstatt'', ''Kanstatt'', and ''Condistat''. Its name was changed to include "''Bad''" (german: Bath) to mention the town's spas on 23 July 1933. History Bad Cannst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |