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Gorch Fock (author)
Johann Wilhelm Kinau (22 August 1880 – 31 May 1916), better known by his pseudonym Gorch Fock ("Fock, Gorch", in ''Webster's Biographical Dictionary'' (1960), Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster.), was a German author. Other pseudonyms he used were Jakob Holst and Giorgio Focco. Life Kinau was the eldest child of fisherman Heinrich Wilhelm Kinau and his wife, Metta Holst, on the Elbe island of Finkenwerder (now part of Hamburg). In 1895 he was apprenticed to his uncle, the merchant August Kinau in Geestemünde (today part of Bremerhaven), and from 1897 until 1898 he attended a commercial school in Bremerhaven. Later he was employed as an accountant in Meiningen, Bremen, Halle (Saale) and from 1907 at the shipping company Hamburg-Amerika-Linie in Hamburg. He married Rosa Elisabeth Reich in 1908, with whom he had three children. In 1904, Kinau started publishing poetry and stories in his native Low German dialect. In 1913, he published his most popular work, the novel ''Seef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finkenwerder
Finkenwerder (; Low German: ''Finkwarder'', ''Finkenwarder'' or ''- wärder''; German: ''Finkeninsel''; translation: Island of finches) is a quarter of Hamburg, Germany in the borough Hamburg-Mitte. It is the location of a plant of Airbus and its airport. In 2016 the population was 11,668. History Finkenwerder was first mentioned in 1236 (as "Vinkenwerder"). The fishing village became part of Hamburg in 1445 and granted the status of a suburb (''Vorort'') in 1919. During World War II until April 30, 1945 a concentration camp was established in Finkenwerder. It was a subcamp to the Neuengamme concentration camp. It was also the site of a U-boat bunker, which was heavily damaged by Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs in April 1945 and demolished post-war, although the foundations of the walls were uncovered during work to extend the runway of Hamburg-Finkenwerder Airport. Geography The port of Hamburg covers a part of this quarter. In 2006 according to the statistical office of Hamburg a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and shares Borders of Russia, land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than List of countries and territories by land borders, any other country but China. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, world's ninth-most populous country and List of European countries by population, Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city is Moscow, the List of European cities by population within city limits, largest city entirely within E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kriegsmarine
The (, ) was the navy of Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire (1871–1918) and the inter-war (1919–1935) of the Weimar Republic. The was one of three official branches, along with the and the , of the , the German armed forces from 1935 to 1945. In violation of the Treaty of Versailles, the grew rapidly during German naval rearmament in the 1930s. The 1919 treaty had limited the size of the German navy and prohibited the building of submarines. ships were deployed to the waters around Spain during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) under the guise of enforcing non-intervention, but in reality supported the Nationalists against the Spanish Republicans. In January 1939, Plan Z, a massive shipbuilding program, was ordered, calling for surface naval parity with the British Royal Navy by 1944. When World War II broke out in September 1939, Plan Z was shelved in favour of a crash building program for submarines (U-boat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorch Fock (1933)
''Gorch Fock I'' (ex ''Tovarishch'', ex ''Gorch Fock'') is a German three-mast barque, the first of a series built as school ships for the German Reichsmarine in 1933. She was taken as war reparations by the Soviet Union after World War II and renamed ''Tovarishch''. The ship was acquired by sponsors, after a short period under the Ukraine, Ukrainian flag in the 1990s and a prolonged stay in British ports due to lack of funds for necessary repairs. Then she sailed to her original home port of Stralsund where her original name of ''Gorch Fock'' was restored on 29 November 2003. She is a museum ship, and extensive repairs were carried out in 2008. The Federal German government built a replacement training ship which is still in service. History and details The German school ship ''Niobe (schooner), Niobe'', a three-masted barque, capsized on 26 July 1932 in the Baltic Sea near Fehmarn due to a sudden squall, killing 69. The loss prompted the German Navy to order a new training ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MV Wilhelm Gustloff
MV ''Wilhelm Gustloff'' was a German military transport ship which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by in the Baltic Sea while evacuating civilian evacuees from East Prussia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Estonia and German military personnel from Gotenhafen (Gdynia) as the Red Army advanced. By one estimate,"Wilhelm Gustloff: World's Deadliest Sea Disasters". ''Unsolved History'', The Discovery Channel. Season 1, Episode 14. (Original air date: 26 March 2003) 9,400 people died, making it the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking in history. Originally constructed as a cruise ship for the Nazi Strength Through Joy (''Kraft durch Freude'') organization in 1937, ''Wilhelm Gustloff'' had been requisitioned by the ''Kriegsmarine'' (German navy) in 1939. She served as a hospital ship in 1939 and 1940. She was then assigned as a floating barracks for naval personnel in Gotenhafen before being fitted with anti-aircraft guns and put into service to transport evacuees in 1945. Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junge Welt
''Junge Welt'' (English: ''Young World'', stylized in its logo as ''junge Welt'') is a German daily newspaper, published in Berlin. The jW describes itself as a left-wing and Marxist newspaper. German authorities categorize it as a far-left medium hostile to the constitutional order. History and profile ''junge Welt'' was first published on 12 February 1947 in the Soviet occupation zone, Soviet Sector of Berlin. The paper became the official newspaper of the Central Council ''(Zentralrat)'' of the Free German Youth (FDJ), the communist youth organisation, on 12 November 1947. With a daily circulation of 1.38 million, ''junge Welt'' had the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in the German Democratic Republic, even higher than the official Communist party organ ''Neues Deutschland''. The paper was published by Verlag Junge Welt GmbH during the East German era. The paper was allegedly sold for a symbolic price of 1 Mark to a West Berlin publishing house in 1991. It was rela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Schölzel
Arnold Angelus Schölzel (born October 21, 1947) is a German editor and former defector, currently the editor-in-chief of the far-left newspaper ''Junge Welt''.Verfassungsschutzbericht 2006, p. 149 Prior to 1989, Schölzel worked at in East Berlin, and also was an informant for the domestic intelligence agency, the Stasi [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stensholmen
Stensholmen is a small island (or skerry) lying off the west coast of Sweden, in the locality of Fjällbacka, and is part of the islands of Bohuslän. War graves It is the last resting place of a number of German sailors killed in the Battle of Jutland during the First World War and subsequently washed up on and around the island, including the author Gorch Fock (real name Johann Wilhelm Kinau). The war grave on Stensholmen was established in 1920 and currently is the resting ground of 12 German sailors. The graveyard is managed by the German ''Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge'' organisation. In June 2016 the island was visited by a ''Volksbund'' travel group in order to restore the graves in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the battle. In August 2020 the island was visited by the German sailing ship ''Alexander von Humboldt II'' to pay honour to the dead sailors. Transport Stensholmen is only accessible by boat from the port of Fjällbacka, which it is situate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fjällbacka
Fjällbacka is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality situated in Tanum Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 859 inhabitants in 2010. Fjällbacka is mostly known as a summer tourist resort, with a long history, and as the setting for many of best-selling Swedish noir writer Camilla Läckberg's novels. Fjällbacka is located approximately 150 km from Gothenburg, 165 km from Oslo and 520 km from Stockholm.Fjällbacka Official Home PagFjällbacka/ref> Notable residents *The actress Ingrid Bergman lived here, when she visited Sweden. *Swedish crime writer Camilla Läckberg grew up here; many of her books take place in or around Fjällbacka. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Fjallbacka Populated places in Västra Götaland County Populated places in Tanum Municipality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden In World War I
Sweden, following its long-standing policy of neutrality since the Napoleonic Wars, remained neutral throughout World War I between 28 July 1914 and 11 November 1918. However, this neutrality was not maintained without difficulty and Sweden at various times sympathised with different parties in the conflict. Despite strong pro-German sentiment both in the Swedish nobility and in Swedish political circles, Sweden did not enter the war on the German side. Instead, Sweden retained armed neutrality and continued to trade with both the Entente Powers and the Central Powers. Swedish trade with Germany, particularly in iron ore, eventually led to exports of food to Sweden being greatly reduced, especially after America's entry into the war in 1917. The resulting food shortages, and public unrest in the form of hunger marches and riots, caused the downfall of Sweden's conservative government which was replaced eventually by a social democrat one, bringing about an era of political reform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Jutland
The Battle of Jutland (german: Skagerrakschlacht, the Battle of the Skagerrak) was a naval battle fought between Britain's Royal Navy Grand Fleet, under Admiral John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Sir John Jellicoe, and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet, under Vice-Admiral Reinhard Scheer, during the First World War. The battle unfolded in extensive manoeuvring and three main engagements (the battlecruiser action, the fleet action and the night action), from 31 May to 1 June 1916, off the North Sea coast of Denmark's Jutland Peninsula. It was the largest naval battle and the only full-scale clash of battleships in that war. Jutland was the third fleet action between steel battleships, following the Battle of the Yellow Sea in 1904 and the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War. Jutland was the last major battle in history fought primarily by battleships. Germany's High Seas Fleet intended to lure out, trap, and destroy a portion of the British Grand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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