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Lübz
Lübz is a town in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the river Elde, 12 km northeast of Parchim. It is home to the Mecklenburgische Brauerei Lübz, the largest local employer and one of the larger regional breweries. The former municipality Gischow was merged into Lübz in May 2019. Notable people *Wilhelm Ahrens (1872–1927), mathematician * (born 1983), prizefighter * Otto-Heinrich Drechsler (1895–1945), Nazi politician who instigated the Holocaust in Latvia * (born 1943), Hamburg-area politician ( CDU) * (1926–2001), actor *Johan Ludvig Holstein (1694–1763), Danish minister of state * (born 1939), mathematician *Karin Strenz Karin Strenz (14 October 1967 – 21 March 2021) was a German politician who represented the CDU. Strenz served as a member of the Bundestag for the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern between 2009 and 2021. Career Strenz was born in Lübz, Meckl ... (1967–2021), politician (CDU ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mecklenburgische Brauerei Lübz
Mecklenburgische Brauerei Lübz is a brewery in the German city of Lübz. It is best known for the Lübzer brand. With over 160 employees, it is the biggest employer in the city and one of the largest breweries in the region. Holsten Brewery holds a majority stake in the company; Holsten, in turn, is owned by Carlsberg Group. History The Mecklenburgische Brauerei Lübz was founded in the year 1877 by August Krüger. During the following decades, it was operated under a variety of names, such as ''Bürgerliches Brauhaus GmbH zu Lübz'' (1905), ''Vereinsbrauerei Mecklenburger Wirte GmbH zu Lübz'' (1907), and ''Vereinsbrauerei Mecklenburger Wirte AG, Lübz'' (1921). After World War II, the brewery was dismantled, but production was able to resume in 1947. It could not be seized, as the majority stakeholder (55%) was an American citizen, so the operations continued on a fiduciary basis. A new brewery was constructed in 1969, after which it was folded into the Getränkekombinat S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Strenz
Karin Strenz (14 October 1967 – 21 March 2021) was a German politician who represented the CDU. Strenz served as a member of the Bundestag for the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern between 2009 and 2021. Career Strenz was born in Lübz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. She became member of the Bundestag after the 2009 German federal election and was a member of the defense committee. Strenz was implicated in the Azerbaijani laundromat scandal. Subsequently her parliamentary immunity was lifted and several locations in Germany and Belgium were searched in January 2020. Death On 21 March 2021, Strenz fell unconscious during a flight between Cuba and Germany, following which the pilot decided to make an unscheduled landing at Shannon Airport, Ireland. Later she died in University Hospital Limerick University Hospital Limerick ( ga, Ospidéal na hOllscoile, Luimneach) is a hospital located in Dooradoyle, Limerick, Ireland. It is managed by UL Hospitals Group. History The hospital, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Weiß
Gerhard Dietmar Eberhard Weiß (also spelled Weiss; 8 January 1960, in Lübz – 17 February 2018, in Kloster Lehnin) was an East German javelin thrower. Weiß represented the sports club SC Traktor Schwerin, and became East German champion in 1981. His personal best throw was 83.30 metres, achieved in June 1988 in Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a po .... Achievements References External links * * * * 1960 births 2018 deaths People from Lübz People from Bezirk Schwerin East German male javelin throwers Sportspeople from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Olympic athletes of East Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Universiade silver medalists for East Germany Medali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Ludvig Holstein
Johan Ludvig Holstein, Lensgreve til Ledreborg (7 September 1694 – 29 January 1763) was a Danish Minister of state from 1735 to 1751. The Danish colony Holsteinsborg on Greenland (now Sisimiut), was named after him. He was the ancestor of the Holstein-Ledreborg family, including Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg and Knud Johan Ludvig, Lensgreve Holstein til Ledreborg, husband of Princess Marie Gabriele of Luxembourg. In 1739 he built Ledreborg Manor near Lejre, Denmark. Early life Johan Ludvig was the son of Johan Georg Holstein, who would himself become Danish prime minister, and Ida Frederikke Joachime of the Bülow family. He was born on 7 September 1694, at the Lübz castle which belonged to his maternal grandmother. His tutors during his upbringing included J. W. Schröder who later would go on to tutor Christian VI of Denmark. In 1711 his father sent him to Hamburg where he studied with Johann Albert Fabricius for a year. Subsequently, he studied and traveled at various pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwigslust-Parchim
Ludwigslust-Parchim is a district in the west of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is bordered by (clockwise starting from the west) the state Schleswig-Holstein, the district Nordwestmecklenburg, the district-free city Schwerin, the districts Rostock and Mecklenburgische Seenplatte and the states Brandenburg and Lower Saxony. The district seat is the town Parchim. Geographic features There are a number of lakes within the boundaries of Ludwigslust-Parchim district, including: * Goldberger See * Damerower See * Barniner See * Kleinpritzer See * Woseriner See History Ludwigslust-Parchim District was established by merging the former districts of Ludwigslust and Parchim Parchim (; Mecklenburgisch: ''Parchen'') is a town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is the capital of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district. It was the birthplace of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, to whom a monument was erected in 1876. Foun ... as part of the local government reform of September 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gischow
Gischow is a village and a former municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Since May 2019, it is part of the town Lübz Lübz is a town in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the river Elde, 12 km northeast of Parchim. It is home to the Mecklenburgische Brauerei Lübz, the largest local employer and o .... References Ludwigslust-Parchim Former municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania {{LudwigslustParchim-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Ahrens (mathematician)
Wilhelm Ahrens (3 March 1872 – 23 May 1927) was a German mathematician and writer on recreational mathematics. Biography Ahrens was born in Lübz at the Elde in Mecklenburg and studied from 1890 to 1897 at the University of Rostock, Humboldt University of Berlin, and the University of Freiburg. In 1895 at the University of Rostock he received his Promotion (Ph.D.), '' summa cum laude'', under the supervision of Otto Staude with dissertation entitled ''Über eine Gattung n-fach periodischer Functionen von n reellen Veränderlichen''. From 1895 to 1896 he taught at the German school in Antwerp and then studied another semester under Sophus Lie in Leipzig. In 1897 Ahrens was a teacher in Magdeburg at the Baugewerkeschule, from 1901 at the engineering school. Inspired by Sophus Lie, he wrote "On transformation groups, all of whose subgroups are invariant" (''Hamburger Math Society'' Vol 4, 1902). He worked a lot on the history of mathematics and mathematical games (recreational ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto-Heinrich Drechsler
Otto-Heinrich Drechsler (1 April 1895 – 5 May 1945) was the General Commissioner of Latvia for the Nazi Germany's occupation regime ( Reichskommissariat Ostland) during World War II. In this capacity, he played a role in setting up the Riga ghetto and was implicated in the extermination of the Latvian Jews. He committed suicide on 5 May 1945, after being captured by the British forces. Early life Drechsler became an officer cadet (''Fahnenjunker'') in the Lübeck infantry regiment of the German Army in 1914. He was severely wounded and lost a leg. He was mustered out of the Reichswehr in 1920. Andreas Zellhuber: ''"Unsere Verwaltung treibt einer Katastrophe zu …" Das Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete und die deutsche Besatzungsherrschaft in der Sowjetunion 1941–1945.'' Vögel, München 2006, S. 87, . (Quelle: Erich Stockhorst: ''Fünftausend Köpfe''. Velbert 1967, S. 112.) During the Weimar Republic Drechsler began the study of dentistry, and obtained the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; nds, Mäkelborg-Vörpommern), also known by its anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ranks 14th in population; it covers an area of , making it the sixth largest German state in area; and it is 16th in population density. Schwerin is the state capital and Rostock is the largest city. Other major cities include Neubrandenburg, Stralsund, Greifswald, Wismar, and Güstrow. It was named after the 2 regions of Mecklenburg and Vorpommern (which means West Pomerania). The state was established in 1945 after World War II through the merger of the historic regions of Mecklenburg and the Prussian Western Pomerania by the Soviet military administration in Allied-occupied Germany. It became part of the German Democratic Republic in 1949, but was dissolved in 1952 during administrative reforms and its territory divided into the districts of Rostoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerd Wessig
Gerd Wessig (, ; born 16 July 1959 in Lübz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) was an East German high jumper who won the gold medal in the 1980 Summer Olympics, the first man ever to set a world record in the high jump at the Olympics. Early life Wessig, a professional chef, trained with the SC Traktor Schwerin under trainer Bernd Jahn. He attended the John Brinckmann School in Goldberg. Wessig was 2.01 metres tall and, while he was competing, weighed 88 kilograms (6' 7", 194 lbs). Shortly before the 1980 Olympics, he surprisingly became East German champion, setting a new personal best result of 2.30 metres and was subsequently nominated for the East German Olympic team. 1980 Olympics At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, the 21-year-old was thus amongst the mild favourites, but the heavy favorite was the defending champion, Jacek Wszoła, of Poland: at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Wszola had established a new Olympic record of 2.25 metres. Early in the 1980 outdoor s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elde
The Elde () is a river in northern Germany (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and a few km in Brandenburg), a right tributary of the Elbe. Its total length is . The Elde originates near Altenhof, south of Malchow. It first flows southeast towards the southern end of Lake Müritz, which it enters at Vipperow. It flows out of the Müritz at its northern end, near Waren. It turns west, and flows through a series of small lakes, and along the town of Malchow, until the Plauer See. It flows out of the Plauer See at Plau am See, and continues west and southwest through Lübz, Parchim, Neustadt-Glewe, Grabow and Eldena, and flows into the Elbe at Dömitz. Near Eldena, the ''Alte Elde'' branches off and flows into the Löcknitz (another tributary of the Elbe) near Eldenburg, part of Lenzen (Elbe). For much of its length, , it forms the navigable ''Müritz-Elde-Wasserstraße'', with 17 locks Lock(s) may refer to: Common meanings *Lock and key, a mechanical device used to secure items of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1456 Establishments In Europe
Year 1456 ( MCDLVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * May 18 – Second Battle of Oronichea (1456): Ottoman Forces of 15,000 are sent to capture Albania, but are met and swiftly defeated by Skanderbeg's smaller forces. * June 9 – Halley's Comet makes an appearance, as noted by the humanist scholar Platina. * July 7 – A retrial of Joan of Arc acquits her of heresy, 25 years after her execution. * July 22 – Battle of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade): The Hungarians under John Hunyadi rout the Turkish army of Sultan Mehmed II. The noon bell ordered by Pope Callixtus III commemorates the victory throughout the Christian world (and hence is still rung). * August 20 – Vladislav II, reigning Prince of Wallachia, is killed in hand-to-hand combat by Vlad the Impaler, who succeeds him. * October 17 – The University of Greifswald is established, maki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
