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Operation Vermin
Operation Vermin (''Aktion Ungeziefer'') and Operation Consolidation (''Betriebskonsolidierung'', its Stasi codename), also called Operation Cornflower (''Aktion Kornblume'') are the names given to two large-scale operations by the GDR government meant to remove "politically unreliable" people from the exclusion zone along the Inner German border. The first operation was executed in June 1952 under the name “Operation Vermin”, the second one in October 1961 as “Operation Consolidation” and “Operation Cornflower”. Operation Vermin “Operation Vermin” was the code name for a forced resettlement operation planned by the GDR Ministry of State Security (Stasi) and carried out by the national police force (Volkspolizei). During this operation, between May and June 1952, citizens the government thought to be “politically unreliable” and their families were forcibly resettled from the Inner German border to the country’s interior. Reason and background for this actio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gera
Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the ''Thüringer Städtekette'', an almost straight string of cities consisting of the six largest Thuringian cities from Eisenach in the west, via Gotha, Erfurt, Weimar and Jena to Gera in the east. Gera is the largest city in the Vogtland, and one of its historical capitals along with Plauen, Greiz and Weida. The city lies in the East Thuringian Hill Country, in the wide valley of the White Elster, between Greiz (upstream) and Leipzig (downstream). Gera is located in the Central German Metropolitan Region, approximately south of Saxony's largest city of Leipzig, east of Thuringia's capital Erfurt, west of Saxony's capital Dresden and 90 km (56 miles) north of Bavaria's city of Hof (Saale). First mentioned in 995 and developing into a city during the 13th century, Gera has historical significa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bodo Ramelow
Bodo Ramelow (; born 16 February 1956) is a German politician who has served since 4 March 2020 as Minister-President of Thuringia, an office he previously held from 2014 to 5 February 2020. He is the first head of a German state government to serve non-consecutive terms in office since Eberhard Diepgen, who served twice as Governing Mayor of Berlin (1984–1989 and 1991–2001). A member of The Left, he previously chaired the party's group in the Landtag of Thuringia. On 8 October 2021, he was elected to a one-year term as President of the Bundesrat. His term lasted from 1 November 2021 until 31 October 2022. Political career Ramelow was born and raised in West Germany. He is a trained retail salesman and became an official in ''Gewerkschaft Handel, Banken und Versicherungen'' (HBV), the union for trade, bank and insurance employees during the 1980s. He moved to Thuringia, in former East Germany, after the unification of Germany in 1990. There he joined the successor to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Clement
Wolfgang Clement (7 July 194027 September 2020) was a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was the 7th Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 27 May 1998 to 22 October 2002 and Federal Minister of Economics and Labour from 2002 to 2005. He was an Honorary Member of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation. He was known for being one of the architects of the Agenda 2010 labor market reforms under chancellor Gerhard Schröder in the early 2000s. He was also credited with the merger of the federal ministry of economics and labor and the Hartz I through IV labor market reforms. The labor and welfare reforms have been credited with reducing unemployment and contributing to Germany's growth years. However, the reforms have been a divisive topic and created a lasting rift between the leftists and the centrists at the SPD. Education and career Clement was born on 7 July 1940 in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, and was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jürgen Aretz
Jürgen or Jurgen is a popular masculine given name in Germany, Estonia, Belgium and the Netherlands. It is cognate with George. Notable people named Jürgen include: A *Jürgen Ahrend (born 1930), German organ builder * Jürgen Alzen (born 1962), German race car driver * Jürgen Arndt, East German rower *Jürgen Aschoff (1913–1998), German physician and biologist B *Jürgen Barth (born 1947), German engineer and racecar driver *Jürgen Bartsch (1946–1976), German serial killer *Jürgen von Beckerath (1920–2016), German Egyptologist *Jürgen Berghahn (born 1960), German politician * Jürgen Bertow (born 1950), East German rower *Jürgen Blin (born 1943), West German boxer * Jürgen Bogs (born 1947), German football manager *Jürgen Brähmer (born 1978), German boxer * Jürgen Bräuninger, South African composer and professor *Jürgen Budday (born 1948), German conductor C * Jürgen Cain Külbel (born 1956), German journalist and investigator *Jürgen Chrobog (born 1940), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thuringia
Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million. Erfurt is the capital and largest city. Other cities are Jena, Gera and Weimar. Thuringia is bordered by Bavaria, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony. It has been known as "the green heart of Germany" () from the late 19th century due to its broad, dense forest. Most of Thuringia is in the Saale drainage basin, a left-bank tributary of the Elbe. Thuringia is home to the Rennsteig, Germany's best-known hiking trail. Its winter resort of Oberhof makes it a well-equipped winter sports destination – half of Germany's 136 Winter Olympic gold medals had been won by Thuringian athletes as of 2014. Thuringia was favoured by or was the birthplace of three key intellectuals and leaders in the arts: Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Fried ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Böseckendorf
Böseckendorf () is a village in the Teistungen municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Germany. It became famous during the Cold War for two mass escapes in 1961 and 1963 involving a total of 65 inhabitants – a quarter of the village's population – across the heavily fortified inner German border. The village is first recorded in a deed of about 1250 of Count Ulrich von Regenstein for the monastery of Kloster Beuren. The entire village became a monastic settlement in 1431, after which the villagers were required to pay tithes to support the monastery. Its monastic ties were abolished in 1809. After the end of the Second World War the village found itself just inside the Soviet occupation zone, which became the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in 1949. The village is situated in a salient of the German Thuringia, surrounded on three sides by the border with Lower Saxony. In 1952 the inner German border was fortified by the East German government, with acces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billmuthausen
Billmuthausen was a village in Germany, founded in 1340. It was destroyed by East German authorities in 1978 as it stood too close to the Inner German border (part of the larger "Iron Curtain"), the border between the post-war states of East and West Germany. It lay in the extreme south of Thuringia in the Heldburger Land in the district of Hildburghausen, only five hundred metres (1,640 ft) away from the Thuringian-Bavarian border. In January 1965, the authorities destroyed the small village church. In September 1978, the last family left the village, after which all the buildings in the village were demolished and the land leveled. History Billmuthausen is first mentioned in historical records in 1340 under the name of Billmuthehusen and in 1528 under the name of Bylmethausen. In 1840, the village had 14 households, a mill and a church. A decade later, the village's population stood at 68. The former site of the village is now a memorial with a marker stone and cross, and a new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volker Koop
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Volker may refer to: * Volker (name), including a list of people with the given name or surname * Volker, Kansas City, a historic neighborhood in Kansas City * Volker Boulevard, Kansas City * ''Alien Nations'' (German: ''Die Völker''), a real-time strategy video game released in 1999 See also * VolkerWessels, a Dutch construction company ** VolkerRail, a railway infrastructure services company based in Doncaster, England, owned by VolkerWessels * Voelcker (other) * Voelker (other) Voelker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Joe Voelker (Born 1987), and Mike Voelker (Born 1982), Famous brothers from Florida * Bobby Voelker (born 1979), American mixed martial artist * Christopher Voelker (born 1961), Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aufbau-Verlag
Aufbau-Verlag is a German publisher. It was founded in Berlin in 1945 and became the biggest publisher in the GDR. During that time it specialised in Socialist literature, socialist and Russian literature. It is currently led by Matthias Koch, René Strien, and Tom Erben. Further reading * (NB. This publication is the author's master (degree), master thesis under and Mortier, Jean at the in 1992.) * (NB. This book is based on the author's magister (degree), magister thesis () at the in 1992. According to #Links-2010, Christoph Links this work contains a number of factual errors.) * (NB. This publication is the author's diplom (degree), diplom thesis at the .) *(NB. This book is based on the author's magister (degree), magister thesis at in 1996.) *(NB. This book is based on the author's magister (degree), magister thesis at in 2006.) * (Update 2013: , , ; Update 2012: , , ; first edition: / . . . . NB. This work is based on the author's dissertation at under the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dietmar Schultke
Dietmar is a German forename. *Dietmar I (archbishop of Salzburg), ruled 874 to 907 * Dietmar von Aist, Minnesinger from a baronial family of Upper Austria, documented between 1140 and 1171 *Dietmar Bär (born 1961), German actor *Dietmar Bartsch (born 1958), German politician, former Bundesgeschäftsführer *Dietmar Beiersdorfer (born 1963), former footballer and coach *Dietmar Berchtold (born 1974), Austrian football midfielder * Dietmar Bonnen (born 1958), German composer and pianist *Dietmar Bruck (born 1944), former professional footballer *Dietmar Burger (born 1968), Austrian darts player *Dietmar Constantini (born 1955), former Austrian association football player and now head coach *Dietmar Danner (born 1950), retired German footballer * Dietmar Dath (born 1970), German novelist *Dietmar Demuth (born 1955), German former footballer who is now manager * Dietmar Falkenberg, East German former bobsledder * Dietmar Feichtinger (born 1961), Austrian architect in Paris * Dietmar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aktion Festigung Grevesmühlen
Actium or Aktion ( grc, Ἄκτιον) was a town on a promontory in ancient Acarnania at the entrance of the Ambraciot Gulf, off which Octavian gained his celebrated victory, the Battle of Actium, over Antony and Cleopatra, on September 2, 31 BCE. History Actium belonged originally to the Corinthian colonists of Anactorium, who probably founded the sanctuary of Apollo Actius. This temple was of great antiquity. In the 3rd century BCE it fell to the Acarnanians, who subsequently held their religious summits there. There was also an ancient festival named Actia, celebrated here in honour of the god. Augustus after his victory enlarged the temple, and revived the ancient festival, which was henceforth celebrated once in five years (πενταετηρίς, ludi quinquennales), with musical and gymnastic contests, and horse races. We learn from a Greek inscription found on the site of Actium, and which is probably prior to the time of Augustus, that the chief priest o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
