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Wolfgang Branoner
Wolfgang Branoner (born 15 April 1956) is a Berlin politician (Christian Democratic Union of Germany, CDU) and businessman. (More recently he has become a business consultant.) As Berlin's high-profile Senate of Berlin, senator for :de:Senatsverwaltung für Wirtschaft, Energie und Betriebe, Economics, Business and Technology he took a notably pro-business stance. His opposition to excessive regulation was evident in his eye-catching 1999 proposal for a federal (i.e. national) law to limit the power of States of Germany, state ("Länder" i.e.regional) governments to impose restrictive opening hours on shops. Life Branoner was born in the Schöneberg quarter of West Berlin. While he was still small his mother moved with the family to Neukölln, Neukölln (Berlin) where he grew up the eldest son in a family without a father. Branoner was only 19 in 1975 when he joined the centre-right Christian Democratic Union of Germany, CDU (party). He studied Public administration theory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schöneberg
Schöneberg () is a locality of Berlin, Germany. Until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it was a separate borough including the locality of Friedenau. Together with the former borough of Tempelhof it is now part of the new borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg. History The village was first documented in a 1264 deed issued by Margrave Otto III of Brandenburg. In 1751, Bohemian weavers founded Neu-Schöneberg also known as Böhmisch-Schöneberg along northern Hauptstraße. During the Seven Years' War on 7 October 1760 Schöneberg and its village church were completely destroyed by a fire due to the joint attack on Berlin by Habsburg and Russian troops. Both Alt-Schöneberg and Neu-Schöneberg were in an area developed in the course of industrialization and incorporated in a street network laid out in the Hobrecht-Plan in an area that came to be known architecturally as the Wilhelmine Ring. The two villages were not combined as one entity until 1874 and received town privileg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
