Langenhagen ( Eastphalian: ''Langenhogen'') is a town in the

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

district of

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

, Germany.

History

From 1866 to 1868

Robert Koch Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch ( , ; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist. As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera (though the Vibrio ...

worked in Langenhagen. On June 18, 1972,

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terrorist

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was arrested in Langenhagen. On August 17, 1982, the world's first mass production of

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s began in Langenhagen. The Langenhagen standard (german: Langenhagener Norm), declared 1990 and sponsored by

Brenneke Brenneke GmbH is a German manufacturer of ammunition and bullets, based in Langenhagen, Lower Saxony. The company was founded by Wilhelm Brenneke in 1895 and is currently owned and run by his great-grandson, Dr. Peter Mank. Brenneke makes sh ...

is an industry standard for the minimal precision of

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s and

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s fit for

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with shotgun slugs.

Subdivisions

Langenhagen consists of Langenhagen proper (including the Old Town, Brink, Langenforth and Wiesenau),

Engelbostel Engelbostel is a district of the city of Langenhagen in the Hanover region. It was independent until 1974 when the village was incorporated into Langenhagen. The town is located southwest of the Hannover-Langenhagen airport. To the east is Sch ...

(including Kananohe), Godshorn, Kaltenweide (including Altenhorst, Hainhaus, Maspe, Siedlung Twenge, Twenge and Kiebitzkrug), Krähenwinkel, and Schulenburg.

Economy

TUIfly TUI fly Deutschland, formerly ''TUIfly'', is a German leisure airline owned by the travel and tourism company TUI Group. It is headquartered at Hannover Airport with bases at several other German airports. TUI fly Deutschland is part of TUI Grou ...

is headquartered at

Hanover Airport Hannover Airport is the international airport of Hanover, capital of the German state of Lower Saxony. The ninth largest airport in Germany, it is in Langenhagen, north of the centre of Hanover. The airport has flights to European metrop ...

. Before TUIfly appeared,

Hapag-Lloyd Flug Hapag-Lloyd Flug (between 2005 and 2007 also marketed as ''Hapagfly'') was a German leisure airline headquartered in Langenhagen, Lower Saxony that was originally founded by Hapag-Lloyd and later became a subsidiary of TUI Group. It operated sch ...

(a.k.a. Hapagfly) was headquartered in Langenhagen. * Bahlsen *

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is currently building a new hub for northern Germany. It will be operational in January 2011. *

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* WAGNER Group GmbH

Politics

In 2001 the town council was elected for five years. The

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and the

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won the election (both parties send 19 councilors to the council). The two "small" parties FDP (Free Democratic Party) and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Greens) received two seats each. Dr. Susanne Schott-Lemmer (CDU) is the mayor of Langenhagen. She won against the candidate of the Social Democrats with more than 60 percent. On 10 September 2006 the town council was elected for five years. The

won the election (send 19 councilors to the council). The FDP (Free Democratic Party) got two seats and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Greens) received four seats each. The

lost with only 16 seats. Dr. Susanne Schott-Lemmer (CDU) was not elected and is the loser of the elections. The new mayor of Langenhagen is Friedhelm Fischer from the Social Democrats with more than 52 percent.

Twin towns – sister cities

Langenhagen is twinned with: * Southwark, London, United Kingdom *

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, Slovenia *

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, Poland *

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, France *

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, Austria

Notable people

*Augustus Frederick Christopher Kollmann (1756–1829), organist and composer *Willy Max Rademacher (1897–1971), politician associated with the FDP * André Breitenreiter (born 1973), footballer

Gallery

Langenhagen Konzentrationslager Memorial.jpg, Langenhagen

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References

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