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Tübingen Central Station
Tübingen (; ) is a traditional college town, university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer (Neckar), Ammer rivers. about one in three of the 90,000 people living in Tübingen is a student. As of the 2018/2019 winter semester, 27,665 students attend the University of Tübingen, Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen. The city has the lowest median age in Germany, in part due to its status as a university city. As of December 31, 2015, the average age of a citizen of Tübingen is 39.1 years. Immediately north of the city lies the Schönbuch, a densely wooded nature park. The Swabian Alb mountains rise about (beeline Tübingen City to Roßberg - 869 m) to the southeast of Tübingen. The Ammer and Steinlach rivers are Tributary, tributaries of the Neckar river, which flows in an easterly direction through the city, just south of the Middle Ages, medieval old town. La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Palmer
Boris Erasmus Palmer (born 28 May 1972) is a German politician and former member of the Alliance '90/The Greens, Green Party. He has been mayor of Tübingen since January 2007. From March 2001 to May 2007, he was a member of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg, Baden-Württemberg Landtag, the State parliament in Stuttgart. Palmer's controversial positions have cost him the support of his party in the 2020 municipal elections, and a process to oust him from party ranks was started the following year. Background Palmer was born in Waiblingen, Baden-Württemberg. His father, Helmut, dubbed ''Remstalrebell'' ("Rems (river), Rems-valley rebel") was a very well known and controversial figure and perennial candidate. In a ''Deutsche Welle'' interview for the program ''Talking Germany'' with Peter Craven, Palmer described his father as a rebel who became a political activist in the 1950s, when "all the old fascists, all the old Nazis were back" in power, and said that his grandfather ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
