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The Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (German: Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, WhK) was founded by Magnus Hirschfeld in Berlin in May 1897, to campaign for social recognition of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and against their legal persecution. It was the first LGBT rights organization in history. The motto of the organization was "Per scientiam ad justitiam" ("through science to justice"), and the committee included representatives from various professions. The committee's membership peaked at about 700 people. In 1929, Kurt Hiller took over as chairman of the group from Hirschfeld. At its peak, the WhK had branches in approximately 25 cities in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.
The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced Deutsche Mark from West Berlin.
The Bell Tower of Berlin Olympic Stadium is a 77-metre-high (253 ft) observation tower that was built in 1934 after plans by Werner March. The steel skeleton construction was faced with dressed limestone. The tower is located at the western end of the Olympiastadion.
The 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics (German: Leichtathletik-Weltmeisterschaften 2009) were held in Berlin, Germany from 15 to 23 August 2009. The majority of events took place in the Olympiastadion, while the marathon and racewalking events started and finished at the Brandenburg Gate.
website: http://www.berlin2009.org/1-1-home.html
The Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße ('Automobile traffic and training road'), known as AVUS (German pronunciation: [ˈaːvʊs] ), is a public road in Berlin, Germany. Opened in 1921, it was also used as a motor racing circuit until 1998. Today, the AVUS forms the northern part of the Bundesautobahn 115.
The 2003 MasterCard German Open was a women's tennis event that was played in Berlin, Germany from 5 May until 11 May 2003. It was one of two Tier I events that took place on red clay in the build-up to the second Grand Slam of the year, the French Open. It was the 34th edition of the tournament. Third-seeded Justine Henin-Hardenne won her second consecutive singles title at the event and earned $182,000 first-prize money.
The field hockey tournament at the 1936 Summer Olympics was the fifth edition of the field hockey event at the Summer Olympics.
The Berlin Mathematical School (BMS) is a joint graduate school of the three renowned mathematics departments of the public research universities in Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin. In October 2006, the BMS was awarded one of the 18 prestigious graduate school awards by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal Government for its innovative concept, its strong cross-disciplinary focus, and its outstanding teaching schedule tailored to the needs of students in an international environment. This was reconfirmed in June 2012 when the German Research Foundation announced that the BMS would also receive funding for a second period until 2017. Since 2019, the BMS is the graduate school in the Cluster of Excellence MATH+, which is funded by the Excellence Strategy. The BMS Chair is Jürg Kramer (HU), and the deputy Chairs are John M. Sullivan (TU) and Holger Reich (FU).
website: http://www.math-berlin.de/
website: https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/theatertreffen
The Protestant Church of Plötzensee (German: Gemeindezentrum Plötzensee) is situated in Berlin-Charlottenburg-Nord and was inaugurated in 1970 as the second church building of the Protestant Congregation in North-Charlottenburg within the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. As it is located close to the former Plötzensee Prison, the church-building was designed as a memorial for the victims of National Socialism. The paintings Plötzenseer Totentanz (Plötzensee Danse Macabre) painted by the Viennese artist Alfred Hrdlicka are an important part of this church.
Schmargendorf (German: [ˈʃmaʁɡn̩ˌdɔʁf] ) is a south-western locality (Ortsteil) of Berlin in the district (Bezirk) of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Until 2001 it was part of the former district of Wilmersdorf.
The Waldbühne (Woodland Stage or Forest Stage) is an amphitheatre at Olympiapark Berlin in Berlin, Germany. It was designed by German architect Werner March in emulation of a Greek theatre and built between 1934 and 1936 as the Dietrich-Eckart-Freilichtbühne (Dietrich Eckart Open Air Theater), a Nazi Thingplatz, and opened in association with the 1936 Summer Olympics. Since World War II it has been used for a variety of events, including boxing matches, film showings and classical and rock concerts. It seats more than 22,000 people. The venue is located off Friedrich-Friesen-Allee just northeast of Glockenturmstraße.
website: http://www.waldbuehne-berlin.de/
Westend (German: [ˈvɛstʔˈɛnt] ) is a locality of the Berlin borough Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in Germany. It emerged in the course of Berlin's 2001 administrative reform on the grounds of the former Charlottenburg borough. Originally a mansion colony, it is today a quite densely settled, still affluent territory adjacent to Berlin's inner city in the east.
Halensee (German: [ˈhaːlən̩ˌzeː] ) is a locality (Ortsteil) of Berlin in the district (Bezirk) of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Halensee was established as a villa and tenement settlement in about 1880, in the suburb of Wilmersdorf, which became part of Greater Berlin in 1920. In 2004, Halensee became its own Ortsteil. With an area of 1.27 km2 it is the smallest Ortsteil in Berlin after Hansaviertel.
The 1938 World Men's Handball Championship was the first ever handball World Championship. It was played in Germany on 5 and 6 February 1938. Contested by just 4 national teams, the tournament was won by hosts Germany.
Field handball at the 1936 Summer Olympics was the first appearance of the sport at the Olympics. It was contested by six teams. Games were played outdoors with 11 players on each side.
Basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics was the first appearance of the sport of basketball as an official Olympic medal event. The tournament was played between 7 and 14 August 1936 in Berlin, Germany. 23 nations entered the competition, making basketball the largest tournament of the team sports, but Hungary and Spain withdrew, meaning 21 competed.
Eissporthalle an der Jafféstraße was a 6,000-capacity indoor arena located in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany. It opened in 1973 and was home to Berliner Schlittschuhclub until 1983 and then BSC Preussen. The arena also hosted concerts, most notably the last performance by Led Zeppelin on 7 July 1980 before their reunion concert on 10 December 2007. The building was demolished in 2001. BSC Preussen moved to the nearby Deutschlandhalle which replaced it as the new main venue for ice hockey in western Berlin.
The Clock of Flowing Time (German: Uhr der fließenden Zeit) is a 13 metres (43 ft) high water clock extending over three floors in the Berlin Europa-Center. The clock was designed by the French artist Bernard Gitton and set up in 1982.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, or FOKUS, is an organization of the Fraunhofer Society. Headquartered in Berlin (Charlottenburg), the institute is engaged in applied research and development in the field of Information and Communications Technology. The institute is jointly led by Prof. Manfred Hauswirth and Dr. Tom Ritter. Manfred Hauswirth also holds a chair at the Technische Universität Berlin. Dr. Tom Ritter is the institute's deputy director.
website: https://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/en, https://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/
At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, 29 athletics events were contested, 23 for men and 6 for women. The program of events was unchanged from the previous Games. There was a total of 776 participants from 43 countries competing.
The Kurfürstendamm (German pronunciation: [ˌkuːɐ̯fʏʁstn̩ˈdam] ; colloquially Ku'damm, [ˈkuːdam] ; English: Prince Elector Embankment) is one of the most famous avenues in Berlin. The street takes its name from the former Kurfürsten (prince-electors) of Brandenburg. The broad, long boulevard can be considered the Champs-Élysées of Berlin and is lined with shops, houses, hotels and restaurants. In particular, many fashion designers have their shops there, as well as several car manufacturers' show rooms.
The Café des Westens, on No.18/19 Kurfürstendamm in Berlin, was a coffeehouse which operated from 1898 to 1915, and became famous as a meeting place for turn of the century artists. It was known colloquially as Café Größenwahn; the German Größenwahn meaning "delusions of grandeur".
T-Labs, formerly known as Telekom Innovation Laboratories, is the R&D unit of Deutsche Telekom. T-Labs current research areas are: Future Networks, Spatial Computing and Decentralized Systems.
website: https://laboratories.telekom.com/
The Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (German: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) is an interdisciplinary institute founded in 1981 in Grunewald, Berlin, Germany, dedicated to research projects in the natural and social sciences. It is modeled after the original IAS in Princeton, New Jersey and is a member of Some Institutes for Advanced Study.
website: http://www.wiko-berlin.de/en/
The power station Berlin-Wilmersdorf was a power plant in Berlin-Schmargendorf, which went into service in 1977, and has been shut down in 2021.
Bleibtreustraße, or Bleibtreustrasse (see ß), is a street in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin.
The Historical Archive on Tourism (HAT, German: Historisches Archiv zum Tourismus) is sited in the city of Berlin at the Technische Universität Berlin where it is housed at the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS) and the Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft (ZTG). The HAT had been founded in 1986/87 at the Freie Universität Berlin; in 2011 international protests helped to avert a planned shut-down of the archive and the following year it moved from the Free to the Technical University. Since 1999 the HAT is headed by the historian Hasso Spode and was co-financed by the Willy-Scharnow-Foundation.
Street address: Hardenbergstr. 16-18, 10623 Berlin (from Wikidata)
website: http://hist-soz.de/hat/archiv.html
Charlottenburg-Nord (German pronunciation: [ʃaʁˈlɔtn̩bʊʁk nɔʁt], literally "Charlottenburg North") is a locality (Ortsteil) in the northern part of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough of Berlin, Germany. It is chiefly composed of after-war housing estates, allotment gardens and commercial zones. The locality comprises the Großsiedlung Siemensstadt, part of the Berlin Modernism Housing Estates UNESCO World Heritage Site, as well as Plötzensee Prison.
Charlottenburg (German: [ʃaʁˈlɔtn̩bʊʁk] ) is a locality of Berlin within the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Established as a town in 1705 and named after Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, Queen consort of Prussia, it is best known for Charlottenburg Palace - the largest surviving such royal palace in Berlin - and the adjacent museums.
104.6 RTL is a private radio station that is produced in a hot adult contemporary format. It is transmitted from studios in Kurfürstendamm in Berlin-Charlottenburg. According to German Media Analysis 2023/II, the station reaches 128,000 listeners in an average transmitting hour with a total of 217,000 listeners per day and thereby is one of the most listened to radio programs in Berlin and Brandenburg.
website: https://www.104.6rtl.com/
The University Library of the TU Berlin and UdK (German: Zentralbibliothek der TU und UdK Berlin) is the central library of the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). It is located in the Fasanenstraße, Berlin. The current directors of the UdK and TU libraries are Andrea Zeyns and Jürgen Christof, respectively.
website: https://www.tu.berlin/ub/, https://www.ub.udk-berlin.de/
Deutsch-Polnische Gesellschaft Bundesverband (DPG, Polish: Federalny Związek Towarzystw Niemiecko-Polskich) is a society of different regional associations which promote reconciliation and cultural exchange of Germany and Poland. It was founded in 1996, succeeding the Bundesverband deutsch-polnischer Gesellschaften, which was founded in 1987. One of the goals is the integration of Poland in the European Union. The organization is based in Berlin.
website: https://www.dpg-bundesverband.de/
Tauentzienstraße, or Tauentzienstrasse (see ß; colloquially: der Tauentzien; transl. Tauentzien Street), is a major shopping street in the City West area of Berlin, Germany. With a length of about 500 m (1,600 ft), it runs between two important squares, Wittenbergplatz in the east and Breitscheidplatz in the west, where it is continued by the Kurfürstendamm boulevard. While the eastern half belongs to the Schöneberg district, the western part (beyond Nürnberger Straße) is in Charlottenburg.
The cycling competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events, all for men only.
Nürnberger Platz was a Berlin U-Bahn station on what is now the U3, located under the square of the same name in Wilmersdorf on the border with Charlottenburg. The station opened on 12 October 1913 and was permanently closed on 1 June 1959.
Salon Kitty is a 1976 erotic war drama film directed by Tinto Brass. The film was co-produced by Italy, France and West Germany. It is based on the novel of the same name by Peter Norden, covering the real life events of the Salon Kitty operation, under which the Sicherheitsdienst took over an expensive brothel in Berlin, had the place wire tapped, and replaced all the prostitutes with trained spies, in order to gather information on various members of the Nazi party and foreign dignitaries.
Waldorf Astoria Berlin is a hotel in Berlin, Germany. It is located at Breitscheidplatz in the City West area of Berlin, next to the upscale retail area Kurfürstendamm. It opened on January 3, 2013, and is the first Waldorf Astoria branded hotel in Germany. Waldorf Astoria Spa, the only one in Germany, is located at the hotel.
website: https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/berwawa-waldorf-astoria-berlin/
The SS Personnel Main Office (German: SS Personalhauptamt) was established on 1 June 1939 from the personnel department in Himmler's personal staff. It was responsible for the administration of personnel matters regarding all leaders and officers of the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany. This included the Allgemeine SS (General SS), Waffen-SS and Sicherheitsdienst (SD; Security Service), specifically those matters regarding admission, promotion and dismissal, but also organisational matters, transfers, and training. It was responsible for processing recommendations for decorations. The office was also responsible for the SS seniority list (Dienstaltersliste), the granting of the SS-Ehrenring (SS Honour Ring) and Degen (SS Honour Sword), and also appointed members within the Allgemeine SS. Walter Schmitt was chief of the office until June 1942 when, due to illness, he turned over responsibility for management of the office to Maximilian von Herff who formally succeeded him on 1 October 1942, remaining in charge until the fall of the Nazi regime. The office was supervised closely by Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS.
Deutschlandhalle was an arena located in the Westend neighbourhood of Berlin, Germany. It was inaugurated on 29 November 1935 by Adolf Hitler. The building was granted landmark status in 1995, but was demolished on 3 December 2011.
website: http://www.deutschlandhalle.de
At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, nine events in gymnastics were contested. The competitions were held from 10 August 1936 to 12 August 1936.
Kant-Garage, also known in German as Kant-Garagen-Palast (Kant Parking Palace), is a multi-storey car park on Kantstrasse in the Charlottenburg area of Berlin that opened in 1930.
website: https://stilwerk.com/de/microsite/willkommen-in-berlin
The 2006 Qatar Telecom German Open was a women's tennis event that was played at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in Berlin, Germany from 5 May until 13 May 2006. It was the 37th edition of the tournament. It was one of two Tier I events that took place on red clay courts in the build-up to the second Grand Slam of the year, the French Open. Second-seeded Nadia Petrova won the singles title.
website: http://www.german-open.org/
The 2002 Eurocard German Open was a women's tennis event that was played from 6 May to 12 May 2002. It was one of two Tier I events that took place on red clay in the build-up to the second Grand Slam of the year, the French Open. It was the 33rd edition of the tournament and was played at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in the German capital of Berlin. The tournaments offered a total prize fund of US$1,224,000 across all rounds. Fifth-seeded Justine Henin won the singles title and earned $182,000 first-prize money.
The Federal Joint Committee (German: Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss (G-BA)) refers to a group of German public health agencies that were merged in 2004, under an independent chairman. It is authorized to make binding regulations growing out of health reform bills passed by lawmakers, along with routine decisions regarding healthcare in Germany.
website: https://www.g-ba.de/
Wilmersdorf (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlmɐsdɔʁf] ) is an inner-city locality of Berlin which lies south-west of the central city. Formerly a borough by itself, Wilmersdorf became part of the new borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf following Berlin's 2001 administrative reform.
The A-Trane is a jazz club in Berlin, Germany.
website: http://www.a-trane.de/, https://a-trane.de/
At the 1936 Summer Olympics, 14 wrestling events were contested, all for men. There were seven weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and seven classes in freestyle wrestling.
The 1959 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungs-Straße in West Berlin on 2 August 1959. It was race 6 of 9 in the 1959 World Championship of Drivers and race 5 of 8 in the 1959 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. It was the 21st German Grand Prix and was only the second time the race was not held at the Nürburgring. As of 2025 this is only official German Grand Prix in World Championship history not to be held at either the Nürburgring or Hockenheimring as a venue. This race would mark the only time that AVUS would host a World Championship Grand Prix since the inception in 1950 of what is today referred to as the Formula One World Championship. AVUS had previously held the original German Grand Prix in 1926 though the circuit had held the Avusrennen a few times times in the intervening years and continued to do so after this for lower category formula racing cars and sports cars until the circuit officially closed in 1998, though it would never host a World Championship Grand Prix ever again. The 1959 German Grand Prix was held over two 30 lap heats of the eight kilometre circuit for a total race distance of 498 kilometres.
At the 1936 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested, six for men and one for women.
The weightlifting competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin consisted of five weight classes, all for men only.
The Transmitter Stallupöner Allee, Berlin is a transmission site for medium wave radio broadcasts situated on the Stallupöner Allee ("Stallupone Avenue") in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany. This transmission site was established in 1948. It uses as aerial a 130-metre-high guyed steel framework mast with triangular section, which is insulated against ground. Until 1998 there was a second insulated guyed steel framework mast on the site. It was replaced by a small freestanding steel framework tower. The transmission power of the medium wave transmitter was reduced during the nineties from 100 kilowatts to 2.5 kilowatts.
The 2001 Eurocard Ladies German Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in Berlin in Germany and was part of Tier I of the 2001 WTA Tour. It was the 32nd edition of the tournament and ran from 7 May through 13 May 2001. Fourth-seeded Amélie Mauresmo won the singles title.
website: http://www.german-open.org/
The Gloria-Palast was a German cinema located on the Kurfürstendamm in the German capital Berlin. It was constructed in 1924 and replaced the existing neo-Baroque Romanischen Hauses designed by Franz Heinrich Schwechten. It became a common location for Berlin premieres of new films. In 1930 the hit The Blue Angel first screened at the Palast. In 1943 the cinema was gutted by a fire caused by an Allied bombing raid during the Second World War. After the war, the cinema was refurbished and reopened in what was now West Berlin during the Cold War. Other prestige cinemas located in the area included the Marmorhaus. In 2017 the redevelopment of the cinema was approved and it was demolished the following year.
The 2004 Ladies German Open was a women's tennis event that was played in Berlin, Germany from 3 May to 9 May 2004. It was one of two Tier I events that took place on red clay in the build-up to the second Grand Slam of the year, the French Open. It was the 35th edition of the tournament. Second-seeded Amélie Mauresmo won the singles title and earned $189,000 first-prize money.
website: http://www.german-open.org/
The Mengenlehreuhr (German for "Set Theory Clock") or Berlin-Uhr ("Berlin Clock") is the first public clock in the world that tells the time by means of illuminated, coloured fields, for which it entered the Guinness Book of Records upon its installation on 17 June 1975. Commissioned by the Senate of Berlin and designed by Dieter Binninger, the original full-sized Mengenlehreuhr was originally located at the Kurfürstendamm on the corner with Uhlandstraße in what was then West Berlin. After the Senate decommissioned it in 1995, the clock was relocated to a site in Budapester Straße in front of Europa-Center, where it stands today.
Football at the 1936 Summer Olympics was won by Italy. This was the first Olympic football tournament after its prestige had been lessened by the 1930 introduction of the World Cup and its absence from the 1932 Olympics.
The Romanisches Café ("Romanesque Café") was a café-bar in Berlin known as a meeting place for artists. It was located in what is now Breitscheidplatz at the end of the Kurfürstendamm in the Charlottenburg district (although that section of the Kurfürstendamm was renamed Budapester Straße in 1925). The name was derived from the Neo-Romanesque style of the building.
These are the results of the boxing competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Medals were awarded in eight weight classes. The competitions were held from 10 to 15 August.
Messe Berlin (Berlin Messegelände) are exhibition grounds in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf precinct of Berlin, Germany, at Masurenallee opposite the Haus des Rundfunks. Since 2011, they have officially been known as "Berlin ExpoCenter City" and operated by the Messe Berlin GmbH company.
website: http://www.messe-berlin.de
The Artillerie Prüfungskommission, (Artillery Test Commission) was founded in 1809 as part of the artillery of the Prussian Army. It was responsible for answering technical questions, testing the quality of new artillery materiel, and executing experiments. The Artillerie Prüfungskommission later became part of the Imperial German Army. Other nations had equivalent authorities, e.g. the Austro-Hungarian was called Artilleriekomitee. The former headquarters of the Artillerie Prüfungskommission on the Bundesallee in Berlin are still standing.
The Berlin 1939–1945 War Cemetery is one of two Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) cemeteries in Berlin, the other being the World War I Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery in Stahnsdorf, Brandenburg. The Berlin 1939–1945 War Cemetery was established in 1945 as a central burial ground for aircrew and prisoners of war who were interred in the Berlin area and in East Germany. There are also 260 burials from the post-war British Occupation Authorities staff, or their relatives. Of the wartime burials, about 80% are aircrew, killed in action over Germany: the remainder are prisoners of war.
City West (formerly known as Neuer Westen ("New West") or Zooviertel ("Zoo Quarter")) is an area in the western part of central Berlin. It is one of Berlin's main commercial areas, and was the commercial centre of former West Berlin when the city was divided by the Berlin Wall.
The 2005 Qatar Total German Open was a women's tennis event that was played in Berlin, Germany from 2 May until 8 May 2005. It was one of two Tier I events that took place on red clay in the build-up to the second Grand Slam of the year, the French Open. It was the 36th edition of the tournament. Justine Henin-Hardenne, who was seeded 12th, won her third singles title at the event.
website: http://www.german-open.org/
The ITB Berlin (Internationale Tourismus-Börse Berlin) is the world's largest tourism trade fair. The companies represented at the fair include hotels, tourist boards, tour operators, system providers, airlines and car rental companies.
website: http://www.itb-berlin.de
bbw Hochschule (bbw University of Applied Sciences) is a private, state-recognized university based in Berlin-Adlershof (Treptow-Köpenick), Germany.
website: https://www.bbw-hochschule.de/
The Fasanenstrasse Synagogue was a former liberal Jewish congregation and synagogue, that was located at 79–80 Fasanenstrasse off Kurfürstendamm, in the affluent neighbourhood of Charlottenburg, in Berlin, Germany. Completed on 26 August 1912, the synagogue was located close to the Berlin Stadtbahn and Zoo Station.
The 12th European Film Awards were presented on December 4, 1999, in Berlin, Germany. The winners were selected by the members of the European Film Academy.
Pension Clausewitz was a luxury West Berlin brothel. In 1965 it was the centre of an alleged spying scandal, that when investigated, was unfounded.
The Ufa-Palast am Zoo, located near Berlin Zoological Garden in the New West area of Charlottenburg, was a major Berlin cinema owned by Universum Film AG, or Ufa. Opened in 1919 and enlarged in 1925, it was the largest cinema in Germany until 1929 and was one of the main locations of film premières in the country. The building was destroyed in November 1943 during the Bombing of Berlin in World War II and replaced in 1957 by the Zoo Palast.
Street address: Hardenbergstraße 29a-e, 10623 Berlin (from Wikidata)
The 1986 WTA German Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in West Berlin, West Germany that was part of the 1986 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the 17th edition of the tournament and was held from 12 May through 18 May 1986. Second-seeded Steffi Graf won the singles title and earned $29,000 first-prize money. The tournament marked the first time that Graf defeated Martina Navratilova.
Deutsches Stadion was a multi-use sports stadium in Berlin, Germany. It was located at Deutsches Sportforum in the present-day Westend quarter on the northern rim of the large Grunewald forest. Built according to plans designed by Otto March, it was opened on 8 June 1913, on the occasion of Emperor Wilhelm II's silver jubilee, due to host the 1916 Summer Olympics that were cancelled after the outbreak of World War I. The stadium was demolished 20 years later and replaced by the current Olympiastadion.
In the Mykonos restaurant assassinations (Persian: ترور رستوران میکونوس, Sorani Kurdish: تێرۆری میکۆنۆس; also the "Mykonos Incident"), Iranian-Kurdish opposition leaders Sadegh Sharafkandi, Fattah Abdoli, Homayoun Ardalan and their translator Nouri Dehkordi, were assassinated at the Mykonos Greek restaurant in Berlin, Germany on 17 September 1992. The assassination took place during the KDPI insurgency (1989–96), as part of the general Kurdish separatism in Iran. The assassins were believed by German courts to have links to Iranian intelligence. Kazem Darabi, an Iranian intelligence service employee, was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Berlin Supreme Court.
Kaiserdamm is a boulevard in the Westend and Charlottenburg districts of Berlin, Germany.
MSB Medical School Berlin - Hochschule für Gesundheit und Medizin is a German private, state-recognized university founded in Berlin in 2012. MSB Medical School Berlin is part of a university network with BSP Business School Berlin (located in Hamburg's Hafencity) and MSH Medical School Hamburg.
website: http://www.medicalschool-berlin.de/
The Murellenberge, the Murellenschlucht and the Schanzenwald are a hilly landscape formed during the Weichselian Ice Age in the Berlin district of Ruhleben in the Westend part of the District of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. The area is located to the west of the Olympic site. The largest part of the upslope and terminal moraine landscape is designated as nature reserve Murellenschlucht und Schanzenwald, which is part of the biotope network Fließwiese Ruhleben, Tiefwerder Wiesen and Grunewald. About 1.5 kilometers northeast of the area (from Murellenberg) is the natural monument Murellenteich.
Berlin International Green Week (German: Internationale Grüne Woche Berlin), also called simply Green Week, is an important international trade fair held annually in Berlin, Germany, for processors and marketers in agriculture, horticulture and various food industries. Green Week traditionally takes place at the beginning of the year in the Messe Berlin exhibition halls under the Funkturm and is open to the general public. In 2010 it had around 400,000 visitors. That same year, the Paris International Agricultural Show (French: Salon International de l'Agriculture) had 650,000 visitors.
website: https://www.gruenewoche.de/, https://www.gruenewoche.de/en/
The 1st Annual European Film Awards, presented by the European Film Academy, recognized excellence in European cinema. The ceremony took place on 1 December 1988 at the Theater des Westens in West Berlin and was hosted by Luxembourgish presenter Desirée Nosbusch and German actor Jan Niklas.
website: https://europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/archive/1988
The Maifeld (German: Mayfield) is a venue in the Olympiapark Berlin. It was created as a huge lawn (112,000 square metres, 28 acres) for gymnastic demonstrations, specifically annual May Day celebrations by Hitler's government. The open field's dimensions were 290 meters by 375 meters. The total capacity was 250,000 on its for rallies and 44,000 in the large stands on its west end. The Maifeld was designed by Werner March. During the 1936 Olympics, the Maifeld was used for the Polo competition and equestrian dressage events. During the games the stands at the Bell Tower 4,500 seats, and accommodated 44,000 standees. Stands on the two sides perpendicular to the Bell Tower stands each provided standing room for 14,000 spectators. This allowed 75,000 spectators can be accommodated during the Olympics. The Bell Tower was built with a searchlight that provided lighting for the Mayfield, and an observation platform that could be reached via an electric lift. After World War II the British military occupation forces (Berlin Infantry Brigade) annually celebrated The Queen's Official Birthday on the Maifeld and used it for a variety of sporting activities including cricket. Starting in 2012, Maifeld became home to the cricket clubs of Berlin who had previously used the nearby Körnerplatz. In more recent years the Maifeld has also hosted many concerts.
The Beate Uhse Erotic Museum (German: Beate Uhse Erotik-Museum) (1996 – 2014) was a sex museum in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, Germany.
website: http://erotikmuseum.beate-uhse.com
The Rathgen Research Laboratory (German: Rathgen-Forschungslabor) is a Research Institute of the Berlin State Museums under the auspices of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. It carries out cross-material conservation science, art technology and archaeometry studies of fine arts and cultural artifacts to determine composition, age and authenticity and provide advice on their restoration. It further conducts academic research on scientific issues concerning the care and preservation of monuments and archaeological sites. Founded in 1888 as the Chemical Laboratory of the Royal Museums in Berlin, it is the oldest museum laboratory in world and bears the name of its first director, Dr. Friedrich Rathgen.
website: http://www.smb.museum/rf
Salon Kitty was a high-class Berlin brothel used by the Nazi intelligence service, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), for espionage purposes during World War II.
The men's 100 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics were held at the Olympic Stadium on August 15 and August 16. The two main contenders for the event were the reigning World Champion Tyson Gay and Usain Bolt, the reigning Olympic champion and world record holder. Gay entered the competition with a season's best of 9.77 seconds (an American record) while Bolt's season's best was 9.79 seconds. Four other competitors had broken the 10-second barrier during the last months before the World Championship: former world record holder Asafa Powell, Olympic finalist Churandy Martina and emerging sprinters Daniel Bailey and Mike Rodgers.
The 2008 Qatar Telecom German Open was a women's tennis event that was played from 5 May to 11 May 2008. It was one of two Tier I events that took place on red clay in the build-up to the second Grand Slam of the year, the French Open. It was the 39th edition of the tournament and was played at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in the German capital of Berlin. The tournaments offered a total prize fund of US$1,300,000 across all rounds.
The 1998 WTA German Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in Berlin in Germany that was part of Tier I of the 1998 WTA Tour. It was the 29th edition of the tournament and was held from 11 May through 17 May 1998. Seventh-seeded Conchita Martínez won the singles title.
The 2007 Qatar Telecom German Open was a women's tennis event that was played from May 5 to May 13, 2007. It was one of two Tier I events that took place on red clay in the build-up to the second Grand Slam of the year, the French Open. It was the 38th edition of the tournament and was played at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in the German capital of Berlin.The tournaments offered a total prize fund of US$1,300,000 across all rounds.
website: http://www.german-open.org/
The Women's Heptathlon at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 16 and August 17. A number of high-profile heptathletes did not feature at the competition, including defending champion Carolina Klüft and 2007 bronze medallist Kelly Sotherton, who were both injured, and Olympic silver medallist Hyleas Fountain, who failed to qualify at the national championships.
The Weltkugelbrunnen (English: World Fountain) is a water feature in front of the Europa-Center in Breitscheidplatz, Berlin.
The men's 200 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium, Berlin, Germany on August 18 and August 20. The winning margin was 0.62 seconds which as of 2024 is the only time the men's 200 metres has been won by more than half a second at these championships.
Grunewald (German: [ˈɡʁuːnəˌvalt] ) is a locality within the Berlin borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Until 2001 administrative reform it was part of the former district of Wilmersdorf.
The 1979 WTA German Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in West Berlin, West Germany that was part of the 1979 Colgate Series and was held from 21 May through 27 May 1979. It was the 11th edition of the tournament and the first women's only edition. Caroline Stoll won the singles title and earned $20,000 first-prize money.
The 1981 WTA German Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in West Berlin in West Germany that was part of the Toyota Series Category 3 tier of the 1981 WTA Tour. It was the 12th edition of the tournament and was held from 18 May through 24 May 1981. Eighth-seeded Regina Maršíková won the singles title and earned $20,000 first-prize money.
The 1982 WTA German Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in West Berlin in West Germany that was part of the Toyota Series Category 3 tier of the 1982 WTA Tour. It was the 13th edition of the tournament and was held from 17 May through 23 May 1982. Fourth-seeded Bettina Bunge won the singles title and earned $18,000 first-prize money.
The 1984 WTA German Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in West Berlin, West Germany that was part of the 1984 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the 15th edition of the tournament and was held from 14 May through 20 May 1984. Sixth-seeded Claudia Kohde-Kilsch won the singles title and earned $27,500 first-prize money.
The 1985 Fila German Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in West Berlin, West Germany that was part of the Category 3 tier of the 1985 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the 16th edition of the tournament and was held from 13 May through 19 May 1985. First-seeded Chris Evert-Lloyd won the singles title.
The 1988 WTA German Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in West Berlin, West Germany that was part of Tier I of the 1988 WTA Tour. It was the 19th edition of the tournament and was held from 9 May through 15 May 1988. First-seeded Steffi Graf won her third consecutive singles title at the event.
The 1983 WTA German Open, also known by its sponsored name Fila German Open, was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in West Berlin in West Germany that was part of the 1983 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. The tournament was held from 16 May through 22 May 1983. First-seeded Chris Evert-Lloyd won the singles title and earned $27,500 first-prize money.
The 1987 Fila German Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in West Berlin, West Germany that was part of the Category 3 tier of the 1987 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the 18th edition of the tournament and was held from 11 May through 17 May 1987. First-seeded Steffi Graf won the singles title, her second consecutive at the event, and earned $29,000 first-prize money.
The 1989 Lufthansa Cup, also known as the German Open Championships, was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in West Berlin, West Germany that was part of the Category 5 tier of the 1989 WTA Tour. It was the 20th edition of the tournament and was held from 15 May until 21 May 1989. First-seeded Steffi Graf won the singles title.
The 1990 Lufthansa Cup German Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in West Berlin, West Germany that was part of the Tier I category of the 1990 WTA Tour. It was the 21st edition of the tournament and was held from 14 May until 20 May 1990. Second-seeded Monica Seles won the singles title, snapping world no.1 Steffi Graf's 66-match winning streak in the final (2nd in WTA history behind Martina Navratilova's 74-match winning streak).
The 1991 Lufthansa Cup German Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in Berlin, Germany for the first time ever after German reunification along with the former East Berlin which was reunited with the former West Berlin and that was part of the Tier I category of the 1991 WTA Tour. It was the 22nd edition of the tournament and was held from 13 May until 20 May 1991. First-seeded Steffi Graf won the singles title, her fifth at the event.
The 1992 Lufthansa Cup was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in Berlin, Germany that was part of the Tier I category of the 1992 WTA Tour. It was the 23rd edition of the tournament and was held from 11 May until 17 May 1992. First-seeded Steffi Graf won the singles title, her sixth at the event, and earned $110,000 first-prize money.
The 1993 WTA German Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in Berlin, Germany that was part of the Tier I category of the 1993 WTA Tour. It was the 24th edition of the tournament and was held from 10 May until 16 May 1993. First-seeded Steffi Graf won the singles title, her seventh at the event, and earned $150,000 first-prize money as well as 470 ranking points.
The 1994 WTA German Open was a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Berlin, Germany. It was part of the Tier I category of the 1994 WTA Tour. It was the 25th edition of the tournament and was held from 9 May through 15 May 1994. First-seeded Steffi Graf won the singles title and earned $150,000 first-prize money..
The 1995 WTA German Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in Berlin in Germany that was part of Tier I of the 1995 WTA Tour. It was the 26th edition of the tournament and was held from 15 May through 21 May 1995. First-seeded Arantxa Sánchez Vicario won the singles and earned $148,500 first-prize money.
The 1996 WTA German Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in Berlin in Germany that was part of Tier I of the 1996 WTA Tour. It was the 27th edition of the tournament and was held from 13 May through 19 May 1996. First-seeded Steffi Graf won the singles title.
The 1997 WTA German Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in Berlin, Germany that was part of the Tier I category of the 1997 WTA Tour. It was the 28th edition of the tournament and was held from 12 May through 18 May 1997. Tenth-seeded Mary Joe Fernández won the singles title.
The 1999 German Open was a women's tennis event that was played in Berlin, Germany from 10 May to 16 May 1999. It was the 30th edition of the tournament and one of two Tier I events that took place on outdoor red clay courts in the build-up to the second Grand Slam of the year, the French Open. First-seeded Martina Hingis won the singles title and earned $150,000 first-prize money.
The 2000 German Open was a women's tennis event that was played in Berlin, Germany from 8 May to 14 May 2000. It was one of two Tier I events that took place on red clay in the build-up to the second Grand Slam of the year, the French Open. Third-seeded Conchita Martínez won the singles title and earned $166,000 first-prize money.
SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences (formerly known as OTA Hochschule) is a state-accredited private university in Berlin which is part of SRH Holding. The university of applied sciences was founded in 2002. The introduction of English-speaking academic programmes at Bachelor's and Master's level began in 2006. SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences offers Bachelor's, Master's and MBA programmes in German and English. The university of applied sciences is characterised by its international orientation and student body and the various collaborations with partner universities around the globe. There are currently more than 2200 students enrolled at the private university.
website: http://www.srh-hochschule-berlin.de/
The Tennis Courts are courts located at Olympiapark Berlin in Berlin, Germany. Located southwest of the Olympic Stadium, they hosted the basketball and the Épée fencing event for the 1936 Summer Olympics.
The Tennis Stadium is a stadium in the Olympiapark Berlin in Berlin, Germany. Located southwest of the Olympic Stadium in Olympiapark Berlin, it hosted the basketball competition for the 1936 Summer Olympics.
On 21 March 2013, two helicopters of the German Federal Police collided while landing in front of Berlin Olympic Stadium, Germany, in whiteout conditions. One crew member was killed and nine other people, both on board the helicopters and on the ground, were injured.
Giesebrechtstraße, or Giesebrechtstrasse (see ß), is a residential street that runs between Wilmersdorfer Straße and Kurfürstendamm, roughly a 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) north of Preußenpark, in the western Berlin district of Charlottenburg. It was built in the early 1900s in connection with the development of Kurfürstendamm. It does not branch off at right angles like most of the side streets of Kurfürstendamm, but at an obtuse angle of about 120 degrees.
The 2018 European Athletics Championships were held in Berlin, Germany, from 6 to 12 August 2018. The championships were part of the first European Championships with other events happening in the United Kingdom.
The Königliches Musik-Institut Berlin (Royal Music Institute of Berlin) was a training centre for musicians and a predecessor of today's Institute for Church Music at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Kudamm Karree (German: Ku’damm-Karree-Hochhaus) is a high-rise office building in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, Germany. Built between 1969 and 1974, the tower stands at 102 m (335 ft) tall with 23 floors and is the current 14th tallest building in Berlin.
The Goldschmidt School was a school that existed in Berlin, Germany, in the late 1930s. It was founded by Leonore Goldschmidt, a German Jewish educator, after Jewish children were barred from attending public schools in 1938.
Street address: Kronberger Straße 24, Berlin-Grunewald (from Wikidata)
Propeller Island City Lodge is a hotel and art installation in Berlin, Germany designed by artist Lars Storschen and located in the borough of Wilmersdorf. The hotel is known for its eclectic and elaborately themed rooms.
website: http://www.latimera.net, http://www.propeller-island.de/
website: http://www.swissotel.com/hotels/berlin/
Siemensstadt-Fürstenbrunn station was a suburban station on the Berlin–Hamburg railway in Westend, a locality of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough in Berlin. It was primarily built for workers at its nearby Siemens Works in the neighbouring quarter of Siemensstadt.
station code: BSMF
The Internationale Begegnungszentrum der Wissenschaft (International Meeting Centre of Science - IBZ Berlin) is a residential building for both international scientists at the Free University of Berlin and the Max Planck Society and fellows of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. It is located at the Wiesbadener Straße in Berlin Wilmersdorf. The IBZ Berlin is a founding member of the Network of the Internationale Begegnungszentren der Wissenschaft, an association of international guesthouses (IBZs) and university-related guesthouses in Germany. The 25 million Marks (roughly 23 million Euros at purchase power parity) used to fund the IBZ, have been generously provided by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Volkswagen Foundation and the Land Berlin. Between 2010 and 2011 the building was renovated with the financial support of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Street address: Wiesbadener Straße 18-23, 12161 Berlin (from Wikidata)
The Opening Ceremony of the 1936 Summer Olympics was the official opening ceremony held on August 1, 1936, at the Reichssportsfeld in Berlin, Germany. It was attended by the German Führer und Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler, as well as several high-profile Nazi figures.
The bombing of the French consulate in West Berlin was a terrorist bomb attack targeting the Maison de France consulate on the Kurfürstendamm in West Berlin, West Germany, on 25 August 1983. It killed one person and injured 23 others. The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) claimed responsibility in a telephone call, coming a month after the group's Orly Airport attack. The group commented "We will continue our struggle until the liberation of innocent Armenians from French jails." However the attack was actually orchestrated by Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, who had relations with the ASALA's leadership. Carlos claimed responsibility in a letter written to the German Embassy in Saudi Arabia.
Café Kranzler is a famous coffeehouse in Berlin, Germany. Opened in 1834 on the Unter den Linden boulevard in the central Mitte district, its Western branch on Kurfürstendamm in Charlottenburg became an icon of West Berlin after World War II.
The two Siegessäulen (English: Two Victory Columns) is a pair of outdoor columns surmounted by bronze statues of Victoria, the goddess of victory. They were made in 1840 by the German sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch and installed in the park of Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin, Germany, in front of the west façade of the Neuer Pavillon.
The Borghese Gladiators (German: Borghesischer Fechter) are a pair of statues outside Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin, Germany.
On 19 December 2016, a truck was deliberately driven into the Christmas market next to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at Breitscheidplatz in Berlin, leaving 12 people dead and 56 others injured. One of the victims was the truck's original driver, Łukasz Urban, who was found shot dead in the passenger seat. The truck was eventually stopped by its automatic brakes. The perpetrator was 24-year-old Anis Amri, an unsuccessful asylum seeker from Tunisia. Four days after the attack, he was killed in a shootout with police near Milan in Italy. An initial suspect was arrested and later released due to lack of evidence. Nearly five years after the attack, a man who was critically injured during the attack died from complications related to his wounds, becoming the 13th victim. The attack is the deadliest act of terror in Germany since the 1980 Oktoberfest bombing in Munich, which killed 13 people and injured 211 others, and as of December 2023, it remains the worst Islamist terrorist attack by number of casualties in German history.
On 15 March 1921, Armenian student Soghomon Tehlirian assassinated Talaat Pasha—former grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire and the main architect of the Armenian genocide—in Berlin. At his trial, Tehlirian argued, "I have killed a man, but I am not a murderer"; the jury acquitted him.
The statue of Frederick the Great is installed outside Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin, Germany.
The attack on the Israeli consulate in Berlin was perpetrated by PKK supporters on the Israeli consulate in Berlin, Germany, on 17 February 1999. Three people were killed and 14 were injured after security forces at the consulate opened fire on the PKK supporters.
The Burundian Ambassador to Germany is the official representative of the Government of Burundi to the Government of Germany.
The Haitian ambassador in Berlin is the official representative of the Government in Port-au-Prince to the Government of Germany. The current ambassador Jean Robert Saget is related with Jean-Nicolas Nissage Saget.
On 8 June 2022, a person drove a car onto the sidewalk at the corner of Kurfürstendamm and Rankestraße across from the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany, killing one person and injuring 17 people. The suspect was arrested at the scene.
The UEFA Euro 2024 final was a football match that determined the winners of UEFA Euro 2024. The match was the seventeenth final of the European Championship, a quadrennial tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of UEFA to decide the champions of Europe. The match was held at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany, on 14 July 2024, and was contested by Spain, in their fifth final, and England, in their second final, but their first appearance in a major men's tournament final held outside their home country. Following their defeat in the previous final, England also became the fourth different side to appear in two consecutive Euro finals, after the Soviet Union (1960 and 1964), West Germany (1972, 1976 and 1980), unified Germany (1992 and 1996), and Spain (2008 and 2012).
website: https://www.uefa.com/euro-2024/
The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which had won the right to host the event in July 2000. Teams representing 198 national football associations from all six populated continents participated in the qualification process which began in September 2003. Thirty-one teams qualified from this process along with hosts Germany for the finals tournament. It was the second time that Germany staged the competition and the first as a unified country along with the former East Germany with Leipzig as a host city (the other was in 1974 in West Germany), and the 10th time that the tournament was held in Europe.
West Berlin (German: Berlin (West) or West-Berlin, German pronunciation: [ˈvɛstbɛʁˌliːn] ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin from 1948 until 1990, during the Cold War. Although West Berlin lacked any sovereignty and was under military occupation until German reunification in 1990, the territory was claimed by the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG or West Germany), despite being entirely surrounded by the German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany). The legality of this claim was contested by the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries. However, West Berlin de facto aligned itself politically with the FRG from May 1949 and was thereafter treated as a de facto city-state of that country. After 1949, it was directly or indirectly represented in the institutions of the FRG, and most of its residents were citizens of the FRG.
Obelisk 11 March (full title: 11 March, This could be a Day of Historical Importance) is a 1979 outdoor obelisk memorial by the Yugoslav conceptual artist Braco Dimitrijević. It is located in the north-eastern end of the Schloss Charlottenburg park in Berlin, where it can be viewed during daylight hours, year-round. No admission fee required.
The German Medical Association (GMA) (German: Bundesärztekammer, BÄK), founded in 1947 and based in Berlin, is the co-ordinating body of physicians' self-regulation in Germany. It co-ordinates the activities of the 17 State Chambers of Physicians which are responsible for regulation of the medical profession. As of 31 December 2007, the GMA represents the professional interests of the more than 400,000 physicians. The German Medical Association is co-owner of the medical journal Deutsches Ärzteblatt and of the German Agency for Quality in Medicine, a member of the Guidelines International Network—together with the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians.
website: https://www.bundesaerztekammer.de/, http://www.baek.de
The Royal Porcelain Factory in Berlin (German: Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur, abbreviated as KPM), also known as the Royal Porcelain Manufactory Berlin and whose products are generally called Berlin porcelain, was founded in 1763 by King Frederick II of Prussia (known as Frederick the Great). Its actual origins, however, lie in three private enterprises which, under crown patronage, were trying to establish the production of "white gold" (i.e. porcelain) in Berlin from the mid-18th century onwards.
website: http://www.kpm-berlin.com/
Hertha, Berliner Sport-Club e. V., commonly known as Hertha BSC (German pronunciation: [ˈhɛʁtaː beː ʔɛs t͡seː]) or Hertha Berlin, is a German professional football club based in Berlin. Hertha BSC plays in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of German football, following relegation from the Bundesliga in 2022–23. Hertha BSC was founded in 1892, and was a founding member of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900.
website: https://www.herthabsc.com
Hansa Records (also known as Hansa, Hansa Musik Produktion or Hansa International) was a record label based in Berlin, Germany founded in 1962.
The Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst; RAD) was a major paramilitary organization established in Nazi Germany as an agency to help mitigate the effects of unemployment on the German economy, militarise the workforce and indoctrinate it with Nazi ideology. It was the official state labour service, divided into separate sections for men and women.
The National Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise (German: Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen, abbreviated NSRL) was the umbrella organization for sports and physical education in Nazi Germany. The NSRL was known as the German League of the Reich for Physical Exercise (German: Deutscher Reichsbund für Leibesübungen, abbreviated DRL) until 1938. The organization was expanded to Austria after that country's annexation by Nazi Germany.
Börse Berlin AG, also known as Berlin Stock Exchange, is a stock exchange based in Berlin, Germany, in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough. It was founded in 1685 by an edict of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm, and as of 2019, is one of the oldest stock exchanges in Germany.
website: https://www.boerse-berlin.de
Tennis Borussia Berlin is a German football club based in the locality of Westend in Berlin.
website: http://www.tebe.de
Primacom is a private cable television network operator in Germany, with around 1 million connected households and approximately 800 thousand customers. Primacom claims to be number 5 in Germany and a market leader in its core business in central Germany. Its corporate headquarters are in Leipzig. Primacom primarily provides services to clients in Eastern Germany (Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia) and in the states of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. The company sells communications products such as TV (analog, digital, IP), Internet, and phones, as well as applications for elderly care at home and smart metering/telemetry.
website: http://www.primacom.de
The Israeli Embassy in Berlin is the headquarters of the diplomatic mission of Israel in Germany. It is located in the Berlin district of Schmargendorf at Auguste-Viktoria-Straße 74. Since August 22, 2022, the Israeli ambassador to Germany is Ron Prosor.
website: http://embassies.gov.il/berlin/
The Norisbank is a German bank with headquarters in Bonn. Since 2 November 2006, it has been a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank and since 27 July 2012 purely a direct bank.
website: http://www.norisbank.de/
Sender Freies Berlin (German: [ˈzɛndɐ ˈfʁaɪəs bɛʁˈliːn] ; abbreviated SFB [ˌɛsʔɛfˈbeː] ; English: "Radio Free Berlin") was the ARD public radio and television service for Berlin from 1 June 1954 until 30 April 2003. On 1 January 1992, SFB became the public broadcaster for the whole of reunited Berlin. However, SFB had long had a significant audience in East Berlin for some time before German reunification. On 1 May 2003 it merged with Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg to form Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg.
National Natural Landscapes is an umbrella label which reunites all protected areas in Germany since 2005. At the moment there are 14 national parks, 16 biosphere reserves and 101 nature parks in Germany.
website: http://www.europarc-deutschland.de/, https://nationale-naturlandschaften.de/
Luna Park in the Halensee area of Berlin, Germany was an amusement park in operation from 1909 to 1933. At that time, it was Europe's largest. The park was closed for World War I but reopened after Armistice. Luna Park closed for the last time in October 1933.
The Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE) is a legally established, independent German federal authority under the jurisdiction of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV). It began its activities on 1 September 2014. Its provisional headquarters is Berlin. Other offices are located in Salzgitter and Bonn. The president is Christian Kühn.
website: https://www.base.bund.de/, https://www.bfe.bund.de/
The Embassy of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in Germany is the diplomatic mission of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in Germany. The mission is based in Lüdgeweg 1 in Berlin-Charlottenburg. The embassy was opened in October 2001, Ambassador is Augustin Freiherr d'Aboville.
The Embassy of Afghanistan in Berlin (Pashto: د افغانستان سفارت، برلینDari: سفارت افغانستان در برلین; German: Afghanische Botschaft in Berlin) is the diplomatic mission of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to Germany. Yama Yari has been the ambassador since February 3, 2021.
Street address: Taunusstraße 3 (from Wikidata)
website: http://botschaft-afghanistan.de
Artemis is one of the largest brothels in Germany, where prostitution and brothels are legal and widespread. The "wellness" brothel opened in Berlin in September 2005, a four-story building complete with a pool, three saunas, two cinemas, and with room for up to 70 prostitutes and 600 customers.
Berliner Philatelisten-Klub von 1888 eV – also known as the Berlin Philatelic Club -- is one of the oldest and most respected philatelic societies in the world, founded in 1888.
website: http://www.berliner-philatelisten-klub-1888.de/
The Embassy of Serbia in Berlin (German: Botschaft von Serbien in Berlin, Serbian: Амбасада Србије у Берлину)) is diplomatic mission of Serbia to Germany. It is located at Taubert Straße 18.
Street address: Taubertstraße 18 im Ortsteil Grunewald, Berlin (from Wikidata)
website: http://www.berlin.mfa.gov.rs/
Die Ernst-Adolf-Eschke-Schule ist eine Sonderschule für Gehörlose im Berliner Ortsteil Westend im Bezirk Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf.
Street address: Waldschulallee 29, 14055 Berlin (from Wikidata)
website: https://eschke-schule.de/
Die Cecilienschule ist eine Grundschule und Ganztagsschule im Berliner Ortsteil Wilmersdorf im Bezirk Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf.
website: https://www.cecilien-schule.de
Die Judith-Kerr-Grundschule ist eine deutsch-französische Europaschule in Berlin-Schmargendorf. Sie ist benannt nach der jüdischen Buchautorin Judith Kerr. Die Unterrichtssprache ist überwiegend Deutsch, einige Fächer werden auf Französisch unterrichtet.
website: http://www.judith-kerr-schule.de/
Street address: Waldschulallee 73, 14055 Berlin (from Wikidata)
website: https://hgsberlin.de/