Neuenburg am Rhein is a town in the district Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.
The Grafeneck Euthanasia Centre housed in Grafeneck Castle was one of Nazi Germany's killing centres as part of their forced euthanasia programme. Today, it is a memorial site dedicated to the victims of the state-authorised programme also referred to since as Action T4. At least 10,500 mentally and physically disabled people, predominantly from Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, were systematically killed during 1940. It was one of the first places in Nazi Germany where people were killed in large numbers in a gas chamber using carbon monoxide. This was the beginning of the Euthanasia Programme. Grafeneck was also the central office of the "Charitable Ambulance Transport GmbH" (Gekrat), which was headed by Reinhold Vorberg and responsible for the transport of T4.
The All-German People's Party was a minor political party in West Germany active between 1952 and 1957. It was a Christian, pacifist, centre-left party that opposed the re-armament of West Germany because it believed that the remilitarisation and NATO integration would make German reunification impossible, deepen the division of Europe and pose a danger to peace.
The Bundesverband Öffentlicher Banken Deutschlands, colloquially known as Verband Öffentlicher Banken is a German national association of development banks and of the regional Landesbanks, which are part of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe and thus also members of the Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband, plus a few additional members. Some of the latter now belong to the private sector, such as Internationales Bankenhaus Bodensee which belonged to the public sector until the 2000s.
Eckhard Jesse is a German political scientist. He held the chair for "political systems and political institutions" at the Technical University of Chemnitz from 1993 to 2014. Jesse is one of the best known German political scholars in the field of extremism and terrorism studies. He has also specialized in the study of German political parties and the German political system.
Adolf Bauser was a German teacher, member of the Reichstag for the Reich Party for Civil Rights and Deflation and delegate for the Christian Democratic Union in the Landtag of Württemberg-Baden.
Pforzheim Hauptbahnhof is the main station in the city of Pforzheim in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
The German Party was a national-conservative political party in West Germany active during the post-war years. The party's ideology appealed to sentiments of German nationalism and nostalgia for the German Empire.
Bayerisches Volksecho was a German language daily newspaper, published from Munich, West Germany between June 1951 to August 17, 1956. Bayerisches Volksecho was the regional organ of the Communist Party of Germany in Bavaria. As of 1955, the newspaper had a daily circulation of around 50,000. Bayerisches Volksecho was banned along with the Communist Party in 1956.
Sozialistische Arbeiter-Zeitung was a daily newspaper published in Germany between 1931 and 1933. SAZ was the central organ of the Socialist Workers Party of Germany (SAPD).
Freies Volk was a newspaper published daily from Düsseldorf, West Germany 1949-1956. Freies Volk was printed at Freier Verlag GmbH, Ackerstrasse 114.
Wolfgang Zapf was a German sociologist.
August Haußleiter was a German politician and journalist. After his exclusion from the Bavarian Christian Social Union in 1949 he spent three decades as a right-wing political activist, on many occasions positioned beyond the frontiers of West Germany's consensual political mainstream. During the 1980s he remained politically active, but now as a somewhat unconventional member of the German Green party.
Paula Rueß was a German political activist (KPD). Forced into exile by the Nazi takeover, during the early 1940s she worked with the French Resistance.
Richard Stöss is a German political scientist and extraordinary professor at the Free University of Berlin. The focus of his research is on right-wing extremism and on political parties.
The proclamation of the German Empire, also known as the Deutsche Reichsgründung, took place in January 1871 after the joint victory of the German states in the Franco-Prussian War. As a result of the November Treaties of 1870, the southern German states of Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, with their territories south of the Main line, Württemberg and Bavaria, joined the Prussian-dominated "German Confederation" on 1 January 1871. On the same day, the new Constitution of the German Confederation came into force, thereby significantly extending the federal German lands to the newly created German Empire. The Day of the founding of the German Empire, January 18, became a day of celebration, marking when the Prussian King William I was proclaimed German Emperor in Versailles.
The Workers Party was a political party in West Germany. The party was founded in Offenbach in the autumn of 1945. The party sought to profile itself as a third alternative to the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) or the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Between 1946 and 1947 the party expanded to other towns in Hessen. The party gathered former members of the Communist Party of Germany (Opposition) (KPO) and the Socialist Workers Party (SAP). Heinrich Glam was the chairman of the party, former chair of the KPD branch of Offenbach and former leader of KPO and SAP. Another key leader was Philipp Pless, party secretary and chair of the Frankfurt branch.
Julie Bassermann was a German women's rights activist.
Willi Alfred Boelcke was a German Economic and Social Historian, journalist, prolific author, essayist and retired university professor. The focus of his research and output has been on Germany during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Märkische Union was a German newspaper, founded as the last CDU daily newspaper for Brandenburg, founded on February 3, 1948 with a license from SMAD. The news agency ADN reported the approval of the "occupying power" and named the newspaper title Märkische Union and Potsdam as the place of publication. The newspaper first appeared only three times a week. The then chairman of the CDU in the state of Brandenburg, Wilhelm Wolff, wrote in the first edition of the Märkische Union that Germany's unity remains the top priority.
