The German orthography reform of 1996 was a change to German spelling and punctuation that was intended to simplify German orthography and thus to make it easier to learn, without substantially changing the rules familiar to users of the language.
The Universitätsbibliothek Kassel is a library located in the city of Kassel, Germany. Composed of the collections of the former Landesbibliothek and Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel as well as that of the Kassel University library, amongst the library's holdings is the manuscript of the 9th-century German poem, the Hildebrandslied.
The Free Workers' Union of Germany was an anarcho-syndicalist trade union in Germany. It stemmed from the Free Association of German Trade Unions (FDVG) which combined with the Ruhr region's Freie Arbeiter Union on September 15, 1919.
Eckhard Jesse is a German political scientist. Born in Wurzen, Saxony, 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.
Fritz Rudolf Fries was a German writer and translator.
Passenger rights are the rights of passengers of public transportation. According to passenger rights regulations, a person may be entitled to compensation in the case of:
Anatol Herzfeld was a German sculptor and mixed-media artist, and also a policeman. A student of Joseph Beuys, he primarily used wood, iron and stone as materials. As an artist, he simply signed Anatol. He received attention for a happening, crossing the Rhine in a boat he created with Beuys, after Beuys had been expelled from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
Das Volk was a daily newspaper published from Berlin, Germany. It was the central organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). The first issue of Das Volk was published on 7 July 1945. Das Volk was the second "working-class newspaper" to emerge in Berlin after the Second World War — the first having been the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) organ Deutsche Volkszeitung. During its first twenty days of publishing, Das Volk was printed in Berliner format. Das Volk heeded the KPD's calls for building an anti-fascist democratic Germany, a parliamentary democratic republic, and unity of the working class. The newspaper was controlled by the left-wing tendency inside the SPD, and supported merger of the party with the KPD.
AUTINDEX is a commercial text mining software package based on sophisticated linguistics.
The Vaterlandslied is a patriotic poem written by Ernst Moritz Arndt in 1812. It is also known by its first line Der Gott, der Eisen wachsen ließ.
Karl Günther Ernst Felix Becker was a German art historian, best known today for the project Thieme-Becker.
Wolbert Klaus Smidt was a high-ranking German secret service official, diplomat and publicist. He was First Director at the German Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst) and Embassy Counselor in Paris.
Georg Reismüller was a German librarian. He was the Director-General of the Bavarian State Library from 1929 to 1935.
Wilibald Nagel (also Willibald Nagel, was a German musicologist and music critic.
Oliver D. Doleski is a German economist, author and management consultant.
Sebastian Brather is a German medieval archaeologist and co-editor of Germanische Altertumskunde Online.
Margret Rasfeld is a German author, activist and headmistress in active retirement. She is the co-founder and current managing director of the initiative Schule im Aufbruch and has been elected Ashoka Fellow since 2015. Rasfeld advocates a reorientation of school education according to the guidelines of the UNESCO campaign Education for sustainable development (ESD).
Felix Rudolf Skoda was a German architect and academic teacher. He was chief architect for the Neue Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
Ludwig Wüllner was a German concert and operatic tenor, as well as an actor and narrator. He is regarded as one of the most versatile and important stage performers of his time.
Matthias Herbert Hartmann was a German Professor of Business Administration and the Dean of the Department of Economics and Law at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin. As an expert for innovation and technology management, he worked as a business consultant. In his function as staff officer of the reserves, he was a consultant in Germany's Federal Ministry of Defense.
