Marburg is a university town in the German federal state (Bundesland) of Hesse,capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (Landkreis). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximately 76,000.
Marburg-Biedenkopf is a Kreis (district) in the west of Hesse,Germany. Neighboring districts are Waldeck-Frankenberg,Schwalm-Eder,Vogelsbergkreis,Gießen,Lahn-Dill,Siegen-Wittgenstein.
The Philipps University of Marburg was founded in 1527 by Philip I,Landgrave of Hesse,which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest still operating Protestant university in the world. It is now a public university of the state of Hesse,without religious affiliation. The University of Marburg has about 23,500 students and 7,500 employees and is located in Marburg,a town of 76,000 inhabitants,with university buildings dotted in or around the town centre. About 14 per cent of the students are international,the highest percentage in Hesse. It offers an International summer university programme and offers student exchanges through the Erasmus programme.
University of Giessen,official name Justus Liebig University Giessen,is a large public research university in Giessen,Hesse,Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member,Justus von Liebig,the founder of modern agricultural chemistry and inventor of artificial fertiliser. It covers the areas of arts/humanities,business,dentistry,economics,law,medicine,science,social sciences,and veterinary medicine. Its university hospital,which has two sites,Giessen and Marburg,is the only private university hospital in Germany.
Hanno Drechsler was the Lord Mayor of the City of Marburg,Germany between 1970 and 1992,and the instigator of its restoration after urban renewal;he was also an important Social Democratic politician and political scientist.
Medebach is a town in the Hochsauerland district,in North Rhine-Westphalia,Germany.
Cölbe is a community in Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse,Germany.
Dr. Lale Akgün is a German politician and member of the SPD. She served as an MP for Cologne II electoral district in the German Bundestag from 2002 to 2009.
Marbach is a Stadtteil of Marburg,Hesse in Germany. Marbach has a current population of approx. 3,400 inhabitants.
Wehrda is a Stadtteil of Marburg in Hesse,Germany.
The Georg-Gaßmann-Stadion is a multi-purpose stadium in the district of Ockershausen in Marburg,Germany,named after the former politician and mayor of the city,Georg Gaßmann.
Dietrich Möller is a German politician,member of the Landtag of Hesse (CDU) and former mayor of Marburg.
Georg Gaßmann was a German politician.
The German Fairy Tale Route is a tourist attraction in Germany originally established in 1975. With a length of 600 kilometres (370 mi),the route runs from Hanau in central Germany to Bremen in the north. Tourist attractions along the route are focused around the brothers Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm,including locations where they lived and worked at various stages in their life,as well as regions which are linked to the fairy tales found in the Grimm collection,such as The Town Musicians of Bremen. The Verein Deutsche Märchenstraße society,headquartered in the city of Kassel,is responsible for the route,which travellers can recognize with the help of road signs depicting the heart-shaped body and head of a pretty,princess-like creature.
Friedrich Dickmann was a German politician. He was the mayor of Marburg from 5 February until 31 July 1946.
Walter Voß was a German jurist and politician. He was the mayor of Marburg from 1928–1945,from 16 January 1942 until 6 April 1945 he was temporary the Lord mayor of Marburg. He was buried in Braunschweig.
Ernst Scheller was a German Nazi Hauptmann and politician.
Theodor Valentin Volkmar was a German jurist and politician and two-time mayor of Marburg,from 1833 until 1835 and again from December 1835 until his retirement due to ill health November 1846.
Georg Philipp Wilhelm Voigt was a German politician. Voigt was the mayor of Rixdorf,Barmen,Frankfurt,and Marburg.
Achim Kessler is a German politician. Born in Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald,Baden-Württemberg,he represents The Left. Achim Kessler has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hesse from 2017 to October 2021.
