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GASAG (German : Berliner Gaswerke Aktiengesellschaft ; English: Berlin Gas Works Corporation) is the main natural gas supplier and vendor in Berlin, Germany. [1]
The Neptune Fountain in Berlin was built in 1891 and was designed by Reinhold Begas. The Roman god Neptune is in the center. The four women around him represent the four main rivers of Prussia at the time the fountain was constructed: the Elbe, Rhine, Vistula, and Oder. The Vistula is now entirely in Poland, while the Oder forms the border between Germany and Poland.
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.
Eisbären Berlin is a professional ice hockey team based in Berlin, Germany. The team competes in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL), the highest level of play in professional German ice hockey, and is also one of the league's founding members. The Eisbären have won the DEL championship more often than any other team, with eight DEL championships as of the 2020–21 season. They won the German ice hockey cup in 2008 as well as the European Trophy in 2010. Before reunification the team won the East German ice hockey championship 15 times as SC Dynamo Berlin.
Bockwurst is a German sausage traditionally made from ground veal and pork. Bockwurst is flavored with salt, white pepper and paprika. Other herbs, such as marjoram, chives and parsley, are also often added and, in Germany, bockwurst is often smoked as well.
DZ Bank AG is the second largest bank in Germany by asset size and the central institution for around 800 cooperative banks and their around 8,500 branch offices. Within the German Cooperative Financial Group, which is one of Germany's largest private sector financial service organizations, DZ Bank functions both as a central institution and as a corporate and investment bank.
Innogy SE was an energy company based in Essen, Germany. It is now merged and integrated into German energy company E.ON.
Carl Friedrich Julius Pintsch was a German tinsmith, manufacturer and inventor who is primarily known for the invention of Pintsch gas. The gas, distilled from naphtha or other petroleum products, was widely used in railway transport and marine navigation applications from its invention in 1851 until the 1930s.
Pedro Boese is a German/Portuguese painter.
Jan-Marco Luczak is a German lawyer and a politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 2009, representing the Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg constituency until 2021, and as a party list member since.
The Berlinische Galerie is a museum of modern art, photography and architecture in Berlin. It is located in Kreuzberg, on Alte Jakobstraße, not far from the Jewish Museum. The Berlinische Galerie collects art created in Berlin since 1870 with a regional and international focus. Since September 2010, the museum's director has been the art historian Thomas Köhler, until then deputy director, succeeding Jörn Merkert.
The Japanische Internationale Schule zu Berlin e.V. is a Japanese international school located in the Wannsee area of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin, Germany.
The Richard Wagner Monument is a memorial sculpture of Richard Wagner by Gustav Eberlein, located in Tiergarten in Berlin, Germany. It was created during 1901–1903 and is installed along Tiergartenstraße across from the Indian Embassy. It depicts Wagner in a seated pose and is covered by a roof.
The Goethe Monument is an outdoor 1880 memorial to German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Fritz Schaper, located in Tiergarten in Berlin, Germany. The sculpture's base depicts the allegorical figures of Drama, Lyric Poetry, and Science.
The statue of Alexander von Humboldt by German sculptor Gustav Bläser is installed on Budapester Straße in Berlin-Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany.
A statue of Theodor Fontane by German sculptors Max Klein and Frtz Schaper is installed at Großer Tiergarten in Berlin, Germany.
Hercules and the Nemean Lion is a sculpture of Hercules fighting the Nemean lion by Max Klein, installed in the Kolonnadenhof outside the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany.
Lebensalter is a fountain designed by Waldemar Grzimek, located at Wittenbergplatz in Berlin, Germany.
Stefan Hansen is a German entrepreneur.
Bernd Reuther is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017.
Gaslaternen-Freilichtmuseum Berlin a permanent exhibition of historical gas lanterns in Tiergarten park in Berlin, Germany.