Verein Deutscher Rosenfreunde

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Verein Deutscher Rosenfreunde - VDR (in English German Rose Society), since 2007 Gesellschaft Deutscher Rosenfreunde - GDR is an association of rosarians. It was created in 1903 for the promotion of new cultivars of roses, but was closed in 1934 under the Third Reich. The Union was reestablished in the 1980s.

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Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI) is an organization with over 150,000 engineers and natural scientists. More than 12,000 honorary experts process the latest findings every year to promote the technology location. Established in 1856, the VDI is today the largest engineering association in Western Europe. The role of the VDI in Germany is comparable to that of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in the United States or Engineers Australia (EA) in Australia barring the broader field of work of the VDI. The VDI is not a union. The association promotes the advancement of technology and represents the interests of engineers and of engineering businesses in Germany.

The Deutscher Verein des Gas- und Wasserfaches (DVGW) is the German association for gas and water with headquarters in Bonn. Its official English translation is the German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water. The DVGW was founded in 1859. Its main task is to create the technical regulations for safety and reliability of gas and water supply.

The Deutscher Eisenbahn-Verein or DEV was founded in November 1964 as the Deutscher Kleinbahn-Verein. Its purpose was the preservation of a working branch line with all its installations as a living open-air museum. The term Kleinbahn was primarily a Prussian concept that referred to light branch lines with lower traffic demands and of more lightweight construction than main lines or normal branch lines, hence the Kleinbahnen were mainly found in northern Germany.

Marine-Regatta-Verein

The Marine-Regatta-Verein (MRV), "Naval Regatta Union", is a yacht club of the German Navy. Its main branch is located in the harbor city of Kiel, and it has branches in different states of Germany. This club promotes both sailing and powerboating. Many of its members also are engaged in yacht racing and yacht cruising around the world.

Hamburger Segel-Club yacht club

The Hamburger Segel-Club (HSC), is one of the oldest and most active sailing clubs in Germany. The club is located by the shores of Lake Außenalster, in the heart of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

Hermann Kiese German gardener

Hermann Kiese (1865–1923) was a German rosarian known for his breeding of rose cultivars. Born in Vieselbach, Thuringia, Germany on May 8, 1865. He worked for 22 years as gardener for the Johann Christoff Schmidt rosarium in Erfurt. In 1904 he started his own nursery in Vieselbach near Erfurt. Hermann Kiese is one of the founders of the Verein Deutscher Rosenfreunde – VDR. From 1911 to 1916 he was chief editor of the magazine Rosen-Zeitung. Consequently, he shared this responsibility with Friedrich Ries till 1919.

Europa-Rosarium botanical garden

The Europa-Rosarium, formerly the Rosarium Sangerhausen, is a municipal rose garden located in Sangerhausen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. With 8300 cultivars and species it is one of the largest rose collection in the world, playing an important role as budwood source and in research. In 2003 it was granted the Award of Garden Excellence by the World Federation of Rose Societies.

The Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, also known as Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik or ZAMM is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to applied mathematics, the journal of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik. It is published monthly by Wiley-VCH.

<i>Duchesse Anne</i> French 3-masted sailing ship

Duchesse Anne is the last remaining full-rigged ship under French flag. She was built in 1901 with a steel hull by the yard of Joh. C. Tecklenborg of Bremerhaven-Geestemünde (Germany) according to plans drawn by Georg W. Claussen. The mainmast is 48 m tall and 25 sails were rigged. She was used as a training ship for young aspiring sailors in the German merchant marine.

Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann Russian metallurgist

Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann was a prominent Baltic German chemist-physicist who made important contributions in the fields of glassy and solid solutions, heterogeneous equilibria, crystallization, and metallurgy.

Jan Degenhardt German Lawyer and folk-singer

Jan Degenhardt is a German Lawyer and folk-singer. His father is the political poetry and singer Franz Josef Degenhardt.

German Chemical Society professional society

The German Chemical Society is a learned society and professional association founded in 1949 to represent the interests of German chemists in local, national and international contexts. GDCh "brings together people working in chemistry and the molecular sciences and supports their striving for positive, sustainable scientific advance – for the good of humankind and the environment, and a future worth living for."

The German Sailing Federation is the national governing body for the sport of sailing in Germany, recognised by the International Sailing Federation.

The World Federation of Rose Societies (WFRS) is an umbrella association of 39-member countries' national rose societies.

Heinrich Ritter von Kogerer Austrian aristocrat and government official

Heinrich Ritter von Kogerer was an Austrian statesman who served as the Imperial and Royal Court Counselor and Director General of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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The Rhenish women's league was an organisation set up by the Rheinische Volkspflege to bring together various primarily middle class women's organisations initially to campaign against the use of African troops by the French Army in the occupation of the Rhineland. The idea was initiated by a member of the Cologne-based Neven du Mont family and taken up by the civil servant Margarete Gärtner, who organised the first conference in Frankfurt am Main, 23-24 June 1920. The conference ratified her as the leader.

Sebastian Klussmann is a German quiz player best known for his role as a "chaser" in the ARD quiz show Gefragt – Gejagt in which he has appeared since 2013.

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