Hesse or Hessia,officially the State of Hesse,is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden,and the largest urban area is Frankfurt,which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major historic cities are Darmstadt and Kassel. With an area of 21,114.73 square kilometers and a population of over six million,it ranks seventh and fifth,respectively,among the sixteen German states. Frankfurt Rhine-Main,Germany's second-largest metropolitan area,is mainly located in Hesse.
Fulda is a city in Hesse,Germany;it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district (Kreis). In 1990,the city hosted the 30th Hessentag state festival.
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.
Holger Börner was a German politician of the SPD.
Wolfgang Walter Arnulf Abendroth was a German socialist,jurist,and political scientist. He was born in Elberfeld,now a part of Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia. Abendroth was a radical social democrat and an important contributor to the constitutional foundation of post-World War II West Germany. In 1943 he was forcibly drafted into one of the 999th Division's "probation units" and while stationed in Greece he deserted to the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS).
Langen is a town of roughly 39,000 in the Offenbach district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse,Germany. The town is between Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main and part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. Langen is headquarters to Deutsche Flugsicherung,and is also home to the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut,a Federal institute for the evaluation and supervision of sera and vaccines in Germany.
Schwalmstadt is the largest town in the Schwalm-Eder district,in northern Hesse,Germany. It was established only in 1970 with the amalgamation of the towns of Treysa and Ziegenhain together with some outlying villages to form the town of Schwalmstadt.
Melsungen is a small climatic spa town in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse,Germany. In 1987,the town hosted the 27th Hessentag state festival.
The People's State of Hesse was one of the constituent states of Germany from 1918 to 1945,as the successor to the Grand Duchy of Hesse after the defeat of the German Empire in World War I,on the territory of the current German states of Hesse and the Rhineland-Palatinate. The State was established after Grand Duke Ernest Louis was deposed on 9 November 1918. The term "People's State" referred to the fact that the new state was a Republic and was used in the same manner as the term Free State,which was employed by most of the other German States in this period.
Wildeck is a municipality in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse,Germany lying right at the boundary with Thuringia,54 km southeast of Kassel.
Friedewald is a municipality in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in eastern Hesse,Germany,directly east of Bad Hersfeld.
Albert Osswald was a German politician (SPD). He served as the 3rd Minister President of the state of Hesse from 1969 to 1976 and as the 27th President of the Bundesrat in 1975/76.
Margaretha "Greta" Kuckhoff was a Resistance member in Nazi Germany,who belonged to the Communist Party of Germany and the NKVD spy ring that was dubbed the Red Orchestra by the Abwehr. She was married to Adam Kuckhoff,who was executed by the Third Reich. After the war,she lived in the German Democratic Republic,where she was president of Deutsche Notenbank from 1950 to 1958.
Michael Helmut Roth is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 27 September 1998.
Heinrich Troeger was a German jurist and politician (SPD).
Willi Birkelbach CBE was a West German politician (SPD). He was a member of the West German Bundestag between 1949 and 1964. Between 1952 and 1964 he also served as an increasingly prominent Member of the European Parliament.
Walter Schartner was a German conductor,composer and Hochschullehrer. In 1946,he was appointed Generalmusikdirektor in Halle and as such he directed the Orchestra of the Halle Opera House. In 1949/50,he was chief conductor of the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Halle.
Nancy Faeser is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD),serving as Federal Minister of the Interior and Community in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's cabinet since 2021. She served as a member of the State Parliament of Hesse from the 2003 elections until 2021. In 2019,she became the party's leader in Hesse,as well as the leader of the Opposition in the Landtag of Hesse.
Rudi Arndt was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He served in several positions in the Hesse state government,and as the Mayor of Frankfurt between 1972 and 1977. At different points in his political career he was a member of the Landtag of Hesse and the European Parliament as well as the Frankfurt City Council.
Walter Möller was a German politician who served as the Mayor of Frankfurt from 1970 until his death in 1971.
