With 5 stock listed companies, Bonn has the 4th highest market capitalisation amongst German towns.

In the center the German infantry phalanxes formed deep, bristling with pikes and flanked by companies formed in the corner, then the second line, the Saxon infantry in reserve.

A growing number of real estate companies cater to mainly British expatriates, followed by German, Dutch, Scandinavian and other European nationalities wishing to own a home in Crete.

These were the sole immigration records for entering the country and were prepared not by the U. S. Bureau of Immigration but by steamship companies such as the Cunard Line, the White Star Line, the North German Lloyd Line, the Hamburg-Amerika Line, the Italian Steam Navigation Company, the Red Star Line, the Holland America Line, and the Austro-American Line.

As a consequence of this, numerous German production and distribution companies went out of business in the 1950s and 1960s and cinemas across the Federal Republic closed their doors ; the number of screens in West Germany almost halved between the beginning and the end of the decade.

German production companies have been quite commonly involved in expensive French and Italian productions from Spaghetti Westerns to French comic book adaptations.

Several of the powerful German companies backed Christian II, but he eventually lost.

The German film industry was seriously weakened by the war, though with the major companies continuing as before.

Other large German companies include: Robert Bosch, ThyssenKrupp, and MAN ( diversified industrials ); Bayer and Merck ( pharmaceuticals ); Adidas and Puma ( clothing and footwear ); Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank ( banking and finance ); Aldi, Lidl and Edeka ( retail ); SAP ( computer software ); Infineon ( semiconductors ); Henkel ( household and personal consumer products ); Deutsche Post ( logistics ); and Hugo Boss ( luxury goods ).

Local trains however are subsidised by the German states, which pay the operating companies to run these trains.

There are many German companies producing board games, such as Hans im Glück and Goldsieber.

However, German unification in 1870 stimulated consolidation, nationalisation into state-owned companies, and further rapid growth.

In addition, the Marshall Plan forced German companies, as well as those in all of Western Europe, to modernize their business practices and take account of the international market.

Hydrocodone is regulated in the same fashion as in Germany ( see below ) under the Austrian Suchtmittelgesetz ; since 2002 it has been available in the form of German products and those produced elsewhere in the European Union under Article 76 of the Schengen Treaty — prior to this, no Austrian companies produced hydrocodone products, with dihydrocodeine and nicomorphine being more commonly used for the same levels of pain and the former for coughing.

However, German unification in 1870 stimulated consolidation, nationalisation into state-owned companies, and further rapid growth.

At the same time, the ending of the informal Sino-German alliance led Chiang to terminate all of the concessions and contracts held by German companies in Kuomintang China.

Most foreign investors are German and Dutch companies ( see List of corporations in Poznań ), along with a few others.

These chemical weapons were developed by Iraq from materials and technology supplied primarily by West German companies as well as the Reagan administration of the United States which also supplied Iraq with " satellite photos showing Iranian deployments " and advised Hussein to bomb civilian targets in Tehran and other Iranian cities.

Even though Trabant doesn't have much of a history of being green, two German companies are trying to find investors to create the Trabant nT, an electric car that will be equipped with a 45 kW asynchronous motor powered with a lithium-ion battery.

German companies significantly contribute to the UAE ’ s ongoing infrastructure projects and play a leading role in the country ’ s alternative energy developments.

Consequently, German Business Park, an area designed to house several of the already seven hundred present companies and their logistical needs, is in the midst of construction.

The DAX ( Deutscher Aktien IndeX, formerly Deutscher Aktien-Index ( German stock index )) is a blue chip stock market index consisting of the 30 major German companies trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

According to Deutsche Börse, the operator of Xetra, DAX measures the performance of the Prime Standard ’ s 30 largest German companies in terms of order book volume and market capitalization.

* The introduction of a " parity " system ( although in a weakened form ) on the supervisory boards of all companies employing over 2, 000 workers, a reform which West German trade unions had long fought for.

Lobegott Friedrich Constantin ( von ) Tischendorf ( January 18, 1815 – December 7, 1874 ) was a noted German Biblical scholar.

The noted German historian Friedrich Meinecke attempted to trace the roots of the expression in a June 11, 1922 article in the Viennese newspaper Neue Freie Presse.

A study of German dominatrices by Andrew Wilson has noted the trend for dominatrices choosing names aimed at creating and maintaining an atmosphere in which class, femininity and mystery are key elements of their self-constructed identity.

He noted that the German society was " far more scientific, far more interested in life histories and breeding bird species, as well as in reports on recent literature.

The only exception is the Jewish American officer, who is shown as both hyper-intelligent and very unscrupulous, which Bartov noted seems to imply that the real tragedy of World War II was the Nazis did not get a chance to exterminate all of the Jews, who have now returned with Germany's defeat to once more exploit the German people.

German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel noted the effect of airpower: " Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.

* 1728 – Johann Gottfried Müthel, German composer and noted keyboard virtuoso ( d. 1788 )

Yet another German diplomat noted that, " He did not have the capacity to form an overview ; to see things in perspective.

The German historian Klaus Hildebrand noted that as early as the Ribbentrop – Halifax meeting the differing foreign policy views of Hitler and Ribbentrop were starting to emerge with Ribbentrop more interested in restoring the pre-1914 German Imperium in Africa than conquest of Eastern Europe.

She noted that they produced an extraordinary wealth of information on German war plans but next to nothing on the repeated question of British penetration of Russian intelligence in either London or Moscow.

Significantly, no major German conductor championed his music following his death: Scherchen, his most noted advocate, died in 1966.

Helene Bertha Amalie " Leni " Riefenstahl (; August 22, 1902 – September 8, 2003 ) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker.

The German writer Ross described the bathhouse and its ancient but still-visible cisterns, which site he noted the locals called the Skaphidia.

The significance of meiosis for reproduction and inheritance, however, was described only in 1890 by German biologist August Weismann, who noted that two cell divisions were necessary to transform one diploid cell into four haploid cells if the number of chromosomes had to be maintained.

Hoover further noted that, " The whole economy of Europe is interlinked with German economy through the exchange of raw materials and manufactured goods.

Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (; 2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969 ) was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war.

The German state secretary Richard von Kühlmann noted:

* March 28 – Karl Adolph von Basedow, a German physician, noted for reporting the symptoms of the Graves-Basedow disease ( d. 1854 )

** Otto von Guericke, German physicist and inventor ( b. 1602 ), who is noted for the first air pump ( 1650 ) and creation of a vacuum ( 1654 ) using his Magdeburg Hemispheres.

Albrecht von Thaer, Staff Officer at Group Wytshchate noted that casualties after 14 days in the line averaged 1, 500 – 2, 000 men compared to the Somme 1916 average of 4, 000 men and that German morale was better than in 1916.

Sheldon noted 182, 396 slightly wounded and sick soldiers not struck off unit strength which if included would make German losses 399, 590.

However in Nel's opinion Rowling's humour is more based on caricature and the names she invents are more like those found in Charles Dickens's stories, and Amanda Cockrell noted that many of these express their owners ' traits through allusions that run from ancient Roman mythology to eighteenth century German literature.

It should be noted that the presence of foam does not necessarily indicate the horse's acceptance of the bit, as certain metals such as German silver may cause the horse's salivation to increase without full acceptance of the bit.

Hitler agreed with Raeder's idea of sending German forces to North Africa at their meeting of 26 September 1940, but noted that he would need Italian permission to do so, and as it was not until Mussolini requested German help in early 1941 that the necessary Italian permission was obtained.