During the colonial years new companies were formed to greatly expand agricultural activities which in turn increased tax revenues for public works that further stimulated economic growth ; “... over all, the period of German rule was the most progressive, economically, that the country has experienced .” J. C. Godeffroy, as the leading trading and plantation company on Samoa, maintained communications among its various subdivisions and branches and the home base at Hamburg with its own fleet of ships.

In the mid-1960s the Hamburg engineering firm of Heidenreich and Harbeck was contracted to build a new mirror cell for the telescope in order to reduce the problems experienced due to the thinness of the mirror and the fact its back surface was not flat.

The oldest indication for its use in Europe comes from the Stellmoor in the Ahrensburg valley north of Hamburg, Germany and dates from the late Paleolithic, about 10, 000 – 9000 BCE.

The Hamburg state branch of the Green Party was called Grün-Alternative Liste Hamburg ( GAL ; green-alternative list ) from its foundation in 1982 until 2012.

Hamburg is located on the southern point of the Jutland Peninsula, directly between Continental Europe to its south and Scandinavia to its north.

Hamburg is located on the River Elbe at its confluence with the Alster and Bille.

But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808.

Hamburg reassumed its pre-1811 status as a city-state in 1814.

The Inner German border — only east of Hamburg — separated the city from most of its hinterland and further reduced Hamburg's global trade.

Since German reunification in 1990, and the accession of some Central European and Baltic States into the European Union in 2004, the Port of Hamburg has restarted ambitions for regaining its position as the region's largest deep-sea port for container shipping and its major commercial and trading centre.

The company first showed cars of its own design at the 1902 Hamburg Motor Show, and started manufacturing them in 1906, with Opel-Darracq production being discontinued in 1907.

The complete uncut French version was performed first at the Hamburg State Opera in 2001, then and as filmed for DVD at the Staatsoper in Vienna ( 2004 ) and at the Liceu, Barcelona ( 2006 ); its conductor in Vienna was Bertrand de Billy.

Adam of Bremen's claim regarding Otto I and Harald appears to have been inspired by an attempt to manufacture a historical reason for the archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen to claim jurisdiction over Denmark ( and thus the rest of Scandinavia ); in the 1070s, the Danish King was in Rome asking for Denmark to have its own arch-bishop, and Adam's account of Harald's supposed conversion ( and baptism of both him and his " little son " Sweyn, with Otto serving as Sweyn's godfather ) is followed by the unambiguous claim that " At that time Denmark on this side of the sea, which is called Jutland by the inhabitants, was divided into three dioceses and subjected to the bishopric of Hamburg.

However, after 1591 the Portuguese used an international syndicate of the German Fuggers and Welsers, and Spanish and Italian firms, that used Hamburg as its northern staple port to distribute their goods, thereby cutting Dutch merchants out of the trade.

White Castle traces the origin of the hamburger to Hamburg, Germany with its invention by Otto Kuase.

According to the archivist of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, " Twenty years after its production as a lyric opera in Vienna, Mahler raised the artistic status of Strauss's work by producing it at the Hamburg Opera House [...] all the leading opera houses in Europe, notably Vienna and Munich, have brightened their regular repertoire by including it for occasional performance.

* Charles Villiers Stanford wrote an opera titled Savonarola, which had its premiere in Hamburg on 18 April 1884.

The river rolls through Dresden and finally, beyond Meißen, enters on its long journey across the North German Plain passing along the former border of East Germany, touching Torgau, Wittenberg, Dessau, Magdeburg, Wittenberge, and Hamburg on the way, and taking on the waters of the Mulde and Saale from the west, and those of the Schwarze Elster, Havel and Elde from the east.

The Norddeutsche Affinerie in Hamburg was the first modern electroplating plant starting its production in 1876.

It was served by British, Portuguese and German liners, and the majority of its imported goods were shipped at Southampton, Lisbon and Hamburg.

As part of the process, East Germany, which had been unitary since 1952, re-divided into its original five partially self-governing states ( Bundesländer ), with East and West Berlin reuniting into a new city-state ( like Bremen and Hamburg ).

The main roads and rail lines in Schleswig-Holstein follow a north-south direction, making Hamburg its most accessible city.

Thirty years later, in 1933, again in Germany, the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft company introduced the diesel-powered " Fliegender Hamburger ", service between Berlin and Hamburg, establishing the fastest regular service in the world, with a regular top speed of 160 km / h.

As of 2008, Bruges-Zeebrugge is one of the fastest growing ports between Le Havre and Hamburg.

The company's growth led to the opening of a factory and company town in what is now the Astoria section of Queens in New York City and a factory in Hamburg, Germany.

When Lufthansa launched passenger operations in 1955, Hamburg was used as a hub until Frankfurt Airport took over due to growth constraints posed by the location in the city.

Medieval trade fairs, such as the one in Hamburg, contributed to the growth of banking in a curious way: moneychangers issued documents redeemable at other fairs, in exchange for hard currency.

* 1993 – Monica Seles is stabbed by Günter Parche, an obsessed fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany

Hamburg became a city-state within the North German Confederation ( 1866 – 71 ), the German Empire ( 1871 – 1918 ) and during the period of the Weimar Republic ( 1919 – 33 ).

The bombing of Hamburg in WWII | bombing of Hamburg during 1943.

Robert ( 1886 ), a physician from Hamburg, was the first who suggested that dreams are a need and that they have the function to erase ( a ) sensory impressions that were not fully worked up, and ( b ) ideas that were not fully developed during the day.

Significant exceptions before 1800 can be found in Purcell's works, German opera of Hamburg during the Baroque, ballad opera and Singspiel of the 18th century, etc.

In June 2005, it was revealed that archaeologists from the University of Hamburg had been working along the coast of Libya when they uncovered a 30 ft length of five colourful mosaics created during the 1st or 2nd century.

Danish Altona, Hamburg | Altona burned down during Magnus Stenbock | Stenbock's campaign ( 1713 ).

The factory in Hamburg, Germany, being American-owned, could sell very few pianos during World War II.

The original bassist of the five-member Beatles, he played with the band primarily during their days as a club act in Hamburg, Germany.

The original drummer of The Beatles, he played with the band during their time as a club act, in both Liverpool and Hamburg, Germany.

In 1961 The Beatles ( comprising Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Pete Best ), who had met Sheridan during their first visit to Hamburg in 1960, worked with him on their second.

That aspect of the play has overshadowed Hochhuth's conceit, that the play would contribute to a debate on the ethics of the area bombing of civilian areas by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, with particular reference to Operation Gomorrah, the Royal Air Force raids on Hamburg in 1943, and culminating in a lengthy and invented debate between Winston Churchill and the pacifist George Bell, Bishop of Chichester.

The symphony was the most popular of all Nielsen's works during his lifetime and was also played in Berlin, Hamburg, London and Gothenburg.

Nikolaikirche, Hamburg, Germany ( 1845-80 ), bombed during World War II and now a ruin

File: Nikolaikirche Hamburg von Nikolaibruecke. jpg | Nikolaikirche, Hamburg, Germany ( 1845 – 80 ), bombed during World War II and now a ruin

Commerce along with the German settlement of New Hamburg were the two enclaves of Union sympathizers in Scott County during the war.

It was also during this time that German immigrants, who had been settling in town during most of the century, became the predominant population group in the city, at least partially due to its being a major destination port of the Hamburg America Line, though anti-German sentiment during World War I led to a rapid decline in the German community.

He was awarded a Rockefeller fellowship that enabled him to study in Germany in 1931, first with John von Neumann in Berlin, then during June with Emil Artin in Hamburg, and finally with Emmy Noether in Göttingen.

In 1873 they were placed in front of the Hotel Stadt Hamburg am Klingenberg until its destruction in 1942 during World War II, and only later in front of the Holsten Gate.

Janowitz had disturbing memories of a night during 1913, in Hamburg.