Since German reunification on 3 October 1990, Berlin has been one of the three city states, together with Hamburg and Bremen, among the present 16 states of Germany.

* Finland has an embassy in Berlin, a consulate general in Hamburg, two honorary consulates general in Düsseldorf and Munich and other honorary consulates in Bremen, Dresden, Frankfurt am Main, Hanover, Kiel, Lübeck, Rostock, Stuttgart, and Wilhelmshaven.

The city is home to over 1. 8 million people, while the Hamburg Metropolitan Region ( including parts of the neighbouring Federal States of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein ) has more than 5 million inhabitants.

Hamburg has an oceanic climate ( Cfb ).

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.

It has honorary consulates in London, Auckland, Sydney, Honolulu, Tokyo and Hamburg.

Although a contraption at Stephansplatz in Hamburg is now thought to have predated them by two years, it has often been stated that the first traffic lights in Continental Europe were erected at Potsdamer Platz on 20 October 1924, in an attempt to control the sheer volume of traffic passing through.

** Hamburg Radio announces that Hitler has died in battle, " fighting up to his last breath against Bolshevism.

The incorporation of neighbouring rural communities over the past 60 years has made Dresden the fourth largest urban district by area in Germany after Berlin, Hamburg, and Cologne.

* Born and raised in Hamburg, Schmidt is regarded in Germany as an embodiment of hanseatic values, according to which he has never accepted a medal or an order of merit ( not even the Federal Republic's Federal Cross of Merit ).

Since 1936, Steinway too has arranged competitions and festivals such as the Steinway Young Artist Competition in Chicago, Steinway's piano competitions in Hamburg and Berlin, and the Steinway Piano Festival in Denmark, which is a part of the International Steinway Festival.

Richard Meier & Partners Architects has offices in New York and Los Angeles with current projects ranging from China and Tel Aviv to Paris and Hamburg.

In 2007 the PDS merged with the Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative ( Arbeit und soziale Gerechtigkeit – Die Wahlalternative, WASG ) to create the new party The Left ( Die Linke ), which has resulted in a higher acceptance in western states, the party now also being represented in the parliaments of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Bremen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Hesse and Hamburg.

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.

In recent years the number of people who live in Dithmarschen but work in Hamburg and its surroundings has steadily risen.

She has taught at several universities ( AADA, Brandeis, Harvard, Purdue, Temple, The Stella Academy in Hamburg, and the University of Pittsburgh ) and is currently listed as an adjunct faculty member in the School of Theater at the University of Southern California.

Since then there has been a continuous loss of territory to the neighbouring cities of Altona ( later itself a part of Hamburg ), Hamburg and Norderstedt.

Ramp metering has been implemented on Autobahns in several areas in Germany, including the Rhine-Ruhr area, Munich, and Hamburg.

Hamburg has a " northern Michigan " vacationland feel while being located in Southeast Michigan within driving distance of Lansing, Detroit, Flint and Ann Arbor.

The Huron River area near Hamburg Road in the vicinity of Ore Lake / Little Ore Lake has been the subject of numerous recent flooding events since 2000.

The King Frost Parade has been a presence in the town ever since and boasts the title of “ Largest Fall Extravaganza Parade on the East Coast .” With an average crowd of 20000 and a budget over $ 30000, this is one of Hamburg ’ s largest public events.

Hamburg has multiple sites where recreational activities such as athletics, hiking, and fishing are able to take place.

Ballin's home in Hamburg still stands and has a suite of rooms that were built specifically for the Kaiser, to be used when he visited Hamburg.

After coming to Hamburg in 1992, Atta became more religious, frequently attending the mosque.

A large population of Sephardic refugees, who fled via the Netherlands as Marranos eventually settled in Hamburg and Altona Germany in the early 16th century, eventually appropriating Ashkenazic Jewish rituals into their religious practice.

This changed somewhat with growing religious freedom in the 19th century, especially in the three republican states of Bremen, Lübeck and Hamburg.

Between 1965 and 1970, he led the Islamic Center in Hamburg, where he was responsible for the spiritual leadership of religious Iranian students in Germany and Western Europe.

Initially, the works performed in Hamburg had all been on religious themes in an attempt to ward off criticisms by Pietist church authorities that the theatre was immoral, but Keiser and fellow composers such as Johann Mattheson broadened the range of subject matter to include the historical and the mythological.

Through the Muslim religious community there he met Ramzi bin al-Shibh and other members of the Hamburg cell.

During a meeting at Atlantic Hotel ( Hamburg ) in 1953, a group of Iranian residents of Germany discussed the need to establish their own religious center.

Mohamed Atta was very religious, but not fanatically so when he came to Germany in Fall 1992 to study urban planning at the Technical University of Hamburg.

Uranian astrology is a relatively recent methodological approach to astrology based on teachings of German surveyor / astrologer Alfred Witte ( 1878 – 1941 ), founder of the Hamburg School of Astrology.

The Hamburg School of Astrology originated in Hamburg, Germany, and revolved around the research and teachings of surveyor / astrologer / amateur astronomer Alfred Witte.

Reinhold Ebertin, a ( unofficial ) student of Hamburg School methods, eliminated the use of the hypothetical trans-neptunian objects while maintaining the core teachings of the Hamburg School, renamed them " Cosmobiology " (), and published them in The Combination of Stellar Influences in 1940, last updated in English in 1972.

After the fall of the Third Reich, the Hamburg School reconvened, and Ludwig Rudolph, having survived concentration-camp internment, played the key role in perpetuating the teachings of the Hamburg School.

On March 15, 1937, the response had come back denying his application for leave on the grounds that his services to the University were indispensable (“ Da die Tätigkeit des Professors Dr. Artin an der Universität Hamburg nicht entbehrt werden kann.

Da Ponte believed that Dussek fled to Paris ; in fact he returned to Hamburg.

** Gustav von Wangenheim, Da liegt der Hund begraben und andere Stücke, Aus dem Repertoire der Truppe 31, Rowohlt, Reinbek b. Hamburg, 1974

Alfons Maria Jakob ( 2 July 1884, Aschaffenburg / Bavaria – 17 October 1931, Hamburg ) was a German neurologist with important contributions on neuropathology.

In 1911 he went to Hamburg to work with Theodor Kaes and became head of the laboratory of anatomical pathology at the psychiatric State Hospital Hamburg-Friedrichsberg.

After serving in the German army in World War I, he returned to Hamburg and climbed the academic ladder.

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.

They left Grothendieck in the care of Wilhelm Heydorn, a Lutheran Pastor and teacher in Hamburg where he went to school.

* 2008 – Hamburg – 10. 18. 07 ( Official Bootleg series )

Like all early Germanic rulers, he was heavily involved in ecclesiastical disputes ; in 895, at the Diet of Tribur, he presided over a dispute between the Episcopal sees of Bremen, Hamburg and Cologne over jurisdictional authority, which saw Bremen and Hamburg remain a combined see, independent of the see of Cologne.

In one such study, from Hamburg, Germany, the risk of cancer mortality increased by 170 % after working for 10 years at the 2, 4, 5-T-producing section of a Hamburg manufacturing plant.

In 1066 or 1067 he was invited by archbishop Adalbert of Hamburg to join the Church of Bremen.

Soon thereafter he began to write the history of Bremen / Hamburg and of the northern lands in his Gesta.

The earlier archbishopric seat in Hamburg had been attacked and destroyed several times, and thereafter the sees of Hamburg and Bremen were combined for protection.

Adam of Bremen's best-known work is the Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), which he began only after the death of the archbishop Adalbert.

Andreas Schlüter was born in Hamburg His early life is obscure as at least three different persons of that name are documented.

The records of St. Michaelis Church, Hamburg show that an Andreas Schlüter, son of sculptor Gerhart Schlüter, had been baptized there on 22 May 1664.

This version was also played in Hamburg, Dresden, Hanover, and Berlin, although, in the wake of protests and a lack of success, Niemann-Raabe eventually restored the original ending.

It was thought, however, that locating the capital in a major city like Frankfurt or Hamburg would imply a permanent capital.

This is the first reference to " the Baltic or Barbarian Sea, a day's journey from Hamburg.

No texts survive from this area, though the written text Vita Ansgari (" The life of Ansgar ") by Rimbert ( c. 865 ) describes the missionary work of Ansgar around 830 at Birka, and Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ) by Adam of Bremen in 1075 describes the archbishop Unni, who died at Birka in 936.