Then along with Archbishop Wilhelm von Brandenburg of The Archbishopric of Riga and his Coadjutor Christoph von Mecklenburg, Kettler gave to Magnus the portions of The Kingdom of Livonia, which he had taken possession of, but they refused to give him any more land.

Bernhard Victor Christoph Carl von Bülow ( short: Vicco von Bülow, 12 November 1923, Brandenburg an der Havel – 22 August 2011, Ammerland at Lake Starnberg ), more commonly known under the pseudonym Loriot, was a German comedian, humorist, cartoonist, film director, actor and writer.

As of 2007, there are about 80 helicopters named after Saint Christopher, like Christoph Europa 5 ( also serving Denmark ), Christoph Brandenburg or Christoph Murnau am Staffelsee.

The eponymous neighborhood street is named after Resistance fighter Nikolaus Christoph von Halem, who was executed in Brandenburg prison on October 9, 1944.

Fischer was born in Brandenburg an der Havel, then in East Germany.

Useful material is contained in Oscar Lewis's chapter " Mexico since Cárdenas " in Richard N. Adams and others, Social Change in Latin America Today ( 1960 ); in Howard F. Cline, Mexico: Revolution to Evolution, 1940-1960 ( 1962 ); and in Frank Brandenburg, The Making of Modern Mexico ( 1964 ).

He narrowly escaped being caught when the enemy under Frederick William of Brandenburg and Polish commander Stefan Czarniecki attacked Sønderborg in December 1658.

Three years he was occupied in campaigns against the Slavic Wends, who as pagans were considered fair game, and whose subjugation to Christianity was the aim of the Wendish Crusade of 1147 in which Albert took part ; diplomatic measures were more successful, and by an arrangement made with the last of the Wendish princes of Brandenburg, Pribislav of the Hevelli, Albert secured this district when the prince died in 1150.

Albert's titles ( on his proclamation of 1561 in Königsberg ) were: Albert the Elder, Margrave of Brandenburg in Prussia, Stettin in Pomerania, Duke of the Kashubians, and Wends, Burgrave of Nuremberg, and Count of Rügen etc ..

Chapter and cathedral, surrounded by further ecclesiastical institutions, were located on Dominsel ( cathedral island ), which formed a prince-episcopal immunity district, distinct from the city of Brandenburg.

The lands given St. Bruno in 1003 were in the region shown on left bank of the Oder, Hither Pomerania along the coast, or the future Margraviate of Brandenburg to its south.

Some notable collectors were Pope Boniface VIII, Emperor Maximilian of the Holy Roman Empire, Louis XIV of France, Ferdinand I, Henry IV of France and Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg, who started the Berlin Coin Cabinet ( German: Münzkabinett Berlin ).

Former German territories east of the Oder and Neisse rivers, mainly the Prussian provinces of Pomerania, East Prussia, West Prussia, Upper Silesia, Lower Silesia, the eastern Neumark of Brandenburg, and a small piece of Saxony were thus detached from Germany.

Upon his death Ansbach and Kulmbach were inherited by younger princes of the Brandenburg line according to the House Treaty of Gera of 1598.

At the court of Hungary there were two parties arrayed against each other: the Magyar party under the leadership of Zápolyas and the German party under the leadership of George of Brandenburg, whose authority was increased by the acquisition of the duchies of Ratibor and Oppeln by hereditary treaties with their respective dukes and of the territories of Oderberg, Beuthen, and Tarnowitz as pledges from the king of Bohemia, who could not redeem his debts.

The secular electors were the King of Bohemia, the Count Palatine of the Rhine, the Duke of Saxony, and the Margrave of Brandenburg ; the three spiritual electors were the Archbishops of Mainz, Trier, and Cologne.

From 1701 onwards the titles of Duke of Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg were always attached to the title of King in Prussia.

From 1772 onwards the titles of Duke of Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg were always attached to the title of King of Prussia.

With the accession of Wilhelm I to the newly-established imperial German throne, the titles of King of Prussia, Duke of Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg were always attached to the title of German Emperor.

In 1762 Russia, France and Austria were on the verge of crushing Prussia, when the Anglo-Prussian Alliance was saved by the Miracle of the House of Brandenburg.

At least from the 13th century, there were seven electors: three spiritual ( the Archbishop of Mainz, the Archbishop of Trier, and the Archbishop of Cologne ) and four lay: ( the King of Bohemia, the Count Palatine of the Rhine, the Duke of Saxony, and the Margrave of Brandenburg ; these last three were also known as the Elector Palatine, the Elector of Saxony, and the Elector of Brandenburg, respectively ).

Monts oversaw the design of the Brandenburg class battleship, four of which were constructed by 1894 at a cost of 16 million GM each and displacement of 10, 000 tons.

A notable exception is the Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 composed by J. S. Bach, scored for 2 violas, cello, 2 violas da gamba, and continuo, in which the two violas were placed in the primary melodic role.

Collectors of coins were Pope Boniface VIII, Emperor Maximilian of the Holy Roman Empire, Louis XIV of France, Ferdinand I, Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg who started the Berlin coin cabinet and Henry IV of France to name a few.

When in 1376 Charles IV asserted Wenceslaus ' election as King of the Romans by the prince-electors, two of seven votes, those of Brandenburg and Bohemia, were held by the emperor and his son themselves.

His godparents were his paternal grandfather George I, the Elector of Hanover and later King of Great Britain, and his grand-uncle Frederick I, King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg.

Problems began when King Frederick II of Prussia violated the Pragmatic Sanction and invaded Silesia on 16 December 1740, using the Treaty of Brieg of 1537 under which the Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg were to inherit the Duchy of Brieg as a pretext.

The Great Elector was a patron of scientific scholarship ; he had employed von Guericke's son, Hans Otto, as his Resident in Hamburg and in 1666 had named Otto himself to the Brandenburg Rat.

The primary source of financing is the Federal Ministry for Education and Research () with 10 % support coming from the German States of Hamburg and Brandenburg.

He was sent as a legate to Denmark both in 1622 and 1625, and during the latter year he also visited Lübeck, Hamburg, Mecklenburg, Brandenburg, Pomerania, the Netherlands and England.

Vattenfall has power generation branches in Sweden, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland ; in Germany, Vattenfall is the electric utility for the states of Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Berlin, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Saxony.

In 1420, Eric V attacked Prince-Elector Frederick I of Brandenburg and Lübeck allied with Hamburg in support of Brandenburg.

Variants of Low German were widely ( and are still to a far lesser extent ) spoken in most parts of Northern Germany, for instance in the states of Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hamburg, Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg.

The Bizone included the Länder Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Bremen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Bavaria, and Württemberg-Baden – the northern part of the later Baden-Württemberg – but not the states of the French zone, to wit Württemberg-Hohenzollern, Baden, Rheinland-Pfalz, or those in the Soviet zone Mecklenburg, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Saxony.

Johann, born in 1827 in Berlin in the duchy of Brandenburg had taken three weeks to travel from his home to the departure point of the 350 tonne vessel at Hamburg.

Just like English, the German language has many local and dialectal terms for rolls, such as Brötchen ( Rhineland and parts of Northern Germany ; non-dialectal high German uses this term too ), which is the diminutive of " Brot " ( bread ), Rundstück ( in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein ), Semmel ( Bavaria, most parts of Saxony and Austria, from Latin similia wheat flour, originally from Assyrian samidu white flour ; the Hungrarian term zsemle derives from the same root ), Schrippe ( in Berlin and parts of Brandenburg ), or Weck ( especially in Baden-Württemberg, Franconia and Saarland ).

He is a member of the Hamburg Jauch family, but currently lives in Potsdam, Brandenburg with his wife Thea ( Dorothea ) Jauch and his four children.

The entire federal-states of Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Bremen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg and Berlin, as well as large parts of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia are located in this European geographic region.

A unique case was the Golden Bull of 1356 ( issued by Charles IV, the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia ), recognizing the Margrave of Brandenburg as an elector of the Holy Roman Empire, membership of the highest college within the Imperial diet carrying the politically significant privilege of being the sole electors of the non-hereditary Emperor, which was previously de facto restricted to dukes and three prince-archbishops ( Cologne, Mainz and Trier ); other non-ducal lay members would be the King of Bohemia and the Palatine of the Rhenish Electorate of the Palatinate.

* Marca Geronis ( march of Gero ), a precursor of the Saxon Eastern March, later divided into smaller marches ( the Northern March, which later was reestablished as Margraviate of Brandenburg ; the Lusatian March and the Meißen March in modern Free state of Saxony ; the Zeitz March ; the Merseburg March ; the Milzener March around Bautzen );

For this purpose, during 1254 – 1255 Przemysł I tried to establish warmer relations with Brandenburg with the betrothal of his eldest daughter Constance with Conrad, son of John I, Margrave of Brandenburg ( the marriage took place after Przemysł I's death, in 1260 ); however, this event proved to be a political fiasco, because thanks to this union, later the House of Ascania claim rights over western Greater Poland.

These territories include the most of the Province of Posen and West Prussia ( lost via the Treaty of Versailles following World War I ) and East Prussia, Farther Pomerania, East Brandenburg, and Lower Silesia ( lost in World War II ); and other, smaller regions.

His works are: the tomb of Bishop Johannes IV., in the Breslau cathedral ( 1496 ); the tomb of Archbishop Ernest, in Magdeburg cathedral ( 1497 ); the shrine of Saint Sebald in the Sebalduskirche at Nuremberg, between 1508 and 1519 ; a large grille ordered by the Fugger brothers in Augsburg ( lost ); a relief of the " Crowning of the Blessed Virgin " in the Erfurt cathedral ( a second example in the Wittenberg Schlosskirche, 1521 ); the tombstones for Margareta Tucherin in the Regensburg cathedral ( 1521 ), and for the Eisen family in the Agidienkirche at Nuremberg ( 1522 ); the epitaph for the cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg in the collegiate church at Aschaffenburg ( 1525 ); the epitaph of the duchess Helene of Mecklenburg in the cathedral at Schwerin.

Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, BWV 1046: Members of the Marlboro Festival and Myron Bloom, Robert Johnson ( horns ), John Mack, Ronald Richards, Peter Christ ( oboes ), Donald MacCourt ( bassoon ), Alexander Schneider ( violin ); Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, BWV 1047: Members of the Marlboro Festival and Robert Nagel ( trumpet ), Ornulf Gulbransen ( flute ), John Mack ( oboe ); Alexander Schneider ( violin ); Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, BWV 1048 ; Orchestral Suite No. 1, BWV 1066: Members of the Marlboro Festival and John Mack, Joseph Turner ( oboes ), Joyce Kelley ( bassoon ), Ruth Laredo ( piano ); Marlboro Festival Orchestra: Pablo Casals.

Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, BWV 1049: Members of the Marlboro Festival and Alexander Schneider ( violin ), Ornulf Gulbransen, Nancy Dalley ( flutes ), Rudolf Serkin ( piano ); Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, BWV 1050: Members of the Marlboro Festival and Ornulf Gulbransen ( flute ), Alexander Schneider ( violin ), Rudolf Serkin ( piano ); Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, BWV 1051: Members of the Marlboro Festival and Peter Serkin ( continuo ); Orchestral Suite No. 4, BWV 1069: Members of the Marlboro Festival and Henry Nowak, Wilmer Wise, Louis Opalesky ( trumpets ), John Mack, Joseph Turner, Patricia Grignet ( oboes ), Joyce Kelley ( bassoon ), John Wyre ( timpani ), Ruth Laredo ( piano ); Marlboro Festival Orchestra: Pablo Casals.