He taught chemistry from 1826 to 1831 at the Polytechnic School in Berlin until 1839 when he was stationed at the Polytechnic School at Kassel.

Napoleon soon exiled him and Kassel was annexed to the Kingdom of Westphalia, a new creation.

Meanwhile Wilhelm had received an appointment in the Kassel library, and in 1816 Jacob was made second librarian under Volkel.

In 1808, Jacob was appointed court librarian to the King of Westphalia, and went on to become librarian in Kassel.

Kassel was its capital and became a centre of Calvinist Protestantism in Germany.

During World War II, Kassel was the Headquarters for Germany's Wehrkreis IX, and a local subcamp of Dachau concentration camp provided forced labour for Henschel facilities.

In 1558 the first German observatory was built in Kassel, followed in 1604 by the Ottoneum, the first permanent German theatre building.

The University of Kassel was founded in 1971, and is the newest university in the state of Hesse.

He was born in Kassel, Germany to a Jewish family.

They married in 1785 ( which was after he left Kassel ) and had three children, but their marriage was not happy.

From the time in Kassel on, Forster was in active correspondence with important figures of the Enlightenment, including Lessing, Herder, Wieland and Goethe.

More recently a study was undertaken in Kassel, Germany, under the direction of the Gesellschaft zur Wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften ( GWUP ) for the Scientific Investigation of the Parasciences.

Further south, the SPD also enjoys solid support in northern Hesse ( Hans Eichel was mayor of Kassel, then Hesse's minister president, then finance minister in the Schröder administration, while Brigitte Zypries served as Justice Minister ), parts of Palatinate ( Kurt Beck was party leader until 7 September 2008 ), the Saarland ( political home of one-time candidate for federal chancellor Oskar Lafontaine, defected from the SPD in 1999 ), and southwestern Baden ( Marion Caspers-Merk, Gernot Erler ).

His mother, Marlene K., was German, and had been born in Kaufungen, near Kassel.

One particular model, acquired by the Staatliche Museum in Kassel, Germany, proves to be helpful to archaeologists and historians in understanding what a hemiolia warship was like.

The attacks on the V-weapon experimental station at Peenemunde, however, were not effective ; V-l was already in production near Kassel and V-2 had also been moved to an underground plant.

Although born in Bielefeld, Province of Westphalia, Murnau was raised in Kassel from the time he was seven.

The regiment was based at Kassel in Hesse-Kassel, which he came to regard as his home town and where he maintained a home until 1945.

In 1926 he was made Chief of Staff to Group Command ( Gruppenkommando ) 2, which covered the whole of western Germany and was based in Kassel, and promoted to Major General ( Generalmajor ).

His son Major Hans-Gerd von Rundstedt was posted to his command as an aide-de-camp, partly to monitor his health and report back to Bila von Rundstedt in Kassel.

In 1949, the interim parliament (" Parlamentarischer Rat ") eliminated Kassel in the first round as a city to become the provisional capital of the Federal Republic of Germany ( Bonn won ).

As a result of the Documenta 6 ( 1977 ), Kassel became the first town in the world to have been illuminated by LASER-beams at night ( Laserscape, by artist Horst H. Baumann ).

He then returned to his home in Kassel, but enemy bombing and the Allied advance into western Germany made him decide to move his family, first to Solz, a village south of Kassel, then to Weimar, then to Bayreuth, and finally back to the sanatorium at Bad Tölz where he had stayed several times before.

The Duke of Cambridge was married first at Kassel, Hesse on 7 May and then at Buckingham Palace on 1 June 1818 to his second cousin Augusta ( 25 July 1797 – 6 April 1889 ), the third daughter of Prince Frederick of Hesse.

The first lecturer was Johann Adam Kersting from Kassel.

He was by trade a printer, but in 1895 took to editing socialist newspapers, first at Giessen and afterwards successively at Nuremberg, Offenbach and Kassel.

The first anonymous public document on the Rosicrucian Order is the Fama Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis which appeared in 1614 in Kassel ( Germany ), introducing the pilgrim founder " Frater C. R. C ", followed in 1615 by the Confessio Fraternitatis ( issued with Fama (...)).

He participated in his first Venice Biennale in 1980, and in Documenta, Kassel, in 1982.

The first of these was Operation Arena, which envisioned landing between six and ten divisions into what was termed a ' strategic airhead ' in the Kassel region of Northern Germany ; the planners of the operations envisioned that the operation would deny a large swathe of territory to the German defenders and give the Allied armies a staging area for further advances into Germany.

The operation was first launched during the attack on the German industrial center of Kassel on the night of 22 October to 23 October 1943 in which 90 % of the city was burned, leaving 10, 000 dead and 150, 000 homeless.

The first retrospective exhibition of Philips Wouwerman's work took place in Kassel, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, and in The Hague, The Royal Picture Gallers Mauritshuis, 2009 / 2010.

After a period as a visiting tutor at the Art School in Kassel, Germany he abandoned teaching and took his first trip to Africa.

After two years in Altenburg, Abravanel was appointed conductor at his first major opera house in Kassel.

He went first to Hanover, and afterwards to Kassel to study architecture, for which he seems to have had little inclination.

The first was Operation Arena, which envisioned landing between six and ten divisions into what was termed a ' strategic airhead ' in the Kassel region of Northern Germany in order to deny a large swathe of territory to the German defenders and give the Allied armies a staging area for further advances into Germany.

His saddle-shaped cable-net music pavilion at the Bundesgartenschau ( Federal Garden Exposition ) in Kassel brought him his first significant attention.

Working as an instrument maker for the court of William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel in Kassel he played a pivotal role in developing the first astronomical charts.

Intended as a Napoleonic " model state ", a constitution was written and enacted by King Jérôme on 7 December 1807, the day after he had arrived in Kassel, making Westphalia the first monarchy in Germany with a modern-style constitution.

After his father's death in 1567, the territory of Hesse was divided between the four sons out of the late landgrave's first marriage and William received the portion around the capital Kassel.

Distler enjoyed his first success in 1935 at the official Kassel Music Days ( Kasseler Musiktage ).

They were also the first Russian artists to be invited to Documenta ( Kassel, then in West Germany, 1987 ).