Since 2001 it is part of the Hanover district ( Region Hannover ), which is a municipal body made up from the former district ( Landkreis Hannover ) and city of Hanover ( note: although both Region and Landkreis are translated as district they are not the same ).

The Hannover Scorpions play in the German top division and their home games are played in the TUI Arena.

One major global reinsurance company is Hannover Re, whose headquarters are east of the city centre.

Below are the names of the universities and some of the important schools including newly opened Hannover Medical Research School in 2003 for attracting the students from biology background from around the world.

There are international trains daily to Bad Bentheim, Rheine, Osnabrück, Hannover and Berlin.

EUREKA was established with the " Paris Declaration " of July 17, 1985, and its principles are based on the later Hannover Declaration, subscribed by Ministers on November 6, 1985.

* 1985Launch of EUREKA Initiative on 17 July • The European Union and 18 countries sign the Hannover Declaration on 6 November • The first ten projects are announced

Its status is similar to that of the district Hanover ( Region Hannover ) in Lower Saxony, in that the powers of the city of Aachen are slightly less than those of an district-free city ( Kreisfreie Stadt ).

There are some approved biography books like that of Peter Raabe: " Documented Trails of a Phantom ", Hannover 1986.

There are also a number of low-cost airlines offering service to the airport, the most notable one being TUIfly, which has its base of operations at Hannover Airport.

Its headquarters are in Hannover, Germany.

File: Silhouettes1. jpg | Mute Swans are always White, ( 2003 ) Hannover

His best known projects are the Kunsthaus Bregenz ( 1997 ), a shimmering glass and concrete cube that overlooks Lake Constance ( Bodensee ) in Austria ; the cave-like thermal baths in Vals, Switzerland ( 1999 ); the Swiss Pavilion for Expo 2000 in Hannover, an all-timber structure intended to be recycled after the event ; the Kolumba Diocesan Museum ( 2007 ), in Cologne ; and the Bruder Klaus Field Chapel, on a farm near Wachendorf.

There are also three so-called, a fusion of a district and a district-free town: Besides the Regionalverband Saarbrücken ( 1974 – 2007: Stadtverband Saarbrücken ), there is the Region Hannover since 2001 and the Städteregion Aachen since 2009.

He was the father of Sophia of Hannover, from whom King George I of Great Britain and his present-day successors on the British throne are descended.

There are oratories in Austria ( Vienna ); France ( Nancy, Dijon and Hyères ); Italy ( Acireale, Biella, Bologna, Brescia, Florence, Genoa, Naples, Palermo, Verona, Vicenza, and Rome ); Germany ( Aachen, Dresden, Frankfurt am Main, Hannover, Heidelberg, Leipzig and Munich ); Lithuania ( Vilnius ); Netherlands ( Maastricht ); Poland ( Gostyń, Studzianna, Tarnów, Radom, Tomaszów Mazowiecki and Poznań ); Spain ( Barcelona, Seville and Palma ) and Switzerland ( Zurich ).

He is also praised for his recordings of the Bach suites ( Beethoven-Saal, Hannover, December 1960 ), which are regarded even now as some of the best versions ever made.

Streets are named after him in his hometown of Magdeburg, as well as the three cities in which he lived: Stralsund, Hannover, and Berlin.

Holiday flights to the Mediterranean on behalf of tour operators are ( as of 2011 ) operated out of Bremen Airport, Baden Airpark, Hannover Airport and Munich Airport.

Engines are first assembled in Stuttgart, and the car's body is built and painted at the Porsche Group facility in Hannover.

Madrid and Hannover were found to have built urban rail at per-km costs that are particularly low.

Every year Hanover hosts the Schützenfest Hannover, the world's largest marksmen's festival, and the Oktoberfest Hannover, the second largest Oktoberfest in the world.

DRC Hannover plays in the first division, and SV Odin von 1905 as well as SG 78 / 08 Hannover play in the second division.

The UBC Hannover Tigers play in the second German Basketball Association and the Hannover Regents play in the third Bundesliga ( baseball ) division.

The Oktoberfest Hannover is the second largest Oktoberfest in the world with around 160 rides and inns, two large beer tents and around 1 million visitors each year.

The second half of the season consisted of inconsistent results, relying almost entirely on home form to keep Hannover in the top league.

A second batch of 80 test cars began testing in June 2011 in Berlin, Hannover and Wolfsburg.

; 1714: Upon the death of his second cousin Queen Anne, George Louis, Elector of Hannover succeeds as the new King, George I, of Great Britain and Ireland, the former of which had itself been established in 1706.

In 1995, the boys ' choir embarked on a concert tour of Germany, traveling through the cities of Ulm, Wiesbaden, Göttingen, Hannover and Frankfurt am Main ; the choir also participated in the second EJCF.

Barbarez played for Hannover 96 during the second half of the 1991 – 92 and the whole 1992 – 93 season.

Hannover had room for 120 people in second class and 1, 850 in third class and made regular crossings between Germany and the USA and Canada until the outbreak of the First World War.

After leaving Hannover when his contract expired at the end of the 2010 – 11 season, Forssell had trials with clubs including West Ham United and Leeds United of the English Football League Championship ( second tier ).

In August 2010, Haggui returned to the pitch for his second season as a starter with Hannover 96.

Subsequently he moved to play for Hannover 96 in the second Bundesliga ; he earned a regular place and played 13 completed games, scoring two goals.

Ismaël played well for 45 minutes and helped his team maintain a 0 – 0 ; after he was substituted with a minor injury, Hannover conceded three goals in the second half.

Afterwards, starting on 1 October 1912 he served on the battleship SMS Hannover and was promoted to Leutnant zur See ( second lieutenant ) on 27 September 1913.

* Hannover Scorpions, German ice hockey team

* Mike Green ( ice hockey b. 1979 ), Canadian ice hockey player for the Hannover Scorpions, formerly of the American Hockey League

It is primarily used for ice hockey and is the home arena of the Hannover Scorpions.

Julia Zwehl ( born 20 March 1976 in Hannover ) is a field hockey international from Germany.

Hannover 96 ( nickname Die Roten or ' The Reds ') is the local football team that plays in the Bundesliga top division.

Their reserve team Hannover 96 II plays in the fourth league.

Arminia Hannover is another very traditional soccer team in Hanover that has played in the first league for years and plays now in the Niedersachsen-West Liga ( Lower Saxony League West ).

A combined local side was assembled in August 1945 and the next month a mixed group of players from Hannover 96 and Arminia Hannover played their first post-war match against a British military team.

Hannover made a fresh start with a new team of hungry youngsters, many of whom went on to play for the national team ( Gerald Asamoah, Sebastian Kehl, Fabian Ernst ) or impress in the Bundesliga.

As a further mark of respect for their former team mate, the players of Hannover 96 displayed the number one in a circle on the breast of their jerseys, as approved by the DFL as a subtle tribute, for the rest of the 2009 – 10 Bundesliga season.

Cherundolo has established himself as a leader at Hannover, and was appointed team captain shortly before the start of the 2010 – 11 season.

On March 22, 2006, Cherundolo played in a friendly match with the national team against Germany, including some teammates from Hannover 96.

On 6 March 2010 made a comeback with the reserve team of Hannover 96.

The team was almost relegated in the 2003 – 04 season, but rebounded and finished fourth the following season, but missed out on the Champions League after they were held to a draw on the final day by Hannover 96, which saw Werder Bremen overtake them for the spot on the final day.

De Guzman's contract with Hannover expired in 2005 allowing his to move to any team with no transfer fee, he was heavily linked with a move to Tottenham where he would have joined Canadian captain Paul Stalteri.