by Axel Franz, NDR.deFeinste Bürotechnik:Equipped with a laptop, mobile phone, modem and printer, this mini office is at CeBIT 1990. Decline in visitors and exhibitors? When Deutsche Messe AG invited people to the first independent CeBIT in Hanover in 1986, such terms were foreign words. Electronic
December 21, 1985:A young Turk is attacked and killed by neo-Nazis on his way home to his pregnant girlfriend. The Hamburg case of Ramazan Avci made international headlines. by Oliver Diedrich, NDR.de Ill be back in an hour at the latest, says Ramazan Avci to his heavily pregnant fiancée Gülistan.
On October 1, 1985, a new law came into force in Schleswig-Holstein that declared the Wadden Sea in the northernmost state a national park. Many people in Schleswig-Holstein are skeptical. Dithmarscher and North Frisians have even announced vehement resistance to the law, which they see as an exter
On November 30, 1984, the GDR dismantles the last automatic firing system. Since 1971, the SM 70 type fragmentation mines had secured the inner-German border. At least nine refugees died from the death machines. by Marc-Oliver Rehrmann Its an end in installments:it took more than a year to dismant
Castor transports with highly radioactive waste, demonstrators chaining themselves to rails and a search for a nuclear waste repository that continues to this day:Gorleben in Lower Saxony has been a symbol of the nuclear power dispute for decades. The first transport of nuclear waste reached the sma
by Irene Altenmüller, NDR.de A huge parking lot in the south of Hamburg:Hundreds of trucks are parked on the asphalt surface on Andreas-Meyer-Strasse in Hamburgs Moorfleet district. Anyone who enters the site is standing on one of the most toxic contaminated sites in Germany. Pumps pump around 20 c
In 1983 Udo Lindenberg was allowed to sing in front of a select audience in East Berlin - under the strict surveillance of the Stasi. His dream did not come true until seven years later:he started a tour through the GDR. by Beatrix Hasse Hello Suhl, Udo Lindenberg greets his fans from the GDR in h
In 1983, a windy forger and a reporter with a good nose fooled the magazine Stern. With Hitlers supposed diaries they want to present the Nazi dictator privately - and temporarily ruin the credibility of the magazine. by Helene Heise, NDR.de F.H.! Whats that supposed to mean? Führer Hitler? Führer
by Janine Kühl, NDR.deChristian Klar is considered one of the heads of the second generation of the RAF. He was convicted of nine counts of murder in 1985. November 16, 1982. Around noon, a man in a blue jogging suit locks up his green bicycle near the Friedrichsruh S-Bahn station. Everything indic
by Thomas Christes Hannovers history is firmly linked to entertainment technology. Emil Berliner invented the record and the gramophone there 125 years ago. The first music cassettes were also mass-produced in the Lower Saxony state capital in the 1960s. On August 17, 1982, the triumph of the CD
It was a small sensation:40 years ago, none other than the US artist Andy Warhol opened an exhibition in Lübeck - and presented his latest work:the Holstentor. by Kathrin Otto November 13, 1980 is a cloudy autumn day in the Hanseatic city. Its drizzling as Heiner Reese gets into his car to drive t
by Stefanie DöscherThe first Hamburg drag queens are out and about in 1980 with roller skates and wigs. Blonde mane, dark dress and roller skates - this is what the first Hamburg drag queens look like. On June 28, 1980, they march through the streets of the Hanseatic city at the Stonewall demonstra
40 years ago, opponents of nuclear power protested against the planned nuclear waste repository in Gorleben with a state within a state. On May 3, 1980 they set up the Free Republic of Wendland. After 33 days, the activities of the activists came to an abrupt end. by Carina Werner To the cops! If
When the 1,000 delegates gathered for the founding party conference of the Federal Greens in Karlsruhe on January 12 and 13, 1980, people from different movements met. What unites them is the protest. by Jennifer Lange But can the functioning apparatus of a party be founded from members of anti-nu
When excavators deepened the Elbe in Hamburg in 1999, they encountered a huge boulder - one of the largest in Germany. Since then, the Old Swede has had to put up with a lot. Even Pippi Longstocking couldnt have lifted it out of the water. But the fabulously strong girl is of course not present whe
by Carina WernerWith a portable television, digital television can also be received on the beach. Digital television has many birthplaces. One of them is Northern Germany. Because what experts from Hamburg and Braunschweig designed in the early 1990s conquered the market a decade later:digital terr
February 23, 1997:It is a completely normal routine check that police officers Stefan G. and Stefan K. carry out on this Sunday morning at the A 24 parking lot in Roseburg (district of the Duchy of Lauenburg). You noticed the crooked and holed license plate of a gray Mazda. The driver, Kay D., immed
Sea court:A bit of New York in Hamburg Detained ships, border conflicts at sea - these are cases for the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, founded on October 1, 1996. On July 3, 2000, the ISGHs official headquarters were inaugurated in a new building in Hamburg. by Janine Kuehl Am In
On March 25, 1996, kidnappers abducted the Hamburg patron Jan Philipp Reemtsma. He was released after 33 days for a ransom of millions. When two of the kidnappers were sentenced 25 years ago today, main culprit Thomas Drach has not yet been caught. by Irene Altenmüller Midnight; there was the fore
Ten people died 25 years ago in a fire in a Lübeck asylum seekers home. It quickly became clear that it was arson. But the case is never cleared up, and four suspected neo-Nazis are not charged. by Oliver Diedrich, NDR.de In the 1990s there was a large house where there is now a vacant area on the
Suppose Sparta were devastated and only the temples with the foundations remained:after a long time its power would raise, I believe, in relation to its renown, serious doubts among future generations. (1) The warning of the Athenian historian Thucydides is clear:between the legend told, even alter
In the 19th century, fleeing misery and famine, many women from the provinces headed for the capital in search of a future. Infant mortality rates in these areas were very high and many mothers who lost their newborn children decided to hire as wet nurses . The road to Madrid was long and in order
Until the 1970s, several countries applied eugenics programs for the improvement of hereditary traits seeking racial hygiene . Although the best known case is that of Nazi Germany, there were many other countries that applied this type of program, such as the case of Sweden that we have already talk
After the end of the Balkan Wars the defeated Ottoman Empire decided to strengthen its fleet. Its main rival at sea was Greece which decided to act accordingly, buying two American pro-dreadnought battleships and ordering two light cruisers and new destroyers from Britain, one battleship from German