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1. Flensburg – Flensburg is an independent town in the north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Flensburg is the centre of the region of Southern Schleswig, after Kiel and Lübeck it is the third largest town in Schleswig-Holstein. The regime was officially dissolved on 23 May, the nearest larger towns are Kiel and Odense in Denmark. Flensburgs city centre lies about 7 km from the Danish border, after Westerland on the island of Sylt it is Germanys northernmost town. Flensburg lies at the innermost tip of the Flensburg Fjord, an inlet of the Baltic Sea, Flensburgs eastern shore is part of the Angeln peninsula. The town of Flensburg is divided into 13 communities, which themselves are divided into 38 statistical areas. Constituent communities have a number and the statistical areas a three-digit number. In 1284, its rights were confirmed and the town quickly rose to become one of the most important in the Duchy of Schleswig. Unlike Holstein, however, Schleswig did not belong to the German Holy Roman Empire, therefore, Flensburg was not a member of the Hanseatic League, but it did maintain contacts with this important trading network. They were sent inland and to almost every European country, on 28 October 1412, Queen Margaret I of Denmark died on board a ship in Flensburg Harbour of the Plague. From time to time such as bubonic plague, caused mainly by rat fleas, red dysentery. Lepers were strictly isolated, namely at the St. -Jürgen-Hospital, which lay far outside the towns gates, the church hospital Zum Heiligen Geist stood in Große Straße, now Flensburgs pedestrian precinct. A Flensburgers everyday life was hard, and the old roads. The main streets were neither paved nor lit at night, when they got really bad, the citizens had to make the dung-filled streets passable with wooden pathways. Only the few houses had windows. In 1485, a fire struck Flensburg. Even storm tides beset the town at times, every household in the town kept livestock in the house and the yard. Townsfolk furthermore had their own cowherds and a swineherd, after the Hanse fell in the 16th century, Flensburg was said to be one of the most important trading towns in the Scandinavian area
2. Battle of Bov – It was the first battle of the First Schleswig War. In 1848, the First Schleswig War started, as Schleswig-Holstein was trying to separate from Denmark, wishing to defeat Denmark before German, Austrian, and Prussian troops arrived,7,000 Schleswig-Holsteinian soldiers under General Krohn occupied Flensborg on March 31,1848. Danish troops landed on the Holdnaes peninsula east of Flensborg and, worried that he would be surrounded and his request was approved, and he planned to fall back during April 9. Danish commanders had decided their attack would start before Krohn withdrew, the Schleswig-Holsteins were arranged according to the plan that they were going to withdraw, and were not prepared to put up a co-ordinated resistance. The Danish soldiers began their attack between 08,00 and 09,00 on April 9, badly co-ordinated and without their superior commander, the Prince of Noer, who arrived two hours after the battle had started, the Schleswig-Holsteins were unable to win against the Danish forces
3. Beate Uhse AG – Beate Uhse AG is a German industry group with focus on selling adult entertainment in the form of sex toys, lingerie, clothing and pornography. It is the most successful company in the German sex industry, and it was founded by former German war-time pilot and sex pioneer Beate Uhse-Rotermund in 1946 and started out as a distibutor of pamphlets on family planning called Schrift X which was a major success. In 1962 the company opened the worlds first sex shop in Flensburg, when pornography was finally made legal in West Germany in 1976, Beate Uhse was well-prepared with a widely known and respected brand name and an established mail order business. By 1992 it owned 30 sex shops and 25 cinemas, had a turnover of 100 million Deutschmarks and it currently has over 1,500 employees, is active in 60 countries and has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 1999. Uhse remained the chairwoman of the company until her death in 2001, in 2004 Beate Uhse AG opened the first Mae B. shop, a chain of sex shops specifically aimed at female consumers. In 2004 the combined sales of the Beate Uhse industry group was €280 million, making it the largest distributor of adult-related entertainment, profits have dropped significantly in the year 2006 -2007. Beate Uhse AG official homepage Beate Uhse adult products website
4. Danish minority of Southern Schleswig – One of the most common names they use to describe themselves is danske sydslesvigere. Denmark has continued to support the minority financially, Danish schools and organizations have been run in Flensburg since 1920, and since 1926 throughout the greater region. Before the adoption of the democratic Weimar Constitution it was not allowed to teach in another language than German in school. Membership in the Danish minority has been fluid since 1920, as criteria such as language to distinguish a German Schleswigian from a Danish are not taken into account. The first ethnic Danes settle in Southern Schleswig in the 7th century, one of the first Danish cities, Hedeby, were founded in about 800. The Danevirke between Hollingstedt og the Eckernförde bay was a Danish border wall towards Germany, Schleswig was in the Viking Age still a direct part of the Kingdom of Denmark. First in the 13th century it became a fiefdom of Denmark, in the 17th, 18th and up to the 19th centuries there was a language shift from Danish and Frisian dialects to Low German and later to High German as common speech in Southern Schleswig. Many German-minded Schleswigians have therefore ethnic Danish roots, at the same time there grew a conflict between German and Danish National Liberals, that culminated in two German-Danish wars in the 19th century. After the Second Schleswig War Schleswig became for the first time part of a German state, after a plebiscite in 1920 Northern Schleswig was officially reunited with Denmark, while Southern Schleswig remained a part of Germany. Also many Schleswigians on both sides of the border are of mixed extraction, as the Danish government provided food aid to the minority during 1945–49 this contingent became derogatorily known as Speckdänen, i. e. bacon Dane. At the end of 1946 the minority had thus reached a membership of 62,000, the Danish political party got almost 99,500 votes in 1947. However, the Danish government and the British Occupation Zone governors both opposed Southern Schleswig rejoining the Kingdom, and a referendum was never held in Southern Schleswig, in 1953 the so-called Programm Nord was set up by the Schleswig-Holstein state government to help the area economically. This caused the Danish minority to decline until the 1970s, since then, the minority has slowly been gaining size. Today it numbers around 50,000, although only a number of between 8,000 and 10,000 are assumed to speak Danish in everyday life, between 10,000 and 20,000 of them have Danish as their mother tongue. The fluctuation of the Danish minority is reflected also in the literature that describes the local phenomenon of changing national self-identification with the terminus New Danes. The Danish minority is represented by the South Schleswig Voter Federation in the Diet of Schleswig-Holstein, the SSW is not subject to the general requirement of passing a 5% vote threshold in order to receive proportional seats in the state parliament. In the most recent 2012 election, the SSW received 4. 6% of the vote, the SSW is also represented in several municipal councils
5. DGF Flensborg – The DGF Flensborg is a German association football club from the city of Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein. DGF is the largest of the clubs of the Danish minority in northern Germany, apart from offering association football, it also has an American football department, as well as boxing, baseball, badminton, handball and inline hockey departments. The Danish minority in Schleswig-Holstein is currently considered to consist of about 50,000 people, the Danish government supports the minority financially. Since the Bonn-Kopenhagener-Declarations in 1955, the Danish minority enjoys special rights equivalent to the rights the German minority in Denmark enjoys. The club was formed in 1923 as an association by the citys Danish minority, as indicated by its Danish language name. In 1926, DGF took up football, playing games at the Tivoliplatz, in the following years, the club expanded its number of departments but from 1933, with the rise of the Nazis to power, found itself more and more restricted. From 1937, the clubs activities almost ceased due to attempts by Nazis to Germanise the Danish minority. Upon the return of its members following the Second World War, in 1948, some club members left DGF to form another ethnically-Danish club, the IF Stjernen Flensborg. DGF was granted the use of Frueskovens Idrætspark as its ground by the city of Flensburg. The club had to use old military tents as its change rooms, by joining the Schleswig-Holstein Football Federation they were finally permitted to take part in competitive football. In 1957, DGF built its own house and in 1967 the facility was expanded through the addition of change rooms. However, in 1974, the club had to transfer Frueskovens Idrætspark back to the city of Flensburg as they were unable to afford necessary major upgrades, for its 75th anniversary in 1998, the club attracted Brøndby IF for a friendly. In 2001, Frueskovens Idrætspark once more changed ownership when it was acquired by the Sydslesvigs danske Ungdomsforeninger, DGF entered the Bezirksklasse Nord Schleswig-Holstein in 1951 but could not hold their place. They returend to the Bezirksliga in 1959, and then in 1964 earned promotion to the Amateurliga Schleswig-Holstein and they played two season there before being relegated to the 2nd Amateurliga Schleswig-Holstein Nord in 1966. Coming second-last in the Landesliga in 1972, it was relegated back down straight away, DGF continued in the Verbandsliga as a lower table side, earning a fifth place in 1978–79 as its best result. In 1978, the Verbandsliga was renamed Landesliga and had become a tier five league since 1974, in 1980, the club was relegated once more. In the Bezirksliga Nord, DGF became a struggler against relegation, after a couple of seasons in mid-table, the team was relegated further down in 1988 but returned immediately the year after. Mid to lower table finishes remained all the club could archive until a league championship in 1996 meant promotion once more, back in the Landesliga the club finished in mid-table once more in the next three seasons until another league reorganisation meant it became part of the new Bezirksoberliga Nord
6. Duborg-Skolen – Duborg-Skolen is a Danish secondary school undenominational school with gymnasial extension located in Flensburg, Germany. It is one of a number of operated by members of the Danish minority of Southern Schleswig. The school teaches both Danish and German on a native-speaker level, all other topics are instructed in Danish. Duborg-Skolen was established in 1924 as a Danish realskole and in 1958 it was recognized as a school with gymnasial extension. The curriculum enables its students to education in both Germany and Denmark
7. Flensburg Firth – Flensburg Firth or Flensborg Fjord, is the westernmost inlet of the Baltic Sea. It forms part of the border between Germany to the south and Denmark to the north and its length is either 40 or 50 km, depending to the definition of its limits. It has the largest surface of all Förden and East Jutland Fjorde, two peninsulas, Broager peninsula on the northern side and Holnis peninsula on the southern side divide the inlet in an outer and an inner part. West of them, near the Danish coast, there are two small Islands called Okseøer, on the Danish side, outer part of the northern limits of the firth is formed by the island of Als with the town of Sønderborg. Towards the west, continuing on the Danish side are Broager, Egernsund, Gråsten, Rinkenæs, Sønderhav, the Tourist attraction of the Flensburg Firth are the church of Broager, the Ox isles, the Sønderborg Castle, the Naval Academy Mürwik and the harbor of Flensburg
8. Flensburg Government – The government was formed following the suicide of Adolf Hitler on 30 April during the Battle of Berlin. It was headed by Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz as the Reichspräsident, the administration was referred to as the Flensburg Government because Dönitzs headquarters had been relocated in the port of Flensburg in northern Germany on 3 May 1945. Following the capitulation of all German armed forces on 8 May, the Flensburg government lost all direct territorial, military or civil jurisdiction, the western Allies allowed it to continue to meet and conduct what business it could until 23 May. Himmler took the chair as the acknowledged deputy Führer, and, since the disgrace and dismissal of Hermann Göring, as they were leaving Rheinsberg on 28 April, Himmler asked Dönitz to confirm that he would be willing to serve in a successor government that Himmler might form. That day however, the British and Americans published Himmlers secret proposals for a peace in the West. On 29 April Dönitz received a telegram from Martin Bormann announcing Himmlers dismissal from all posts, Dönitz went to Himmlers headquarters in Lübeck on 30 April to confront him with the accusations, but Himmler denied them as fabricated propaganda. Goebbels committed suicide in the Berlin Führerbunker on 1 May, the same day Dönitz accepted the offices of Supreme Commander and Head of State in separate broadcast addresses to the German armed forces, and German people. Residual ministers of the Hitler cabinet, who had fled from the fall of Berlin to join Dönitz at the Wehrmacht barracks near Plön in Holstein, von Krosigks cabinet first met in Eutin, to which he and his ministerial staff had been evacuated, on 2 May. Moreover, the situation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was highly unstable. Dönitz decided instead to proceed to the Mürwik naval academy in Flensburg near the Danish border, the cabinet met in the Sportschool of the naval academy, while administrative offices and accommodation for the various ministries were established on the liner Patria, moored in Flensburg harbour. Herbert Backe had been the author of the Hunger Plan of 1941, speers deputy in the Economics Ministry was Otto Ohlendorf, who had personally directed the murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews and Communists in occupied Soviet territory. Wilhelm Stuckart had been a participant at the Wannsee Conference of January 1942, Dönitzs cabinet picks were clearly circumscribed by who was available. For the first few days the post of Minister of the Interior was kept vacant and this had been the office of Heinrich Himmler, but Himmler had been condemned as a traitor, dismissed from all functions and ordered to be arrested in Hitlers Last Testament. Dönitz did not want Himmlers name associated with his new government and he tacitly set Hitlers instructions aside and continued to see Himmler on a daily basis without according him any formal appointment. It was only on 6 May 1945, while negotiations were in prospect for a capitulation to U. S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower in the west, that Dönitz dismissed Himmler from all his posts, Jodl was to represent Dönitz in negotiations with the Allies in Reims, France. Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg was appointed to succeed Dönitz as Commander of the Kriegsmarine, the Air Force had largely been destroyed or grounded due to lack of fuel, so no new appointment was made, Field Marshal Robert Ritter von Greim remaining Commander of the Luftwaffe. In spite of its repeated relocations, the Armed Forces High Command continued to function, its organisation, but the same was not true of any other arm of government
9. Flensburg University of Applied Sciences – Flensburg University of Applied Sciences is a vocational university of higher education and applied research located in the city of Flensburg in the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein. It is the northernmost university in Germany sited about 7 kilometres south of the Danish border at the Flensburg Fjord, originally established as Königliche Seedampf-Maschinistenschule the university was founded in 1886. Until 1975 the FHF mainly educated marine engineers and officers, the expansion of the study program over the past 30 years has added all major engineering and information technology disciplines and a school for business administration. Today, the FHF has an emphasis on nautical engineering, communication technology, biotechnology. In early 2010, the construction for a sports center. The main railway station is one mile from the campus. Several bi-national study programs are established together with the nearby University of Sønderborg, Denmark, partner Universities in the UK are e. g. the John Moores University in Liverpool and the University of Surrey. Oversea partners are the University of North Carolina, the North-West University in Vanderbijlpark, South Africa, official website virtual view over the campus
10. Flensburger Brauerei – Flensburger Brauerei is a brewery located in Flensburg in the Bundesland of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is one of the last country-wide operating breweries not being part of a brewery group. The company was founded on September 6,1888 by five citizens of Flensburg, today it is still mainly held by the founder families Petersen and Dethleffsen. The brewery is operating its own water well, which is supplied by an underground vein of very old Ice Age melting water coming from Scandinavia. The company has about 120 employees and is known for running technically advanced, all Flensburger products are bottled in glass bottles with a traditional flip-top closure. This demands several complicated mechanisms for production, bottle cleaning and recycling processes. The range of beers and other products includes the following, the flip-top stopper makes a plopp sound when opening, which has become part of the corporate identity. Since running a campaign emphasizing the stereotype of the stoic, blunt. Being sited next to the campus the annual visit of the brewery has become an event for the process engineering students of Flensburg
11. Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft – Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft is a German shipbuilding company located in Flensburg. The company is trading as Flensburger and commonly abbreviated FSG, Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft was founded in 1872 by a group of five local shipowners who previously had all their steamboats built in England as most German shipowners did in the 19th century. The first ship, the tall ship Doris Brodersen, was delivered to one of the founding partners in 1875. The cargo steamer Septima was commissioned a year later, Flensburger was acquired by Egon Oldendorff in March 1990 and then sold to the management in December 2008. N Ro-Ro İşletmeleri A. Ş, a Turkish-based shipping company. Three Coastal class ferries for BC Ferries, British Columbia, Canada, northern Expedition for the BC Ferries route from Port Hardy to Prince Rupert Eight ConRo220 freight ferries for Cobelfret. Six RoRo3900 freight ferries for DFDS, Eight RoRo3750 freight ferries for Ulosoy Sealines. Two ConRo220 freight ferries for Bore Ltd/Rettig Group Ltd. Four RoRo2200 freight ferries for Seatruck Ferries, MV Loch Seaforth, a ro-ro ship delivered in 2014 to Caledonian MacBrayne, a Scottish ferry company. Naval Ships, Three Oste class electronic surveillance ships for the German Navy, two Elbe class replenishment ships for the German Navy. Two Berlin class replenishment ships for the German Navy, Four of six Point class ro-ro strategic transports for the UK Ministry of Defence. A gallery of vessels built by Flensburger
12. Isted Lion – Others perceived it more as a memorial for the Danish dead in the battle. Originally erected in Flensburg, Schleswig, it was moved to Berlin by Prussian authorities and it was returned to Denmark as a gift from the United States Army and was located at Søren Kierkegaards Plads in Copenhagen. In September 2011 it returned to Flensburg, following the Danish victory over Schleswig-Holstein in the First War of Schleswig, Danish sculptor Herman Wilhelm Bissen was commissioned to create a monument to the ordinary Danish soldier. Although not an actual Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, his monument reflected a similar idea and this monument Landsoldaten was unveiled in Fredericia in 1858. Through the intervention of politician Orla Lehmann, it was decided that the funds would instead be used for a monument commemorating the Battle of Isted, like the previous monument, this commission was awarded to Bissen. The lion is derived from the arms of Denmark and Schleswig which contain three and two lions, respectively. In order to create an image of a lion, Bissen travelled to Paris to study a lion held in the Jardin des Plantes. Bissen completed his first plaster model in 1860, and the bronze cast was completed by June 1862, the finished monument was approximately four meters tall, and carried the following inscription, Isted den 25. Det danske Folk reiste dette Minde The statue was unveiled on the 12th anniversary of the battle,25 July 1862, at St Marys Cemetery in Flensburg, among the celebrities attending the ceremony was fairy-tale writer Hans Christian Andersen. Erecting the monument in Flensburg rather than Copenhagen or Isted, was seen as a provocation by the regions German nationalists who opposed the Danish claim to sovereignty over the area, the decision to let the lion face south reinforced this feeling. In 1864, war returned to the region, culminating in the German victory in the Battle of Dybbøl, in the following peace settlement, Denmark surrendered both Schleswig and Holstein, leaving the monument on the German side of the new border. Following the occupation of Flensburg by German forces, German nationalists attacked the monument and they succeeded in removing the tail and part of the lions back but failed to destroy the statue due to the intervention of German authorities. The Prime Minister of Prussia, Otto von Bismarck, ordered the monument to be dismantled, in 1867, the lion and the four reliefs were moved to Berlin at the order of Generalfeldmarschall Friedrich Graf von Wrangel. The reassembled lion was erected in the Zeughaus in Berlin on February 9,1868, following the transformation of the arsenal into a military museum in 1875, the lion was transported to the Cadet Academy in Lichterfelde, and erected there in April 1878. The lion remained there for more than 60 years, in 1874, a zinc copy of the monument was erected in Berlin in a public park, Schweiz, near the Colonie Alsen association of war veterans. This monument was paid for by banker Wilhelm Conrad, a path leading up to the statue was fittingly dubbed, Straße zum Löwen, i. e. the Road to the Lion. In 1938, the Danish press reported the existence of the copy of the monument, and at roughly the same time, the zinc copy was moved to Heckeshorn near the Wannsee. This location is close to the building housing what would later be known as the Wannsee Conference, the statue in Berlin was repaired in 2005
13. SG Flensburg-Handewitt – SG Flensburg-Handewitt is a handball club from Flensburg and Handewitt, Germany. The club was composed in 1990 as a merger of the sections of the clubs Handewitter SV. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga
14. University of Flensburg – The University of Flensburg is a university in the city of Flensburg, Germany. It was founded in 1994 and is the northernmost university in Germany, although having full university status and the right to award PhDs, the University of Flensburg offers mainly courses in education and other fields of social sciences. Among the special features include the German-Danish study courses in cooperation with the University of Southern Denmark Sønderborg, the university has 200 permanent employees and more than 400 visiting professors and lecturers. In the winter semester 2006/2007, the University received around 4,200 applications for places, but in the winter semester of the previous academic year the number was only 2,566. At the top of the applications in the winter semester 2006/2007 was the B. A. course in Teaching Science,1977 applicants, the B. A. course in Science of the Communication and Teaching is discontinued. - These are currently the only undergraduate programmes the university offers, the University of Flensburg shares a campus with the Fachhochschule. A water sports center and a chapel are currently under construction. The main railway station is one mile from the campus. There are five faculties, numbered Department I to Department V, Flensburg Flensburg catamaran University of Flensburg Website
15. SC Weiche Flensburg 08 – The ETSV Weiche is a German association football club from the Weiche suburb of Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein. Apart from football the club offers other sports like volleyball. The clubs greatest success has been to earn promotion to the tier four Regionalliga Nord in 2012, the club is associated with the German railways, as evident by the term railway sports club in its name. Weiche is the German term for railroad switch but also the name of the Flensburg suburb the club hails from, the club was formed as Reichsbahn-Sportverein Flensburg-Weiche on 18 May 1930. Three years later, in 1933, the Weiche was affected by the rise of the Nazis to power, by 1940, with the effects of the Second World War, activities within the club came to a standstill. Despite early efforts after the war in 1945 the club took until April 1947 to reform, the football department however left the club in 1949 to form TSV Weiche-West. From 1962 onwards the two started discussing a merger for the first time. Animosity between the two clubs however prevented progress until 1971, when the two agreed on a merger. The football department of ETSV Weiche was formed in 1932 but left the club in 1949 to form the TSV Weiche-West, in 1957 this team won the local Kreisliga and earned promotion to the tier three 2. Weiche-West played in this league until it was renamed to Bezirksliga Schleswig-Holstein Nord in 1968, the club continued in the Bezirksliga after 1968, from 1971 onwards as ETSV Weiche. Throughout the 26 seasons in the 2, amateurliga and Bezirksliga the club rarely challenged for the championship but, in 1982–83, it finally won this league and earned promotion to the Landesliga Schleswig-Holstein Nord. In this league, in 1983–84, the club came a distant last and was relegated again. Another decade in the Bezirksliga followed until Weiche could win the league again in 1994, three Landesliga seasons followed in which the club struggled against relegation each year and finally dropped down again in 1997. Weiche missed out on a place in the new Bezirksoberliga in 1999, Weiche spend the next seven seasons in the Bezirksoberliga, winning the league in 2006–07 and qualifying for the Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein, the states highest league, for the first time. The 2007–08 season was the last of the Verbandsliga in this format, from 2008 the league was renamed Schleswig-Holstein-Liga and the four leagues below received the name Verbandsliga. Weiche did not qualify for the new league and had to stay at Verbandsliga level and it came second in its Verbandsliga division in 2009 and was promoted to the Schleswig-Holstein-Liga. Three seasons at this level followed before the 2011–12 season saw the club finished runners-up in the Schleswig-Holstein-Liga, since 2012 the club has played in the tier four Regionalliga Nord, finishing in the upper half of the table each season. In March 2016 it was announced that the club was planning a merger with local rival Flensburg 08, the clubs honours, Schleswig-Holstein-Liga Runners-up,2012 Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein-Nord-West Runners-up,20092