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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. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
