Take a journey through the back roads of Germany to discover the area's real soul and charm. Twenty-four themed drives, each lasting one to five days, reveal breathtaking views, hidden gems, and authentic local experiences that can only be discovered by road. Each tour is bursting with insider knowledge and loaded with ideas for varied activities, from short walks and longer hikes to days on…
Policing is one of those defining concepts of modernity about which much haswritten—to the point where it is difficult to imagine that there is much left to besaid—that is, at the same time, decisively modern. The modern conceptualizationof police referring to a fixed and commonly identifiable role, occupation andorganization, rather than simply a practice performed by the state through its…
By late 1922, Germany and the Allies had entered into a stand-off over the issue of reparation repayments. Germany had defaulted on its reparations payments to such an extent that the governments of France and Belgium ordered troops to occupy the Ruhr, a major industrial region in western Germany. The French and Belgian governments intended that their troops would supervise the extraction and c…
Before the twentieth century was even half over Germany had led Europe and the world into two wars of mass destruction in which over seventy million people died. By 1945 its neighbours were not inclined to trust a country that had visited such a degree of death and destruction on them. The reconstruction of Europe was a mammoth undertaking, as was also the rebuilding and recivilising of Germany…
What is the state of our forests and forest soils today? How have they changed overthe past 20 years? What actions have had an effect on their status and how? What arethe risks that continue to play a role or become relevant in the future? The presentreport based on the National Forest Soils Inventory (NFSI) as well as on case studiesfrom Intensive Forest Monitoring sites in Germany (see below)…
Als Siegfried Landshut im Februar 1950 zwei Gastvorträge im Hauptgebäude derUniversitätHamburghielt,kehrteererstmalsandenOrtzurück,vondemerknapp17 Jahre zuvor als Jude vertrieben worden war.1Zum Sommersemester 1951 erhielter dann den neu eingerichteten Lehrstuhl für die »Wissenschaft von der Politik«,einen der ersten seiner Art in der Bundesrepublik. An der Etablierung der Poli-tikwissen…
Richtung 2000 heute zu sehen kann aus verschiedenen Gründen spannend sein. Auf den meisten Blogs, die den 2015 von einer Privatperson auf Youtube gestellten2 Film teilten, werden manche der darin aufgestellten Prognosen als visionär bejubelt, besonders jene zu Umweltthemen; Fehleinschätzungen werden hingegen mit gelindem Spott registriert. Interessant scheint für die Kommentierenden vo…
National Parks are a showcase of the natural features of a country. They are at the centre of public awareness. The tradition of National Parks in Germany is relatively young. Now this tradition is nearly 50 years old. The first National Park in Germany was created in 1970 when the Bavarian Forest National Park was designated. National Parks got a special push in 1990 with the help of the Natio…
Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809-1864) heeft het belangrijkste deel van zijn leven gewijd aan het natuuronderzoek op Java. Tijdens zijn zwerftochten over dit eiland maakte hij aantekeningen, foto's en schetsen, die hij later verwerkte in zijn standaardwerk over Java. Rob Nieuwenhuys en Frist Jaquet hebben een selectie gemaakt van zijn reisverhalen, tekeningen en foto's. De complete serie gekleur…