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<html> <head> <title>Bonn, Germany</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Bonn, Germany LOCATION Official Website: <a href="http://www.bonn.de/">http://www.bonn.de/</a> Population: 313,605 (2004)After WWII, Bonn became a part of the British Sector. Despite its provincial nature, Bonn was capital of West Germany between 1949 and 1990, and the seat of government until 1999. Much of the German bureaucracy remains in Bonn to this day. Bad Godesberg and Beuel were incorporated into Bonn in 1969, more than doubling the city's size. SCHOOLS <table border=1 class="bordered"> <tr><th>School</th><th>Founded</th></tr> <tr><td><a href="/edu/732/000068528/">University of Bonn</a></td><td><center> </center></td></tr></table> COMPANY HEADQUARTERS <table border=1 class="bordered"> <tr><th>Company</th><th>Founded</th></tr> <tr><td><a href="/company/385/000125010/">Deutsche Telekom</a></td><td><center>1996</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/382/000125007/">Deutsche Post</a></td><td><center>1995</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/386/000125011/">Deutsche Postbank</a></td><td><center>1995</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/388/000128004/">T-Mobile</a></td><td><center>1992</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/308/000353246/">DHL</a></td><td><center>1969</center></td></tr></table> BIRTHS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_births"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/871/000024799/">Ludwig van Beethoven</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-1770</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Mar-1827</tt></td> <td>Prominent composer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/382/000128995/">Mathias Döpfner</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jan-1963</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Axel Springer AG</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/330/000279490/">Walter Gotell</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Mar-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-May-1997</tt></td> <td>Gen. Gogol in James Bond films</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/397/000169887/">Johann Hittorf</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Mar-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Nov-1914</tt></td> <td>Fluorescence in vacuum tubes</td> </tr> </table> DEATHS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_deaths"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/763/000096475/">Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Mar-1799</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Feb-1875</tt></td> <td>Durchmusterung</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/152/000087888/">Heinrich Böll</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Dec-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jul-1985</tt></td> <td>The Train Was On Time</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/951/000100651/">Rudolf Clausius</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jan-1822</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Aug-1888</tt></td> <td>Second Law of Thermodynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/678/000089411/">Ludwig Erhard</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Feb-1897</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-May-1977</tt></td> <td>German Chancellor, 1963-66</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/169/000206548/">Heinrich Geissler</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-May-1815</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jan-1879</tt></td> <td>Geissler tube</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/419/000072203/">Heinrich Hertz</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Feb-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-1894</tt></td> <td>Discoverer of electromagnetic radiation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/934/000100634/">Friedrich August Kekulé</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Sep-1829</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jul-1896</tt></td> <td>Theory of chemical structure</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/915/000210285/">Otto Lambsdorff</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Dec-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Dec-2009</tt></td> <td>German Economic Minister, 1977-84</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/794/000111461/">Heinrich Lübke</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Oct-1892</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Apr-1972</tt></td> <td>President of Germany, 1959-69</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/800/000089533/">Wilhelm Marx</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jan-1863</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Aug-1946</tt></td> <td>German Chancellor 1923-25, 1926-28</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/030/000099730/">Wolfgang Paul</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Aug-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Dec-1993</tt></td> <td>Co-Inventor of the ion trap</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/850/000172334/">Julius Plücker</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jul-1801</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-May-1868</tt></td> <td>Analytical geometry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/307/000094025/">August Wilhelm von Schlegel</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-1767</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1845</tt></td> <td>躡er dramatisch Kunst und Literatur</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=82476" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2017 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/354/000000354/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/354/354/s354.jpg" width=128> Skull and Bones Bohemian Grove</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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