10 things with which Hanover made headlines throughout Germany
Scandals, celebrations, disasters, crimes and excellence are usually what people talk about. Fortunately, the state capital Hanover has been spared from major disasters over the years. On the other hand, there was more reason to celebrate. But the city also made headlines with criminal cases. Even if, in contrast to the Haarmann case, the stolen Leibniz biscuit was more of a funny affair.
Hanover made headlines with this
1st Expo 2000
At the turn of the millennium, the first Expo in Germany took place in Hanover. Truly an event of the millennium under the motto “Humans, nature and technology – a new world is emerging”. What remained of it is rather less flattering. One Subsequent use of the immense buildings for the Expo 2000 only worked to a small extent. The main user is, before and after, Duetsche Messe AG.
2. Lena wins the ESC
Lena Meyer-Landrut won the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song Satellite, making it the second victory for Germany in this competition.
After the victory, the Hanoverians prepared their brilliant welcome at the airport in Langenhagen and then at the Tram place before the new town hall.
3. Fritz Haarman
Haarmann is said to have murdered 24 boys or young men between the ages of ten and 22. On December 19, 1924, he was sentenced to death by the Hanover Court of Assizes. The Haarmann criminal case is still used today as a template for books, film adaptations, plays, works of art and songs. For example, he can be found every year with his cleaver on the Hanover advent calendar.
4. The Leibniz biscuit is stolen
In 2013, the cookie monster actually stole the golden Leibniz biscuit from Bahlsen. The incident received a great deal of attention in the national and international press. Between January 24, 2013 and February 11, 2013, the thriller was featured 595 times in the German daily and weekly press, not including online reports and social networks.
Since 2019, a graffito with the Cookie Monster and the Leibnizkeks has been found on a factory gate as an allusion to the theft of the golden biscuit.
5. Cup win Hannover 96
In 1992, Hannover 96 was probably a second division team that won the DFB Cup. A triumph for the Reds that WILL last forever. The finale on May 23, 1992 in Berlin was under a lucky star. then, on a May 23rd, one achieved a great success. In 1954 it was precisely this date when the second championship title was won. At 8:37 p.m., Michael Schjönberg-Christensen converted the last penalty of the penalty shoot-out after Jörg Sievers, the cup hero, made a sensational save.
6. The Red Dot Action
The red dot was used to demonstrate against the increase in public transport fares. The best-known and most momentous action took place in June 1969 in Hanover. Co-initiator was the German satirist Dietrich Kittner. die Red dot action in June 1969 in Hanover made headlines nationwide. It was initiated by student and pupil organizations (such as the AStA of the Technical University) and left-wing groups from the APO. Large parts of the population later took part in the campaign, at times half of the cars are said to have had a red dot.
7. Schmalstieg becomes mayor
On January 26, 1972, at the age of 28, he took up the post of honorary mayor of the state capital of Hanover for the first time. When he was elected, Herbert Schmalstieg was the youngest mayor of a major German city. At first he had representative tasks and only after the change in municipal law in Lower Saxony was he elected full-time mayor on September 29, 1996 in the first direct election. From 1972 to 2006 he was mayor of Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony.
8th First Federal Horticultural Show
The 1951 Federal Horticultural Show was the first of its kind to take place in Hanover. The first Federal Horticultural Show was opened on April 28, 1951 by Federal President Theodor Heuss and his wife Elly Heuss-Knapp, who was also the patron. It lasted 187 days and around 1.6 million people attended the event during this time.
9. car-friendly city
In the mid-1950s, the rapid reconstruction of the city of Hanover was described as the miracle of Hanover by the foreign press. Stadtbaurat Rudolf Hillebrecht was the driving force that transformed Hanover into a traffic-friendly city. Der Spiegelgriff picked up on this miracle in 1959 and published a highly acclaimed book with Hillebrecht on the title articles on this topic.
The car-friendly city culminated in the elevated road across Aegidientorplatz. The makeshift bridge was only supposed to be in service while the subway was being built, but it remained in place until 1998.
10. Margot Käßmann’s alcohol drive
In 2010, around 11 p.m. in downtown Hanover, Margot Käßmann was stopped by a police patrol when she was drunk and had a blood alcohol content of 1.54. The whole republic is occupied with the question of whether Gerhard Schröder was in the car or not. Weeks of speculation in the nationwide tabloid press led to the resignation of Margot Käßmann as country bishop and to an affidavit by the former chancellor. “I was not the ‘passenger’ of Bishop Margot Käßmann on the night of February 20th to 21st, 2010,” reads it.