Main article: Hanover Stadtbahn

Hanover (upper center) is near the center of northern Germany, west of Potsdam and Berlin, south of Hamburg, and northeast of Dortmund and Cologne.

Hanover has an extensive Stadtbahn system, traditionally operated by üstra. The city is famous for its designer buses and tramways, the TW 6000 and TW 2000 trams being the most well-known examples.

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Economy

The Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles Transporter factory at Hannover-Stöcken is the biggest employer in the region. German tire and automobile parts manufacturer Continental AG has its headquarters in Hanover.

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Education

The Leibniz University Hannover is the largest funded institution in Hanover for providing higher education to the students from around the world. Below are name of universities and some of the important schools including newly opened Hannover Medical Research School in 2003 for attracting the students from biology background from around the world.

There are several universities in Hanover:

• Leibniz University Hannover
• Hanover Conservatory [1]
• Hanover Medical School [2]
• School of Veterinary Medicine Hanover

There is one University of Applied Science and Arts in Hanover:

• Fachhochschule Hannover [3]

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Towns named after Hanover

Also, New Hanover County, North Carolina, U.S. is named after the city.

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Twin cities

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Definitions

Note: Hanover is the correct English spelling, even though the German spelling is with a double n. It should always be used when referring to the British House of Hanover (even if one chooses to write the city the German way).

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See also

• Expo 2000
• Hanover Fair (Hannover Messe)
• CeBIT (CeBIT Computer Messe)
• Oktoberfest Hannover
• Treaty of Hanover among Britain, France, and Prussia on May 19, 1727

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Notable Residents

Former German Chancellor, and Hanoverian Gerhard Schröder

Emile Berliner with gramophone

• Hannah Arendt, of Jewish origin, political theorist and philosopher
• Rudolf Augstein, one of the most influential German journalists, founder of Der Spiegel
• Leopold Auer, of Jewish origin, violinist and violin teacher
• Uri Avnery, of Jewish origin, journalist
• Elly Beinhorn, one of the first long distance aviators
• Emile Berliner, of Jewish origin, inventor, best known for developing the disc record gramophone
• Valeri Brainin, of Jewish origin, musicologist and poet
• Wilhelm Busch, painter and poet
• Mathieu Carrière, actor
• Carl Dahlhaus, musicologist
• Doris Dörrie, movie director, producer, and author
• Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, botanist, a pupil of Carolus Linnaeus
• Yvonne Georgi, dancer, choreographer and ballet mistress
• Boris Goldstein, of Jewish origin, famous violinist
• Georg Goltermann, cellist and composer
• August Grisebach, botanist, founder of phytogeography as a branch of science
• George Frideric Handel, composer
• William Herschel, astronomer
• Caroline Herschel, astronomer
• Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty, poet
• August Wilhelm Iffland, actor and playwright
• Karl Jatho, first aviator, who flew with motored airplane
• Joseph Joachim, of Jewish origin, violinist, conductor, composer, and teacher
• Karl Karmarsch, educator
• Friedrich Kaulbach, painter
• Vladimir Krainev, of Jewish origin, pianist and piano teacher
• Louis Kugelmann, social democratic thinker and activist, confidant of Marx and Engels
• Gottfried Leibniz, polymath, mathematician, philosopher
• Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort, a member of the July 20 Plot against Adolf Hitler.
• Theodor Lessing, of Jewish origin, philosopher
• Heinrich Marschner, composer
• Otto Fritz Meyerhof, of Jewish origin, physician and biochemist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine
• Karl Philipp Moritz, author, editor, and essayist of the Sturm und Drang
• Rudolf Erich Raspe, librarian, writer, and scientist
• Dieter Roth, printmaker and mixed-media artist
• Otto Sander, movie, theater, and voice actor
• Georg Sauerwein, publisher, poet, linguist, and polyglot (about 60 languages)
• August Wilhelm Schlegel, poet, translator, critic, and a foremost leader of German Romanticism
• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, poet, critic and scholar
• Maria Schrader, movie actress
• Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005
• Heinrich Schütz, composer and organist
• Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling, componist
• Kurt Schwitters, painter and poet, representer of Dadaism, Constructivism, and Surrealism
• The Scorpions, rock band
• Berthold Carl Seemann, botanist
• Bernhard Sprengel, chocolate manufacturer and modern art collector
• Alfred Graf von Waldersee, Chief of the Imperial German General Staff from 1888 to 1891
• Frank Wedekind, dramatist
• Grethe Weiser, actress
• Kai Wiesinger, movie actor
• Mary Wigman, dancer, choreographer, and instructor of dance
• Ricardo Wolf, of Jewish origin, inventor, diplomat, philanthropist, the founder of the Wolf Foundation

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References

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External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Hanover

• WikiSatellite view of Hanover
• Hanover travel guide from Wikitravel
• City's own website
• Official website for tourism, holiday and leisure in Lower Saxony and Hanover
• (German) EXPOseeum - see what is left from Expo 2000
• (English) (German) tram in Hanover
• http://www.mh-hannover.de/hbrs.html
• (German) SV Odin von 1905 website

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