Hamburg City Hall Image by wikimedia commons — The Reform congregation in the German city of Hamburg has dedicated its first Jewish cemetery who also heads the Liberal congregation in Bad Pyrmont inaugurated the community’s section of the Ohlsdorf cemetery which was supported with a gift of $3,280 for plantings at the site from the Hamburg-West/Südholstein parish church and $1,090 from the Holy Ghost Community in Pinneberg the community has used the main Jewish cemetery in Hamburg-Altona vice president of the Pinneberg community’s synod and a frequent guest at the Liberal congregation’s services called the donation “a sign of reconciliation and peace,” according to the September newsletter of the European Union for Progressive Judaism The Hamburg Liberal Jewish Community was officially established in 2004 and is a member of the Union of Progressive Jews in Germany plus a circle of about 200 supporters and friends The community’s website says its next aim is to open its own synagogue According to the Central Council of Jews in Germany there are currently 2,445 registered members of the Jewish community in Hamburg the city of Hamburg is planning to submit in December an application to UNESCO the United Nations organizations responsible for education and heritage sites for recognition of its main Jewish cemetery — the Jüdische Friedhof Altona — as a World Heritage Site A decision would not be made until mid-2018 Covering about 4.6 acres and holding some 8,100 graves the cemetery — known for its grave designs — was established in 1611 by a Sephardic community originating in Portugal An Ashkenazi section was added a few years later and most of those buried there were Ashkenazi Among the famous personages buried there are the father of the German poet Heinrich Heine It has been an official German cultural landmark since 1960 Jewish cemeteries in Germany are sometimes targeted by vandals police in Strasburg reported that unknown perpetrators had knocked down a heavy gravestone in the city’s Jewish cemetery They have asked the public for assistance in identifying the culprits I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward American Jews need independent news they can trust At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S rising antisemitism and polarized discourse This is a great time to support independent Jewish journalism you rely on See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs Copyright © 2025 The Forward Association, Inc. 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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world The German automaker announced on June 23 that it would develop an electric speedboat with the Austrian shipbuilder Frauscher making his fortune in part by transporting looted Jewish property during World War II.Illustration by Mike McQuade Source Images: ULLSTEIN BILD/GETTY IMAGES; HAMBURG STATE ARCHIVE PUBLIC DOMAIN.Save this storySaveSave this storySaveI A DIRTY BUSINESSOn a Thursday afternoon in mid-November 2023 an elderly man was walking through Hamburg’s Ohlsdorf Cemetery to visit the burial place of his favorite soccer player when he noticed something very wrong Someone had sprayed “Nazi Kapital” (“Nazi fortune”) on the Kuehne family’s tombstone while the cryptic term “M-Aktion” was tagged on Alfred Kuehne’s tombstone These weren’t just any family tombs: The Kuehne dynasty is industrial royalty in Germany the only child of Alfred and Mercedes Kuehne according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index The 87-year-old billionaire owes his fortune to Kuehne + Nagel founded by Kuehne’s grandfather and Friedrich Nagel in 1890 Kuehne has used his wealth to build up a global transportation empire He is also the largest shareholder of the German airline Lufthansa and the company that owns North America’s Greyhound bus lines he stood to pocket $4.5 billion in dividends from his empire In the context of Germany’s discreet but clubby old money where aristocratic and industrialist heirs mingle at hunting parties or go skiing in the Alps he remains outside Germany’s power circles and is only spotted occasionally at financier and merchant hangouts such as Hamburg’s Übersee-Club a century-old private members establishment founded by the city’s Warburg banking dynasty either at his estate and office near Lake Zurich Despite having been based in Switzerland for almost 50 years Kuehne has said his roots remain in his hometown Nazi graffiti on the Kuehne family gravestone at Ohlsdorf cemetery in 2023.PICTURE ALLIANCE/GETTY IMAGES.Kuehne is so devoted to Hamburg that he has become its largest private investor and philanthropist in recent years even though he spends most of his time outside the city of 1.8 million residents The billionaire has invested more than 100 million euros in HSV and another 100 million euros in the development of The Fontenay (He also owns the five-star hotel Castell Son Claret on Mallorca.) He has donated more than 70 million euros to the Kuehne Logistics University and gave millions to help build Hamburg’s philharmonic which resides in a Herzog & de Meuron–designed concert hall Kuehne is negotiating with Hamburg’s senate to finance the building of a new opera house and told the city’s largest newspaper in 2023 that his charitable foundation is willing to contribute up to 300 million euros for the construction Kuehne’s public appearance has remained virtually the same over the years he has ice-gray hair that looks like it’s been parted with a ruler; his eyes look straight ahead; his facial features are strong They married in December 1989 when he was 52 and she was 51 Kuehne writes poems by hand to her for their wedding anniversary and her birthday She sometimes spontaneously serenades him with arias by Puccini Which is why a captain of their Benetti-built 130-foot yacht Chrimi III (which stands for Christine and Michael) The only person he reveres more than his wife is his late father whom he succeeded as Kuehne + Nagel CEO when he was 29 In 1975 Klaus-Michael and his father moved Kuehne + Nagel’s corporate seat and headquarters from Germany to Schindellegi The only decoration on the wall of the Kuehne + Nagel boardroom is a portrait of Alfred “I learned the most from him,” Kuehne has said about his father “Companies have to be managed individually—like a family business.” The thing about Alfred is that he built part of the family business profiting from the Nazi regime’s persecution and genocide of European Jews After Adolf Hitler seized power in Germany ousted their Jewish shareholder from Kuehne + Nagel from occupied Western Europe to Nazi Germany as part of the so-called “M-Aktion,” an abbreviation of “Möbelaktion,” which translates to “furniture operation.” Over two years almost 70,000 homes belonging to Jews in the Netherlands and Luxembourg were systematically looted after their inhabitants had been deported by train to ghettos and death camps The task force overseeing the operation was part of a Nazi organization dedicated to appropriating property during the war the Kuehne brothers may have escaped punishment for their activities during the Third Reich because of their ties to American Kuehne + Nagel had a quasi-monopoly on the furniture operation head of the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich the company doing the furniture transports was always Kuehne + Nagel,” says Bajohr “Kuehne + Nagel is in the same category of firms like the ones that sold Zyklon B for use in the gas chambers or that built the crematoria in the extermination camps Transporting the stolen goods of people after they were deported,” he adds “is a kind of dirty business far beyond anything I can comprehend.” Yet the role of Klaus-Michael Kuehne’s firm and family in the Third Reich is little known to the outside world and Bertelsmann opened their archives years ago to allow historians to examine their own lucrative Nazi collaborations The commissioned studies unearthed that Deutsche Bank aided the expropriation of hundreds of Jewish-owned businesses and helped finance the construction of Auschwitz; that tens of thousands of men and women were used as forced and slave laborers to mass-produce weapons at the Volkswagen factory; and that Bertelsmann published antisemitic literature and exploited Jewish slave labor In 2000 the three firms joined more than 6,500 German companies in agreeing to pay about $2.5 billion to a reparations fund that provided financial compensation to surviving forced and slave laborers But Kuehne + Nagel has never opened its archives In 2022 Kuehne told the Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung that no company documents from the Nazi era were available claiming that the company archives in Hamburg and Bremen were destroyed by Allied bombings in World War II An index of German company archives from the 1990s shows that at least 10 meters (30 feet) of archival files should be present at Kuehne + Nagel This most likely includes material from before and during World War II “Use only possible with management approval,” it says on the page “Kuehne’s stance places him in the ranks of those who want to ‘exonerate’ German history from its Nazi past.” Kuehne also said in the SonntagsZeitung interview that he finds commissioning independent historians to investigate his company history akin to blackmail “We were approached by some who would have liked to do this and they asked for several hundred thousand euros I found that almost a bit extortionate,” Kuehne told the Swiss newspaper What Kuehne has not explained is why he won’t release the study that sources say he commissioned In early 2014 Kuehne commissioned Handelsblatt Research Institute the independent research arm of German newspaper Handelsblatt to conduct a study of his family firm’s entire history for Kuehne + Nagel’s 125th anniversary in July 2015 Researchers were even given access to the company archive in Hamburg and a guarantee of academic freedom and independence according to people familiar with the matter But when the final result was sent to Kuehne in early 2015 including a chapter on the activities of his father Kuehne rejected the study by saying “my father wasn’t a Nazi” during a phone conference according to people familiar with the conversation When the researchers refused to change the chapter Kuehne said the study wouldn’t be published and ended the call the managing director of Handelsblatt Research Institute would neither confirm nor deny Kuehne’s commissioning and shelving of the study Kuehne declined to be interviewed for this article declined to answer detailed questions sent by VF Kuehne was seven years old at the end of World War II and therefore had nothing to do with the war,” Nadelhofer wrote in an emailed statement these historical events are beyond his control.” For decades Germany’s political leaders have accepted moral responsibility and acknowledged the sins of the Nazi past centering remembrance as a component of German society But recently the country has seemed to regress As the last witnesses to the Nazi era die and the cultural memory of the Third Reich fades the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) polled as the largest party hitting an all-time high of 23 percent in the polls in December In June 2024 the AfD won a record number of votes in the European parliament elections The party captured 16 percent of the German vote and came in second in the elections as concerns about immigration and the economy fanned voter discontent “If Klaus-Michael Kuehne doesn’t want to do something “Hitler and the Nazis are just a speck of bird shit in over a thousand years of successful German history,” the AfD’s then coleader Alexander Gauland said in a 2018 speech The AfD’s extremist wing is associated with antisemitism including the downplaying of Nazi crimes and denigration of the Holocaust a leading AfD politician and founder of its extremist wing was fined twice by a German court for using the banned Nazi slogan “Everything for Germany!” in his campaign speeches Höcke has lamented the construction of a Holocaust memorial in central Berlin Calling Germans “the only people in the world who planted a memorial of shame in the heart of their capital,” he has demanded a “180-degree turn” in the country’s “politics of memory.” Kuehne’s politics could be described as free-market conservative “I believe that support for the AfD will dwindle again,” he told German newspaper Welt in 2017 “Right-wing movements have no foothold in Germany.” Since 2021 he has donated about 200,000 euros ($220,000) to the Christian conservative CDU the establishment party for German business and of former chancellor Angela Merkel Kuehne even once said he could envision himself voting for the left-wing Green Party But Kuehne’s refusal to more publicly reckon with his family and firm’s Nazi past plays into the hands of the revisionist movement director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Bremen a think tank affiliated with the German Green Party He has been investigating Kuehne + Nagel’s wartime activities since 2015 These revisionist narratives of Germany’s past are prominently embodied by the AfD and many other European countries use historical revisionism to manipulate the narrative around the Nazi era and World War II to advance their political agenda it was unacceptable that Kuehne refused to deal honestly with his family’s actions during the Nazi era,” said Bleyl in an interview on the roof terrace above his office in Bremen Kuehne’s stance places him in the ranks of those who want to ‘exonerate’ German history from its Nazi past.” Interviews and newly unearthed archival material by VF in Amsterdam detail the extent of Nazi profiteering by the Kuehne brothers and firm Alfred and Werner Kuehne began profiting from the persecution of Jews much earlier than is known: years before World War II and mere months after Hitler seized power in Germany on January 30 the Kuehne brothers ousted their Jewish partner and co-owner Adolf Maass after he’d spent more than 30 years at the firm owned 45 percent of the Hamburg branch of Kuehne + Nagel which he had founded in 1902 and which was the largest and most profitable part of the firm When Friedrich Nagel died heirless in 1907 According to a signed and dated contract in the Maass family archive in the Montreal Holocaust museum Maass signed over his shares and claims to the Kuehne brothers on April 22 An alleged inability “to fulfill his capital obligations” to the Kuehnes and the company Such accusations became a common method in Nazi Germany to oust Jewish shareholders from their own firms “This wasn’t a free and regular business contract,” says Frank Bajohr “The Kuehnes used the political situation for their own benefit It’s no accident that this contract was formulated in spring 1933 Maass wouldn’t have signed this contract in the years before Hitler took power “The constitutional element of an Aryanization contract was that Jewish ownership was completely eliminated and that the company was handed over in its entirety to non-Jewish owners,” says Bajohr the Kuehne brothers became Nazi Party members according to their denazification files in the Bremen state archive In the following years the Kuehnes developed their firm into a “national-socialist model company,” an honorary title that the Nazi regime awarded to Kuehne + Nagel in 1937 The Kuehne brothers would declare in their denazification proceedings that Maass’s “Jewish origin caused serious trouble” for the firm and themselves The siblings claimed that Maass left voluntarily and that they “derived no personal economic advantage from dissolving the partnership.” In 1938 Kuehne + Nagel acquired the Hamburg subsidiary of the Czech transport company Alfred Deutsch a Jewish entrepreneur forced to sell his firm by the Nazi authorities in tandem with the Kuehne brothers In 180 pages of correspondence during the acquisition discovered by VF in the Hamburg state archive Kuehne + Nagel managers wrote matter-of-factly that the takeover was an Aryanization The start of World War II offered the Kuehne brothers the first opportunity for foreign expansion In the footsteps of the Wehrmacht’s military conquest of Europe Kuehne + Nagel grew rapidly: The transportation firm went from seven branches in Germany in early 1939 to 26 branches across Nazi-occupied Europe by late 1944 according to a comparison by VF of company letterhead from the years before and during the war listing all the offices The company says it delivered supplies to the German army Another driver of growth for Kuehne + Nagel was an agreement with Nazi authorities to ship looted Jewish-owned property from Western Europe to Germany as part of the furniture operation which took place from spring 1942 through July 1944 As Allied bombing raids on Germany destroyed homes and offices the demand for household items and furniture soared In January 1942 Hitler decided that all movable property owned by Jews slated for deportation in Western Europe was to be brought to Germany and distributed discovered by VF in the archive of the Netherlands Institute for War provides a glimpse of the enormous size of the operation The ledger lists 360 ships commissioned by Kuehne + Nagel’s Amsterdam office between June 1942 and August 1943 on behalf of the Nazi authorities which transported furniture across Germany stolen from Jews according to a handwritten note accompanying the ledger and 2 baby carriages being shipped from Amsterdam to Bremen in December 1942 “The management at Kuehne & Nagel was well informed about the ongoing dispossession of the Jews It is possible that the managers did not know that the owners of the property they were transporting were to be murdered But they nevertheless facilitated the economic destruction of European Jewry,” writes historian Johannes Beermann-Schön of Frankfurt’s Goethe University who was Jewish and forced out of Kuehne + Nagel The company was awarded for conforming to Nazi ideology in the workplace.Public Domain.Kuehne + Nagel also transported looted art It didn’t always arrive at its destination discovered months after the war ended that Kuehne + Nagel had lost a 1944 shipment of 14 paintings en route from Paris to Germany a German art dealer in Paris who acquired looted art during the war had bought the paintings from the Nazi task force in charge of the furniture operation seven paintings by Matisse and one each by Picasso according to an OSS document from August 1945 found by VF in the National Archives in Washington Public auction records suggest that if all of these works were genuine they would be worth tens if not hundreds of millions in today’s art market The Third Reich and the transport of looted property during World War II made the Kuehne brothers very rich Alfred and Werner began earning on average around 175,000 reichsmarks annually according to their denazification files—about $3.4 million today the brothers had hit their peak earnings: the equivalent of about $4.6 million each Even though the Kuehne brothers were considered “high-ranking Nazi industrialists” by American investigators and “big time Nazis” by the British authorities after the war both ended up being judged as mere “fellow travelers”—Nazi followers who weren’t involved in the regime’s crimes—in denazification proceedings in 1948 Their denazification files in the Bremen state archive contain no mention of the furniture operation Kuehne + Nagel fronted a CIA-backed precursor of West Germany’s foreign intelligence agency the German newspaper Welt reported in 2015 The German spy agency used some of the transport firm’s offices as cover for key operatives Alfred Kuehne’s denazification file includes a letter from British intelligence to the American denazification committee in Bremen “It is considered vital for operations which are already in hand that Mr Alfred Kuehne be denazified in such a category so that he is able to retain his business,” wrote a chief of British intelligence “We would be very grateful to you if you could aid us in this matter since it concerns the security of the British and American zones.” which had been frozen as part of their denazification proceedings were returned to them and they were reinstated in their executive positions at Kuehne + Nagel Alfred became the company’s major shareholder in 1952 after Werner Alfred’s only child and anointed successor Klaus-Michael has built Kuehne + Nagel into a global logistics behemoth in the six decades since relocating the company seat and headquarters to Switzerland selling a stake to shore up liquidity and save the firm before buying back the shares to retake control In 2023 the firm had about $30 billion in revenue and 1,300 offices across about 100 countries “I have worked far too much in my life,” the billionaire told Swiss magazine Bilanz He has also spoken about neglecting his private life including not having any children with Christine That they have remained childless is “sad of course,” Kuehne told SonntagsZeitung “The third generation is the last in the family I think it’s a shame that I can’t pass on the business personally.” the octogenarian is busy focusing on his legacy—in particular how he will be remembered in Hamburg the country’s largest port and main gateway to the world Kuehne was the main sponsor of Hamburg’s Harbour Front Literature Festival when two nominees for the prize withdrew because of Kuehne’s refusal to deal with his firm and family’s Nazi past Kuehne’s foundation felt it was “treated extremely unfairly in the matter,” a spokesperson told the German newspaper Taz at the time It didn’t take place this year because the festival wasn’t able to find a major sponsor to replace the foundation Author Sven Pfizenmaier was the first of the two nominees to withdraw from the prize “I’m no fan of billionaires in general and billionaires who profited from Nazism and whitewash themselves by funding art seems very bad so that’s why I did it,” Pfizenmaier says by phone from Berlin and transparent in everything we do will build trust with our stakeholders,” reads the opening sentence on Kuehne + Nagel’s investor relations page When it comes to the company’s dark history Kuehne is anything but open and transparent In April 2015 a regional TV channel in Germany broadcast a short documentary about Kuehne + Nagel’s role in the furniture operation asking that the outlet reconsider broadcasting the 22-minute documentary came only months after he had shelved the Handelsblatt Research Institute study sources say he had commissioned for Kuehne + Nagel’s 125th anniversary the transportation firm published a defensive statement on its website “Like other companies that already existed before 1945 Kuehne + Nagel was involved in the war economy and had to maintain its existence in dark and difficult times,” wrote the company in the German-only statement “Kuehne + Nagel is aware of the shameful events during the Third Reich and deeply regrets that it carried out some of its activities on behalf of the Nazi regime The conditions under the dictatorship at the time and the fact that Kuehne + Nagel survived the turmoil of war with all its strength and secured the company’s existence must be taken into account.” It remains the sole acknowledgment to date by the firm about its Nazi activities Kuehne + Nagel’s website doesn’t mention the past While the firm has stayed silent on its past since 2015 Kuehne has since responded to the criticism that he and his company have not sufficiently addressed the company’s past involvement in Nazi crimes “I would have understood if people had questioned these things 10 or 20 years after the war Everything was still fresh in people’s minds then The people who were responsible at the time were still alive I find that strange,” Kuehne said in the SonntagsZeitung interview from January 2022 It’s important to learn lessons from what happened back then.” On a sweltering Sunday morning in early September 2023 about 300 people gathered on the waterfront in Bremen’s historical city center The crowd was there for the inauguration of a monument commemorating the systematic looting of European Jews by Nazi Germany through the practice of Aryanization The memorial’s chosen location was no accident towered the German headquarters of Kuehne + Nagel memorializes her family story to a crowd gathered in Bremen in 2023.PICTURE ALLIANCE/GETTY IMAGES.Down below The granddaughter of Adolf and Käthe Maass had come from Montreal for the memorial’s inauguration After Adolf Maass was ousted from Kuehne + Nagel in 1933 the couple sent their three children abroad: their eldest son to England Adolf and Käthe weren’t able to escape Nazi Germany in time They were murdered in Auschwitz in May 1944 who also lost his firm to the Kuehne brothers did survive the Holocaust and immigrated to Israel Barbara Maass disagrees with Klaus-Michael Kuehne’s notion that it’s time to move on “I believe perhaps naively that we can learn from the past but to do so means knowing what actually happened in the past,” Maass said in an interview at her home in Montreal “Crimes against humanity are always relevant There are moral decisions to be made today I’m profoundly convinced that the truth needs to be told.” spent eight years persuading the city of Bremen to get the Aryanization monument built It’s important that Kuehne reckons with his firm and family’s Nazi past before he dies would set a strong example by coming clean about the past,” said Bleyl in Bremen He can use that for the good and gain inner peace by freeing himself from a sense of obligation to his firm and family.” Thomas Sorg worked at Kuehne + Nagel Germany for 45 years and spent years battling with the billionaire as chairman of the firm’s workers council Sorg doesn’t believe Kuehne will reckon with his 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Austrian tender specialist Frauscher has released details of its latest 25ft model to be launched Austria really has no logical reason to produce boats window._taboolaSlots=window._taboolaSlots||[];window._taboolaSlots.push({"mode":"thumbnails-a-mid","container":"taboola-mid-article","placement":"Mid Article","target_type":"mix"}); Álvaro Joaquim Melo Siza Vieira was born in Matosinhos (near Porto) From 1949-55 he studied at the School of Architecture His first built project was finished in 1954 He taught at the School of Architecture (ESBAP) from 1966-69 and was appointed Professor of "Construction" in 1976 He was a Visiting Professor at the Ècole Polythéchnique of Lausanne Los Andes University of Bogotá and the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University; he taught at the School of Architecture of Porto (jubilate in 2003).He is the author of many projects such as: the Boa Nova Tea House and Restaurant; 1200 dwellings built in Malagueira Évora; the Superior School of Education in Setúbal the new School of Architecture in Porto; the Library of Aveiro University; the Museum of Modern Art in Porto; the Church and Parochial Centre in Marco de Canavezes; the Pavilion of Portugal for EXPO '98 and the Pavilion of Portugal in Hannover 2000 (with Souto de Moura); the dwelling and offices complex of “Terraços de Bragança” in Lisbon; and he has rebuilt the burnt area of Chiado in Lisbon since 1988 including the projects for some buildings like Castro e Melo and others.He has been coordinated the plan of Schilderswijk's recuperation in The Hague which finished in 89; in 1995 he finished the project for blocs 6-7-8 in Ceramique Terrein Maastricht.In Spain he has completed the projects for the Meteorological Centre of Villa Olimpica in Barcelona; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Galicia and the Faculty of Information Sciences in Santiago de Compostela; the Rectorate of the Alicante University; Zaida building – offices South Korea and Sweden.Having been invited to participate in international competitions he won the first place in Schlesisches Tor at the recuperation of Campo di Marte in Venice (1985) and at the renewal of Casino and Café Winkler Salzburg (1986); Cultural Centre for the La Defensa Madrid (with José Paulo Santos) (1988/89); J California (with Peter Testa) (1993); Pietà Rondanini Room Milan (1999); Special Plan Recoletos-Prado Madrid (with Juan Miguel Hernandez Leon e Carlos Riaño) (2002); Toledo Hospital (Sánchez-Horneros office) (2003); “Atrio de la Alhambra” in Spain (with Juan Domingo Santos)(2010); “Parco delle Cave” Lecce in Italy (with Carlos Castanheira) (2010).He has participated in the competitions for Expo 92 in Sevilla Spain (with Eduardo Souto de Moura and Adalberto Dias) (1986); for "Un Progetto per Siena" Italy (with José Paulo Santos) (1988); the Cultural Centre La Defensa in Madrid Spain (1988/89); the Bibliothèque of France in Paris (1989/90) the Helsinki Museum (with Souto de Moura) (1992-93); Flamenco City of Xerez de la Frontera Spain (with Juan Miguel Hernandez Leon) (2003).From 1982 to 2010 has won many different awards and have been assigned with Medals of Cultural Merit from many country around the world Doctor "Honoris Causa" in various European and International universities.He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science; "Honorary Fellow" of the Royal Institute of British Architects; AIA/American Institute of Architects; Académie d'Architecture de France and European Academy of Sciences and Arts; Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts; IAA/International Academy of Architecture; American Academy of Arts and Letters Archive Prizes Today on Google's home page is a special logo for Heinrich Rudolf Hertz Hertz was born a 155 years ago and Google wanted people to remember him and his contributions to the world The wave logo represents electromagnetic waves Hertz was the first to prove they indeed exist He proved they exist in 1887 when he ran an experiment to measure the waves and their distance traveled What is interesting is that a person, Eric Hanson, in the Google Webmaster Help forums is claiming the Google Logo doesn't accurately represent the wave patterns and structure that Hertz was responsible for proving back in 1887. Eric said: Hertz described sound frequencies which are strictly sinusoidal in nature, for a company that has so much to do with the sciences, I wonder why the wave for today' Google Doodle is clearly erroneous as it relates to the type of waves that Hertz described. This stuff is beyond me but even if it isn't the wave Hertz is responsible for proving - who cares, the point is to get the message out about his contributions to the world. Hertz was born today 155 years ago in Hamburg, German and died at the young age of 36 on January 1, 1894. He died from an infection and was buried Ohlsdorf, Hamburg at the Jewish cemetery. For more about Hertz, see his Wikipedia page Forum discussion at Google Blogoscoped Forums and Google Webmaster Help Update: Google posted this on their Google+ page: We're making waves with our doodle for Heinrich Rudolf Hertz the German physicist who proved the existence of electromagnetic waves and whose research contributed to the invention of television and radio For those of you who remember your high school physics you'll know he's also the namesake of the unit hertz (Hz) This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page From hospices to neuroscience: Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim approaches the dying process from different angles in "Terra X" - and asks the big question of what really happens at the end wouldn't it be better to finally remove the taboo surrounding death In the second part of the "Terra X - Our Lives" series on ZDF science journalist Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim wants to make a contribution to achieving just that the 37-year-old wants to find out more about the processes that take place in the brain during our last moments of consciousness who made an astonishing observation in the dying brains of stroke patients: "Spreading depolarization" describes a huge wave of depolarization in which the nerve cells discharge in a similar way to a short circuit Could this be an explanation for the frequently described near-death experiences of revived people Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim also wants to push her own boundaries: Among other things, the mother of two visits a hospice and a funeral home and sees a dead person for the first time in her life. The coffin of former West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt is covered in a German flag at Sankt Michaelis Church (Tobias Schwarz/pool photo via AP) Thousands of people have lined the streets of Hamburg to pay tribute to former West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who died two weeks ago at age 96. Mr Schmidt guided West Germany through some of the tensest moments of the Cold War and economic turbulence, emerging in later years as a prolific writer and elder statesman. People watched solemnly as his casket, draped in a German flag, was driven slowly from the city's St. Michaelis church to the Ohlsdorf cemetery where he was to be buried in his family's plot. Mr Schmidt made his name on the national scene as a state politician in Hamburg during severe flooding in 1962, coordinating rescue operations and calling in the German military to help - a move that overstepped his legal authority but was widely credited with preventing a much worse disaster. Chancellor Angela Merkel remembered Mr Schmidt as a leader who was prepared to do what he thought was right, no matter the political consequences. "He was prepared himself to pay the highest price," she told some 1,800 guests gathered at the church for Mr Schmidt's funeral. As chancellor, Mr Schmidt, a centre-left Social Democrat, led West Germany from 1974 to 1982. He brought a sometimes abrasive self-confidence and his experience as West Germany's defence, finance and economy ministers to the job, which he took during the economic downturn that followed the 1973 oil crisis. Mr Schmidt's chancellorship coincided with a tense period in the Cold War, including the Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan. Speaking at St. Michaelis, former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger remembered Mr Schmidt as a "special friend". "At Helmut's 90th birthday I expressed the hope that he would outlive me, because a world without him would be very, very empty," said 92-year-old Mr Kissinger, speaking in German. "I was wrong - Helmut will remain with us. Perfectionist, moody, ever searching, inspirational, always reliable - that is how he will accompany us for the rest of our lives." Receive today's headlines directly to your inbox every morning and evening Please check your inbox to verify your details Hauptnavigation: Nutzen Sie die Tabulatortaste, um durch die Menüpunkte zu navigieren. Öffnen Sie Untermenüs mit der Leertaste. Schließen Sie Untermenüs mit der Escape-Taste. Hauptnavigation: Nutzen Sie die Tabulatortaste, um durch die Menüpunkte zu navigieren. Öffnen Sie Untermenüs mit der Leertaste. Hamburger Justizvollzugsbeamte schieben mehr als 50.000 Überstunden vor sich her Doch von einer Massenschlägerei will der rot-grüne Senat nichts wissen Im Mittelpunkt der Schlagzeilen steht immer wieder die Justizvollzugsanstalt Fuhlsbüttel Erst kürzlich schrieb ein Häftling einen Brief an die „Hamburger Morgenpost“ und sprach darin von „Szenen wie in mexikanischen oder südamerikanischen Knästen“ Nach Einschätzung der Justizexpertin der FDP-Bürgerschaftsfraktion ist diese Situation „ein Pulverfass für die Bediensteten und die Inhaftierten“ Anlass des Briefs an „Hamburger Morgenpost“ war ein Vorfall vom 25 bei dem es laut Senat während der Freistunde um 15.45 zu „einer Rangelei“ zwischen bis zu 18 Gefangenen kam Eine „Massenschlägerei“ habe es nicht gegeben „Die aufsichtführenden Bediensteten brachten die Ansammlung auseinander und lösten Alarm aus Dabei hielt er ein in der Anstalt zugelassenes Kartoffelschälmesser in der Hand“ erklärt der rot-grüne Senat auf eine aktuelle Anfrage der Abgeordneten Treuenfels-Frowein Die JVA-Beamten drängten den Gefangenen von der Gruppe ab und brachten ihn auf die Sicherungsstation handelte es sich „um eine Auseinandersetzung zwischen arabischen beziehungsweise nordafrikanischen und aus Albanien stammenden Gefangenen“ Was Rot-Grün lediglich als Rangelei bezeichnet drückt der Häftling in seinem Brief folgendermaßen aus: Zwei rivalisierende Gruppen hätten versucht Die Justizvollzugsbeamten hätten den wütenden Mob kaum bändigen können Wie aus der Senatsantwort auf eine jüngste Anfrage des CDU-Abgeordneten Richard Seelmaecker hervorgeht wurde die Freistunde wie üblich durch zwei Bedienstete beaufsichtigt Nach Auslösung des Alarms um 15.45 Uhr eilten acht weitere JVA-Beamte sowie zusätzlich drei Bedienstete der Revisionsgruppe der Abteilung Justizvollzug aus dem Hafthaus auf den Freistundenhof Nach Einschätzung der Liberalen Treuenfels-Frowein belegen „die Antworten des Senats die gefährliche Situation in Santa Fu“ Demnach kam es seit 2015 in dem Gefängnis zu sieben gewalttätigen Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Inhaftierten und zu fünf gegenüber Bediensteten „Hier immer nur von einzelnen Rangeleien zu sprechen verharmlost die Gefährlichkeit der Situation“ Nur mit dem Einsatz mehrerer Bedienstete sei die jüngste Schlägerei aufgelöst worden Eine Szene wie im Kino: Mitgefangene haben den mutmaßlichen Mörder der Freiburger Joggerin offenbar so brutal attackiert dass er erst in ein Krankenhaus und dann in ein anderes Gefängnis verlegt werden musste Ebenfalls auf dem Gelände angesiedelt ist die Sozialtherapeutische Anstalt wie Mitarbeiter das gut zwölf Hektar große Gelände im Stadtteil Ohlsdorf beschreiben Insgesamt unterhält Hamburg sechs Justizvollzugsanstalten Auslöser war ein zuvor eingegangener anonymer Hinweis wonach Waffen in die Anstalt eingeschleust worden seien Die Sicherheit der Bediensteten und Gefangenen sei fraglich dass die Sicherheit in der Justizvollzugsanstalt Fuhlsbüttel gewährleistet sei Die Opposition in der Bürgerschaft sieht das anders dass „ein zunehmendes Sicherheitsrisiko in den Hamburger Gefängnissen entsteht wie die Überwachung des Kontaktverhaltens der Inhaftierten dass etliche Stellen in den Gefängnissen unbesetzt sind können etwa weder Gefangene noch Besucher ausreichend kontrolliert werden Treuenfels-Frowein: „Seit Langem warnen wir vor den Auswirkungen des Personalmangels und den eskalierten Zuständen in der JVA Fuhlsbüttel.“ Aktuell sind 28 Stellen in der JVA nicht besetzt und die Fehlzeitenquote ist auf 15 Prozent angestiegen Ende 2016 waren 18,4 Stellen in Santa Fu unbesetzt Die FPD fordert Justizsenator Till Steffen (Grüne) auf „schnellstens für eine Verbesserung der Situation zu sorgen“ dass „die eingeleiteten Maßnahmen zum Personalaufbau nur zeitversetzt wirken können“ Bereits seit 2015 hat die Justizbehörde ihre Ausbildungskapazitäten zum Justizvollzugsbeamten deutlich erhöht Einer ist in der Sicherungsstation der JVA Fuhlsbüttel untergebracht Juli 2017 von anderen Gefangenen getrennt untergebracht Bei zwei weiteren Gefangenen wurde die getrennte Unterbringung laut Senat Mitte Juli aufgehoben Die WELT als ePaper: Die vollständige Ausgabe steht Ihnen bereits am Vorabend zur Verfügung – so sind Sie immer hochaktuell informiert Weitere Informationen https://epaper.welt.de