LOCATION

Official Website:
http://www.bonn.de/

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

School	Founded
University of Bonn

COMPANY HEADQUARTERS

Company	Founded
Deutsche Telekom	1996
Deutsche Post	1995
Deutsche Postbank	1995
T-Mobile	1992
DHL	1969

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ludwig van Beethoven	Composer	17-Dec-1770	26-Mar-1827	Prominent composer
Mathias Döpfner	Business	15-Jan-1963		CEO of Axel Springer AG
Walter Gotell	Actor	15-Mar-1924	5-May-1997	Gen. Gogol in James Bond films
Johann Hittorf	Physicist	27-Mar-1824	28-Nov-1914	Fluorescence in vacuum tubes

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander	Astronomer	22-Mar-1799	17-Feb-1875	Durchmusterung
Heinrich Böll	Novelist	21-Dec-1917	16-Jul-1985	The Train Was On Time
Rudolf Clausius	Physicist	2-Jan-1822	24-Aug-1888	Second Law of Thermodynamics
Ludwig Erhard	Head of State	4-Feb-1897	5-May-1977	German Chancellor, 1963-66
Heinrich Geissler	Inventor	26-May-1815	24-Jan-1879	Geissler tube
Heinrich Hertz	Physicist	22-Feb-1857	1-Jan-1894	Discoverer of electromagnetic radiation
Friedrich August Kekulé	Chemist	7-Sep-1829	13-Jul-1896	Theory of chemical structure
Otto Lambsdorff	Politician	20-Dec-1926	5-Dec-2009	German Economic Minister, 1977-84
Heinrich Lübke	Head of State	14-Oct-1892	6-Apr-1972	President of Germany, 1959-69
Wilhelm Marx	Head of State	15-Jan-1863	5-Aug-1946	German Chancellor 1923-25, 1926-28
Wolfgang Paul	Physicist	10-Aug-1913	6-Dec-1993	Co-Inventor of the ion trap
Julius Plücker	Mathematician	16-Jul-1801	22-May-1868	Analytical geometry
August Wilhelm von Schlegel	Scholar	8-Sep-1767	12-May-1845	Über dramatisch Kunst und Literatur

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