Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Article requests

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This is a page to list and organize article requests for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany. This page is only for nonexisting articles (that is, red links or blue links that are redirects), not for expansion requests. For articles that exist on the German Wikipedia, a link should be provided. If you create one of the articles requested here, please list it at Portal:Germany/New article announcements.

Contents 1 Architecture 2 Culture and education 3 Economics and trade 4 Geography 5 History 6 People 6.1 Culture and arts 6.2 Politicians 6.3 Nobility 6.4 Other 7 Politics 8 Church organizations and hierarchies 9 Technology

[edit] Architecture

• Mannheim castle - de:Schloss Mannheim, ex-residence of the Count Palatine, now University of Mannheim

[edit] Culture and education

Universities:

• University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg - de:Helmut-Schmidt-Universität (better title?)

Theaters:

• Theater am Schiffbauerdamm - de:Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, the Berliner Ensemble plays here

[edit] Economics and trade

• BaFin - de:Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht
• Leipzig Book Fair with redirect Leipziger Buchmesse -- de:Leipziger Buchmesse

[edit] Geography

• List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants - de:Liste der Großstädte in Deutschland, could be made really pretty with nice table and coats of arms and stuff

(have created basic table but needs more work--Boson 23:38, 19 December 2006 (UTC))

• Lower Lusatia (de:Niederlausitz) and Upper Lusatia (de:Oberlausitz), currently redirects to Lusatia
• Schallodenbach, Schneckenhausen, and Heiligenmoschel - de:Schallodenbach, de:Heiligenmoschel, and de:Schneckenhausen, all towns in the Otterberg district, near Kaiserslautern. Schallodenbach is over 800 years old, so certainly notable.
• Leuphana (de:Leuphana) refering to the ancient city of disputed location. Currently Leuphana is just a redirect to Lüneburg.
• Balje from (de:Balje)
• Bad Schlema - de:Bad Schlema, spa town in Erzgebirge
• Bad Hindelang - de:Bad Hindelang, spa and market town in Oberallgäu

[edit] History

• 19th century
  • Göttingen Seven - de:Göttinger Sieben, famous group of professors protesting
• Colonial history of Brandenburg-Prussia
  • Navy of the Electorate of Brandenburg (or whatever name is good) - de:Kurbrandenburgische Marine
  • Saint Thomas (Brandenburg colony) - de:St. Thomas (Brandenburg)
• Nazi Germany
  • Bombing of Stralsund in World War II (see de:Bombenangriff auf Stralsund am 6. Oktober 1944)
  • Bombing of Leipzig in World War II (see de:Luftangriffe auf Leipzig)
  • Bombing of Wangerooge in World War II (see de:Luftangriff auf Wangerooge)

[edit] People

[edit] Culture and arts

• Rufus Beck - de:Rufus Beck, actor best known for his audio books
• Andrea Breth - de:Andrea Breth, stage director

[edit] Politicians

A longer list is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/German politicians

• Henning Voscherau - de:Henning Voscherau, mayor of Hamburg 1988-1997
• Markus Meckel - de:Markus Meckel, last foreign minister of the GDR, one of the founders of the SDP
• Reinhard Klimmt - de:Reinhard Klimmt, former Minister-President of Saarland and federal minister
• Wolfgang Ullmann - de:Wolfgang Ullmann, Minister in the goverment under Modrow.
• Friedrich Zimmermann - de:Friedrich Zimmermann, Minister of the Interior in several Kohl governments

[edit] Nobility

• Hermine von Schönaich-Carolath (or whatever name our naming conventions for nobles give her) - de:Hermine von Schönaich-Carolath, second wife of William II, German Emperor

[edit] Other

• Winfried Hassemer - de:Winfried Hassemer, vice president of the Bundesverfassungsgericht
• Kai Diekmann - de:Kai Diekmann, editor-in-chief of Bild

[edit] Politics

• Landtag -- several Landtags need articles, see the red links at Landtag#German_Legislatures.
• Federal Minister for Post and Communication - de:Bundesministerium für Post und Telekommunikation, dissolved 1998

The following need to be checked for existence and possibly redirects created:

• Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs (Germany) - de:Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales
• Federal Minister for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture (Germany) - de:Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz
• Federal Minister for Economics and Technologies (Germany) - de:Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie
• Federal Minister for Economic Co-operation and Development (Germany) - de:Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung
• Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (Germany) - de:Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit
• Federal Minister for Health (Germany) - de:Bundesministerium für Gesundheit
• Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Urban Development (Germany) - de:Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung
• Federal Agency for Civic Education de:Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung (and all other suborganisations of Ministry of Interior, see list at bottom of german BPB page)

A problem is that the ministries were renamed and reorganized several times, suggestions for smart solutions are welcome.

[edit] Church organizations and hierarchies

• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria - Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Bayern, one of the 23 member churches of the Evangelical Church in Germany, many of these are red links
• Bishop of Fulda - de:Bistum Fulda, de:Liste der Bischöfe von Fulda (and similar red links in Template:Roman Catholic Bishops & Archbishops - Germany)

[edit] Technology

• Prussian semaphore system - de:Preußischer optischer Telegraf