Have you ever wondered who names the streets through which you go What person, what place, or perhaps that special feature that achievement in a street name manifests And: What do you think the honor should justify such a designation actually
Every day we pass roads and their names indicating signs, we find it in the map, in the company name, and thus in advertising A. Street naming is not only for their official opening with a champagne reception and unveiling of the sign bit, is to have the stock. It also provides therefore something of lasting is because a name change is very complicated: it is time-consuming and expensive and can cause confusion. In a city like Hanover, a considerable number of roads, for all it was, and to find names.
But this is reason enough, in and among the more than human shields high pass carelessly, often several times a day and just as often unaware of importance and origin of the name?
roads are not only named after birds, craft guilds, twin cities and surrounding communities, but also by (mostly male) characters. There are in our beautiful city, a musician and a philosopher district whose streets named after late, more or less known and deserved persons.
And there is the library. A large part of the local streets after battles of the 19th Century military and named variables. You remember, of course, very German, about the Battle of Sedan in September 1870 in the Franco-German War. In it, killing more than 6,000 people. A reason to rejoice? One reason the German victory at Sedan to dedicate a street?
The liberation war are reflected in the map of the library. Almost 20,000 people died in September 1813 in the Battle of Dennewitz. The Dennewitzstr. is the victory of the Prussian army dedicated.
A much larger Part is named after famous military leaders. Amazingly, this can be found at a variety of Prussian generals who defeated among others the so-called "German War" in 1866 and annexed the Kingdom of Hanover. Allen honored in common is that they were military commander of some standing. They beat battles, mostly successful, otherwise they would not have been honored. And not all represent the great moments Hanoverian, Prussian, German and European history.
Alfred Graf von Waldersee (1832-1904), 1866, first in the Royal Prussian Adjutant General Headquarters, 1870/71 then adjutant of the Prussian king, later ascended to the influential Deputy Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke, and thus politically of some significance, developed in the 1880s plans for a preemptive war against France and Russia. His plan was further developed and implemented in the first world war as a "Schlieffen plan" under völkerrechtswidrger violation of Belgian neutrality. In 1897, he claimed (unsuccessfully) the renewal of Bismarck's repressive measures against the Social Democrats before he was named 1900 General Field Marshal. In the same year he received the command of the intervention forces of the European colonial powers. These should be in China the so-called "Boxer Rebellion" . Counter Waldersee and German troops in July 1900 adopted by Kaiser Wilhelm II with the Huns speech ("No quarter will be given, no prisoners taken."). The "Boxer Rebellion" in China was brutally crushed under his leadership, the implementation measures required by Kaiser Wilhelm II in action.
Albrecht von Roon (1803-1879), after which the Lister Roonstr. named, initially trained as a classical Prussian military career. In 1849 he participated as Chief of General Staff of the VIII Army Corps in the bloody suppression of the Baden Revolution and was then a colonel, and later promoted to major general. A major policy Role played Roon Prussian constitutional conflict in the early 1860s. He was a major advocate of the Wilhelmine army reorganization, and on the side of Bismarck's willing to enforce them with funds under absolute elimination of democratic approaches in the Prussian House of Representatives. On the side he followed Bismarck, now as Prussian Minister of War, the blood-and-iron policy of his prime minister. In his tenure as minister of war fall of the German-Danish war in 1864, the German war in 1866 and the Franco-German war of 1870-71 with countless dead.
Two other examples from the Calenberger Neustadt, another district of Hanover. Waterloo Square, with three subway lines, equipped with a hard court, often consisted of circus tents. Its name commemorates the Battle of Waterloo, or French: Belle-Alliance, 18 June 1815 and, above all, commemorates the victory including the Prussian and Hanoverian armies. In this battle, nearly 50,000 people were killed or wounded.
Weddige The bank, also located in the Neustadt Calenberger reminiscent Weddigen Otto (1882-1915). This was one of the first U-boat commander in World War II. His success in the form of firings of enemy ships have been celebrated in Germany. One was particularly enthusiastic in this country of three of the (international law) sinking merchant ships. His Death at sea was exploited for propaganda purposes in the subsequent period, Weddigen transfigured into a war hero. In all these moving
name we go by every day, generally went without thinking about the meaning. Why the name of our roads as they are called?
tradition is more than mere habit, it contributes significantly to the identification with home and neighborhood. But it requires the reflection of those concerned about the practices and the continuous review and to the changing standards over time. Historical amnesia also helps the tradition further.
Weddigen, Waldersee, Waterloo - as much an expression of enthusiasm for war can a city like Hanover, in the second world war with many deaths, including civilians, and about 50% destruction ravaged afford, before they and their citizens are accused of historical amnesia have to put up?
be done to open-ended discussion about whether the Prussian militarism is timely to Lister street signs, a reflection of what history and the historical acts combined with the exhibited names and last but not least the high look of each of the signs, the investigation its importance, especially at a time that the information required for a matter of Seconds makes.
