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Ruhr
Ruhr , region, c.1,300 sq mi (3,370 sq km), W Germany; a principal manufacturing center of Germany and formerly known as one of the world's greatest industrial complexes. In the 1980s the coal and steel industries declined, leading to serious unemployment. By the 1990s, more than three fifths of the... Read more
Mülheim an der Ruhr
Mülheim an der Ruhr or Mülheim, city (1994 pop. 177,175), North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, on the Ruhr River. It is an industrial center of the Ruhr district and a road and rail traffic hub. The city formerly produced mainly coal and steel, but in the mid-20th cent. its products w... Read more
Hagen
Hagen , city (1994 pop. 214,880), North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, on the Ennepe River. It is an industrial center in the Ruhr district. Its manufactures include iron and steel, chemicals, machinery, paper, and textiles. Hagen was chartered in 1746 and became famous for its textiles in the late 18... Read more
Duisburg
Duisburg , city (1994 pop. 536,800), North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, at the confluence of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers. Located in the Ruhr district, it is the largest inland port in the world and a center for iron and steel production. Other manufactures include shipbuilding, brewing, heavy machi... Read more
Essen
Essen , city (1994 pop. 622,380), North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, on the Ruhr River. The major industrial center of the Ruhr district, it was the seat of the famous Krupp steelworks. Essen is a retail trade center, a rail junction, and a steel and electricity producer. Its diversified industr... Read more
Karl Ziegler
Karl Ziegler , 1898-1973, German chemist. Educated at the Univ. of Marburg, he taught at Heidelberg and Halle and for a short period at the Univ. of Chicago. He became director of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research at Mülheim an der Ruhr in 1944. He shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemis... Read more
Dortmund
Dortmund , city (1994 pop. 602,000), North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, a port on the Dortmund-Ems Canal. It is an industrial center in the Ruhr district. Its manufactures include steel, machinery, and beer, and it is a growing high-technology and research center. First mentioned c.885, Dortmund f... Read more
Westphalia
Westphalia , Ger. Westfalen, region and former province of Prussia, W Germany. Münster was the capital of the province. After 1945 the province was incorporated into the West German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, now a state in reunified Germany. The region of Westphalia occupies, roughly, ... Read more
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia , Ger. Nordrhein-Westfalen , state (1994 pop. 17,759,000), 13,111 sq mi (33,957 sq km), W central Germany. Düsseldorf is the capital. The state is bounded by Belgium and the Netherlands in the west, Lower Saxony in the north and east, Hesse in the southeast, and Rhinelan... Read more
Dawes Plan
Dawes Plan presented in 1924 by the committee headed (1923-24) by Charles G. Dawes to the Reparations Commission of the Allied nations. It was accepted the same year by Germany and the Allies. The Dawes committee consisted of ten representatives, two each from Belgium, France, Great Britain, Ital... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Ruhr"

Ruhr
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Ruhr , region, c.1,300 sq mi (3,370 sq km), W Germany; a...working population came to be employed in the service sector. The Ruhr lies along, and north of, the Ruhr River (145 mi/233 km long), which rises in the hills of central...
Mülheim an der Ruhr
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Mülheim an der Ruhr or Mülheim, city (1994 pop. 177,175), North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, on the Ruhr River. It is an industrial center of the Ruhr district and a road and rail traffic hub. The city...
Ruhr air offensive
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II Ruhr air offensive, the first of the three major bombing offensives mounted by RAF...on Gelsenkirchen on the night of 9/10 July, although targets outside the Ruhr continued to be attacked during the battle. The comparatively short distance...
Germany, battle for
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...drive to and across the Rhine north of the Ruhr and thence over the North German plain...strong a secondary thrust south of the Ruhr as could be managed without impairing support...on several dams, which kept the River Ruhr flooded in front of the Ninth US Army until...
Westphalia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...region is drained by the Ems, Weser, Ruhr, and Lippe rivers; it is hilly in the...sandy tracts, moors, and heaths. The Ruhr valley, in the west, is part of the great Westphalian coal basin and of the Ruhr district, one of the world's most important...
Germany, Battle for
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...Western Allies were preparing to seize the Ruhr, home of much of the German armaments...thrust through the Rhine Valley north of the Ruhr and eventually on to Berlin itself. He...the Reich. The double envelope of the Ruhr then proceeded with brilliant success...
Dam Busters
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...formed in March 1943 to breach dams in the Ruhr, Germany's primary industrial area...Sorpe provided a large proportion of the Ruhr's water needs while the Eder, the largest...dislocation of civilian life, industry in the Ruhr was hardly affected and by October the...
Rhine Province
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the former province (which contained part of the industrial Ruhr district) is now included in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia...Moselle, and Wupper rivers and by the lower course of the Ruhr. The Rhenish Slate Mts. are in the south. After the breakup...
Gustav Stresemann
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the confidence of the Allies. He ended (1923) the passive resistance in the Ruhr district against French and Belgian occupation and obtained the evacuation of the Ruhr in 1924; he accepted the Dawes Plan (1924) and the Young Plan (1929) for...
Duisburg
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...city (1994 pop. 536,800), North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, at the confluence of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers. Located in the Ruhr district, it is the largest inland port in the world and a center for iron and steel production. Other manufactures...

Dictionary entries related to "Ruhr"

Ruhr district
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Ruhr district Together with parts of the neighbouring...Rhine which could be reached via the River Ruhr. As the home to the Krupp works , it was...reparation payments , French troops occupied the Ruhr District in order to compensate France by...
Ruhr Industrial Region
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Ruhr Industrial Region rŏor a region...Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany. The Ruhr was occupied by French troops 1923–...defaulted on war reparation payments. The Ruhr area is one of the world's largest industrial...
Weimar Republic
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...the mark collapsed, whereupon France and Belgium occupied the Ruhr in 1923, while in Bavaria right-wing extremists (including...Plan adjusted reparation payments, and France withdrew from the Ruhr. It was followed in 1929 by the Young Plan. Discontented financial...
conurbation
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...term coined by Patrick Geddes in 1915 to describe large-scale city regions such as Greater London, New York/Boston, or the Ruhr. It is not a statistically based concept, but normally refers to one city or a conglomerate of very large cities surrounded...
Dambusters' raid
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Dambusters' raid informal name for the Second World War raid by 617 Squadron of the RAF, May 1943, on the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr valley in Germany, using the bouncing bomb designed by Barnes Wallis.
Dawes Plan
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...to its abilities, on a sliding scale. To avoid a clash with France (which demanded heavy reparations and had occupied the Ruhr to ensure collections) the experts evaded the question of determining the grand total of reparations, and scheduled annual...
Poincaré, Raymond
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...and in 1919 supported stringent REPARATIONS against Germany. When Germany defaulted, he ordered French troops to occupy the Ruhr (1923) until Germany paid. He could not sustain this policy and resigned in 1924. Reappointed Premier in 1926, he lessened...
Spartakist Movement
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...forces, ordered the suppression of all radical uprisings throughout Germany. Within days, a second rebellion in Berlin was brutally crushed and the two leaders murdered without trial. There was a further Spartakist rising in the Ruhr in 1920.
European Economic Community
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...Steel Community (ECSC), formed in 1952. This was a French initiative designed to ensure continuing influence over the German Ruhr's coal and steel production. The Labour government had just nationalized Britain's coal industry and faced trade union opposition...
Paris Peace Conference
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...severely that it could never start another war. The French succeeded in placing Germany's areas left of the River Rhine ( Ruhr District ) under international (mainly French) control, while the Saarland came under the authority of the League of Nations...

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A glimpse of Greenery in the Ruhr.(possible Green-Social Democrat coalition to oversee cleanup of polluted German region)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 6/10/1995; 700+ words ; THE word Ruhr must fill Greens with dread. All the better...state of North Rhine- Westphalia, the Ruhr's home. If, as expected, the Greens...museum. Coal and steel have driven the Ruhr since it emerged as Germany's industrial...
What to do in the Ruhr Valley?
Magazine article from: Travel & Tourism News; 3/1/2009; 700+ words ; ...2009's official partner region is The Ruhr area, the metropolitan area which will...into a new metropolitan area. Germany's Ruhr area has had a 150 year industrial history...a huge challenge for the people in the Ruhr, and RUHR 2010 is all about repositioning...
Stephen J. Ruhr
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA; 5/8/2002; ; 393 words ; Stephen J. Ruhr KINGSTON - A funeral Mass for Stephen Jon Ruhr will be celebrated at 9 a.m. Friday at Immaculate Conception...will be in St. Francis Xavier Cemetery, Weymouth. Mr. Ruhr, 28, of Kingston, formerly of Marshfield, a pipe fitter...
The Polish Coal Miners' Union and the German Labor Movement in the Ruhr.
Magazine article from: Business History; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...about half a million Poles and Masurians in the Ruhr alone by 1914, and they accounted for 38 per cent...The interlocking histories of foreign labour, Ruhr miners and Polish miners in the Ruhr are therefore of considerable importance to Germany...
RUHR/PARAGON INC. REORGANIZES PUBLIC RELATIONS UNIT
PR Newswire; 12/16/1992; 611 words ; MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Chuck Ruhr, president of Ruhr/Paragon Inc. (RPI), announced today that it has...relations group will operate as a component of Chuck Ruhr Advertising. "This move allows us to concentrate...
Ruhr's Smelters, Smokestacks Give Way to Shopping and Fun; German Industrial District Changes to Meet New Economic Needs
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/7/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...Ruhrgebiet -- a compact region along the Ruhr River in northwest Germany -- is seen...Germany? And if so, does it really fit the Ruhr?' " Grundmann added. "There were concerns...too loud, perhaps not in keeping with Ruhr traditions. But now people have become...
Ruhr 2010 partner region recognised.
Magazine article from: Travel & Tourism News; 4/1/2009; 521 words ; ...INTEREST from the travel industry in the Ruhr region of Germany increased noticeably...HC Fritz Pleitgen, general manager of Ruhr 2010. We are very grateful that ITB Berlin...Axel Biermann, managing director of Ruhr Tourismus GmbH added, We at Ruhr Tourismus...
Herbert W. Ruhr
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA; 7/8/2002; 375 words ; PLYMOUTH - Herbert W. Ruhr, 86, of Plymouth, a retired insurance...division manager, died Friday at home. Mr. Ruhr worked for the John Hancock Life Insurance...his wife of 60 years, Ruth (French) Ruhr; four sons, Jeffrey W. Ruhr of Bradenton...
Britain and the Ruhr Crisis. .(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Elspeth Y. O'Riordan. Britain and the Ruhr Crisis. (Studies in Military and Strategic...333-76483-8. The occupation of the Ruhr by Franco-Belgian forces in January 1923...the collapse of passive resistance in the Ruhr in September 1923 that transformed the...
Founders relinquishing Criticare leadership Soika will replace Von der Ruhr next month as president and CEO
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 11/13/1998; ; 557 words ; Gerhard Von der Ruhr, president and chief executive officer...manufacturing and sales firm. Von der Ruhr, 57, and Lai, 55, will remain on the board of directors. Replacing Von der Ruhr as president and CEO will be Emil Soika...