Hamburg News

1/2009

HANSE GLOBE 2008 Happy birthday! Vibrant metropolis New trade fair dm-drogeriemarkt is the win- Heidi Oetinger, co-founder of Hamburg‘s creative scenes set With INTERNORGA and Aircraft ner of HANSE GLOBE 2008, the highly reputed Oetinger new trends. Showcasing promi- Interiors Expo, the new Hamburg Hamburg‘s prize for sustainabili- publishing house, celebrated her sing new international acts will trade fair starts in spring with ty in logistics. (p.2) 100th birthday in Hamburg. (p. 3) be Festival. (p. 4) two international lead fairs. (p. 4) Newsflash Excellent and unique: custom-tailored training in Hamburg Hamburg helps: Many Ten years of NIT – Qualification Programme Task Force secures skilled personnel Hamburg citizens contribute their share in the fight for a and Management better life in underdevelo- are united in Hamburg in a ped countries. One of them unique double degree course, is Dr. Jürgen Hauert. The which now celebrates its first surgeon at the private Dr. ten years: Only at the Northern Guth Clinic helps victims of Institute of Technology Ma- accidents in Ethiopia. Once nagement (NIT) are students or twice per year, he flies able to achieve both an MBA to Addis Abeba, where his degree in Technology Manage- colleague Worku Mekonnen ment from the NIT and a Ma- Bogale has set up the private Yordanos Hospital. There, he ster of Science degree from the furnishes patients with no Hamburg University of Techno- private funds to cover such logy (TUHH) in one course. a surgery, with a new artici- It is thus very attractive to high ficial hip. He also provides potentials from all around the the hospital with urgently globe: Every year, some 1,000 skilled personnel, the Qualifi- cination Flying“ had been ini- needed dispensables, tools, applications reach the busi- cation Programme Task Force tiated in co-operation with the and other materials. Hauert ness school, but only 35 are of the joint initiative Ham- Hamburg University of Applied also supports the local Etho- accepted. They are taught by burg – The place for aviation Sciences. Nextmonth, it will pian team when it comes 40 professors and practising has been creating custom- continue in its fourth year. to purchasing new medical experts. A high emphasis is tailored training and study Another focus in the work of equipment in Germany. placed upon hands-on know- programmes for the aviation the Qualification Programme In Indonesia, a ring of in- novative buoys built by ledge: Internships with the . Respective educatio- Task Force is the internationali- Hamburg‘s BSS Behrens school‘s partners such as Air- nal programmes by the Qualifi- sation of its training and study Schiffs- und Schweißtech- bus, Siemens, and Vattenfall cation Programme Task Force, programmes. The Qualification nik GmbH has been set up are compulsory – and often launched in the year 2000 by Programme Task Force has this winter. Their innovative bringt along future job offers. the Hamburg Ministry of Eco- thus been honoured as “best technology will help to better Graduates have excellent job nomic and Labour Affairs, case practise“ by the European protect the island state from perspectives, especially in already start at early age. In Commission. Tsunami disasters. Hamburg‘s aviation industry. spring 2006, the series of talks www.nithh.de To secure the required pool of “Technology for children. Fas- www.luftfahrtstandort-hamburg.de

Hamburg supports the entrepreneurs of tomorrow: creative children At Kampnagel‘s “Market of Chances“, the offsprings presented their innovative business ideas Every business begins with a come entrepreneurs“, it merges for further development in work- will develop a business plan and creative idea. What Erich Gu- aspects of theatre and business shops and individual consultan- receive start-up funds of 100 to tenberg, founder of German into an exciting edutainment cy. In the end, 29 children aged 600 Euro. The project is sup- economics, once said, recently happening. In autumn, Wilske six to fourteen remained and ported by the Hamburg Culture became the slogan for a unique had asked Hamburg pupils to presented their business ideas Endowment and the Hamburg project initiated and realised by write down their business ideas. at a “Market of Chances“ at Endowment for Children and the Hamburg director Judith Out of more than 1,000 entries, Kampnagel. In a next step, the Rajapack as national sponsor. Wilske. Called “Children be- 72 contributions were chosen innovative mini entrepreneurs www.kinder-zu-unternehmern.de Hamburg News 1/2009 Page 2

Shortcuts Hamburg grants HANSE GLOBE 2008 to dm-drogerie markt

Beiersdorf at the Dax HANSE GLOBE 2008, based in Karlsruhe was granted the start of operations in the The Hamburg holding Beiers- Hamburg‘s award for sustaina- the trophy in recognition of its 146,000 sqm logistics centre dorf AG, producer of NIVEA bility in logistics, was granted concept of “a life cycle based scheduled for September, the and other global brands such to dm-drogerie markt. investment decision“, which chemist‘s chain will then not as tesa, has joined Germany‘s The trophy was handed out by reinforces actions to be entre- only have bundled the logistics benchmark DAX-30 Index. The Hamburg‘s Senator of Econo- preneurial and sustainable. A streams of his 1,020 outlets, blue chip stock market index mic and Labour Affairs, Axel central element in the project but also increased its positive consists of Germany‘s top Gedaschko, and Prof. Dr. Peer is the dm‘s new logistics centre environmental performance. 30 companies trading at the stock exchange. Witten, speaker of the logistics in the south of Cologne. The To reduce CO2 emission, a pel- www.beiersdorf.de initiative Hamburg, to Michael new building will house under lets heating system will then J. Kolodziej, Executive Vice one roof two formerly sepa- be installed along with a pho- 100 millionth chip President of dm in charge of rate facilities: the distribution tovoltaic unit on the roof. The Hamburg-based semi- logistics, in a ceremony with centre for cardboard packed The award for granted for the conductor manufacturer NXP some 400 guests from politics goods in Weilerswist and the second time. First laureate in delivered its 100 millionth chip and business. small parts distribution centre 2007 had been TNT Express. for electronic passports. 80 per The health and beauty retailer in nearby Meckenheim. With www.hamburg-logistik.net cent of all ePasses worldwide the smart chips produ- ced in Hamburg. www.nxp.com Cluster of excellence to expand interdisciplinary research 100 new scientists to work at the Climate Campus Hamburg Vertical integration The Climate Campus Hamburg now receive funds of 26 million ed facilities in climate research Hamburg-based COLEXON expands its research team by Euro until 2012. Hamburg sup- were bundled in the Centre for Energy AG and Renewagy A/S from Copenhagen will merge. 100 additional scientists, inclu- ports its climate researchers by Marine and Atmospheric Sci- In the course of the transaction, ded also eight professors. They additional nine million Euro. ence (ZMAW). Together with the Danish operator of solar will significantly contribute to Climate research is a Hamburg the Max-Planck-Institute of Me- power plants and wind farms strengthen Hamburg‘s leading tradition, dating back more teorology, the GKSS research Renewagy A/S will be merged role in climate research. The than 50 years. Already in 1929, centre Geesthacht and federal onto COLEXON Energy AG, extension of interdisciplinary Hamburg University founded research facilities, an interdis- which will become a Societas research was made possible its Institute of Meteorology. In ciplinary network of university Europea (SE) and change its by the project “Integrated Cli- 1975, the Max-Planck-Institute and leading independent insti- name into „COLEXON SE“. mate System Analysis and Pre- of Meteorology was establis- tutes has been formed: Climate The merger is subject to the diction“ (CliSAP), with which hed, followed two years later Campus Hamburg, which co- approval of the shareholders‘ Hamburg University had won by the German Climate Compu- operates with associated insti- annual meetings in May and the federal cluster of excellence ting Centre (DKRZ). tutes worldwide. will become retrospectively ef- fective as of January 1, 2009. competition in 2007 and will In 2003, all these highly reput- www.klimacampus.de www.colexon.de

150 new jobs Peak performances in the Hamburg Metropolitan Area walter services TeleMedien GmbH, subsidiary of the Ett- Business development corporations keep the regions going lingen-based services provider walter services, has opened a The business development cor- staff of 100. Self-employment of the Hamburg Metropolitan branch in Hamburg and is cur- porations of the rural districts is support by WLH‘s “Start-up Area. rently recruiting 150 new staff. of the Hamburg Metropolitan Workshop Rural Harburg“. In 120 of them will be employed Area are the hot generators of the frame of WLH‘s quality of- Co-operation with Stormarn at a telecommunications hot- the region. fensive in retail, a golden book Co-operation of Hamburg and line, further 30 in the field of of the region was published, the northern rural district Stor- banking and insurances. www.walterservices.com Ten years of WLH featuring ten top performers marn, initiated some 20 years Celebrating ten years of suc- and brands (www.ja-genau.eu). ago, was recently strengthened Foundation stone laid cess is the business develop- by the decision to improve the At HafenCity, construction ment corporation of the rural Süderelbe AG active abroad existing traffic infrastructure. of the new 14 storey head- district of Harburg (WLH). Its For the first active abroad, Following the introduction of quarters of the Spiegel media activities have not only lead to Süderelbe AG presented the Germany‘s first dual-power group has started with the la- the creation of 1,081 new jobs, south of the Hamburg Me- rapid rail line S3 to Stade, the ying of the foundation stone at but also to the sale of 42 hec- tropolitan Area at the China rapid rail network of S4 is sche- Ericus-spitze. The 100 million tares of commercial real estate. International Logistics Fair in duled to be extended to Bad Euro glass palace designed by In 2007 alone, WLH brought in- Shenzhen. At the trade fair, the Oldesloe by 2015. Once reali- the Danish office Henning Lar- vestments of more than 35 mil- business developer informed sed, it will replace today‘s local sen Architects will become the lion Euro to the rural districts. visitors at the joint stand of Ha- train line and optimise travel home of all Spiegel units from They include the twelve milli- fen Hamburg Marketing e.V. on connections between Ham- print to TV with a total staff of on Euro investment of the US- commercial and industrial pre- burg and Bad Oldesloe. 1,200 in 2010. www.hafencity.com American fuel retailer Flying mises in the Port of Hamburg‘s www.wlharburg.de www.spiegel.de J, who built a travel plaza and backcountry and its hinterland www.suederelbe.info thus created employment for a hubs to be found in the south www.was-stormarn.de Hamburg News 1/2009 Page 3

Solar energy for a better life in far off places Shortcuts SET GmbH from Wedel designs and constructs special solar-powered systems European green capital A click, and lamps shine their enough storage capacity for nese comprehensive school Hamburg has been short- lights, television sets run, air- medication, dispensables, and mounted the solar panels of listed as one of eight out of conditioning systems work, surgical instruments. Only the the COMET system to a roof in 35 European cities for the and freezers cool their goods – solar modules must be fixed Hamburg‘s Nicaraguan partner final round of the European right in the middle of nowhere. on a roof or a separate pylon city Léon. Green Capital competition. The final decision of the Eu- Where no grid is available, po- outside the building. For larger Clean drinking water is guaran- ropean Commission‘s jury wer is provided by special sy- hospitals, SET GmbH‘s solar teed by SET GmbH with their will be announced in March. stems set up by Wedel-based power lightweight set COMET invention HYDRA Compact. In the final stage, Hamburg is SET GmbH: All their products can be applied. The unit consists of a solar competing against two other only need the sun. One of their Requiring no engineering pumping system for the supply German cities, Freiburg and innovations is SolarMedicus, know-how, SET GmbH‘s spe- of raw water and an aggregate Münster, and the European a compact, modular and au- cial solar-powered systems and to purify the water. Powered cities of Amsterdam, Copen- tonomous medical station for unit have already often been entirely by solar energy, it can hagen, Oslo, Stockholm, and remote areas powered by so- set up by pupils of Hamburg‘s deliver up to 1,000 litres of cle- Bristol. lar energy. The basic-system public schools in the course an and fresh water to human http://ec.europa.eu is equipped with a highly effi- of various projects. Pupils of beings and livestock – while cient 48 litres cooling unit for Johann-Rist high school, for producing no emissions. Fur- CFK Nord to be built sensitive medicaments, with instance, installed the Solar- ther solar pumping systems In April, construction of inhalation devices for an ef- Medicus in a village located on are also available for the new research centre CFK Nord is due to start. fective Aerosol Therapy, high an island in the Nicaragua lake, purpose. Following a pan-European while a team from the Blanke- www.setwedel.de efficiency lighting-system and call for tenders, the pro- ject has been placed in the hands of the planning of- The X-Cube family brought Seifert new success fice SHI from Oldenburg, Innovations make the Ahrensburg subsidiary of GE Inspection grow fast which was already respon- sible for the CFK Campus A grey cabin with a yellow metal castings, steel compo- single crystal materials like and the technology centre. panel makes faces shine with nents, plastics, ceramics, and diamonds and to monitor air- Scheduled to be finished pride at the former Röntgen- special alloys. Available in dif- craft turbine blades made from by 2010, the centre will fo- werk Seifert in Ahrensburg, ferent sizes, the X-Cube is for single crystal advanced allo- cus its research on the au- tomated series production since 2003 a subsidiary of the instance used by the automa- ys “Galaxy“ was developed. of carbon-reinforced fibres. US technology and services tive industry when inspecting The largest X-ray device ever Partners in the project are conglomerate General Electric driveshafts, clutches, or brakes constructed in Ahrensburg is EADS, Airbus, the German (GE): the X-Cube. The 180,000 to detect air bubbles, inclu- used in the inspection of large Aerospace Centre (DLR), Euro unit, developed and ma- sions or tiny fissures. Small steel tube. To monitor them, the Fraunhofer Society, the nufactured in Ahrensburg, is transportable X-Cubes allow a 26 metres long, six metres registered association CFK- a highly versatile 160 KV Ra- to check the welded seams of high and ten metres wide de- Valley Stade, and Dow Ger- dioscopic Inspection System gas and oil pipelines and to vice has to be loaded on four many. for spot tests and inspection detect cracks in the concrete of long trucks and transported to www.cfk-valley.com of small series of a variety of bridges or other buildings. the client requiring the tool. test samples, including light For orientation inspection of www.geinspectiontechnologies.com Marine bacteria How microorganisms in the oceans affect rising levels of atmospheric carbon dio- Hamburg‘s centennial publisher: Heidi Oetinger xide is analysed by the joint Pippi Longstocking‘s godmother turned 100 years old – reception at Übersee-Club Northern German research project “Microbial interac- She is the grand old lady of book author Astrid Lindgren. sed publishing house has sold tions in marine systems“, Germany‘s youth literature The author of Bullerbü, Madi- more than seven million Ger- supported by the federal landscape: Heidi Oetinger, ta and other children classics man language translations of government of Germany co-founder of the publishing had been a long-time friend “Pippi Longstocking“. with 2.4 million Euro. house Friedrich Oetinger and to the publishing couple Heidi After two years of negotiations Analysing both the waters honorary member of the As- and Friedrich Oetinger, who with the Lindgren family, the of the Baltic Sea and the sociation for Children‘s and had encountered her in 1949 Hamburg director and book North Sea, the scientists Youth Literature. In Hamburg, when searching for new titles author Arne Cornelius Was- from Bremen, Rostock, and she was recently honoured by for their children book range. muth was recently given the Kiel will spend the next three years on investiga- Karin von Welck, Minister of When they met Astrid Lind- exclusive rights to produce a ting different types of ma- Culture of the Free and Han- gren, five German publishing film on the world-famous Swe- rine bacteria like unicellular seatic City of Hamburg, who houses had already rejected dish children author. Filming cyanobacteria with the help hosted a reception at Über- her book “Pippi Longstocking“ will take place at many original of genome research to find see-Club on occasion of Heidi for being too modern and ana- settings. out how certain microorga- Oetinger‘s 100th birthday. rchist. Oetingers, however, When Heidi Oetinger heard nisms absorb or produce Among the 120 guests was were thrilled – and signed a these news, her face beamed the climate killer carbon also Karin Nyman, the daugh- one-page publishing contract. up with a very pleased smile. dioxide. ter of the Swedish children Since then, the Hamburg-ba- www.oetinger.de Hamburg News 1/2009 Page 4

New Hamburg trade fair boasts even more exhibition space REISEN, INTERNORGA, and Aircraft Interiors Expo will lure visitors from all over the world to the new fair grounds Boasting an exhibition space trends, and a hospi- clusively dedicated to aircraft increased to 87,000 sqm in its c o m p l e t e tality fo- interiors design and airline ca- eleven halls, the new Ham- s o l u t i o n s rum, some bin systems engineering will burg trade fair starts springs March 13- 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 return to Hamburg. At the 10th bigger than ever. 18 at the trade visi- Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIE) 83rd Inter- tors from some 500 exhibitors from 27 REISEN HAMBURG national all over the countries will present innova- At REISEN HAMBURG, the lar- Fair for the world are tive cabin programmes show- gest tourism and caravaning Hotel, Re- e x p e c t e d casing tomorrow’s designs, trade fair in North Germany, staurant, at the fair. in-flight entertainment, con- some 1,000 exhibitors from Catering, nectivity and passenger ser- 80 countries will present de- Baking and Confectionery Aircraft Interiors Expo vices in the ultra-modern fair stinations in Germany, Europe Trades. Accompanied by con- From March 31 to April 2, the halls B4 to B 7 on the grounds or faraway countries from Fe- ferences, competitions, and world‘s largest exhibition ex- of Hamburg Messe und Con- bruary 4-8, 2009, on the Ham- gress GmbH (HMC). burg fair grounds. The Ham- Highlight of the event will be burg Tourism Board will also Up-to-date the prize-giving ceremony of be present and promote the the Crystal Cabin Award. The The Hamburg Centre for Applied Nanotechnology (CAN) Hamburg Metropolitan Area only international award for has been honoured as a “selected landmark“ in the Ger- in co-operation with Hamburg excellence in aircraft interior man initiative “Land of Ideas 2008“ in recognition of the Marketing GmbH. innovation was launched with research institute‘s visionary thinking, creativity, and moti- great success by the joint initi- vation. Launched to internationally promote Germany as a INTERNORGA ative Hamburg – The place for leading global think tank, the initiative under the patronage Bigger than ever will also be aviation in 2007. of Germany’s President Horst Köhler is sponsored by the www.reisenhamburg.de INTERNORGA, with 1,000 ex- German government and numerous German companies. hibitors from Germany and ab- www.can-hamburg.de www.internorga.de road showcasing innovations, www.aircraftinteriorsexpo.com

Hamburg – the vibrant metropolis News-Bits Hamburg Marketing relaunched the successful Hamburg image trailer The International Maritime Mu- Hamburg is a pulsating metro- has to offer in music, join the seum Hamburg was given a tre- polis with international flair. As crowds at Reeperbahn Festival asure ship from the times of the a cultural metropolis, the Han- 2009, featuring new internatio- Chinese explorer Zheng He (1371- seatic City thrills visitors and nal music from 150 bands from 1435). The 1.5 metres long model locals alike with exciting events September 24 - 26, 2009. was donated to Hamburg by the all year round. For a visual impression of Ham- province government of Fujian. Since 2007, Hamburg promo- burg as a vibrant metropolis, www.internationales-maritimes-museum.de tes itself as the “Metropolis view the relaunched Hamburg on the Waterfront“. This year, trailer now available as a free Celebrating the twinning: Busi- the city‘s claim is “Hamburg download in various format and ness from both cities gave the – the vibrant metropolis“. The languages at the media server first impulses in 1985, and in 1989 presentation thus focusses on unite to promote this year‘s of Hamburg Marketing GmbH. Hamburg and Osaka signed their three successful brand-building claim. Their central key visu- The new version of the suc- twinning agreement. This year, aspects: “vibrant scenes“, “en- al (picture) features the club cessful imagel trailer features the two cities will be celebrating tertainment strip Reeperbahn“ Große Freiheit 36, and thus some new spectacular sights of their dynamic exchange in poli- and “shopping metropolis“. not only refers to Hamburg‘s the city along with a brand-new tics, business, sports, and the arts Each one strong enough to re- past, but also present fame in song. with a series of receptions and present an essential part of the the international music scene. www.mediaserver.hamburg.de other events. Hamburg brand, they will now To hear and see what the city www.marketing.hamburg.de

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