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The village is home to the Oberpfaffenhofen Airport (IATA: OBF, ICAO: EDMO) and a major site of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR). In 1983, the first West-German astronaut , the physicist Ulf Merbold , flew to space on board a Space Shuttle in a Spacelab mission that was partly supervised by the ...
The Ordnungspolizei (Orpo, German: [ˈɔʁdnʊŋspoliˌtsaɪ], meaning "Order Police") were the uniformed police force in Nazi Germany from 1936 to 1945. [2] The Orpo was absorbed into the Nazi monopoly on power after regional police jurisdiction was removed in favour of the central Nazi government ("Reich-ification", Verreichlichung, of the police).
"UN Location Codes: Germany". UN/LOCODE 2012-1. UNECE. 14 September 2012. – includes IATA codes "Airports in Germany". Great Circle Mapper. – IATA and ICAO codes "Airports in Germany". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on January 5, 2013. – ICAO codes and airport data
Reserve Police Battalion 101 (German: Reserve-Polizei-Bataillon 101) was a Nazi German paramilitary formation of the uniformed police force known as the Ordnungspolizei (Order Police, Orpo), the organization formed by the Nazi unification of the civilian police forces in the country in 1936, placed under the leadership of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and grouped into battalions in 1939. [1]
The division was formed in October 1939, when thousands of members of the Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) were drafted to fill the ranks of the new SS division. These men were not enrolled in the SS and remained policemen, retaining their Orpo rank structure and insignia. They did not have to meet the racial and physical requirements imposed for the SS.
Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) ranks were based on local police titles and were considered a separate system from the ranks of the SS. If a member of the Order Police was already an SS member or - upon application - became an SS member, he was automatically awarded an SS rank according to his police rank.
The airport is located 8.5 km (5.28 mi) north of the Mannheim city center in the district of Sandhofen, 2.5 km (1.6 mi) east of the river Rhine and 3 km (1.86 mi) south of Lampertheim. It is surrounded by Autobahn 6 ( A6 ) to the south and a state highway ( Bundesstraße 44 (B44)) to the west; the Mannheim–Frankfurt railway train line ...
This is a list of the busiest airports in Germany. 2023. Rank Airport IATA City/metro area State Passengers [1] Change 2022-2023; 1: Frankfurt: FRA: Frankfurt Rhine-Main: