German Democratic Republic East

Table 8.1. Output of brown coal and the number of active surface mines in the two lignite mining districts of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) between 1963 and 1993 (after Mobs and Maul 1994)...

Population estimates for 1957 and 1975 include totals for the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic, East Berlin, and West Berlin. 

For 10 years from 1936 to 1946, he worked at his private laboratory in his home in Herrnskretschem on the Elba River. In 1947 he moved to Glasgow, Scotland. From 1953 to 1972, he was a member of the Chemistry Department at Glasgow University. In 1965 he received the Kekule medal of the Chemical Society of German Democratic Republic (East Germany). He died in 1987, shortly before he was to be awarded the first Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Research Award at the 11th International Symposium on Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) (Sept 24. 1987 his wife Louisa accepted the award on his behalf). Let us end with a brief quotation from the obituary of Professor Erich Clar, written by C. M. White and M. Zander ... 

Blank (1985) reports that there is only one data set which gives a clear idea of the trend in natural background ozone concentrations in Europe, over the past 20 years. On the Isle of Rugen (in the Baltic, off the German Democratic Republic) an area not affected by any local pollution, ozone levels increased by 60% between 1956 and 1977. A similar trend has been reported for two other stations in forest areas of East Germany. 

GDR German Democratic Republic (formerly East Germany)... 

Two years later, such ploys became irrelevant. The fall of the Wall and the democratization of the GDR erradicated all restrictions, and the previously detrimental island position of West Berlin, became a boon for rapidly establishing personal contacts between scientists from the West and the East. However, the problems of the day remained formidable, as the German reunification required not only a reform and restructuring of the academic research establishment of the GDR but indeed its full integration into the Federal Republic. 

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