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...risk of all: that Ackermann himself soon would end up in court, charged with a serious breach of German company law that could put him in jail for up to five years. That corporate nightmare became a reality on Sept. 19 when a German regional court in Düsseldorf confirmed that Ackermann, 55, would stand trial along with five other German executives in a case tied to the €180 billion takeover of Germany's Mannesmann by the British mobile-phone company Vodafone in 2000, the largest corporate merger in European history. Ackermann and three of the others, including...
...celebrated Bauhaus painter was denounced as a "typical Galician Jew" - no matter that he was neither. His deceptively childlike yet technically sophisticated work was branded "degenerate," "subversive" and "insane." Within months he was suspended from his teaching job at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf, and he reluctantly left Germany for Bern, where he had grown up. Then, in 1936, he was diagnosed with an incurable auto-immune disease which causes internal paralysis - including the constriction of blood vessels - and hardening of the skin. Yet after a brief period in which he was almost unable to work...
...Still Fly To Dublin A bad week for Irish budget airline Ryanair: a German court ordered the airline to drop the name Düsseldorf for an airport some 70 km outside of the city. Then a French court determined that a 31.4 million handout Ryanair received from a Strasbourg chamber of commerce to help set up flight services to London was illegal...
...from the Internet heyday, when many venture capital firms hired young people with consulting or banking backgrounds who knew little about technology and had neither operating experience nor profit responsibility. "Now they are realizing that they need people with industry backgrounds to sort out their problems," says Düsseldorf-based Georg Kulenkampff, 51, a former board member of the large German utility firm Veba, now called E.on. At the request of investors, Kulenkampff has served over the last two years on the boards of seven European companies, including several high-tech firms...
Born in Düsseldorf, Germany, Habermas studied philosophy at the Universities of Göttingen and Bonn and then worked briefly as an assistant to philosopher Theodor Adorno at the Institute for Social Research, before a long career in philosophy at the Universities of Heidelberg and Frankfurt...