Students at the International Academy are not eligible to vote at RWTH Aachen University. This is based on Section 48(7), second sentence, of the Higher Education Act (HG). Under the model set forth in Section 66(6) of the HG (the so-called franchising model), the...
To this day, the 1937 painting by Picasso "Guernica" is considered one of the most powerful denunciations of the fascist war and the crimes committed in Guernica.
On this day… 105 years ago: Following the Kiel Sailors’ Uprising, which within a few days develops into a revolution that engulfs the entire empire, the republic is proclaimed in Berlin on November 9. As a “democracy without democrats”, the...
67 years ago today, the first international match of the German women’s national football team took place. In Essen, the German women won 2-1 against the Netherlands. The match took place unofficially because the DFB had banned women’s football two years...
50 years ago today, the Chilean military staged a coup against the socialist president Salvador Allende, who had been democratically elected three years earlier. A military junta led by Augusto Pinochet ruled the country as a dictatorship until 11 March 1990. ...
31 years ago today, the attacks on the Central Reception Centre for Asylum Seekers and a residence for Vietnamese former contract workers in the so-called „Sonnenblumenhaus“ in Rostock-Lichtenhagen began. The pogrom is considered the most devastating racist attack in...