{:de}Essen, 4th May 2025 Dear Colonel Foster-Brown, On 8th May we will be celebrating the end of World War II. As chairman of the Deutsch-Britsche Gesellschaft Ruhr I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to the British Armed Forces for liberating Germany from the scourge of National Socialism and for laying the foundations for „Unity and Justice and Freedom“ in the Ruhr and beyond. The Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft (then The Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft) which was founded by the...
Jane Austen lecture by Nicola Pritchard-Pink a huge success
{:de}{:de}The room was packed when on March 12th, Nicola Pritchard-Pink gave our members and guest a talk on one of the UK's most famous authors of all time: Janes Austen came to life as we followed her from her birthplace in Hampshire on to Bath and Bristol and back again, while learning about her wit and, at times, caustic tongue when characterising her contemporaries. The picture shows the - still unusually large - party of the traditional dinner together with our lecturer that concluded...
Generalkonsul auf Abschiedsbesuch
[:de] Der scheidende britische Generalkonsul in Düsseldorf, Rafe Courage, gab uns zum Abschied die Ehre. Rafe sagte in seiner launigen Ansprache selbst, dass er wohl als der 'Brexit'-Generalkonsul in die Geschichte eingehen werde; er war sein Amt 2017 angetreten und seitdem stets mit den Auswirkungen der britischen Entscheidung, die EU zu verlassen, konfrontiert. Er stellte aber auch bei dieser Gelegenheit nochmals klar, dass...