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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06HAMBURG85 |
HAMBURG POLICE TRACK POLONIUM TRAIL [...] (SBU) Summary: Hamburg State Police (LKA) confirmed December 14 that Dmitry Kovtun had left positive traces of polonium 210 in Hamburg prior to his departure from Hamburg for London on November 1. A senior official in the Federal Interior Ministry in Berlin also confirmed the reports and noted the [...] |
2006-12-19 11:38:00 | Consulate Hamburg | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PTER EAIR PINR PINS KNNP RS GM UK |
| 07HAMBURG1 |
MOTASSADEQ SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS [...] On January 8, the Hamburg Regional Court gave 9/11 cell member Mounir el-Motassadeq a 15 year prison sentence. (Note: This is the maximum sentence that can be imposed under the German Penal Code for the crime of accessory to murder. End Note.) Motassadeq's attorneys announced that they will [...] |
2007-01-09 15:34:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KJUS PREL ASEC GM |
| 07HAMBURG12 |
G8 OPPONENTS CARRY OUT ANOTHER ATTACK IN HAMBURG [...] (U) In the early morning hours of January 26, vandals attacked the property of two ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems Board Members. Alleged G8 opponents splattered Walter Klausmann's house with paint balloons and broke his car's windshield shortly before setting Herbert Aly's car on fire. In a thre [...] |
2007-01-31 07:10:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC PGOV GM |
| 07HAMBURG24 |
ISLAMIC CENTER HAMBURG'S AYATOLLAH SHARES INITIATIVES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: CG Hamburg and Embassy Berlin Iranwatcher hosted an informal meeting at the CGR with the head of the Islamic Center of Hamburg (ICH), Ayatollah Seyyed Abbas Hosseini Ghaemmaghami on March 20. Ghaemmaghami, an Iranian national who has served as the ICH director since 2004, discu [...] |
2007-03-23 11:12:00 | Consulate Hamburg | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL GM IR |
| 07HAMBURG29 |
GERMANY/PKK: WHY HAMBURG RELEASED CANSIZ [...] (C) On May 2, Office Director of the Hamburg Minister of Justice Henning Clasen informed ConGen Hamburg that PKK leader Sakine Cansiz had been released from jail on April 25 and that she had already returned to Paris, France. Cansiz had been arrested in Hamburg on March 19 pursuant to a Turkis [...] |
2007-05-04 15:49:00 | Consulate Hamburg | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL KTFN GM TU FR |
| 07HAMBURG31 |
BREMEN STATE ELECTION - AN END TO 12 YEARS OF A GRAND [...] (SBU) Summary: The upcoming May 13 state elections in Bremen/Bremerhaven are Germany's only state election in 2007. With 40 percent in the polls, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) is likely to be in the comfortable position of being able to choose its coalition partner. The only viable coalit [...] |
2007-05-11 15:29:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GM |
| 07HAMBURG32 |
BREMEN STATE ELECTION - AN END TO 12 YEARS OF A GRAND [...] (SBU) Summary: The upcoming May 13 state elections in Bremen/Bremerhaven are Germany's only state election in 2007. With 40 percent in the polls, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) is likely to be in the comfortable position of being able to choose its coalition partner. The only viable coalit [...] |
2007-05-11 15:29:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GM |
| 07HAMBURG33 |
BREMEN STATE ELECTION - AN END TO 12 YEARS OF A GRAND [...] (SBU) Summary: The upcoming May 13 state elections in Bremen/Bremerhaven are Germany's only state election in 2007. With 40 percent in the polls, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) is likely to be in the comfortable position of being able to choose its coalition partner. The only viable coalit [...] |
2007-05-11 16:16:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GM |
| 07HAMBURG35 |
BREMEN STATE ELECTION - SPD REMAINS STRONG WITH THE GREENS [...] (U) Summary. Though Bremen's election gave the current Social Democratic -Christian Democratic (SPD-CDU) government enough votes to continue in office, the two parties each lost votes over 2003. The smaller parties all gained votes, with the best results scored by the left-of-center Greens and [...] |
2007-05-15 11:04:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GM |
| 07HAMBURG36 |
MOTASSADEQ LOSES FINAL APPEAL [...] (U) On May 11, the German Federal High Court in Karlsruhe announced its decision to reject 9/11 cell member Mounir el-Motassadeq's appeal of the January 8 verdict of the Hamburg Regional Court that convicted Motassadeq of membership in a terrorist organization and of 246 counts of accessory to [...] |
2007-05-18 13:39:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KJUS PREL ASEC GM |
| 07HAMBURG38 |
BREMEN'S SPD OPTS FOR A RED-GREEN COALITION [...] (U) Just a week after the state parliamentary elections, Bremen's Social Democratic Party (SPD) leadership announced on May 20 that it will seek to form a governing coalition with the Greens, bringing an end to twelve years of a Social Democratic-Christian Democratic (SPD-CDU) Grand Coalition. [...] |
2007-05-22 09:57:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GM |
| 07HAMBURG45 |
BREMEN'S SPD-GREENS COALITION ANNOUNCES NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (U) On June 18, the Bremen Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Green Party presented their coalition agreement for governing the city-state of Bremen/Bremerhaven. The agreement, which was completed on June 16 - five weeks after the May 13 elections, is based upon three pillars; strengthening Bre [...] |
2007-06-22 06:37:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GM |
| 07HAMBURG46 |
BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) Summary: ConGen Hamburg Pol/Econ Officer and DHS ICE Officer visited Heinz Henke - Hunting and Shooting Sport Inc. in Werlte, Germany, on May 23 to perform a post-shipment end-use check on licenses 05-1010712, 05-050024284, & 05-050028367 for the export of rifles, rifle parts, pistol part [...] |
2007-06-22 09:58:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | KOMC ETTC US GM |
| 07HAMBURG47 |
BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) Summary: ConGen Hamburg Pol/Econ Officer and DHS ICE Officer visited Heinz Henke - Hunting and Shooting Sport Inc. in Werlte, Germany, on May 23 to perform a post-shipment end-use check on licenses 05-1010712, 05-050024284, & 05-050028367 for the export of rifles, rifle parts, pistol part [...] |
2007-06-22 10:20:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | KOMC ETTC US GM |
| 07HAMBURG52 |
AL QAEDA ACCOMPLICE AWAITING TRIAL IN SCHLESWIG, GERMANY [...] (U) SUMMARY: After German Police arrested Redouane El-Habhab July 6, 2006 at the Hamburg Dammtor train station, the Federal Prosecutor charged him April 25, 2007 with nine counts of supporting the foreign terrorist organizations Al-Qaeda and Al-Qaeda in Iraq as well as four counts of acting aga [...] |
2007-07-09 09:33:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KJUS PREL ASEC KVPR GM |
| 07HAMBURG53 |
GERMANY'S FIRST "CYBER JIHADIST" INDICTED IN LOWER SAXONY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: German police arrested Ibrahim Rashid on October 10, 2006 near Osnabrueck, Lower Saxony under a warrant issued by the German Federal High Court on September 28, 2006. On June 28, 2007 the Federal Prosecutor charged him with 28 separate counts of recruiting members and supporters [...] |
2007-07-20 10:44:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KJUS PREL ASEC KVPR GM |
| 07HAMBURG58 |
HAMBURG, GERMANY: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL COSTELLO [...] (U) Consulate General Hamburg warmly welcomes Congressman Jerry Costello and his delegation to Hamburg, Germany August 24-27. The U.S. has had a strong relationship with the Free and Hanseatic State of Hamburg for almost 220 years. Commissioned in 1790, ConGen Hamburg has been working to fost [...] |
2007-08-16 20:34:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP PREL PRGOV ECON GM |
| 07HAMBURG61 |
TERRORISM TRIAL AGAINST GERMANY'S FIRST "CYBER JIHADIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The trial against alleged "cyber jihadist" Ibrahim Rashid opened on September 26 before the Higher Regional Court in Celle, Lower Saxony. According to the prosecution, these procedures are unique in that it is the first time that someone in Germany has been charged for jihadis [...] |
2007-10-22 14:27:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KJUS PREL ASEC KVPR GM |
| 07HAMBURG62 |
TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT SPEAKS WITH GERMAN FINANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The main focus of Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt's and German Finance Minister Peter Steinbrueck's October 16 meeting in Hamburg was the creation of "guidelines" or "best practices" for Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs). Both Steinbrueck and Kimmitt agreed that the discussio [...] |
2007-10-23 16:52:00 | Consulate Hamburg | SECRET | EFIN ECON ETRD GR |
| 07HAMBURG63 |
THE SPD APPROVES OEF MANDATE, SIGNALS CONTINUED [...] (SBU) Summary: Overall, foreign policy played a minor role at the Social Democratic Party's (SPD) October 26-28 national convention in Hamburg (reftel). It was, however, the main focus of a pre-convention event October 25 sponsored by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) and geared mainly tow [...] |
2007-10-31 17:16:00 | Consulate Hamburg | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KUNR GM AF EU RS TU |
| 07HAMBURG65 |
DIE LINKE ARE HERE TO STAY [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 6, EUR/AGS Deputy Director Bryant Trick and ConGen Hamburg Pol/Econ Officer Genevieve Libonati met with state party leadership from both the leftist Die Linke party and the Green party in Bremen. Die Linke is optimistic about its growth prospects; Greens leaders conc [...] |
2007-11-08 11:17:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV GM |
| 07HAMBURG66 |
INVITATION TO NORTHERN GERMANY FOR THE GREAT WHITE FLEET [...] (U) On behalf of Mission Germany, U.S. Consulate General Hamburg would like to invite the Great White Fleet to Kiel, Germany to commemorate the fleet's historic trip, strengthen U.S. and European naval cooperation, and participate in U.S. public outreach at Northern Europe's largest regatta and [...] |
2007-11-14 12:44:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO MASS MPOS GM |
| 07HAMBURG67 |
MUCH AT STAKE FOR SPD IN NORTHERN GERMANY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) celebrated its return to traditional party values and strengthened its forces during its national convention October 26-28 in Hamburg. Privately, however, SPD members have noted to Poloffs that the real test for party chairman Kurt Beck as [...] |
2007-11-14 15:06:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV GM |
| 07HAMBURG68 |
MUCH AT STAKE FOR SPD IN NORTHERN GERMANY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) celebrated its return to traditional party values and strengthened its forces during its national convention October 26-28 in Hamburg. Privately, however, SPD members have noted to Poloffs that the real test for party chairman Kurt Beck as [...] |
2007-11-14 15:17:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV GM |
| 07HAMBURG70 |
HIGHLIGHTS OF 2007 GERMAN FOREIGN TRADE CONGRESS IN BREMEN [...] SUMMARY: Over 800 participants and several guests of honor, including German Federal Economics and Technology Minister Michael Glos and King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of Jordan, attended the 7th German Foreign Trade Congress 2007 on November 13-14 in Bremen. Glos stated that Chancellor Merk [...] |
2007-11-21 21:13:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON BEXP BTIO GM |
| 07HAMBURG72 |
AIRBUS GROUNDED BY POWER8 AND THE DOLLAR? [...] (U) SUMMARY: Airbus, the renowned producer of the new A380 super jumbo jet, is one of the largest and most publicized firms in Europe. The civilian and military aircraft manufacturer has struggled to stay ahead of its competitor Boeing amid a corporate restructuring program, an executive scand [...] |
2007-12-18 18:10:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON ETRD EIND GM |
| 07HAMBURG73 |
HAMBURG VS. SCIENTOLOGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the creation of the Working Group on Scientology (AGS) in 1992 within its interior ministry with its firebrand leader, Hamburg has been at sharp odds with the Church of Scientology and more recently has taken a leading role in an attempt to ban the organization. On August 7, Hamb [...] |
2007-12-21 16:46:00 | Consulate Hamburg | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI GM |
| 08HAMBURG1 |
CDU/FDP COALITION LIKELY TO CONTINUE IN LOWER SAXONY [...] (SBU): Barring surprise political developments, the current CDU/FDP government will likely prevail in Lower Saxony's state elections on January 27 due to an apparent desire by Lower Saxony's voters for a continuation of the status quo. Our interlocutors agreed that the minimum wage issue will [...] |
2008-01-23 16:41:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GM |
| 08HAMBURG14 |
PILOT PROJECT HAMBURG: CDU AND GREENS FORM FIRST STATE [...] (SBU) Summary: The signing of the first coalition agreement between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Greens (GAL) on the state level in Hamburg April 17 bridged a wide political divide between these one-time enemy parties. The 65-page agreement displayed unity on several issues, bu [...] |
2008-04-18 14:16:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GM |
| 08HAMBURG16 |
GERMAN COURT FINDS IRAQI "CYBER JIHADIST" GUILTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 19, the Higher Regional Court (OLG) in Celle convicted Iraqi Ibrahim Rashid in 22 cases of promoting membership in and support for the foreign terrorist organizations Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda in Iraq and sentenced him to a three year prison term. The conviction was based [...] |
2008-06-24 13:07:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KJUS PREL ASEC KVPR GM |
| 08HAMBURG2 |
GERMAN AL QAEDA ACCOMPLICE FOUND GUILTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 24, the Schleswig- Holstein Higher Regional Court (OLG) convicted Redouane El-Habhab of founding a foreign terrorist organization and assisting a terrorist organization and sentenced him to a five year and nine month prison term. The verdict is not yet legally bind [...] |
2008-01-28 12:49:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KJUS KHLS PREL ASEC GM |
| 08HAMBURG3 |
CDU'S WULFF AND THE LEFT: CLEAR WINNERS IN LOWER SAXONY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The big surprise in the Lower Saxony January 27 elections was not that Minister President Christian Wulff (CDU) emerged as the big winner, nor that the SPD did poorly, but that the Left achieved 7.1 percent of the vote, thereby entering state parliament. . As expected, the CDU's [...] |
2008-01-28 17:41:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GM |
| 08HAMBURG4 |
COMBATING RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM IN MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN: AN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: All of the political parties in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (M-V) Parliament have worked toward a common goal since the right-wing extremist National Democratic Party's (NPD) entry into that parliament in September 2006: to isolate the NPD and to implement programs to combat and [...] |
2008-02-12 13:41:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV GM |
| 08HAMBURG41 |
TRANSFORMING ROSTOCK: FROM XENOPHOBIC RIOTS TO INTEGRATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: For an Eastern German city that was in the global headlines sixteen years ago for a neo-Nazi attack on asylum-seekers, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's (M-V) largest city Rostock has made extraordinary strides in its integration efforts. The city has taken an organized approach, clearly [...] |
2008-11-10 11:42:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM GM |
| 08HAMBURG44 |
LAST AL QAEDA MEMBER FROM EL-HABHAB CELL CONVICTED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 24, the Higher Regional Court (OLG) in Schleswig found Moroccan national Abdelali Miftah guilty of supporting Al Qaeda in Iraq through the recruitment and trafficking of three Islamist fighters during the period between the beginning of June 2006 and July 6, 2006. [...] |
2008-12-05 15:46:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KJUS KVPR KHLS PREL ASEC GM |
| 08HAMBURG5 |
HAMBURG ELECTIONS TOO CLOSE TO CALL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: National and Hesse party leaders are anxiously awaiting Hamburg's February 24 state election results before taking critical decisions that could shape the political climate ahead of the 2009 Bundestag elections (Ref A). Despite the polls, Consulate contacts say that the electi [...] |
2008-02-22 12:10:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GM |
| 08HAMBURG7 |
HAMBURG ELECTIONS: CDU PONDERS COALITION OPTIONS; LEFT PARTY [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won decisively in the Hamburg state elections February 24. However, it lost its absolute majority and will now have to form a government with either the Social Democratic Party (SPD) or the Greens. If the CDU and Greens form a coalition govern [...] |
2008-02-25 16:59:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GM |
| 08HAMBURG8 |
JORDANIAN TERRORIST FOUND GUILTY WITH A DE FACTO 13 MONTH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 21, the Higher Regional Court (OLG) in Schleswig convicted Jordanian Thaer Alhalah of founding a foreign terrorist organization with Redouane El-Habhab and Abdelali Miftah and sentenced him to a two year prison term (Refs A and C). The conviction was primarily bas [...] |
2008-02-26 19:28:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KJUS KHLS ASEC PREL GM |
| 09HAMBURG10 |
DEPARTURE OF PRINCIPAL OFFICER [...] No summary [...] |
2009-04-09 15:53:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT APER GM |
| 09HAMBURG1190 |
Bundestag Election, Northern Germany: Regional [...] (C) SUMMARY: Heading into the September 27 national elections, a majority of northern Germans appears to be leaning in favor of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), mirroring national opinion. Hamburg's successful CDU/Greens government is viewed as a possible role model for a national level [...] |
2009-09-25 08:25:00 | Consulate Hamburg | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GM |
| 09HAMBURG1193 |
Best Laid Plans: Schleswig-Holstein's CDU and SPD in [...] (SBU): SUMMARY: The July collapse of the Schleswig-Holstein Grand Coalition (reftel) brought on by the CDU may not bring about the desired CDU-FDP coalition result for which the CDU has hoped. Early state elections will take place on September 27, the same day as national elections, which ma [...] |
2009-09-25 14:16:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM GM |
| 09HAMBURG12 |
RETURN OF PRINCIPAL OFFICER [...] (U) Consul General Karen E. Johnson returned to post on Sunday, April 26 at 11:00 a.m. local time and resumed charge. JOHNSON [...] |
2009-04-27 10:41:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT APER OTRA GM |
| 09HAMBURG1265 |
Germany Elections: National Winners Not Celebrating in [...] (SBU) Reflecting the national trend, the primary election result in northern Germany was an overall loss in votes and influence for the Social Democratic Party (SPD) rather than strong increases for the other parties. As reported (ref B), senior SPD leaders remain concerned about the move of [...] |
2009-10-08 15:22:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM GM |
| 09HAMBURG1287 |
Maritime Container Security Conference in Bremen [...] No summary [...] |
2009-10-16 05:40:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER EWWT TNGD PGOV PREL ECIN ECON ETRD GM |
| 09HAMBURG1289 |
Maritime Container Security Conference in Bremen [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 10 the EU Commission held a "Conference on Maritime Container Security" in Bremen that focused on EU and U.S. research aimed at enhancing container traffic and supply chain security. The event brought together approximately 150 maritime security stakeholders incl [...] |
2009-10-16 10:45:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER EWWT TNGD PGOV PREL ECIN ECON ETRD GM |
| 09HAMBURG15 |
NORTHERN GERMAN POWER - BRIDGING THE GAP WITH WIND, COAL, [...] (U) Summary: Energy security is a top priority for German politicians. Northern Germany has developed plans intended to make the region an energy exporter over the next several years of a mix of renewable and fossil-based energy sources. However, construction of the required new power plants [...] |
2009-06-12 17:18:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EINV ECON SENV GM |
| 09HAMBURG25 |
MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN OPENS TIP COUNSELING CENTER - ALL [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 4, a counseling center for victims of forced prostitution and trafficking-in-persons (TIP) opened in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (M-V). With this new center, all sixteen German federal states now host NGOs explicitly dedicated to TIP. M-V registers approximately 20 TIP cases [...] |
2009-08-07 08:36:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG ASEC KFRD ELAB PREF GM |
| 09HAMBURG5 |
INFORMATION ON UN DISPUTE TRIBUNAL GERMAN CANDIDATE THOMAS [...] (U) Per request in reftel, ConGen Hamburg spoke with local legal and government contacts regarding Dr. Thomas Laker's candidacy for the UN Dispute Tribunal. Our responses to the questions in reftel paragraph 6 are provided below. 2. (SBU) Question 1: Please provide views on the candidat [...] |
2009-02-26 13:36:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | ACABQ AORC APER KUNR PREL UNGA |
| 09HAMBURG9 |
BEST PRACTICES LEAD TO SUCCESSFUL TIP PROSECUTIONS IN LOWER [...] (SBU) Summary. Combating trafficking in persons (TIP) is a priority for officials in the northern German state of Lower Saxony. In 2008, state officials amended a decree regulating cooperation among the various agencies in order to improve victim assistance programs and cooperation between go [...] |
2009-03-26 15:35:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB GM |
| 10HAMBURG3 |
MEGAPORTS INITIATIVE: DOE SEEKS GERMANY'S PARTICIPATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: A DoE team visited Germany December 8-11 to promote the inclusion of the ports of Bremerhaven and Hamburg in their Megaports Initiative. The Initiative aims at providing equipment, training, and technical support to international partners to enhance their ability to deter, dete [...] |
2010-01-13 16:55:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER EWWT TNGD PGOV PREL ECIN ECON ETRD GM |
| 10HAMBURG6 |
HAMBURG POLITICIANS UNDERSCORE SPD DILEMMA ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: Two senior Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Hamburg Landtag representatives discussed the London Conference and the German-Afghanistan debate with Hamburg P/E staff on January 28. While the SPD is struggling with internal party calls to limit [...] |
2010-02-17 12:15:00 | Consulate Hamburg | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AF GM |
| 10HAMBURG8 |
DISMANTLING THE IRON CURTAIN -- A REMEMBRANCE [...] (U) On February 19, 2010, Consul General Karen Johnson attended the 654th St. Matthew's Banquet at the Hamburg Rathaus, an event hosted by the city government since 1356. This year's event, attended by 400 guests, commemorated the 1989 Peaceful Revolution. Speakers included Hamburg's First M [...] |
2010-02-26 15:35:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GM HU |