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    Albert Ballin (15 August 1857 – 9 November 1918) was a German shipping magnate. He was the general director of the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft...
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    SS Albert Ballin was an ocean liner of the Hamburg-America Line launched in 1923 and named after Albert Ballin, the visionary director of the Hamburg-America...
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  • Ballin, ballin, or ballin' in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ballin or Ballin' may refer to: Ada Ballin (1863–1906), English author Albert Ballin (1857–1918)...
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    Among those involved in its development were prominent citizens such as Albert Ballin (director general), Adolph Godeffroy, Ferdinand Laeisz, Carl Woermann...
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    East from 22 January to 22 March 1891, with 241 passengers including Albert Ballin and wife themselves, is often stated to have been the first ever cruise...
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    for the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). Envisaged by HAPAG chairman, Albert Ballin, the three ships - Imperator, launched in 1912; Vaterland, launched...
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    launched in 1926 for the Hamburg-America Line and was the sister to the SS Albert Ballin, SS Deutschland, and SS Hamburg. During World War II the ship continued...
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    bunker capacity was 2,260 tons and consumption about 220 tons per day. Albert Ballin commissioned Augusta Victoria and her sister ship Columbia in 1887,...
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  • several steamships of the name SS Albert Ballin, a German transatlantic passenger liner renamed Hansa in 1935 because Ballin had been Jewish SS Hansa (1899)...
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    he became a partner in the shipping company Hapag-Lloyd through the Albert Ballin consortium, of which he holds a 30% share. In May 2016, he took over...
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    Luftschiffbau, gained both funding and promotion for passenger flights from Albert Ballin, the head of the Hamburg America Line. On 19 June 1910, DELAG's first...
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    shipping Founded 1 September 1970; 53 years ago (1970-09-01) Founders Albert Ballin Adolph Godeffroy Ferdinand Laeisz Carl Woermann August Bolten (HAPAG)...
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    Finkenwerder Rüschpark, Hamburg, Germany. It was founded in 1918 by Albert Ballin and with Gutehoffnungshütte (GHH), Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft...
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    for their departure to the Americas. The BallinStadt museum was opened in 2007 and named after Albert Ballin (1857–1918), then director General of the...
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  • Keir Hardie, Scottish politician and trade unionist (d. 1915) 1857 – Albert Ballin, German businessman (d. 1918) 1858 – E. Nesbit, English author and poet...
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  • Soviet Union), the SS Soviet Union, the name of passenger-cargo ship SS Albert Ballin from 1949 to 1980 A national sports team of the Soviet Union Soviet...
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    Southern Flower, HMAS Steady Hour 4 Mar: U-3508 5 Mar: Nagara Maru 6 Mar: Albert Ballin, Z28 7 Mar: U-1302 10 Mar: Amiral Charner, U-275, U-681 11 Mar: U-682...
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  • that rocket design Soyuz Launch Complex in Kourou, French Guiana SS Albert Ballin, a 1922 German-built ship recovered and renamed Soyuz by the USSR Sovetsky...
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    and the Olympic-class ships. It was under these circumstances that Albert Ballin, president of Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) who was close to Kaiser Wilhelm...
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    in Hapag-Lloyd was sold to the Albert Ballin consortium of investors in March 2009 and a further stake was sold to Ballin in February 2012, as TUI worked...
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    destinations such as Gibraltar, Malta and Athens. In 1891, German businessman Albert Ballin sailed the ship Augusta Victoria from Hamburg into the Mediterranean...
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    English politician Albert Ball (1896–1917), British fighter pilot Albert Ballard (1888–1969), British politician Albert Ballin (1857–1918), German shipping...
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    make it Europe's second-largest port. The Hamburg-America Line, with Albert Ballin as its director, became the world's largest transatlantic shipping company...
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  • Belgium's occupation in August 1914 was suggestive of partition. Anglophile Albert Ballin, therefore, set up a "German–Belgian trading company" to transfer assets...
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  • von Steuben, 1923 Wilhelm Gustloff, 1937 Hamburg, 1926 Pretoria, 1936 Albert Ballin/Hansa, 1923 Bremse 1933 (1,800 tons, 4 × 127 mm guns) Brummer 1934 (3...
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    in 2009, and sold off its shipping interests, Hapag-Lloyd AG, to the Albert Ballin Consortium in March 2009. In 2014, he held a blocking stake of more...
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    University of Hamburg in a historic villa built for the shipping magnate Albert Ballin. UIL's mission is to see to it that all forms of education and learning...
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  • S.S. Albert Ballin, circa 1923...
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    diplomatic skill" that he had ever encountered". German shipping tycoon Albert Ballin recalled that when the German government heard a misleading report that...
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    war-related economic issues at the Treasury Department. At the request of Albert Ballin, general director of the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG), Cuno quit the...
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