The Berlin Trade Exhibition of 1896

Postcard of the Berlin Trade Exhibition 1896

Answers:

1. No. (Not until the Expo2000 in Hannover.)
2. 111.
3. Otto Graf von Bismarck.
4. • "Verein Berliner Kaufleute und Industrieller"
   • "Vereinigung 1879"
5. • Rejection of the government
   • Aversion against the capital city
   • beginning of an economic and financial crisis
   • announcement of the world exhibition 1900 in Paris.
6. • Worse infrastructure.
   • Visitors had to move through the ugly industry area East of Berlin.
   • At North West wind factory exhaustion gases were blown over the area.
   • It was neccessary to erect the buildings around the vegetation of the previously created park.
7. Oriental, nationalistic arguments (by nationalists).
8. 168 = 31(May) + 30(June) + 31(July) + 31(August) + 30(September) + 15(October)
9. Treptow Park was left to the exhibitors under the limitation that the area had to be returned to the original state.
10. The Archenhold observatory. In 1910 the wooden building was replaced by a house of stone. In some way also the tunnel under the Spree could be counted as a remaining building. It was used as a tramway tunnel until 1932 and as a footway tunnel 1936 up to 1945, partly also as a bunker. In 1945 it got leaking and ran full of water.
11. The Berlin Funkturm.
12. Because of excitation of public offence - one could look under the skirt when the woman were climbing to the upper deck.

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