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Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences (Alanus Hochschule für Kunst und Gesellschaft) is a state-accredited private university in Alfter (near Bonn), Germany, providing education in the arts and social sciences up to doctorate level. It has offered accredited arts degrees since 2003 and other degrees since 2006. In 2010, the university was awarded institutional accreditation and the right to award doctorates by the German Council of Science and Humanities.The university was founded as an anthroposophical art school in 1973. In cooperation with Rudolf Steiner University College, it publishes the international academic journal Research on Steiner Education.

Roisdorf station is a through station in the district of Roisdorf of the town of Bornheim in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was opened on 1 March 1844 on the Left Rhine line, which was opened between Cologne and Bonn on 15 February 1844. It has two platform tracks and it is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.The station is served by the following two lines: It is also served by bus route 633, operated by SWB Bus und Bahn at 30-minute intervals.

Bornheim is a town in the Rhein-Sieg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the West bank of the Rhine, approx. 10 km north-west of Bonn, 20 km south of Cologne. The town borders on Bonn to the south, the towns of Alfter and Swisttal to the southwest, the town of Weilerswist to the west, the towns of Brühl and Wesseling to the north, as well as the Rhine-bordering town of Niederkassel in the east.

The Heilsbach is a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It flows into the Hardtbach in Bonn-Lessenich.

Dichbach is a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

The Federal Ministry of Defence (German: Bundesministerium der Verteidigung, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsminɪsˌteːʁiʊm deːɐ̯ fɛɐ̯ˈtaɪ̯dɪɡʊŋ] (listen)), abbreviated BMVg, is a top-level federal agency, headed by the Federal Minister of Defence as a member of the Cabinet of Germany. The ministry is headquartered at the Hardthöhe district in Bonn and has a second office in the Bendlerblock building in Berlin. According to Article 65a of the German Constitution (Grundgesetz), the Federal Minister of Defence is Commander-in-chief of the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, with around 265,019 active soldiers and civilians. Article 115b decrees that in the state of defence, declared by the Bundestag with consent of the Bundesrat, the command in chief passes to the Chancellor. The ministry currently has approximately 3,730 employees. Of these, 3,230 work in Bonn while around 500 work in the Bendlerblock building in Berlin.

Hardthöhe is a district at the western edge of Bonn, Germany. The headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Defense is located in Hardthöhe since 1960. Hardthöhe was not part of Bonn before 1969. Instead, it belonged to the Amt Duisdorf. In 1969, Hardthöhe, together with Duisdorf and Lengsdorf, were assigned to the municipal district of Hardtberg, Bonn.

The Armed Forces Staff, in the meaning of General staff, of the German Bundeswehr (German: Führungsstab der Streitkräfte - Fü S; literal: Command staff of the armed forces) was the central department of the Federal Ministry of Defence (MOD) in direct subordination to the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr (en: Chief of Staff of the Federal Armed Forces) and one of the five staff headquarters in the military command of the German Bundeswehr. The Armed Forces Staff was thus at the same time a supreme military command authority and the top level ministerial staff organisation, authorised, mandated and competent to overall military defence planning, basics and concepts of military policy, planning of operational command and control, as well as to plans a policy of personnel education and training. In 2012, there existed supreme military command authorities in the MOD as follows: Armed Forces Staff (Führungsstab der Streitkräfte – Fü S; General Staff of the Armed Forces) Army Staff (Führungsstab des Heeres – Fü H; Army General Staff) Air Force Staff (Führungsstab der Luftwaffe – Fü L; Air Force General Staff) Navy Staff (Führungsstab der Marine – Fü M) Medical Staff (Führungsstab des Sanitätsdienstes – Fü San; Medical Service Staff)Parts of these top-level staff authorities were merged in order to establish the new high command authorities of the German Bundeswehr as follow: Army Command (Kommando Heer – Kdo Heer) Air Force Command (Kommando Luftwaffe – Kdo Luftwaffe) Navy Command (Kommando Marine – Kdo Marine)In line to the new Bundeswehr command structure, the remaining staff elements were used on the MOD level to form: a Planning Division an Armed Forces Command and Control Division and a Strategy and Operations Division.

The Army Staff, in the meaning of the Army general staff, of the German Army (German: Führungsstab des Heeres - Fü H) was a department of the Federal Ministry of Defence and one of the five staff headquarters in the military command of the Bundeswehr. The Army Staff was thus at the same time a ministerial division and the highest level of military command within the German Army. It was merged with the other high command authorities of the German Army to form the Army Command (Kommando Heer) in 2012. In 2012, there existed in MOD Germany supreme military command authority as follows: Armed Forces Staff (Führungsstab der Streitkräfte – Fü S; General Staff of the Armed Forces) Army Staff (Führungsstab des Heeres – Fü H; Army General Staff) Air Force Staff (Führungsstab der Luftwaffe – Fü L; Air Force General Staff) Navy Staff (Führungsstab der Marine – Fü M) Medical Staff (Führungsstab des Sanitätsdienstes – Fü San; Medical Service Staff)

The German Army (1871–1919), officially referred to as the Imperial German Army (German: Deutsches Heer), was the unified ground and air force of the German Empire. It was established in 1871 with the political unification of Germany under the leadership of Prussia, and was dissolved in 1919, after the defeat of the German Empire in World War I (1914–1918). In the Federal Republic of Germany, the term Deutsches Heer identifies the German Army, the land component of the Bundeswehr.

Tannenbusch is a section of Bonn, Germany with approx. 17,000 inhabitants. It is split between the subsections Alt-Tannenbusch and Neu-Tannenbusch. The roads in Tannenbusch are almost exclusively named after places in the former GDR and former eastern territories of Germany (e.g. Schlesienstrasse, Oppelner road, west Prussia route). Around 1949 – 1960 there was a US military camp in Tannenbusch. Of the 15000 inhabitants, 45% have a migrant background. About 40% of the inhabitants in the district live on state welfare payments. An Islamic salafi movement is active in the district.

Hardtberg is a borough (Stadtbezirk) of Bonn, Germany. It has a population of 34,576 (2018).