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22-744: The Mathematikum opened its doors to visitors on 19 November 2002. It was inaugurated by the German president Johannes Rau . Since then, the museum has attracted more than 2,500,000 visitors. Annually the museum is visited by more than 150,000 people. The museum is opened every day of the week, excluding Sunday and Monday. The purpose of the Mathematikum is to let people of any age, gender and any qualification learn mathematics by personal experience, rather than teaching it using formulae or equations and hardly ever numbers and symbols. The visitors can therefore learn, by participating in more than 150 interactive exhibits in

44-655: A long history of heart disease and died 11 days after his 75th birthday on 27 January 2006. The funeral took place on 7 February following a funeral act of state on the Dorotheenstadt cemetery in Berlin in the closest of family and friends. The maxim of Rau was "to reconcile, not divide". As his personal motto, Rau adopted the Confessing Church dictum "teneo, quia teneor" (I hold because I am held). In his acceptance speech after his election, Rau claimed "I never want to be

66-695: A nationalist but rather a patriot. A patriot is someone who loves his fatherland. A nationalist is someone who condemns the fatherland of others." The quote can be attributed to the French writer Romain Gary . Rau was awarded 15 honorary doctorates. In 2001, he received the Leo Baeck Medal for his humanitarian work promoting tolerance and social justice. Rau was known as a practising Christian (sometimes known as Bruder Johannes , "Brother John", in ridicule of his intense Christian position. He held lay positions in and

88-498: The 1999 German presidential election on 23 May 1999, he was elected President of Germany by the Federal Assembly of Germany to succeed Roman Herzog (CDU). On 1 July 2004, he was succeeded by Horst Köhler . In common with all other Federal presidents Rau was honored by a Großer Zapfenstreich . At his request the hymn "Jesus bleibet meine Freude" (literally "that Jesus remain my Joy", but commonly Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring )

110-525: The Bundesrat in 1982/83 and 1994/95. In 1987, Rau was his party's candidate to become chancellor of Germany for the SPD, but he lost the elections against Helmut Kohl ’s Christian Democrats (CDU). In 1994, Rau was a candidate to become President of Germany but lost the 1994 German presidential election to Roman Herzog . In 1998, Rau stepped down from his positions as SPD chairman and Minister President, and in

132-598: The New Forum , Democracy Now and the Initiative for Peace and Human Rights agreed upon the creation of the strategic partnership Alliance 90 ("Bündnis 90") for the 1990 East German general election . On 18 March 1990, in the next and final free election of the former East Germany , the Alliance 90 received 2.9% of the vote, thus securing 12 seats. By far the best result for Alliance 90 was in constituency of Berlin with 6.3%. In

154-721: The British Open University ). In 1977, Rau became Chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia SPD and, in 1978, Minister President of the state, which he remained until 1998, with four successful elections for the SPD, which became strongest party in the Landtag each time and gained an absolute majority three times, in 1980, 1985, 1990 and finally 1995. From 1995 onwards, Rau led an SPD- Greens coalition in North Rhine-Westphalia. Rau twice served as President of

176-784: The Greens which had been a cross-German party since the end of 1990. One part of the Brandenburg state alliance advocated against a unification with the Greens, including future Minister-President of Brandenburg Matthias Platzeck , Günter Nooke, Ute Platzeck, Peter Schüler, Manfred Kruczek and Gerd Gebhardt. However, they were unsuccessful in their case and founded the Citizens' Alliance ("Bürger Bündnis"), headed by Günter Nooke, Matthias Platzeck und Wolfgang Pohl. The party Alliance 90/The Greens in Saxony had already been established on 27 September 1991, one and

198-524: The New Forum did not participate in the alliance. In Brandenburg , the three civic groups of the Alliance 90 took office alone. In other states, the Greens also successfully took part in the electoral alliances. In Brandenburg from 1990 until 1994, Alliance 90 participated in a traffic light coalition with the Social Democrats and Free Democrats . In the 1990 federal election held on 2 December 1990,

220-642: The first election following the reunification of Germany , 6.1% of voters in the Eastern electoral area (1.2% across Germany) cast their Zweitstimme (the vote for a party, as opposed to for a person) for the group "Alliance 90/Greens – Citizens' Movement" ( Bündnis 90/Grüne – BürgerInnenbewegung ), which entered into the German Bundestag with eight East German electees: Klaus-Dieter Feige, Ingrid Köppe, Gerd Poppe, Christina Schenk, Werner Schulz, Wolfgang Ullmann, Konrad Weiß and Vera Wollenberger. Werner Schultz took over

242-569: The first time as member of the Landtag (state parliament) of North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1967, he became chairman of the SPD fraction in the Landtag, and in 1970, he was Minister of Science and Education in the cabinet of Minister President Heinz Kühn . He soon gained a reputation as a reformer. As part of the mass education campaign of the 1970s, he founded five universities, each at different sites, in North Rhine-Westphalia and initiated Germany's first distance learning university at Hagen (modelled on

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264-547: The function of Speaker of the Bundestag group, which he held for the entirety of the legislative period. Its West German partners, the Greens, fell short of election to the parliament. On 21 September 1991, the party Alliance 90 was founded, which brought together parts of the New Forum, Democracy Now and the Initiative for Peace and Human Rights. On 14 May 1993 came the agreement to create the union of Alliance 90/The Greens with

286-540: The guest and ask them questions. 50°34′52″N 8°39′57″E  /  50.58111°N 8.66583°E  / 50.58111; 8.66583 This article about a museum in Germany is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a Hesse building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Johannes Rau Johannes Rau ( German: [joˈhanəs ˈʁaʊ] ; 16 January 1931 – 27 January 2006)

308-404: The museum and by gathering, a different mathematical experience from each of the exhibits. Mathematical experiments include mirrors, a Leonardo bridge, soap films , and puzzles. Once every month on a Tuesday, a mathematician is invited. The mathematician is interviewed by professor Beutelspacher on Beutelspachers Sofa (Beutelspacher's Couch). At the end of the interview the audience can talk to

330-625: The pacifist Rau and his political mentor, Gustav Heinemann , joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), where he was active in the Wuppertal chapter. He served as deputy chairman of the SPD party of Wuppertal and was elected later on to the City Council (1964–1978), where he served as chairman of the SPD Group (1964–1967) and later as Mayor (1969–1970). In 1958, Rau was elected for

352-652: The remaining constituencies results ranged from 1.6% in Neubrandenburg to 3.8% in Potsdam . Together with the eight elected mandates from the " Green Party in the GDR ", they created the “Alliance ’90/Greens Party” Faction ( Fraktion Bündnis 90/Grüne ). In the East German Landtag elections on 14 October 1990 the differently-composed electoral alliances made their entry into every Landtag except Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , where

374-585: Was a German politician who served as President of Germany from 1999 to 2004. A member of the Social Democratic Party , he previously served as the Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1978 to 1998. In the latter role, he also served as President of the Bundesrat in 1982/83 and in 1994/95. Rau was born in the Barmen part of Wuppertal , Rhine Province , as the third of five children. His family

396-756: Was a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland , a member church of the Protestant Church in Germany . On 9 August 1982, Rau married the political scientist Christina Delius (born 1956). Christina Rau is a granddaughter of her husband's mentor, Gustav Heinemann , former President of Germany . The couple had three children: Anna Christina, born 1983, Philip Immanuel, born 1985 and Laura Helene, born 1986. On 18 August 2004, Rau had to undergo serious heart surgery, in which an artificial heart valve

418-592: Was formed in February 1990 by the New Forum , Democracy Now and the Initiative for Peace and Human Rights . It received 2.9% of the vote in the 1990 Volkskammer elections. For the first all-German federal election it formed a joint list with the East German Green Party . It was this coalition that merged with the West German Green Party in 1993 to form Alliance 90/The Greens . On 7 February 1990,

440-519: Was included. During 2000, Rau became the first German head of state to address the Knesset , the Israeli parliament, in German. The controversial step prompted some Israeli delegates to walk out. However, Israeli President Moshe Katsav supported and praised him for bridging the gap between the two states. Rau had a deep and lifelong commitment to bringing reconciliation between Germany and its past. Rau had

462-510: Was inserted. Only two months later (19 October 2004), a hematoma in the abdominal cavity was surgically removed. After leaving office, Rau lived with his family in the federal capital, Berlin . However, they also kept a house in Wuppertal . Alliance %2790 Alliance 90 ( German : Bündnis 90 ) was a political alliance of three non-communist political groups in East Germany . It

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484-563: Was strongly Protestant . As a schoolboy, Rau was active in the Confessing Church , which resisted Nazism . Rau left school in 1949 and worked as a publisher, especially with the Protestant Youth Publishing House. Rau was a member of the All-German People's Party (GVP), which was founded by Gustav Heinemann . The party was known for proposing German reunification from 1952 until it was disbanded in 1957. In 1958,

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