Chronology

2007

April 2007 – Dialogue Center speaker visits Nashville

In April of 2007, Georg von der Gablentz visited our partner city Nashville and met with many Nashville friends and partners, amongst them Mayor Bill Purcell and Chancellor of the Vanderbilt University, Gordon Gee. The continuation of the project Other Service was arranged with the Martha O’Bryan Center.

August 2007 – Other Service

Since August 1st, 2007, Maximilian Berrens is the 4th employee for the „other Service“in the Martha O’Bryan Center in Nashville.

August 2007 – Bill Purcell’s visit

From the 16th-19th August, 2007, Nashville’s Mayor Bill Purcell flew to Magdeburg for his third and final visit. Our friends from Nashville, Bob Bogen and, President of Sister Cities of Nashville, Doug Berry, accompanied him.

On August 16th, the German-American Dialogue Center held a reception at the Magdeburg Lukasklause in honor of Mayor Bill Purcell. All members and friends of the city partnership were invited. The Magdeburg newspaper, the Volksstimme, took this opportunity to present Mayor Purcell with a special edition. Magdeburg’s Mayor Dr. Lutz Trümper also attended the affair. The following days, Mayor Bill Purcell and our Nashville Friends visited the Nashville-Info-Point in Magdeburg’s city library and, on a sightseeing flight, saw the city from a different perspective. Family Kühne continued with tradition and extended an invitation for a celebratory feast at Wanzleben Castle. The crowning glory of the program was the Hot Air Balloon Festival in the Elbauen Park, to which our friends from Nashville were invited.