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- Shanghai
- June 1, 2008
Bronze bust of Nobel prize winner handed over to the city / Franco-German partnership makes monument possible on Shanghai's most important promenade / Former Chancellor of Germany, Gerhard Schröder, presents 10,000 euro donation to orphanage in Shanghai.
Shanghai, 5 June 2008 ,Shanghai, the bustling Chinese seaport home to millions, is honouring Jewish Nobel prize winner Albert Einstein in its own very special way. At a ceremony held on the city's most popular promenade, the Bund, the city council today officially handed over a bronze bust of the outstanding scientist and pacifist to the people of Shanghai. The mayor of Shanghai also took the opportunity to recall the time when Albert Einstein visited Shanghai 86 years ago in November 1922.
Einstein left Marseille on 7 October 1922, accompanied by his wife, to hold a series of lectures in Asia. While on the ship, he received news on 11 November that he would be awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics retroactively for 1921. Einstein made a port of call in Shanghai on 13 November to an enthusiastic reception in the Jewish quarter of the seaport. It was here that the Swedish consulate reiterated that he had officially been awarded the prize. The Einsteins spent the night in the exclusive Hotel Astor before moving on to Japan the following day.
"In visiting Shanghai in 1922, Albert Einstein forged a special link between Europe and China which we have not forgotten and which we shall continue to foster in the future," said the Mayor of Shanghai. He thanked everyone who had been involved in erecting the bronze bust, in particular Dr. Norbert Egger, the long-time mayor of the city of Mannheim who approached the city council with the idea for the monument, Jean-François Decaux, the CEO of outdoor advertising company JCDecaux, who, as sponsor, made the monument at all possible, and former Chancellor of Germany, Gerhard Schröder, whose presence underlined the importance of the ceremony.
In his speech, former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder paid tribute to Albert Einstein as an outstanding scientist of the 20th century and a person who was respected throughout the world for his vigorous campaign for peace and humanism.
The bronze bust of Albert Einstein will initially be displayed near Shanghai's main promenade, the Bund. Once work on giving the Bund a facelift is completed, the monument will be returned to this most prominent of places in the multi-million city in time for the opening of the World Expo in 2010. The bust is six metres high and was designed and sculptured by Tang Shichu, one of China’s leading sculptors.
During the ceremonial event, outdoor advertising company JCDecaux presented former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder with a cheque for 10,000 euros which the former Chancellor donated to an orphanage in Shanghai. Following the inaugural ceremony, the guests of honour proceeded to the orphanage where they were given an enthusiastic reception and Gerhard Schröder personally handed over the donation to the orphanage.
Dr. Norbert Egger was the long-standing mayor of the city of Mannheim before going into retirement in 2005. He is a freeman of Qingdao (7.3 million inhabitants) and Zhenjiang (2.7 million inhabitants).
Jean-François Decaux runs the Paris-based outdoor advertising company JCDecaux. The company is the largest outdoor advertiser in China and in Shanghai in particular. Here, JCDecaux services, among others, the underground system as well as both of Shanghai's international airports. With sales exceeding 2 billion euros, JCDecaux is the world's largest street furniture company, the worldwide leader in Transport advertising and Europe’s leading outdoor advertising specialist and by far the largest supplier of bicycle hire systems.
In Germany, JCDecaux has been a cutting-edge outdoor advertising specialist for over 25 years. The company operates in more than half of all German cities with 500,000 plus inhabitants, including Hamburg, Cologne, Munich, Stuttgart and Leipzig, and also in cities such as Mannheim, Saarbrücken and Rostock. JCDecaux is also represented in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Dortmund as a result of its minority shareholding in Wall AG. The world leader in airport advertising, JCDecaux runs the entire advertising portfolio at Frankfurt Airport in partnership with Fraport.
Shanghai is a special economic zone under the direct guidance of the central government and twinned with the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg as well as Marseille among others. As twinned cities, Hamburg and Marseille will be celebrating their 50th anniversary between June and October 2008. Hamburg and Shanghai have been twinned since 1986. The 1920s saw the emergence, in the sprawling seaport of Shanghai, of a lively Jewish community which offered refuge for many European Jews from the Holocaust. In the 1920s to 1940s, the Jewish community was a key driving force behind the internationalisation of the seaport.
Shanghai, 5 June 2008 ,Shanghai, the bustling Chinese seaport home to millions, is honouring Jewish Nobel prize winner Albert Einstein in its own very special way. At a ceremony held on the city's most popular promenade, the Bund, the city council today officially handed over a bronze bust of the outstanding scientist and pacifist to the people of Shanghai. The mayor of Shanghai also took the opportunity to recall the time when Albert Einstein visited Shanghai 86 years ago in November 1922.
Einstein left Marseille on 7 October 1922, accompanied by his wife, to hold a series of lectures in Asia. While on the ship, he received news on 11 November that he would be awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics retroactively for 1921. Einstein made a port of call in Shanghai on 13 November to an enthusiastic reception in the Jewish quarter of the seaport. It was here that the Swedish consulate reiterated that he had officially been awarded the prize. The Einsteins spent the night in the exclusive Hotel Astor before moving on to Japan the following day.
"In visiting Shanghai in 1922, Albert Einstein forged a special link between Europe and China which we have not forgotten and which we shall continue to foster in the future," said the Mayor of Shanghai. He thanked everyone who had been involved in erecting the bronze bust, in particular Dr. Norbert Egger, the long-time mayor of the city of Mannheim who approached the city council with the idea for the monument, Jean-François Decaux, the CEO of outdoor advertising company JCDecaux, who, as sponsor, made the monument at all possible, and former Chancellor of Germany, Gerhard Schröder, whose presence underlined the importance of the ceremony.
In his speech, former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder paid tribute to Albert Einstein as an outstanding scientist of the 20th century and a person who was respected throughout the world for his vigorous campaign for peace and humanism.
The bronze bust of Albert Einstein will initially be displayed near Shanghai's main promenade, the Bund. Once work on giving the Bund a facelift is completed, the monument will be returned to this most prominent of places in the multi-million city in time for the opening of the World Expo in 2010. The bust is six metres high and was designed and sculptured by Tang Shichu, one of China’s leading sculptors.
During the ceremonial event, outdoor advertising company JCDecaux presented former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder with a cheque for 10,000 euros which the former Chancellor donated to an orphanage in Shanghai. Following the inaugural ceremony, the guests of honour proceeded to the orphanage where they were given an enthusiastic reception and Gerhard Schröder personally handed over the donation to the orphanage.
Dr. Norbert Egger was the long-standing mayor of the city of Mannheim before going into retirement in 2005. He is a freeman of Qingdao (7.3 million inhabitants) and Zhenjiang (2.7 million inhabitants).
Jean-François Decaux runs the Paris-based outdoor advertising company JCDecaux. The company is the largest outdoor advertiser in China and in Shanghai in particular. Here, JCDecaux services, among others, the underground system as well as both of Shanghai's international airports. With sales exceeding 2 billion euros, JCDecaux is the world's largest street furniture company, the worldwide leader in Transport advertising and Europe’s leading outdoor advertising specialist and by far the largest supplier of bicycle hire systems.
In Germany, JCDecaux has been a cutting-edge outdoor advertising specialist for over 25 years. The company operates in more than half of all German cities with 500,000 plus inhabitants, including Hamburg, Cologne, Munich, Stuttgart and Leipzig, and also in cities such as Mannheim, Saarbrücken and Rostock. JCDecaux is also represented in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Dortmund as a result of its minority shareholding in Wall AG. The world leader in airport advertising, JCDecaux runs the entire advertising portfolio at Frankfurt Airport in partnership with Fraport.
Shanghai is a special economic zone under the direct guidance of the central government and twinned with the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg as well as Marseille among others. As twinned cities, Hamburg and Marseille will be celebrating their 50th anniversary between June and October 2008. Hamburg and Shanghai have been twinned since 1986. The 1920s saw the emergence, in the sprawling seaport of Shanghai, of a lively Jewish community which offered refuge for many European Jews from the Holocaust. In the 1920s to 1940s, the Jewish community was a key driving force behind the internationalisation of the seaport.