Baden-Württemberg

The UK just elected a new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, who has long openly advocated for a land value tax, and South Korea did the same last year with the election of the new President Lee Jae-myung.

Additionally, in January 2025, the German state of Baden-Württemberg implemented a new LVT that survived a subsequent court challenge.

Although we're tempering our expectations, the effective tax rate of the German LVT is quite low, and it remains to be seen how ambitious the Burnham and Lee administrations will be, it's clear that LVT is no longer an obscure area, nationally or internationally.

Finally, many now believe that the economic effects of AI developments may accelerate support for LVT and Georgism more generally.

And Hohner's instruments do just that.

Guided by its mission of enabling anyone to enjoy music to the fullest, this hidden champion from Baden-Württemberg has become the world's leading manufacturer for harmonicas and accordions.

They're definitely courting of extremely specific clientele.

Yeah.

Sandhausen in those days was not a club in the second division or something.

It was an amateur club from Baden-Württemberg.

And seeing a talent there and integrating him in and putting him into the defence midfield...

As a backup, because Matthäus was in those days, you know, in a more offensive role in midfield.

The fascinating thing about the harmonica is that they, most of them came from the same place, which was Germany, uh, Southern, Southern Germany, particularly.

And, uh, thereby hangs a fascinating tale because, um, they, uh, uh, One of the principal manufacturers, one of the most famous, probably the most famous, was Matthias Horner of Trottingen in Baden-Württemberg.

It's a small town in the south of Germany.

And his product went all over the world.

It answers a minor interpolation a Klein-Anfrage and the Alternative for Germany parliamentary group filed on October 2nd, under a title that translates roughly to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena as a Matter of Air and Space Security and of State Information and Coordinated Structures.

Lars Haes, an AFD member of the Bundestag from Baden-Württemberg who sits on the Transport Committee, signed it first, and it put 11 questions to the government.

Who handles reports of unidentified aerial phenomena? Whether official terms exist? What reporting channels pilots and air traffic controllers have? How many cases have been logged over 10 years? How objects get identified? Whether any working groups exist? Whether the American reports and congressional hearings figure in Germany's own assessment? What's exchanged with Allies? whether federal agencies hold any documents on the subject and how they're classified, whether procedures will be revised, and what rules apply if objects or signals of possible non-anthropogenic origin are detected.

By its own description, it's asking about situational awareness and reporting, and possible causes aren't its focus.

Yeah.

Andreas Heinzmann, born and raised in Baden-Württemberg in Ulm.

I always say to the Americans, you know, I'm from the South and then they look at me funny.

Tennessee, south of Germany.