turn

Wende (from Old High German : wendi to turn) stands for:

Turn (sailing) , maneuvers while sailing
Turn (swimming) , change of direction while swimming
Wendeschleife (short turn ), structural completion of a line in local public transport
Change of direction
Turn (unit) , area measure

Politics:

Third Polish Republic , turning point in Poland with the first free elections in the Eastern Bloc on June 4, 1989
The turning point and peaceful revolution in the GDR , the socio-political change in the GDR (1989/1990) that led to its end
Velvet Revolution 1989 in Czechoslovakia
Wende (Federal Republic of Germany) , change of government in the autumn of 1982 from Helmut Schmidt to Helmut Kohl
Black-blue coalition , black-blue turn 2000 in Austria under Wolfgang Schüssel
Traffic turnaround , change of direction in traffic policy
Energy transition, transition from fossil fuels to renewable energies

People:

Wende Snijders (stage name Wende ; * 1978), Dutch chanson singer
Adolf Wende (* 1873; † after 1932), German farmer, landowner and politician (DNVP), MdL Prussia
Angelika Wende (* 1959), German television presenter, author, visual artist, speaker, voice trainer and psychological consultant
Daniel Wende (* 1984), German figure skater
Dieter Wende (* 1938), German journalist and author
Erich Wende (1884–1966), German lawyer and administrative officer
František Wende (1904–1968), Czechoslovak ski jumper and Nordic combined athlete
Georg Wende (1903–), German lawyer, President of the Senate at the Bavarian State Social Court
Georg Wende (1634–1705) , German poet and principal at the schools in Breslau, Öls, Lauban and Thorn
Gottschalk der Wende (around 1000-1066), Abodritic prince and martyr
Hans-Jürgen Wende (1926–2012), German handball player
Horst Wende (1919–1996), German orchestra conductor, arranger and accordionist
Ilse Wende-Lungershausen (1900–1991), German illustrator
Johannes Wende (* 1978), German film scholar
Manfred Wende (1927–2015), German journalist and politician (SPD)
Maylin Wende (* 1988), German figure skater
Peter Wende (1936–2017), German historian
Philipp Wende (* 1985), German rower
Richard Wende (* 1874; † after 1928), German politician (SPD), MdL Prussia
Theodor Wende (1883–1968), German goldsmith and silversmith
Waltraud Wende (* 1957), German philologist, cultural and media scientist, Minister for Education and Science of Schleswig-Holstein

Geography:

Wende (Bigge) , watercourse in the Olpe district in North Rhine-Westphalia
Wende (Neunkirchen-Seelscheid) , district of the municipality Neunkirchen-Seelscheid, Rhein-Sieg district, North Rhine-Westphalia
Wende (Quyang) (文德乡), town in Quyang County, Baoding City, Hebei Province, China
Wende (Alabama) , location in the US
Wende (New York) , location in the USA

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Wiktionary: Wende - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations