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'''Flensburg''' ({{IPA-|de|ˈflɛnsbʊʁk|lang|De-Flensburg.ogg}}; [[Danish language|Danish]] and {{lang-langx|nds|label=[[Northern Low Saxon|Low Saxon]]|Flensborg}}; {{lang-langx|da|label=[[South Jutlandic]]|Flensborre}}; {{lang-langx|frr|Flansborj}}) is an [[independent city|independent town]] in the far north of the [[Germany|German]] state of [[Schleswig-Holstein]]. Flensburg is the north of the region of [[Schleswig]]. After [[Kiel]] and [[Lübeck]], it is the third-largest town in Schleswig-Holstein.

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Flensburg is in the north of the [[States of Germany|German state]] [[Schleswig-Holstein]], very close to the German-Danish border. After [[Glücksburg]] and [[Westerland, Germany|Westerland]], on the island of [[Sylt]], it is Germany's northernmost town. Flensburg lies at the innermost tip of the [[Flensburg Firth]], an inlet of the [[Baltic Sea]]. Flensburg's eastern shore is part of the [[Anglia (peninsula)|AngliaAngeln]] peninsula.

In the 18th century, thanks to the [[rum]] trade, Flensburg had yet another boom. [[Cane sugar]] was imported from the [[Danish West Indies]] (now the [[United States Virgin Islands|US Virgin Islands]]) and refined in Flensburg. Only in the 19th century, as a result of industrialization, was the town at last outstripped by the competition from cities such as [[Copenhagen]] and [[Hamburg]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://taz.de/!5974769/| title=The Call of Rum | author=FRANK KEIL | newspaper=Die Tageszeitung: Taz | publisher=[[Die Tageszeitung]]| date=2023-11-25 | page=51 | access-date=2024-02-16|language=de}}</ref>

Between 1460 and 1864, Flensburg was, after Copenhagen, the Kingdom of Denmark's second-biggest port, but it passed to the [[Kingdom of Prussia]] after the [[Second Schleswig War]] in 1864. The [[Battle of Flensburg]] was on February 6, 1864: near the city a small [[Hungarians|Hungarian]] mounted regiment chased a [[Denmark|Danish]] infantry and Dragoon regiment. AAt the election for the North German Reichstag in 1867, there had still been a Danish majority in Flensburg, and it continued until around 1880. However, thereafter, the majority shifted partly due to immigration of workers from other parts of Germany and because the bureaucracy was largely replaced with Germans from the south. Today, a sizable Danish community remains in the town. Some estimates put the percentage of Flensburgers who belong to it as high as 25%; other estimates put it much lower. The [[South Schleswig Voter Federation|SSW]] political party representing the minority usually gains 20–25% of the votes in local elections, but not all its voters are Danes. Before 1864, moreDanes thanconsisted 50%of the vast majority, which belonged to what is now the minority; even today there are many Danish surnames in the Flensburg [[telephone directory]] (Asmussen, Claussen, Jacobsen, Jensen, Petersen, etc.). ButHowever, the upper classes and the learned at that time, werecomprising Germanmerchants, andbureaucrats, since 1864academics, and the [[Germanclergy, language]]were haspredominantly prevailed in the townGerman.

In 1945, Admiral [[Karl Dönitz]], who was briefly [[President of Germany (1919–1945)|President]] (''Reichspräsident'') of [[Nazi Germany]] after [[Adolf Hitler]] appointed him his successor and then killed himself, fled to Flensburg with what was left of [[Flensburg government|his government]]. The so-called [[Flensburg Government]], led by Dönitz, was in power from 1 May, the announcement of Hitler's death, for one week, until German troops surrendered and the town was occupied by Allied troops. The regime was effectively dissolved on 23 May, when the [[British Army]] arrested Dönitz and his ministers in [[Mürwik]] and detained them in the [[Naval Academy at Mürwik|Navy School in Mürwik]] ({{lang-langx|de|Marineschule Mürwik}}). The Berlin Declaration promulgated on 5 June formalized the dissolution. Flensburg was therefore, for a few weeks, the seat of the last Third Reich government.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forces.net/news/wwii/remnants-nazi-power-75-years-flensburg-government|publisher=forces.net|access-date=2024-03-30|title=Remnants Of Nazi Power: 75 Years Since 'The Flensburg Government'|date=2020-05-22|author =Rob Olver}}</ref>

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The "Offener Kanal" ("Open Channel") shows [[Public-access television|programmes made by local citizens]] seven days a week, mostly in the evenings, and can also be seen on cable television.

* [[Old Cemetery (Flensburg)|Old Cemetery]], parkland with noteworthy grave markers from the 19th century

* [[Klaus Tscheuschner]] (born 1956), Lord Mayor of Flensburg