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If you live outside Germany, you might want to know what the Tall Club Of Germany is all about – we have
translated the facts and FAQs for you to understand what we are doing, on what goals we are focusing and everything
else. The first thing to know is that you have to be tall to be interested in our Club (what a surprise!), but to
read more, please click on your column of interest. All other links in the text are pointing to the equivalent
german pages. Please read »More help« on how to translate them.
· What is the KLM?
· Contact address
· Management
· Venue Hannover ·
· Districts
· District Hannover
· Newsletter and »Große Glocke« ·
· Activities and meetings
· Aims of the KLM e. V.
· More help ·
The KLM is an organization oriented towards the needs of tall people. It was founded in Munich
over 50 years ago (April 17, 1953). There are currently districts in 23 cities in Germany with approx. 2.700 members.
Membership in KLM is available for people with above-average height – the only conditions for an admission:
can become members of our tall club. There is no age limitation. KLM offers a much simpler chance to
meet similarly tall people in various social settings. Our meetings and activities are the basis for
enriching and interesting encounters.
KLUB LANGER MENSCHEN (KLM) DEUTSCHLAND e. V.
District Hannover/Braunschweig
Jenny-Meyer-Straße 32
D–30880 Laatzen
Germany
Telephone: +49 (0) 51 02 70 51 34 (until 8:00 P.M. only)
E-Mail: leitung@klm-hannover.de
The management of the district Hannover/Braunschweig
actually consists of the following people:
If you are in Hannover and would like to attend on one of our monthly meetings, you can visit us here:
Café »Viva« located in
the leisure centre Vahrenwald
Vahrenwalder Straße 92 · D–30165 Hannover · Tel.: (05 11) 397 05 40
Tram line 1/2, bus 133, stop »Dragonerstraße«.
In Germany the KLM currently consists of 23 districts
with approx. 2.700 members. Other Tall Clubs can be found in countries like Austria,
Switzerland, England, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Poland, the Czech Republic
and the United States of America.
The district Hannover was founded August 1, 1955, thus 50 years ago,
and counts approx. 120 members at the age from 18 up to 80 years.
Hannover
is situated in Lower Saxony and is the well known fair city, which hosts the CeBit and industry fair and held the EXPO 2000 world exhibition.
 
Four or five times a year we are publishing our
newsletter called »Leinelatten-Echo«, in which we are
offering meetings and activities as well as information about our district. This is delivered to each
of the members by standard mail or electronically by e-mail. In this manner, members also get the
latest updates and announcements from neighbouring clubs.
Twice a year the federal management board is publishing the journal
»Die Große Glocke«,
with information about spanning german-wide activities or previews and reviews of events, as well as
articles about tall interests and all addresses nationwide and abroad.
A further service for KLM members is the »Einkaufswegweiser«, a yearly catalogue national
company list of shops and service companies of all types especially aimed at tall people.
Unfortunately, this catalogue is still in an update phase and yet unavailable.
KLM offers its members a list of events that differs in each club, based on the membership interests
and age levels. In nearly every district there are regularly planned meetings, bowling events, weekend
outings, restaurant and festival meetings, hikes and other special events. The highlight of the year
in each district is an annual party to celebrate the club's founding. You can read the latest
plannings in our calendar of events.
The highlight of the KLM-year is the »European Convention«, annually held five weeks following Easter.
At this meeting, hundreds of members from the German and European clubs as well from oversea are in
attendance. The program runs a week and is divided into a pre-program (Monday–Wednesday) and a
main program (Thursday–Sunday) and offers planned trips and visits to interesting areas of the
region. The focus of the main program is on the Europaball, a gala event on Saturday night. The
European Convention is sponsored by a different European club or city each year, i.e. 1993: Munich, 1994:
Prag, 1995: Amsterdam, 1996: Düsseldorf, 1997: Dresden, 1998: London, 1999: Dortmund, 2000: Luxemburg,
2001: Münster, 2002: Kopenhagen, 2003: Berlin, 2004: Basel.
Apart from companionable gatherings with like-minded people, the collection and
initialisation of various information about shopping sources or the discussion of minor or even major
problems, we simply try to make our tall life as simple as possible. Some offers or sources are at
least merits of the KLM.
The KLM also acts as an organ towards the industry to gain improvements of daily basic commodities,
whether cars or furniture. Internet polls are helping to find out problems or advantages and to
evaluate i. e. cars.
Although there are a lot of social meetings, the KLM is not a dating agency. There is and always will
be an opportunity to become acquainted to other tall men and women, but this should happen without constraint.
If you haven't found the appropriate information yet, we apologize for any inconvenience and are sorry for the
lack of english content, but since we are a local german club we can't translate every page into english language.
Maybe you can find out more if you use translation services offered, i. e. from
Altavista
and Babelfish.
Or do it here instantly! Please copy the URL of one of our catogeries below into the box on the right. Choose one of
your desired languages and see a rough translation (and we dare to say »rough«...) of one of our pages.
You can also contact the webmaster with any message:
webmaster@klm-hannover.de
I will be pleased to answer in english and try to solve any problem or question left.
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