[78-L] Longest title

[Martin Haberbauer]

The Erste Donau-Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft, or 
Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft (DDSG) (the word means Danube Steamboat 
Shipping Company) was a shipping company founded in 1829 by the Austrian 
government for transporting passengers and cargo on the Danube.

In 1880, the DDSG was the world's largest river shipping company with more 
than 200 steamboat ships and about 1000 cargo tubs. In 1991 the company was 
split into a passenger transportation enterprise and a cargo transport 
company.

The company was sold to a private owner in 1993. Today the DDSG exists in 
the form of the two private companies DDSG-Blue Danube Schiffahrt GmbH 
(passenger transport) and the DDSG-Cargo GmbH.

Since the German spelling reform of 1996, "Schifffahrt" is written with 
three "f", however since the name belongs to a company that existed before 
the spelling reform, the old form of the name is used, when referring to the 
company.

Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänsmütze is also a joke word, 
probably never actually used, which means a type of "DDSG Captain's hat". 
Another, commonly known joke word is 
Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänskajüte which means "DDSG Captain's 
cabin".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft

Martin
;-)

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The shortest tune title ('I') has been discussed before, but is there a 
longer single word title than:

ebay # 300365669411

Peter Igelhoff : Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän
Telefunken A-2038

An interesting puzzle for our multilingual correspondents (Al S.?)

Han Enderman