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Wikipedia claims that Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft is the proper name of a company that only existed until 1991, so the new rules that were introduced in 1
by smarnach 5y ago
Wikipedia claims that Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft is the proper name of a company that only existed until 1991, so the new rules that were introduced in 1996 do not apply. The company never changed its name to the new spelling, so the old spelling should be used to refer to the historical company. The reasoning makes sense to me.
- rndgermandude 5y agoIf you're referring to that company specifically, yes, their spelling would not have changed, as it is an Eigenname. The actual name was Erste Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft (Erste = first). However there were probably a bunch of companies operating steam ships on the danube, which can be reasonably called Donauschifffahrtsgesellschaften ;)