Word: coblenzers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other riots occurred. Policemen used their pistols at Kiel and Coblenz, at Altona, Harburg, Itzehoe, Meldorf, Halle and Breslau. In Cologne, Albert Heister, secretary of the local Stahlhelm, was walking home with a number of fellow members when they noticed a group of young Communists following them at a distance. The Stahlhelmers ran. took refuge in Heister's house. As Albert Heister turned to bar the front door the enraged Communists fired through the plate glass. Albert Heister slumped slowly to the ground with a bullet through his heart...
Germany's new Iron Chancellor 46-year-old Heinrich Brüning, had several things in his favor. The country remained peaceable; there was little rioting. In Düsseldorf, Coblenz and Gelsenkirchen gangs of hooligans threw up barricades, exchanged shots with the police, made desultory raids on food shops. But for the most part people seemed to remember too vividly for repetition the horrors of Germany's other great crisis, the inflation period of 1923. There was no direct parliamentary opposition. For the past year Iron Chancellor Brüning has managed to rule Germany...
...only one incident during President Paul von Hindenburg's tour of the liberated Rhineland which ended last week (see above) was calculated to ruffle U. S. equanimity. Asked Burgomaster Karl Russel of Coblenz, addressing the Hindenburg banquet: "How could we have endured the 'roughneck' methods of the Americans and the calculated oppression of the French if our peerless Rhine and Moselle wines had not helped us to bear our sad fate...
From Eltville-am-Rhein the party boarded a specially chartered river steamer, which, with the black-red-gold Presidential ensign at the stem, slipped down the yellow swirling river to Coblenz. French shipping companies at Strasbourg kept all their tugs, barges, river boats in dock during the celebration. The only foreign ensign which the Hindenburgs saw was a huge U. S. flag flapping from the staff of Schloss Schönburg at Oberwesel, estate of T. J Oakley Rhinelander. Manhattan socialite, uncle of miscegenating Kip Rhinelander (TIME, Jan. 6 et ante...
Eighty-three years old is President Paul, and his arches are too weak for many festivities. Two days more of standing around listening to Mayors and Männerchor was a terrifying prospect, but the day at Coblenz passed as smoothly as the first part of the trip. The von Hindenburgs landed at Deutsches Eck, "German Corner," the little promontory of land where the Moselle flows into the Rhine, sacred to sentimentalists as the "Heart of Germany," listened to singing schoolchildren, attended a municipal banquet...