Word: geheimrat
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...Said Geheimrat* Wilhelm von Opel, gruffly, last week...
...Berliners knew, of course, of what Geheimrat von Opel was grumbling. From the great Opel works at Russelheim (between Frankfort and Mayence) there pour into Germany more than 250 cheap automobiles daily. Opel builds the cheapest, most standardized of all German cars. And, as a result, Opel has cornered more than half the German market. Other producers (Daimler-Benz, "Nag," Hansa-Lloyd, Adler, Horsch, Magirus, "NSU," Gothaer Waggon, Bayrische Motoren) call Opel the "General Motors of Germany...
Latest and most spectacular of all Opel experiments is the low, winged rocket car. Inventor Valier, Builder Sanders, tried it secretly last April over the Opel tracks in Munich. But in June, young Fritz von Opel, sporting son of a gruff Geheimrat, sent it at a speed of 156 miles per hour over railroad tracks near Hanover. Nine-foot streaks of flame from the exploding rockets trailed its deafening roar. A solitary cat, its only passenger, trembled. Suddenly it skipped the track; the remaining rockets blew up; cat and car burst into a thousand blazing fragments. Spectators cried, "Devil...
Minister of Communications and Occupied Regions?Geheimrat Theodor von Guerard (Catholic Centrist...
...Busch's desire that the new building should be a characteristic specimen of German architecture and that it should therefore be designed by a leading architect in Germany. Through the kind intercession of Geheimrat Schmidt, of the Prussian Ministry of Education, who has done so much to facilitate the interchange of professors between Harvard and Berlin, we succeeded in obtaining the services of Professor German Bestelmeyer of Dresden, one of the very foremost architects of contemporary Germany, whose recently completed Central Hall of the new University building at Munich is an undoubted work of genius and justly enjoys a more...