Word: giersiepen
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...consulting firm. He spent several years working in Asia and Africa, where he thinks he can contribute more than at home. Dieter Klussmeyer studied law on his way to the civil service post of district draft-board chief in his hometown. Only Werner Marker, an ophthalmologist, and Klaus Giersiepen, a lawyer, were certain of their career plans...
...Niehues' table, the subject is unification. Those among them who visited the old East Germany remember, as Giersiepen recalls, the "iron faces of the Vopos ((people's police))." When the Wall went up in 1961, they wondered, fleetingly, whether the West would intervene, whether war might even come. The crisis passed, and, preoccupied with starting careers and families, they learned to live with Germany's division. "I always thought history would take care of the separation," says Hoell, "but maybe in 100 years." Born and raised outside Berlin, he fled with his mother to the West in 1949; sneaking across...
...weeks after the Wall had fallen, Giersiepen and his wife visited Berlin. "You felt as if you had been touched by the breath of history," he says. "I am happy, not so much that Germany has come together -- we should not be too jubilant about that -- but that Europe has grown bigger, that it no longer ends at the Elbe, and that we are part...
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