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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Near Giessen in Hesse, the first West German battalions equipped with Honest John missiles were in training last week, one impressive indication that the slow-starting Bundeswehr is at last getting going. A new urgency in the planning suggests that dynamic Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss (now on an inspection tour of the U.S.) is well aware that any summit agreement to freeze armaments in central Europe would leave West Germany in the cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Speeding Up | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Education: At Darmstadt schools, excelling in Latin and Greek; studied law at the universities of Frankfurt, Giessen. Munich and Grenoble (France): took over the family law practice in 1932. Speaks good French and Italian, fair English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: WEST GERMANY'S FOREIGN MINISTER | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

Born in 1889 in Offenbach, near Frankfurt on Main, Schneider studied literature, history, philosophy and Protestant theology in the universities of Tuebingen, Leipzig, and Giessen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: German History Professor Retires | 4/30/1955 | See Source »

Lessons I to 6. In Giessen, Germany, Firemen R. Bornschein, Werner Schepp and Helmut Glund were sentenced to four months for arson after admitting that they set fire to six straw piles "to show the new fire chief what it means to be a fireman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 12, 1952 | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

Vietor came to the College in 1935 after teaching in Germany for 13 years at the universities of Frankfurt and Giessen. He became a United States citizen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Karl Vietor, Professor of German, Dies; His Work Hailed by Colleagues | 6/9/1951 | See Source »

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